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NATIVE ROUMANIANS OE WAEEACHIA 



Roumania is as large in area as Arkansas, but it has nearly six times as many people as 



that State 



earned by continual struggle the right to 

 live are always patriotic. If this be true, 

 the many conflicts waged by the races 

 occupying the Balkan States would place 

 them high in the scale of love for native 

 land, were it not for the fact that the 

 most serious conflicts have been inter- 

 necine. 



TWO PRINCIPALITIES UNITED 



While it would be interesting, though 

 perhaps tedious, to narrate the tribal and 

 factional wars of this region, the section 

 now especially under consideration can 

 be quickly reached by saying that the 

 treaty of Paris in 1856 gave recognition 

 to the two principalities — Moldavia and 



Wallachia — and empowered each to elect 

 a ruler. 



It was specified that the election in the 

 two principalities should take place on 

 the same day, but, in the absence of any 

 stipulation to the contrary, the electors 

 wisely selected the same man — Cuza — 

 who, under the name of Prince Alexan- 

 dru Joan I, ruled rather ingloriously 

 until forced to abdicate by the revolution 

 of February, 1866. Though he achieved 

 but little else, he can claim some credit 

 for the coup which resulted in the coali- 

 tion of the two principalities, whereby a 

 new nation came into existence with the 

 name of Roumania. 



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