RUMANIA (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from RumaniaThe magnificent fortress of colossal mountains and the dense forests enclosing the wild ravines around it, were for hundreds of years the refuge and Salvation of the Rumanian people. Thither they retired to await a better future, when the irresistible hordes of diverse nations swept across the plains toward western Europe. There they entrenched themselves when the invading Goths, Gepidae, Huns, Slavonians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Tartars, Turks, and other tribes, ravaged the country with fire and sword. For a long timesthe Greeks held sway here, and then again the Romans, but it was only the latter that exercised any lasting influence on the original Dacian population, which, amalgamating with them in 195419blood, language and culture, has preserved the Roman character fight down to the present day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,