Romanian Rebel

After the Ottoman Empire vasalized the 2 principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia and placed Phanariote rulers in charge in the 18th century people started to get feed up with the Ottoman supremacy and wanted the phanariote rule and more important the Ottoman suzeranity to fall.the Phanariotes fell in a revolt in 1821 but the Ottomans still remained.As it was the 19th century more and more nationalistic ideal came to them and now they wanted more than just independence they wanted a unification. Now they started to refer to themselves as Romanians.As nationalism grew Romanians from everywhere started to rebel against foreign powers (Ottoman Empire Russia Austria Hungary) in 1848. Unfortunatly the revolutions failed but 1859 they achieved theyre dream of unification creating a new stated called ,,Romania '' .Now theyre were united but still not independent.Fortunatly for them in 1877 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.They try to ally with Russia but Russia thinks they can handle it alone.The Russians are defeated and now they accept the Romanians offer.The Romanians became a key ally for the Russians in this war as they took part in battles such as Smârdan and Plevna.After the war ended in 1878 Romania was finally recognised by the great powers at the congress of Berlin on 13 of july finally becoming an independent state