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Title: Austria-Hungary : with excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest : handbook for travellers
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Baedeker, Karl
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York C. Scribner
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
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cts (800,000, incl. the Szeklers); the Szeklersor Szekely, kinsfolk of the Magyars, who were settled in E. Transyl-vania at an unknown date, in order to act as Szekler, or guardians ofthe frontier, and who at one time erroneously regarded themselves asdescendants of the Huns; and the Saxons (ca. 220,000), the descendantsof the German immigrants invited by Geisa II. (see above). The Rou-manians, however (1,500,000), now form the largest part of the popu-lation. These regard themselves as the lineal descendants of the Romancolonists, but are in reality a mixed race (Thrako-Romans), made up ofRoman and Slavonic elements, which was formerly settled on the Balkans.Driven thence by the Greek Emperor Isaac Angelus about 1186, theymigrated to the left bank of the Danube, and, after the power of theKumans had been broken by the Teutonic Order, are said to haveretired to Transylvania. Other elements in the population consist ofthe Armenians (who first settled in Transylvania about 1672) and the
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ml*) Ijiii ill ^^ HflfJ-«lfl iO •> KOLOZSVlR. 97. Route. 541 Gipsies (105,000), of whom we hear as early as 1417, when they weregoverned hy a Voivode of their own. The other races represented areJews, Slovaks, Ruthenians, Bulgarians, Servians, and Greeks. Plan, of Tour. The S. part of Transylvania is the most inter-esting: i.e. the district between Petrozseny, Hermannstadt, and Kronstadt,which may be explored in about a fortnight. About 1 day should beallowed for Hermannstadt and the Hohe Rinne (R. 102); 2 days for theascent of the Negoi (p. 560); 1 day for the journey from Hermannstadt toKronstadt via Fogaras (R. 103); 4-5 days for Kronstadt and its attractiveenvirons (R. 99; Barczarozsnyo, Schuler, Bucsecs, Tusnad, and Sinaia);and 1 day for the journey thence to Segesvar. The remaining daysmay be spent in visiting Petrozseny and Livazeny (R. 101) in the S., andBesztercze (with ascent of the Onoko, p. 543) in the 1ST. In districts towhich neither trains nor diligences have yet

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