Aus meinem Königreich: Tales from the Carpathian Mountains

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Not many years ago, the Roumanians, i.e. , the inhabitants of the two principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, were hardly known by name, and it was only through the grave events of which the Lower Danube has been the scene, since the middle of the XIX. century that they are prominently brought to the fore. We know now that they constitute one of the most important elements of the population of Eastern Europe—that they differ essentially from their neighbors, be they Slav, Turk, or Magyar—and that in some way they are descendants of the old Romans, though they live detached from the other nations of the Graeco-Latin family.