The Proclamation of Islaz () was the program adopted on 9 June 1848 by
Romanian revolutionaries during the
Wallachian Revolution of 1848. It was written by
Ion Heliade Rădulescu and publicly read at the small port town of
Islaz in southern
Wallachia
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. On 11 June, under pressure from the masses,
Domnitor Gheorghe Bibescu was forced to accept the terms of the proclamation and recognise the provisional revolutionary government.
Provisions
The Proclamation of Islaz has the form and value of a constitutional act. Between these 22 provisions are notably:
*The independence of the administration and legislature.
*Separation of powers.
*Equal rights of the people.
*The election of a responsible
domnitor for a period of 5 years.
*Reduction of the
civil lists of the
domnitor.
*Emancipation of
Jew
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s and all other compatriots belonging to other rites.
*Emancipation of
Gypsies.
*Equal instruction.
*Creation of a system of prisons.
*Creation of a national guard.
The location of
Islaz (now in
Teleorman County, then in
Romanați County) was a small port on the Danube with some commercial significance, which, unlike the ports of
Turnu Măgurele,
Giurgiu and
Calafat, was not under the direct control of the
Turks.
References
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Proclamations
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