 The early 1890s saw Urechia's involvement in the cause of Romanians living outside the confines of the Old Kingdom.Like other liberal activists, he hoped to see Romania united with Transylvania and the Banat, regions then included in Austria-Hungary and administered by the Kingdom of Hungary.Urechia viewed with sympathy the formation of a National Party in that region, and supported it throughout the "Transylvanian Memorandum" movement of 1892, when many of its leaders were jailed by Hungarian authorities.