ROUMANIAN SMUGGLERS.

CHATTER BOX Published for the Proprietors by W. WELLS GARDNER, 10 Paternoster Row, London. Printed by John Strangeways,] [Castle Street, Leicester Square No. 18. March 30, 1872. Weekly—One Halfpenny. ROUMANIAN SMUGGLERS. ROUMANIA, otherwise called Wallachia and Moldavia, a country watered by the Danube, and not far from the Black Sea, is inhabited by a wild [...]

Travels Through Several Provinces of the Russian Empire 1808

Travels Through Several Provinces of the Russian Empire: With an Historical Account of the Zaporog Cossacks, and of Bessarabia, Moldavia, Wallachia and the Crimea By Pierce Balthasar Campenhausen, Freiherr von Pierce Balthasar Campenhausen Published by Printed for Richard Phillips, by J.G. Barnard, 1808 The external appearance of the Wallachians, forms a singular contrast with the [...]

Moravian Wallachia

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Unknown Hungary By Victor Tissot 1881

If the Kanasz possesses a hut made out of branches, the brigand becomes his companion for the night. His relations with refugees and vagabonds of the forest are the result of circumstances ; he is their spy, their sentinel. In return for his services the brigands respect the animals he guards, and for which he [...]

Round about the Carpathians By Andrew F. Crosse 1878

(Just to illustrate that the Carpathian axe culture was alive and well in Romania during the 19th century, I have made this post. The 1st picture I have posted with this little historical tidbit was titled balkan axe years ago when I snatched it from the web from some forgotten site. The second is an [...]