Quelques renseignements sur la vie et l'activité commerciale de l’épirote Consta Petru en Oltenie (Valachie)

Abstract

Consta Petru, along with his four brothers left their paternal village Negades in Epirus because of the Turkish oppression and established themselves before 1765 in Valachia. Later he had his three older sons come over to Valachia to whom he gave a small capital and introduced them to his company. Consta Petru, his brothers and sons were dealing with the commerce of sheep which was very profitable in that period. The sons of Consta Petru, after their father’s death, founded in Craiova the company "Hadji Yiannousi Consta Petrou brothers" which in the beginning of the 19th cent, became very active in the Principalities and in other countries of Europe.