Editing Oltenia (section)

=== Modern times ===
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After 1716, the Ottomans decided to cease choosing the voivodes from among the Wallachian boyars, and to appoint foreign governors. As the governors were Orthodox Greeks living in [[Phanar]], Constantinople, this period is known as the [[Phanariote]] regime.
[[File:Empire Autricien au XVIII. siecle.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Oltenia under the [[Austrian Empire]] as the [[Banat of Craiova]] in the 18th century]]

Two years later, in 1718 under the terms of the [[Treaty of Passarowitz]],{{sfn|Ingrao|Samardžić|Pešalj|2011}} Oltenia was split from Wallachia and annexed by the [[Habsburg monarchy]] as the [[Banat of Craiova]] (''de facto'', it was under Austrian occupation by 1716); in 1737, it was returned to Wallachia under Prince [[Constantine Mavrocordatos]] (''see [[Austro-Turkish War of 1716–1718]] and [[Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–1739)]]''). Under the occupation, Oltenia was the only part of the [[Danubian Principalities]] (with the later exception of [[Bukovina]]) to experience [[Enlightened absolutism]] and Austrian administration, although these were met by considerable and mounting opposition from [[Conservatism|conservative]] [[boyar]]s. While welcomed at first as liberators, the Austrians quickly disenchanted the inhabitants by imposing rigid administrative, fiscal, judicial and political reforms which were meant to centralize and integrate the territory (antagonizing both ends of the social spectrum: withdrawing [[Privilege (legal ethics)|privilege]]s from the nobility and enforcing taxes for peasants).

In 1761, the residence of Bans was moved to [[Bucharest]], in a move towards [[Centralized government|centralism]] (a ''[[kaymakam]]'' represented the boyars in Craiova). It remained there until the death of the last Ban, [[Barbu Văcărescu]], in 1832.

In 1821, Oltenia and [[Gorj County]] were at the center of [[Tudor Vladimirescu]]'s uprising (''see [[Wallachian uprising of 1821]]''). Vladimirescu initially gathered his [[Pandur]]s in [[Padeș]] and relied on a grid of fortified monasteries such as [[Tismana]] and Strehaia.