Roumania Past and Present eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 387 pages of information about Roumania Past and Present.

Roumania Past and Present eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 387 pages of information about Roumania Past and Present.
    Michael Stourdza seizes the boyards, who escape, 223. 
  Moldavia, junction of, with Wallachia under Couza, 228.
    coronation of King Charles, 255. 
  Muktar Pasha relieves Kars, 241. 
  Neagu Bassarab, records in the Cathedral of Ardges, 63, 64.
    his good deeds, 174. 
  Niamtz, verses on Stephen’s flight to, 172. 
  Nicholas, Czar of Russia, and the Crimean war, 225, 227. 
    Grand Duke, watches the crossing of the Danube by the Russians, 240.
      meets Osman Pasha, 252. 
  Officers of State in the Principalities, 179. 
  Omar Pasha suppresses the Greek rising, 224. 
  Osman Pasha repels the Russians at Plevna, 240.
    is repulsed at Plevna, 243.
    is defeated, and surrenders to the Russian and Roumanian generals, 252. 
  Paris, treaty of, 227. 
  Patzinakitai, the, 151. 
  Peter, Asan, and John, founders of Wallacho-Bulgarian empire, 154, 155. 
  Peter the Great, his invasion of Moldavia, 203. 
  Phanariotes, the, their rise and early history, 206, 207.
    the first rulers, 207, 208.
    installation of hospodars, 209.
    extortion and tyranny of, 210-12.
    extravagance of the princesses, 211.
    their usual fate, 212.
    favourable aspects of their rule, 214.
    end of their domination, 220. 
    Wilkinson on their character, 220. 
  Pic, on the origin of the, Roumanians, 164 note
  Plevna, siege and investment of, 240-52. 
    Russian repulses before, 240, 245, 246.
    defences of, 244.
    fall of, 252. 
  Radu Affumati, 175. 
  Radu Negru, tradition of, 162. 
  Revolution of, 1848, 223.
    suppressed, 224. 
  Roesler on the origin of the Roumanians, 164 note
  Romans invade Dacia under Domitian. 120.
    invade Dacia under Trajan, 122-27.
    second invasion under Trajan, 127-30.
    rule in Dacia, 131-34.
    at war with the Goths, 134, 135.
    evacuate Dacia, 135-37. 
  Rosetti, C.A., his participation in the rising of 1848, 223;
    his career, 263-265 (see also ’Biography’). 
    Madame, liberates the Roumanian patriots from the Turks, 262, 263 (see also ’Biography’). 
  Roumania constituted a principality under Couza, 229.
    its provisional government after the fall of Couza, 231, 232.
    under Prince Charles, 233-57.
    erected into a kingdom, 255.
    review of its history, 255.
    the future of, 269, 270. 
  Roumanian alliance with Russia against Turkey, 237.
    army, 237, 238 and note, 245.
    neutrality in 1877, 236.
    policy, 267-70.
    soldiers, Russian contempt of, at the commencement of the war, 242.
    praised for their coolness, 242.
    bravery at Grivitza, 248.
    sufferings of, after the capture of Grivitza, 248.
    securities, rise in the value of, 270 note
  Russian invasion of Moldavia under Peter the Great (1709), 203, 204.
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