PART II.. _historical._

HISTORICAL.

IX. FROM THE GETÆ (ABOUT 335 B.C.) TO THE CLOSE OF THE ROMAN DOMINATION IN DACIA (ABOUT A.D. 274) 115

X. FROM THE EVACUATION OF DACIA BY AURELIAN (ABOUT 274 A.D.) TO THE END OF THE BARBARIAN RULE (ABOUT THE CLOSE OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY) 138

XI. FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCIPALITIES, BETWEEN THE MIDDLE OF THE THIRTEENTH AND OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURIES, TO THE ACCESSION OF MICHAEL THE BRAVE, A.D. 1593 161

XII. THE TIMES AND CAREER OF MICHAEL THE BRAVE 170

XIII. FROM THE DEATH OF MICHAEL THE BRAVE (A.D. 1601) TO THE DEPOSITION OF PRINCE COUZA (A.D. 1866) 199

XIV. FROM THE DEPOSITION OF PRINCE COUZA (1866) TO THE CORONATION OF KING CHARLES (1881) 233

XV. PRESENT ROUMANIAN LEADERS AND THEIR POLICY 258

APPENDICES.

APPENDIX

I. MOVEMENTS AND SETTLEMENTS OF NATIONALITIES AND BARBARIAN TRIBES 272-3

II. THE 'CAPITULATIONS' 274

III. THE ROUMANIAN CONSTITUTION 275

IV. THE PEASANT PROPRIETARY OF ROUMANIA 277

V. LIST OF WORKS (WITH REFERENCES TO TEXT) 278

CLASSIFIED INDEX 281

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

AUTOTYPE PLATES.

CATHEDRAL OF CURTEA D'ARDGES Photograph by Duschek Frontispiece

VIEW OF BUCAREST " " To face p. 40

PORTRAIT OF QUEEN ELISABETH OF ROUMANIA IN After Duschek " 258 THE NATIONAL COSTUME

WOODCUTS IN TEXT.

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ROUMANIAN PEASANTS IN WORKING DRESS Photograph by Duschek 7

PEASANTS AT A WELL " " " 8

SUBTERRANEAN DWELLINGS WITH PEASANTS " " " 10

ENTRANCE TO CARPATHIAN VILLAGE " " " 12

MEN AND WOMEN ROAD-MAKING " " " 13

TERMINAL PIER OF TRAJAN'S BRIDGE ON Sketch by Author 21 ROUMANIAN SHORE

TERMINAL PIER OF TRAJAN'S BRIDGE ON SERVIAN SIDE " " " 24

PLAN OF BUCAREST Reduced from Original by Prof. Zamphirolu 37

MONK AND NUN After Duschek 39

FRUITSELLER OF BUCAREST " " 48

GIPSY FLOWER-SELLER " " 49

GIPSY MUSICIANS " " 52

ROUMANIAN GIRL " " 53

GIPSY WOMAN " " 53

TRACERY ON SHIELD ON THE EXTERIOR OF Copied from Reissenberger 60 THE CATHEDRAL OF CURTEA D'ARDGES

THE SAME--ANOTHER PATTERN " " " 61

AT THE CABARET ON A HOLIDAY After Duschek 73

ROUMANIAN PLOUGHSHARE Sketch by Author 75

THE HORA, NATIONAL DANCE OF ROUMANIA After Duschek 98

SECTION OF THE TELEGA PENAL SALT MINE Reduced by Author from Plan 107 of M. d'Istrati, Engineer of the Mine

SALT MOUND IN FLOOR OF MINE Sketch by Author 110

DACIAN WARRIOR (initial letter) From Piranese's Etchings of 115 reliefs on Trojan's Column

TRAJAN ADDRESSING HIS ARMY " " " 126

DACIANS SETTING FIRE TO THEIR CAPITAL " " " 129

DACIAN TROPHIES " " " 137

EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF MICHAEL THE BRAVE AT BUCAREST After Duschek 177

STATUE OF MICHAEL CANTACUZENE IN THE COLTZA HOSPITAL " " 200 (initial letter)

DEFENCES OF PLEVNA 244

PRINCE (NOW KING) CHARLES Photograph by Duschek 251 COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, BEFORE PLEVNA taken on the spot

PORTRAIT, WITH AUTOGRAPH, OF M.C.A. ROSETTI After Duschek 264

PORTRAIT OF M. BRATIANO " " 265

MAPS.

GEOGRAPHICAL MAP OF ROUMANIA To face p. 3

HISTORICAL MAP OF ROUMANIA After Kiepert, &c. 115

Errata.

Page 45, note, for p. 202 read initial letter, p. 200.

" 64, note 1, " 7209 " 7029.

" 162, line 19, " west " east.

" 165, " 22, " Bajazet II. " Bajazet I.