Chapter 2
_HISTORICAL._
IX. FROM THE GETAE (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._
[Engraved by G. PEARSON.]
PAGE
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._
[Drawn and lithographed, with aid of Author's notes, by E. WELLER.]
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.