You could have Romania broken up by a Turkish intervention after Cuza's overthrow, which would have happened in OTL if not for French lobbying on our behalf. But then there's always the possibility of later reunification. To keep that from happening you need an international environment where France no longer has any influence in the area (that happened in OTL after the war with Prussia) and the Russians and Ottomans are adamantly opposed to union (which is harder because they will be very tempted to use the Romanians against each other).
Will the Ottomans be stronger with no Romania or will Russia vassalise them and get access to the Balkans.
How will this affect the Romanian speaking part of Hungary, are it going to easier to assimilate them into the Hungarian Nation, without a Romanian state as a alternative?
Well, on the one side, the Russians won't need to negotiate their crossing the Principalities with any half-way powerful government. On the other, there'll be fewer Balkan revolutionaries in Bucharest and there won't be any Romanian military to save Russia from a humiliation at Pleven.
Easier, but not by much. The Transylvanian Romanians didn't depend on those in the Principalities. They had began their national revival independently and tended to keep it so.
So the result of a disunited Romania is a less rebellious Ottoman Balkan, but a Russian succes can cost the Ottomans the strait.
So Crişana and Romanian Banat have a bigger chance to become Hungarian, while Transsylvania is staying majority Romanian.
Nothing that extreme.
Hard to say how assimilation will be distributed geographically, but I don't think it will make much of a difference from OTL.
Well, on the one side, the Russians won't need to negotiate their crossing the Principalities with any half-way powerful government. On the other, there'll be fewer Balkan revolutionaries in Bucharest and there won't be any Romanian military to save Russia from a humiliation at Pleven.
Easier, but not by much. The Transylvanian Romanians didn't depend on those in the Principalities. They had began their national revival independently and tended to keep it so.
Or perhaps Prince Vigo von Homburg Deutschendorf (also known as Vigo The Carpathian, Vigo The Cruel, Vigo The Torturer, Vigo The Despised, Vigo The Unholy, the Scourge of Carpathia, and the Sorrow of Moldavia) isn't poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, and drawn & quartered back in 1610.Dracula doesnt die?![]()
Or perhaps Prince Vigo von Homburg Deutschendorf (also known as Vigo The Carpathian, Vigo The Cruel, Vigo The Torturer, Vigo The Despised, Vigo The Unholy, the Scourge of Carpathia, and the Sorrow of Moldavia) isn't poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, and drawn & quartered back in 1610.
Or perhaps Prince Vigo von Homburg Deutschendorf (also known as Vigo The Carpathian, Vigo The Cruel, Vigo The Torturer, Vigo The Despised, Vigo The Unholy, the Scourge of Carpathia, and the Sorrow of Moldavia) isn't poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, and drawn & quartered back in 1610.