Istoria aşa cum s‑a scris – eroi ai revoluţiei de la 1848: preotul Radu Șapcă din Romanaţi (Celei − Corabia) (History as it was written − heroes of the 1848 revolution: Priest Radu Șapcă from Romanați (Celei − Corabia))

The Revolution of 1848 was undoubtedly the seed from which modern Romanian society developed. It was an epochal episode in our troubled past, resulting in a total change in the Romanians’ way of thinking and in their political and national aspirations. Radu Șapcă, a priest from Celei−Corabia, former county of Romanaţi, played a decisive role in the outbreak of the Revolution, being one of the organizers of the Great Popular Assembly of Islaz, which raised the peasants to the fight, becoming one of the leaders of the revolutionary army. The scientific objectives of the article are the evocation of the personality of Priest Radu Șapcă, his activity and his important role during the 1848 Revolution, the mobilization of the revolutionaries on the Liberty Field in Islaz, the reading of the “Proclamation of Islaz”.

Keywords: Revolution of 1848; Corabia; Radu Șapcă; Celei; Proclamation of Islaz

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https://www.doi.org/10.71077/SC.2024.08