The Romanian transitional alphabet began to gain more popularity after 1840, first introducing in this year Latin letters between Cyrillic ones and then replacing some of the Cyrillic letters with Latin letters so that the readers of Romanian from Moldavia, Transylvania and Wallachia could become accustomed to them. The final turning point was completed under French influence, which appeared due to the Wallachian and Moldavian revolutions of 1848 and the Crimean War which ended with the Treaty of Paris (1856).