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.
Europe, 142. 
  Innocent III., his correspondence with Joannitz, King of Wallacho-Bulgaria, 156-60. 
  Jassy, Treaty of, 218. 
  Jasyges, the, 118. 
  Kainardji, treaty of, 217. 
  Knights of St. John and Teutonic knights, 156. 
  Kumani, the, 155, 156. 
  Lauriani on the correspondence between Joannitz and Innocent III., 156-60.
    on the fall of Wallacho-Bulgaria, 160. 
  Lombards, the, 143. 
  Magyars, the (see ’Ungri’). 
  Matthew Bassarab, his criminal code, 201, 202. 
  Mavrocordato, Alexander, 207. 
    Nicholas, first Phanariote voivode, 208. 
    Constantine, suppresses retainers of boyards, 208.
      appoints new officers of State, 208, 209. 
  Mavrogeni, Nicholas, his nobles rebel, 214, 215.
    his defeat by the Austrians and Russians, 218. 
  Michael the Brave, condition of Wallachia in his day, 176-81.
    classes of society, 176, 177, 178.
    taxes, 178.
    officials, 179.
    army, 180.
    political relations with other states, 181.
    career of Michael: 
      early history and accession, 182;
      alliances, 182;
      massacre of the Turks, 183;
      conspiracy against him, 183;
      Achmed Pasha’s invasion and defeat, 184;
      Sigismund of Transylvania, Michael’s submission to him, 185;
      invasion of Sinan Pasha, 186;
      Kalugereni, Michael’s great victory, 186, 187;
      retreat and rally of Michael, 187;
      expulsion of the Turks, 188;
      intrigues of Michael, 189;
      abdication of Sigismund and accession of Andreas Bathori, 189;
      Michael’s invasion and conquest of Transylvania, 189-92;
      triumph at Weissenburg, 192;
      Michael overruns Moldavia, 192, 194;
      in the zenith of his power, 194;
      General Basta, 192, 195;
      revolt of Transylvanian nobles, 195;
      defeat of Michael at Miriszlo and Hight, 195, 196;
      appeals to the German Emperor, 196;
      recall of Sigismund Bathori, 196;
      Michael pardoned and reinstated, 196, 197;
      junction with Basta and defeat of the Transylvanians, 197;
      feud with Basta, 197;
      Michael assassinated by order of Basta, 198;
      his character, 198. 
  Mircea the Old, allied with Hungary and Poland, defeats the Turks, 165.
    first ‘capitulation’ at Nicopolis, 165 and Appendix II.
    his army, 166.
    his character, and verses in his memory by Bolentineanu, 167. 
  Moldavia, tradition of Bogdan Dragosch, 162.
    earliest historical records of, 170.
    early voivodes, 170, 171. 
    Stephen ‘the Good,’ voivode of, 171-73.
    capitulation of Bogdan to the Turks, 172.
    conquered by Michael the Brave, 193, 194. 
    Basilius Lupus, voivode of, 202. 
    Cantemir, voivode of, treats with Peter the Great, 203.
    invasion by Peter the Great, 203. 
    Greek rising in (1821), 223. 
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