. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. call them, fromtheir fancied relation to the old Romans,—Vlachs, or Wallachs, as they are calledby their neighbours,—according to Pro-fessor Freeman, are the representativesof those inhabitants of Tlirace Tiiracianand other parts of the Balkan descent,peninsula who exchanged their ownspeech for Latin; thus they representthe Thracian race in its widest sense,and probably are m
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. call them, fromtheir fancied relation to the old Romans,—Vlachs, or Wallachs, as they are calledby their neighbours,—according to Pro-fessor Freeman, are the representativesof those inhabitants of Tlirace Tiiracianand other parts of the Balkan descent,peninsula who exchanged their ownspeech for Latin; thus they representthe Thracian race in its widest sense,and probably are more nearly aUied toGreeks than to Romans. Neverthelessthey may retain some Roman blood;and they certainly are a mixture ofvarious races. The vast proportion ofRoumanians belong to the OrthodoxGreek Church. The Roumanians of the kingdomof Roumania arose from a migration ofpeople from further south; for thereis no sign of a Roumanian populationnorth of the Danube before the thirteenth century. They formed pai;tof the third kingdom of Bulgaria, and, continuing to migratefrom fear of the Turks, occupied Wallachia, Moldavia, and parts ^^^^*^°^-of Transylvania. Later, they were forced to own the rule of the Turks,. EOUMANIAN WOMAN. IV. 194 THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. thougli tliey were not so thoroughly subjugated as the Bulgarians. TheRoumanian Turks named or deposed their princes, but did not administerkingdom, ^jj^g provinces. After the treaty of Paris, in 1856, the twoprovinces of Moldavia and Wallachia chose the same prince, and havesince 1878 been independent of Turkey, their prince in 1887 taking thetitle of king. There is no doubt that Roumanian is mainly a Latin tongue, less modified than modern Italian. The people are mostly agricultural, . hving in a more primitive condition than the Bulgarians, state of the scarcely educated at all, unskilled even in agriculture, living P ? very frequently in small huts partially sunk in the soil and with only two rooms, and in many w
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