The Danubian Principalities, the Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk
Subtitle: By a British resident of twenty years in the East. Volume 2
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: February 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9781402180378
Subjects: Europe,the Christi frontier lands,the Turc,Danubian principalities; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; History / Europe / General
First sentence: JASSY, now a city of about 50,000 inhabitants, was a Roman town, having been the head-quarters of the nineteenth legion, called Jassiensis, who, according to the system of the great republic, by which every soldier became an artisan in time of peace, were gold-miners, aurarii, and worked the rich mineral strata of the Carpathian mountains, especially at Baya.