NARCISA MARIA MITU, Scurtă privire asupra activității comerciale craiovene în primul sfert de secol XX / A brief look on the business activity from Craiova in the first quarter of the XXth century

NARCISA MARIA MITU
Cercetător ştiințific III dr., Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „C.S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” din Craiova, al Academiei Române;
E-mail: narcisa_mitu@yahoo.com

Abstract
The first three decades in Craiova were defined by a period of urban, architectural, artistic, municipal effervescence, turning it into one of
the most important urban centres from the South-West of Oltenia. A town with commercial sense of purpose, it provides an ongoing attraction for merchants, artisans and small industrialists. Records and statistics certify that Romanian entrepreneurs represented the majority followed closely by Jews and other nationalities as: Armenians, Turks, Czechs, Italians, Bulgarians, Greeks, etc.
In the economic growth of the town within the period referred, can be noticed three distinct phases: one of greatness, during which there were set up a significant number of firms, with a varying lifespan (until 1916), another with significant human and material losses during The First World War (1916–1918), followed by a recovery period (1918–1924).

Keywords
Craiova, Dolj county, the first quarter of the XXth century, entrepreneur, economic evolution