Hit: Hospadars

["bartlj@comcast.net" <bartlj@COMCAST.NET>]

Someone I deleted asked about Hospadars in Dracula.  =0D
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Servian: Serbian. Hospadars: rulers of Wallachia and Moldavia until 1866 =
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From:sara.burch.net/dracula/notes.html=0D
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HospitalersTransylvania1897Stoker, Bram. Dracula. New York: Bantam (1981;=
 c.
1897); pg. 7."In this respect it is different from the general run of roa=
ds
in the Carpathians, for it is an old tradition that they are not to be ke=
pt
in too good order. Of old the Hospadars would not repair them, lest the T=
urk
should think that they were preparing to bring in foreign troops, and so
hasten the war which was always really at loading point. "=0D
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From:www.adherents.com/lit/Na_230.html  the above chart is part of a list=
ing
of religious groups in literature.=0D
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Jean Bartlett=0D
Springfield Elementary=0D
Panama City, FL=0D
bartlj@mail.bay.k12.fl.us=0D
bartlj@comcast.net

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