Conservatives led by the priest Neophyte II ended a Wallachian government that abolished Roma slavery in this year. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this year during which multiple European political upheavals included the resignation of Klemens von Metternich and Lajos Kossuth’s (“LYE-ohsh KOH-shoot’s”) Hungarian Revolution.
ANSWER: 1848
[10h] Though imprisoned after Wallachia’s 1848 Revolution, this leader later became Romania’s first domnitor by uniting the principalities of Wallachia and Moldova. A “monstrous coalition” of liberal and conservative boyars forced this leader to abdicate in 1866.
ANSWER: Alexander Cuza [or Alexandru Ioan Cuza or Alexander John Cuza; or Alexandru Ioan I or Alexander John I]
[10m] In 1848, nobles who were Hungarian, Székely (“SAY-kay”), and this ethnicity lost their direct control over Romanian peasants in Austria-Hungary. Pagan people of this ethnicity were earlier led by Widukind.
ANSWER: Saxons [accept Transylvanian Saxons or Siweberjer Såksen or Siebenbürger Sachsen; accept Sox or Soax or Soxen or Soxisch; accept Sași Ardeleni; accept Erdélyi Szászok; prompt on Germans]
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