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24-398: The Romanian National Conservative Party was initially registered on 4 October 2023, and was finally registered on 7 November 2023. According to the party, its founder, Petre Cristian Bărnuțiu, is the great-grandson of Simion Bărnuțiu , the ideologist of the revolutionary national movement of Transylvanian Romanians in 1848 . On 10 December 2023, at the party congress, MEP Cristian Terheș

48-674: A Romanian grammar and alphabet based on Latin etymologies instead of one reflecting the spoken language (at the time, "Latinist" influences following Transylvanian guidelines had come to be favoured by the Romanian Academy ). After having fallen gravely ill, Simion Bărnuțiu asked to be allowed to return to his native village. He died on the way there, in Hida . Blaj Blaj ( Romanian pronunciation: [blaʒ] ; archaically spelled as Blaș ; Hungarian : Balázsfalva ; German : Blasendorf ; Transylvanian Saxon : Blußendref )

72-771: A direct inspiration to the Moldavian liberal dissidents grouped as Fracțiunea liberă și independentă . In the 1850s, Bărnuțiu wrote against the popular project of electing a foreign prince as ruler of the Principalities, an opposition which Fracțiunea carried into the Constituent Assembly following the toppling of Cuza two years after Bărnuțiu's death. Junimea , a conservative literary society created during that period, criticized him along with other Transylvanian intellectuals (such as Timotei Cipariu , Gheorghe Șincai , and August Treboniu Laurian ) for having supported

96-505: A teacher of history at the secondary school in Blaj , which was at the time, like the rest of Transylvania, part of the Austrian Empire . Bărnuțiu was influenced early-on by the philosophy of Immanuel Kant ( Kantianism ), in which he saw the means to reform society in opposition to traditional theological views. He was an active contributor to Foaie pentru minte, inimă și literatură ,

120-453: Is a city in Alba County , Transylvania , Romania . It has a population of 17,816 inhabitants (2021). The city administers eight villages: Deleni-Obârșie ( Obursatanya ), Flitești, Izvoarele (until 1960 Ciufud ; Csufud ), Mănărade ( Monora ), Petrisat ( Magyarpéterfalva ), Spătac ( Szászpatak ), Tiur ( Tűr ), and Veza ( Véza ). The city was the principal religious and cultural center of

144-737: Is what the PNCR will do". On 14 December 2023, Alliance for the Union of Romanians leader George Simion announced that PNCR had joined the AUR Alliance to participate in the 2024 elections. PCNR leader Terheș became the leader of the AUR Alliance list for the 2024 European Parliament election in Romania . As of May 2024, PNCR was a member of the European Christian Political Movement and

168-453: The COVID-19 lockdown and vaccinations , as well as his support for accepting Ukrainian refugees . Notes : AUR Alliance members: AUR (5 MEPs), PNRC (1 MEP) and the other party members did not achieved any mandates ( ARN , PRR and BUN). Simion B%C4%83rnu%C8%9Biu Simion Bărnuțiu ( Romanian pronunciation: [simiˈon bərˈnut͡sju] ; 21 July 1808 – 28 May 1864)

192-613: The European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament . On 9 June 2024 , PNCR leader Terheș was re-elected as a Member of the European Parliament on the AUR Alliance list. Five members of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians were elected from the alliance list too. On 19 June 2024, all 6 elected AUR Alliance MEPs were accepted into the European Conservatives and Reformists group. According to

216-770: The Inochentie Micu Clain National College , the Ștefan Manciulea Technological High School  [ ro ] , and the Sfântul Vasile cel Mare Greek-Catholic Theological High School . The castle of the Bethlen dynasty is a popular tourist site near Blaj. Other sights worth visiting include the Metropolitan Palace, the Holy Trinity Cathedral , the " Buna Vestire " Monastery, the Greeks' Church ,

240-667: The Romanian Greek-Catholic Church in Transylvania . Blaj is first mentioned in 1271 as Villa Herbordi , after the deed of a Count Herbod. In 1313, the domain passed to Herbod's son Blasius Cserei and the town was mentioned as Blasii . Started as a hamlet for the twenty families of servants of the noble's court, it was awarded town status on May 19, 1737. Blaj is the principal religious and cultural center of Greek Catholics in Transylvania. At 27 October 1687 begins

264-631: The Assembly, calling for patience and moderation while continuing to campaign against all unilateral change in Transylvania's government and disagreeing with more skeptical political leaders, such as Bariț and Andrei Șaguna , and finally being persuaded to include an oath of allegiance to the Emperor in his political strategy. Just before the Second Assembly in May, he agreed to moderate his tone further, taking in view

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288-479: The Hungarian Kingdom (11 July) and of Hungary 's independence (27 September), with an Austrian military debacle in Transylvania, saw a rapprochement between the loyalist Austrian Anton Freiherr von Puchner , nominal governor of the region, and Bărnuțiu's Committee. From the committee's perspective, this was an Austrian recognition of Transylvania's self-government as a Romanian region, which was to be advanced to

312-487: The PNCR, the platform consists of promoting the defense and promotion of Romanian conservative, constitutional and national values both in Romania and abroad, as well as sovereignty, integrity and national unity. PCNR states that it intends to promote the values of the supremacy of the Constitution, sovereignty, Christian values and the market economy. Cristian Terheș was previously known for his outspoken campaigns against

336-500: The abolition of unilateral administrative power in the church, on the side of a democratic structure electing its leaders, able of directly participating in the social conditions of Romanians. On 24 March 1848, Bărnuțiu issued one in a series of appeals by various authors, calling for self-determination of Romanians inside Transylvania, viewing it as a necessary step in matching Magyar success in obtaining rights from Emperor Ferdinand I , and professing that Romanians should reject

360-732: The history of the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic , history directly connected to the history of the town Blaj. It all started at the end of the treaty through which Transylvania was entering under the protection of Austria , renouncing the protection of the Turkish Empire . The first public school in Romanian was established in Blaj in 1754. Blaj was the first place to have Romanian written with Latin alphabet instead of Cyrillic in which it had traditionally been written. Blaj

384-868: The lands would be stolen from them. Blaj lies at the confluence of the Târnava Mare and Târnava Mică rivers, where they form the Târnava River . It is located 39 km (24 mi) northeast of the county seat, Alba Iulia , in a renowned wine-growing region. At the 2021 census , Blaj had a population of 17,816. At the 2011 census , the city had a population of 20,630, of which 16,779 (83.78%) were Romanians , 1,305 (6.51%) Hungarians , 1,850 (9.23%) Romani , and 45 (0.22%) Germans . In terms of religious affiliation, 14,784 (71.19%) were Romanian Orthodox , 2,732 (13.24%) Greek-Catholic , 744 (3.58%) Roman Catholic , 985 Reformed Church , 408 Baptist , and 220 Pentecostal . The city has several high schools, including

408-604: The liberation of Romanians in Transylvania, commends national identity as the most relevant social factor, calls for church legislative intervention for Romanians in Transylvania, and avows the Romanian national identity as directly succeeding that of the Roman Empire . The Blaj Assembly convened in April on the basis of such proclamations gathered together intellectuals, clergy, and commoners. Bărnuțiu gave several speeches in front of

432-592: The literary supplement of George Bariț 's journal Gazeta de Transilvania , he became noted after 1842 for virulently opposing the decision of the Magyar -dominated Transylvanian Diet to give Hungarian a status of a semi-official language in local administration of Transylvania( see History of Transylvania ). In 1843, following widespread support of reform within Transylvanian christian communities regarding clerical representation of its members, Bărnuțiu advocates for

456-514: The new emperor Franz Josef . After Imperial Russian intervention in Transylvania, he decided to go into exile, and settled in Iași , Moldavia's capital. He wrote several treaties on law and philosophy (including a passionate defense of Roman law ), and, before and after the union of the Danubian Principalities under Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza advocated radical reforms which were

480-563: The points made by Bariț in regard to the fragile situation facing Romanians in the region, and partly reformulated his program on self-determination. On 17 May, he was elected vicepresident of the Permanent Committee formed by Blaj delegates as a supervising body (one presided by Șaguna), later the basis of the National Romanian Committee . The rapid succession of events after the proclamation of Transylvania's union with

504-539: The projected union of the region with the Kingdom of Hungary until ensured proportional representation and the official condemnation of serfdom . Concerning his ideals of national identity cited in 1872 by the Transylvanian faction of the Austrian, student composed, România Jună Society , in opposition to prominent Romanian authors Ioan Slavici and Mihai Eminescu , Bărnuțiu writes on the importance of moderation in favor of

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528-698: Was a Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, and liberal politician. A leader of the 1848 revolutionary movement of Transylvanian Romanians , he represented its Eastern Rite Catholic wing. Bărnuțiu lived for a large part of his life in Moldavia , and was for long a professor of philosophy at Academia Mihăileană and at the University of Iași . He was born in Bocșa ( Hungarian : Oláhbaksa ), Szilágy County , Transylvania (now in Sălaj County , Romania). He became

552-635: Was also a center for the Romanian Age of Enlightenment , being the founding site of the Transylvanian School that promoted the Roman cultural heritage of the Romanians. Thus Blaj gained the nickname "The Little Rome", as Romania's national poet Mihai Eminescu called it. In 1848, Câmpia Libertății in Blaj was where over 40,000 Romanians met to protest Transylvania becoming a part of Hungary, holding that

576-620: Was elected as its chairman. On 1 December 2023, Terheș joined the PNCR, leaving the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party and depriving it of representation in the European Parliament . Terheș said that "in the face of globalist neo-Marxist attacks that want to transform the EU from a union of sovereign states into an empire led from Brussels by unelected bureaucrats, the solution is to defend national values, and this

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