A British consul who lived in Bucharest describes the principalities that would later form Romania: their history under the Ottomans and their Greek princes, population, tribute and taxes, mines and produce, the capitals Bucharest, Târgoviște and Iași, the manners and hardships of the peasants, and the foreign consuls who watched the region’s politics.
A rare early English source on the Romanian lands and the Eastern Question in the 1810s. Download the free EPUB.