Five Centuries of Postal History in Wallachia and Moldavia. Transit Land Between Constantinople And West European Countries,
by Vasile Braia, 2016.
Category: History, Philatelic Literature.
Large Vermeil Medal, Internationally awarded book.
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Contents of the Book
Acknowledgments. 5
Preamble. 7
Chapter I. The post at South and East of the Carpathians from the beginning of the second millennium until the end of the XIV-th Century. 9
The setting of the Feudal Romanian Countries and their Postal Services - Turkish domination. 13
Princely Chancelleries. 14
The oldest information about the Romanian Post 15
Turkish Administration. 16
Chapter II Postal Organization. 19
Postal Routes. 19
Domestic Roads. 21
Connecting routes between the Romanian Feudal States and the Western Countries. 26
Connecting routes with Transylvania. 29
Information about the roads. 45
Travelers safety on Romanian roads. 48
Post Stations, Menzils and Post Relays. 50
Resting Places. 59
Travel Authorizations. 67
Authorizations issued by the Central or County Authorities. 67
Postal Authorizations. 69
Princely couriers. 70
Princely Couriers. 70
Coaches. 71
Couriers. 74
The light cavalry. 74
Border guards. 74
Personal couriers. 77
Caravans. 78
Express Mail 89
Messengers. 80
Mail in transit 80
Foreign Couriers. 82
Post Coaches. 84
The Danube. 88
Telegraph. 99
State Post 92
Church and Convent Post 105
Chapter III. Five centuries of Romanian Postal History. 111
The Second Part of the Fourteenth Century. 111
The Oldest Documents about the Wallachian Post were issued by Prince Mircea the Elder 113
The Charter. 114
The text of Mircea the Elder’s. 114
Charter of 1409-Comments. 114
Information of postal history from the fourteenth century. 115
Fifteenth Century. 117
Seventeenth century. 131
Eighteenth century. 141
The nineteenth century. 152
Memoirs about the Romanian Postal Service. 167
Chapter IV. Who traded in the Romanian countries and carried out correspondence. 181
Chapter V. About letters. 195
Chapter VI. Postal legislation and lease contracts. 205
Chapter VII. Post cancellations used in the pre-philatelic period. 219
Post hand stamps from the period 1852 -1857. 220
Administrative hand stamps used on letters. 222
Hand Stamp "MOLDOVA” of 1857. 225
Chapter VIII. Postage stamps of Moldavia. 229
Historical background of fiscal and postage stamps. 229
The anti - unionists and the Moldavian postage stamps. 232
1856 - Fiscal Stamps. 234
22nd of July 1858 First Issue of Moldavian postage stamps. 235
Sending correspondence under Franco and Porto conditions. 248
Representative Letters. 249
Why didn't Wallachia issue postal stamps?. 251
Chapter IX. Disinfection and Postal service. 253
Disinfection in Austria. 256
Disinfection in Romanian Principalities. 269
Interior quarantines. 279
Three sanitary cordons on the Romanian Principalities borders. 279
Seals and sanitary hand stamp. 282
Quarantines organization. 283
Seals of the Border Guards. 285
Information about Quarantines. 285
Chapter X. Foreign Post Offices opened in the Romanian Principalities. 289
Austrian Post 290
Austrian Post until the Peace Congress of Vienna (1815). 290
Austrian Post between 1815 and 1829. 293
Austrian Post between 1830 and 1869. 294
Austrian Post during the Crimean War. 298
Postal relations between Austria and the Romanian Principalities. 301
The Austrian consular post offices and starosties. 303
Non-consular post offices. 308
The revolution of 1848, Russian military occupation and Austrian post complaints. 310
Austrian hand stamps. 310
Censorship. 313
Tariff. 314
Office documents of the Austrian military post 316
FRANCO marking. 316
Conclusions. 316
Russian post in the Romanian Principalities. 317
Information about the Russian post and its relations with the Romanian countries. 317
Russian post offices. 325
Hand stamps used by the Russian post offices. 326
French Post Offices in the Romanian Principalities and Dobruja. 329
Greek Post Offices in the Romanian Principalities. 332
The foreign Consulates in the Romanian Principalities. 332
Chapter XI. Transport on the Danube and Black Sea. 337
Correspondence sent by ships. 337
Austrian policy to control the navigation on the Danube. 339
International postal agreements. 342
“DDSG" - Shipping Company. 343
“LLOYD AUSTRIACO” - Sea Shipping Company. 357
The transport control at the mouth of the Danube. 359
The maritime activity of “Lloyd Austriaco” in the Black Sea. 360
Austrian post offices from Galatz and Cernavoda. 362
Hand stamps. 363
Post hand stamps: FRANCO, PD and PP. 363
Bazias Port and Pesta-Bazias Railways. 365
“DBSR” and “MORTON” - Shipping companies. 368
Enclosure I Chronology of the Crimean War. 373
Enclosure II Hand stamps used by the Austrian mlitary post offices in the Romanian Countries during the Crimean War. 377
Enclosure III Galatz and Braila Ports. 381
Selective Bibliography. 385
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