WALACHIA, a province of Turkey in Europe, bounded by the Irongate mountains, which separate it from Transylvania on the north-west, by Moldavia on the north-east, by the Danube, which separates it from the province of Servia, on the south-west. It is 225 miles in length, and 125 in breadth where it is broadest. In the last war between the Turks and Germans, the latter having lost the fatal battle of Crozka, were obliged to give up this district to the Turks, by the treaty of Belgrade concluded in 1739. The air is good, and the soil fruitful; producing corn, wine, oil, pastures, and all manner of European fruit; and has abundance of oxen and sheep, and an excellent breed of horses. The inhabitants are indolent with the free exercise of their religion, which is of the Greek church; and this circumstance renders them the more contented with their masters; because if the Roman Catholics had the ascendancy, they would be sure of undergoing persecution.