Catalogue description Foreign Office: Consulate and Embassy, Bucharest, Romania (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence and Various Registers

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Reference: FO 625
Title: Foreign Office: Consulate and Embassy, Bucharest, Romania (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence and Various Registers
Description:

This series contains general correspondence from the British consulate, legation and embassy in Bucharest, Romania (formerly part of the Ottoman Empire). It also includes registers of births, baptisms and deaths.

Date: 1851-1967
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Foreign Office, Consulate, Bucharest, Ottoman Empire, 1851-1866

Foreign Office, Consulate, Bucharest, Romania, 1866-1941

Foreign Office, Consulate, Bucharest, Romania, 1944-1968

Foreign Office, Embassy, Bucharest, Romania, 1964-1968

Foreign Office, Legation, Bucharest, Romania, 1878-1964

Physical description: 14 box(es)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

A British consulate was established in Bucharest in 1851. After Romania achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1878, the consulate was upgraded to a legation, which in turn became an embassy in 1964.

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