“There is a perception that Rumelia died with its last Emperor, Constantine Palaiologos, the Marble King. This is wrong, because at that time it was enslaved by the Asian Barbarians, the Ottomans, and its death did not occur until much, much later, and we played an exclusive role in that death!...”
A book that opens up through its pages, referring to key moments in time from the Fall of Constantinople to the end of the Empire. It starts with the decisive role of the Franks in the conquest of Romania by the Ottomans and continues by analyzing the first period after the Fall.
The author makes references to the captivity of Phanar, the Great Church of Christ, to the Phanariotes who were the political aristocracy of the Nation, to Education, to the communities, and to the importance of their contribution to the salvation of the Nation during Ottoman rule.
“...The idea of the Roman Empire had died in the fire of the Revolution and the tragedy of Rumeli had been completed. Romania was ‘taken’... The ‘Great Idea’ is now the way out and comfort for the people.”
