Excerpt from The Hungarians of Moldavia In the neighbourhood (if Hungary, On the eastern slopes of the Carpathians a part of the Roumanian Moldavia there are about Hungarians living all abandoned, in a cohesive territory. These so-called csango-hungarians are inhabiting more than 300 villages and parishes in the fertile valleys Of the river Seret and its tributaries, and have to a large extent retained their ancient language and customs in spite of difficult poli tical and ethnographical conditions. This industrious, straightforward people who, as to race, creed and tongue, constitutes a considerable minority among the predominant Roumanian nation, professes the roman-catholic creed and maintains but a single Protestant parish at Szaszkut, while there are to be found some Saxon followers Of the greek-catholic belief in the upper valley of the T atros (near to Cs'ug s), and some orthodox Catholics who have abandoned the faith of their ancestors and owing to the influence of Roumanian environment have kchanged it for that Of the prevalent race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.