Steaua Dunării was a political newspaper and a unionist mouthpiece founded in Octomber 1855 by Mihail Kogălniceanu

Mihail Kogalniceanu

Mihail Kogălniceanu was a Moldavian-born Romanian liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania October 11, 1863, after the 1859 union of the Danubian Principalities under Domnitor Alexander John Cuza, and later served as Foreign Minister under Carol I. He...

. Editors like Vasile-Urechea Avexandrescu

V. A. Urechia

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, Vasile Mălinescu, Iancu M. Codrescu and colaborators like Vasile Alecsandri

Vasile Alecsandri

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, Costache Negruzzi, Alecu Donici

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, Grigore Alexandrescu

Grigore Alexandrescu

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, Alecu Russo

Alecu Russo

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, Dimitrie Bolintineanu

Dimitrie Bolintineanu

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, C.A. Rosetti, Gheorghe Sion wrote articles for the newspaper.

It was closed in September 1856 because of the suspension of the press laws. It was for the first time censored in May because of an religios article.

Kogălniceanu encouraged Nicolae Ionescu

Nicolae Ionescu

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 to issue the magazine L'Étoile de Danube in Brussels

Brussels

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, as a French-language version of Steaua Dunării which was published between December 1856 and May 1858 and would also serve to popularize Partida Naţionalăs views.

It reappears in November 1858 and closed again in November 1860. In January 2, 1859 merge with Zimbrul şi Vulturul

Zimbrul si Vulturul

Zimbrul şi Vulturul was a 19th Century Romanian newspaper, published in the city of Iași , capital of the Principality of Moldavia, and having readership in other parts of what was to become the Kingdom of Romania....

and is renamed as Steoa Dunărei. Zimbrulu şi Vulturulu.