and | |1200 to | | |part of |
|KNIGHTS OF ST.| |1223; Knts.| | |Wallachia, gave |
|JOHN | |St. John | | |the government of |
| | |1249 to ? | | |certain districts |
| | | | | |to the Teutonic |
| | | | | |Knights in 1200, |
| | | | | |but withdrew it in|
| | | | | |1223 A.D. |
+--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------+------------------+
| | |Made in- | | | |
| | |roads into | | | |
| | |'Moldavia' | | | |
| | |and Walla- |Retired | |At the same time |
|TARTARS (or |About 1240 |chia 13th |northward | |there were smaller|
|Mongols) | |century. |to Russia.| |voivodeships, |
| | |Ruled in |Founded | |banates, and |
| | |Moldavia |the Tartar| |khanates north of |
| | |13th and |Dynasty. | |the Danube. |
| | |first half | | | |
| | |of 14th | | | |
| | |century. | | | |
+--------------+-----------+-----------+----------+---------+------------------+

APPENDIX II.

THE 'CAPITULATIONS.'

The original 'Capitulation' of Mircea I. of Wallachia to the Sultan
Bajazid I. at Nicopolis, 1393 A.D., is contained in a
'Hatthoumaioun' of the latter, said to have been preserved in
Constantinople, and there seen by a Roumanian called Kitzorano, who was
attached to the Wallachian Embassy, and who took a copy of it (along
with others), which he sent to the Great Ban Takanitza Vacaresco. The
Greek historian, Dionysius Photino, also saw it at the Porte, and
published a copy of it in his 'History of Dacia,' vol. ii. cap. v. p.
369, a work which the reader will find in the British Museum. This runs
as follows:--

'We order, in our great co