THE CRISES OF THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY AND THE FOREIGN POLICY OF ROMANIA REFLECTED IN THE ATTITUDE OF KING CAROL OF ROMANIA AND THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ALEXANDRU MARGHILOMAN (JULY–NOVEMBER 1900)

At the beginning of July 1900, the characteristics of a strong financial crisis that prompted the resignation of the Cantacuzino government and the formation of the Petre P. Carp cabinet, in which the foreign policy portfolio was assigned to Alexandru Marghiloman. The task of the new government invested at the suggestion and insistence of King Carol of Romania was clear, the recovery of the Romanian economy, but the prime minister Petre P. Carp was to face two other political crises in which the minister of foreign affairs, Alexandru Marghiloman, had a major contribution, a fact less known in Romanian historiography. The first, the Romanian-Bulgarian crisis, was caused by the assassination of professor Stefan Mihaileanu and had the effect of replacing the theme Boris Sarafov, the leader of the Macedonian Revolutionary Secret Committee from the leadership of this anarchist/terrorist organization. The second was related to the religious rights of the Aromanians in Macedonia, the Ottoman province in which the Greeks, the Serbs and the Bulgarians were carrying devastating propaganda whose effect was the pillage of members and the killing of leaders of the Aromanian communities by the Serbian cetnic gangs, Bulgarian comitagists and Greek antartists guerrilla groups, from the confrontation of which the Romanian population in the Balkan Peninsula suffered greatly.