Roumania Past and Present, James Samuelson [best novels to read to improve english .txt] 📗

100 " 109 1876 74 " 100-1/2 11-1/2 " 23 74 " 106 1877* 71 " 93 6-1/2 " 11-1/2 58 " 91 1878* 74 " 91 8-1/2 " 12 87 " 105 1879 84 " 93 10-1/2 " 12 93 " 110 1880 85 " 96 10 " 12-1/2 102 " 112

And in 1881 the prices of the Oppenheim loan ranged from 105 to 116. From these eloquent figures it will be seen that whilst Russia has been stationary, and Turkey has fallen 75 per cent, the condition and security of Roumania has risen, roughly speaking, 25 per cent, in the eslimation of the financial world during the last ten years. The two years marked with an asterisk were years of war.]


APPENDICES.


APPENDIX I.


Table of Movements and Settlements of various Nationalities and Tribes in the Provinces bordering on the Lower Danube between the Getic period and about the end of the Thirteenth Century, A.D., compiled by the Author, and corrected from the Ancient Historians (Tacitus, Dion Cassius, Eutropius) and the works of Gibbon, Smith, Lesage, Engel, Lauriani, Neigebaur, Henke, Wilkinson, Merivale, Freeman, Dierauer, Roesler, Pic, and others.

+--------------+--------------------------------------------+------------------+ | | APPROXIMATE DATES OF | | | NATIONALITY +-----------+-----------+----------+---------+ | |or TRIBE, with| First | | By whom | Final | Remarks | |supposed |appearance | Term of |and when |Disappea-| | |Subdivisions |in Danubian|Domination |Conquered |rance | | | |Provinces | | | | | +--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------+------------------+ | | | | | |Believed to be of | |GETÆ--Getæ | 335 B.C. | ? | ? | ? |Thracian origin; | |and Dacians | | | | |not clearly | | | | | | |traceable. | +--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------+------------------+ | | | | | |The Dacians rose | | |(Successors| | | |against the Romans| | |of or | |Romans | |under Ant. Pius | | DACIANS |contempo- | ? B.C. to |(Trajan), | See |and at other | | |rary with | A.D. 106 |A.D. 106 | Remarks |times, but were | | |Getæ) | | | |probably fused | | | | | | |with the Romans | | | | | | |and the barbarians| | | | | | |who followed them.| +--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------+------------------+ | | | | | |A considerable | | | | | | |proportion of the | | | | |Withdrew | |Roman and Daco- | | ROMANS |1st century|106 A.D. to|before the| ? |Roman descendants | | |B.C. |274 A.D. |Goths | |fused with | | | | |about 274 | |succeeding tribes,| | | | |A.D. | |and their descen- | | | | | | |dants survive in | | | | | | |Roumania to-day. | +--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------+------------------+ | | | | | |About 376 A.D. | | | | | | |they crossed the | | | | | | |Danube, driven | |GOTHS-- | | | | |before the Huns, | |Ostrogoths, | 250 A.D. |274 to 375 |Huns, 375 | 378 A.D.|and were allowed |