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.
  Consuls, Russian, established in Roumania, 217. 
    English and French, established in Roumania, 218. 
  Corvinus (see ’Hunniad’). 
  Couza, Prince, accession and reign, 229.
    surprised in his palace and deposed, 230.
    abdication and departure, 231, 232. 
  Criminal codes of Matthew Bassarab and Basilius Lupus, 201, 202. 
  Dacia, contests with Home, 117 et seq.
    Decebalus, King of, 119-29. 
    Trajan’s first invasion of, 122-27.
      second invasion of, 127-30.
    a Roman province, 131-34.
    evacuated by Aurelian, 195-97. 
    Gibbon on the evacuation, 135-37. 
  Dacians, the, their origin and character, 117-19.
    early wars with Rome, 119 et seq.
  Decebalus, King of the Dacians, 119-29.
    defeats Appius Sabinus, and Cornelius Fuscus, 120.
    is beaten by Tertius Julianus, 121.
    makes a treaty with Domitian, 121, 122.
    is defeated by Trajan, 124.
    breaks his treaty with Trajan, 127.
    attempts Trajan’s life by assassination, 128.
    again defeated by Trajan and commits suicide, 129. 
  Dion Cassius, the historian, 117, 118 note
  Domitian, defeated by Decebalus, 120. 
  Elisabeth, princess and queen, 55, 92, 257, 260-61, 261 note (see also ’Biography’). 
  Gellius (and other chiefs), tradition of, 150, 151 note
  Gepidae (a branch of the Goths), powerful in Northern Dacia, 142.
    defeated and exterminated by the Lombards, 143. 
  Getae, their supposed origin, 115, 116.
    at war with Alexander and other Greek generals, 116, 117. 
  Gibbon on Aurelian’s evacuation of Dacia, 135.
    his estimate of the Dacians, 136. 
  Goths, their first appearance, 134.
    defeated by Marcus Aurelius, 135.
    negotiate with Aurelian, 136.
    rule in Dacia, 139, 140.
    end of their rule, and remains left by them, 140. 
  Greek families, reference to histories of, 201 note.
    rulers of Wallachia and Roumania (see ’Phanariotes’).
    rising under Vladimiresco and Ypsilanti, 219, 220.
      suppressed, 220. 
  Grivitza Redoubt besieged by the Roumanians, 245, 246.
    its strength, 247.
    its capture by the Roumanians, 248, 249. 
  Helena (Couza), Princess, 92, 229. 
  Heliad, the regenerator of national literature in Roumania, 221-23.
    his political action, 223. 
  Hospodars, Greek (see ’Phanariotes’).
    origin of title, 208, 209 note.
    restoration of native, 220. 
  Hungarians (see ’Ungri’). 
  Hunniad, Johann Corvin von, his birth and early life, 167, 168.
    viceroy of Siebenbuergen and regent of Hungary, 168.
    his wars with the Turks and death, 168.
    anecdotes concerning him, and his character, 160. 
  Huns, appear in northern Dacia, 140, 141.
    their aspect and ferocity, 141.
    their king Attila, 141.
    defeated and driven out of
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