A GREAT READ FOR KIDS!

Roumanian Fairy Tales and Legends is a collection of fifteen of Romanias most fascinating tales, painstakingly researched and deftly translated by E.B. Mawer. And, no, there is no spelling mistake. In the 18th C. and early 19th C. Romania was spelt Roumania.

Given Romanias long and diverse cultural history, it is no surprise that the country has such a rich tapestry of folk tales, fairy tales, and legends. It is fortunate that so many of these stories survived the countrys turbulent history and were passed down throughout the ages to countless Romanian children.

In approximately 82 BC, the rule of the Dacian kings was replaced by the Romans, who were forced out by the Goths, who, in turn, were supplanted in the 4th century AD by the Huns. After this, a sequence of nomadic rulers, including the Gepids, the Avars, the Bulgars, the Pechenegs, and the Cumans, ruled the area.

In the Middle Ages, Romanians lived in three distinct principalities: Wallachia, Moldavia, and, the notorious,Transylvania, which were ruled by the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires. In 1859, Moldavia and Wallachia united under Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, but it was not until the end of WWI, in 1918, that Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transylvania proclaimed unions with the Kingdom of Romania and the modern state of Romania was born.

33% of the publishers profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Relief Fund for Romania.

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