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Descriptions of the city

Authors-Travellers

Parks/Gardens

Being placed on the maritime Danube along important terrestrial and fluvial routes, Galaţi was visited by a large number of travellers, especially after the introduction of passenger steamers plying between Vienna and Constantinople in the 1830s. Many of such travel accounts are referred to in the large collections “Călători străini despre Ţările Române” [Foreign Travellers on the Romanian Principalities] (11 volumes) and “Călători străini despre Ţările Române în secolul al XIX-lea” [Foreign Travellers on the Romanian Principalities in the 19^th Century] (8 volumes so far). Some of the importance references to Galaţi are also included in a separate volume[1].

The authors below are those travellers whose comments on Galaţi are more consistent.

List of travelers and/or locals

Name of traveler	Date	Book title	Pages	Key words
William Hunter	1792	Travels Through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna, in 1792, vol. I, third edition (London: J. White, 1803).	375–380	Military occupations
Adam Neale	1805	Travels through Some Parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818).	174–175	Monastery, shipping, shipyard
William Wilkinson	1810s	William Wilkinson, An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820).	79–92	Market, commodities, administration
Charles Boileau Elliott	1835	Charles Boileau Elliot, Travels in the Three Great Empires of Austria, Russia, and Turkey, vol. I (London: Richard Bentley, 1838).	203–206	Trade, commodities, houses, population
James Baillie Fraser	1836	James Baillie Fraser, Narrative of the Residence of the Persan Princes in London, vol. I (London: Samuel Bentley, 1838).	188–194	City description, streets, houses
Charles William Vane	1839	Charles William Vane, Marquis of Londonderry, A Steam Voyage to Constantinople by the Danube and Rhine in 1840–1841 and in Portugal, Spain etc. in 1839, vol. I (London: Henry Colburn, 1842).	146–153	City description, trade, commodities, shipping
Laurence Oliphant	1852	Laurence Oliphant, The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumn of 1852 (London: W. Blackwood, 1853).	347–351	Industries, cheap prices
Warington Wilkinson Smyth	1852	Warington Wilkinson Smyth, A Year with the Turks or Sketches of Travel in the European and Asiatic Dominions of the Sultan (New York: Redfield, 1853).	32–34	City description, improvements
Virgil Doze	1857	Virgil Doze, Un mois en Moldavie (Brussels, Paris, Leipzig: Meline, Cans et Cie, La librairie nouvelle, Alphonse Durr, 1857)	41–51	Decription, population, political issues
A.G.	1857–1858	A.G., Notes de voyages. De Naples au Pyree – Athènes – Smyrne (Paris: Librairie F. Derouet, 1859)	67–68	General description, steamers
Wilhelm Philipp Hamm	1858–1859	Dr. Wilhelm Hamm, Suedostliche Steppen und Staedte. Nach eigener Anschauung (Frankfurt am Main: I. D. Sauerlaender’s Verlag, 1862)	14–34	Description, hotels, population, harbour, merchants
Adèle Hommaire de Hell	1868	Adèle Hommaire de Hell, A travers le monde. La Vie orientale. La Vie créole, etc. (Paris: Didier et Cie, 1870).	353–365	Population, description, streets, houses, society, theatre

[1] Marian Stroia, Ştefan Stanciu, Oraşul Galaţi în relatările călătorilor străini (De la începuturile sale până la 1848) (Galaţi: Editura Biblioteca Bucureştilor, 2004).

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Călători străini despre Ţările Române [Foreign Travellers on the Romanian Principalities] (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române, 1968–2001) (11 volumes) (travel accounts up to 1800).

Călători străini despre Ţările Române în secolul al XIX-lea [Foreign Travellers on the Romanian Principalities in the 19^th Century] (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române, 2004–2015) (8 volumes so far).

Stroia, Marian, Stanciu, Ştefan, Oraşul Galaţi în relatările călătorilor străini (De la începuturile sale până la 1848) [The City of Galaţi in the Descriptions of Foreign Travellers (From Its Beginnings until 1918)] (Galaţi: Editura Biblioteca Bucureştilor, 2004).

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