The Establishment of the First Metropolitan See of Wallachia [PDF]
The seat of the first Metropolitan See of Wallachia—which was canonically recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople—was established at Curtea de Argeș, alongside with the Princely seat. This ecclesiastical structure—together with the existing princely seats which were attested long before the foundation of Wallachia—demonstrate that ...
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Roma Migration Intentions: An Aspirations–Capabilities Approach
ABSTRACT The Roma represent the largest ethnic minority in Europe, with Romania hosting the largest share. A significant proportion of this population seeks to improve their living conditions through migration. Drawing on the aspirations–capabilities framework, this study examines the micro‐, meso‐, and macro‐level factors influencing Romanian Roma's ...
Ionela Vlase
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“Law and/or Humanity”: The Racial Politics of Squatting in Post‐Transition Budapest
Abstract This paper documents the application of private property logics to social housing in Hungary. It achieves this through a discourse analysis of public media and various district government newsletters published between 1994 and 2000 in the lead‐up to the passage of anti‐squatting legislation known as Lex Juharos.
Jonathan McCombs
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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The Network Expression of a Roma Diaspora
ABSTRACT Despite the longstanding debates among ethnographers and policymakers regarding the social organization of the Roma–the largest and most marginalized native ethnocultural minority in Europe–quantitative analyses are limited. This is partly due to a unique combination of social closure and spatial dispersion of most Roma groups, exacerbated by ...
Francisco J. Ogáyar +4 more
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1538 : un tournant pour l’émigration balkanique vers les Principautés de Valachie et de Moldavie
The Ottoman conquest of Brăila in 1538, combined with the successes of the Ottoman advance into Hungary, brought about a salient change in the dynamics of migratory flows from the Balkan Peninsula into Wallachia and Moldavia, which can be followed from ...
Lidia Cotovanu
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The Impact of Levantine Transit Trade on 15th–16th Century A.D. Wallachia, Transylvania, and Moldova
After losing Zadar to Venice, Sigismund of Luxemburg and the friendly Republic of Genoa declare war on the Republic of Venice, Europe’s major spice supplier at the time.
Daria Stefan, Lutz Schubert
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Meșteșugul doftoriei. Primul tratat românesc de medicină. Ediția manuscriselor românești bar nr. 933 și 4841. Studiu filologic, studiu lingvistic, ediție, glosar și indice de Lia Brad Chisacof, Editura Academiei Române, București, 2017 [PDF]
The editing of the first Romanian medical treatise based on two manuscripts belonging to the Romanian Academy Library is reported. The work, in fact a compiled translation from several sources made between 1760 and 1771 / 1786–1795 / 1785, is a quasi ...
Laura Bădescu
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Abstract Conversion to a museum is a common destiny of many cultural assets that cannot continue to serve their original functions. They are usually re‐functioned to provide public benefits in return for the expenditures made for their preservation. However, their architectural features may not always meet the expected results when functioning as a ...
Hasan Fırat Diker
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Dysdera parthenogenetica sp. nov. (Araneae, Dysderidae): A Unique Case of Parthenogenesis in Spiders
We studied the parthenogenetic lineages of the spider Dysdera hungarica (Araneae: Dysderidae). Based on our data, we consider them to constitute a separate taxon, Dysdera parthenogenetica sp. nov. Morphologically, the new species differs mainly by slightly reduced female copulatory organs.
Milan Řezáč +7 more
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