The title as printed does not carry acute accents on the 'É'; as these are correctly used where the word is printed elsewhere in Household Words (in the Index to this volume, for example), they are introduced into the transcript, and are still locatable by Search functions.

Part of a series of articles on Central and Eastern Europe. See also 'Moldo-Wallachia', Household Words, VIII, No. 183; 'Bucharest', Household Words,VIII, No. 184; 'The Gipsy Slaves of Wallachia', Household Words, VIII, No. 185; 'A Wallachian Squire', Household Words, VIII, No. 189; 'Turks in Bulgaria', Household Words, VIII, No. 190; 'Varna', Household Words, VIII, No. 195; 'A Border of the Black Sea', Household Words, VIII, No. 200.