Identifier: rumaniassacrific00negu (find matches)
Title: Rumania's sacrifice; her past, present, and future
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Negulesco, Gogu Wainwright, Charlette Hortense de Schryamaker Mrs., 1861- tr
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, The Century co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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onduct of the Hungarians, whoby their acts against nationalities have losttheir rights to the title of civilized people. Mr. Henry Wickham Steed writes in hisbook, The Hapsburg Monarchy, on page66 and page 429 the following: Francis Joseph, at the risk of alienating as im-portant a race as the Rumanians in Transylvania,tolerated the tactics of Tisza and of the HungarianPrime Minister who followed him to Magyarize theRumanians; and he showed himself indifferent to theuse of corruption and of pressure as a means ofgovernment. Here, as in the question of the Slavs of the South,the short-sighted Chauvinism of the Hungarians mustagain be blamed. While attempting vainly toMagyarize a prolific race, well gifted and in no wayinferior to themselves even from an intellectual point 248 44 !lillil!l!IIIII!i(inie^7?ti^iMiiii!iiiiiiiiii(ii;iii!;iiiiiiii;i(!iiiiiJ!,iL j^,G A ;l_ I C ? A V ■ : „ iesie-■«- POLITICAL and ETHNOLOGICAL MAP OF R U M A N I A AND THE REGIONSINHABITED BYTHE RUMANIANS.
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UNDER FOREIGN DOMINATION of view, although long persecuted, the Magyars In their Histoire Generale Mr. Lavisseand Mr. Rambaud branded this policy of de-clared Magyarization, and were indignant atthe measures applied in Transylvania with arigor and with unusual meannesses. (Vol-ume 12, p. 170.) BANAT Banat consist of three counties, Krasso,Temes, and Torontal. In this part the popu-lation, in the greater majority, is Rumanianand Serbian, and their existence is as bad asin Transylvania. BUKOWINA Bukowina formed a part of Moldavia untilthe year 1775, when it was occupied militarilyby the Austrians, with the excuse that it wasnecessary from a strategic point of view.Turkey, upon whom the Moldavians called, 249 RUMANIAS SACRIFICE not only approved the occupation, but killedthe Moldavian Prince Gr. Ghika, who pro-tested. The ancient documents of these days showthat Kaunitz, the minister of Maria Theresa,the Empress of Austria, had given to the grandvizier of Turkey 10,000 florins to assure

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