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The last 250 years of this lengthy urban history have been
reflected in the land mapping documen... more The last 250 years of this lengthy urban history have been
reflected in the land mapping documents, which represent an essential
tool for the proper understanding of the ancient urban land mapping
and an in-depth study of the urban infrastructure and development. In
comparison with other Romanian towns which are of a similar size or
importance, Roman boasts a diverse, consistent and extremely valuable
mapping legacy, which is also a primary source of historical
documentation.
The reason for choosing Roman as the focus of this new volume
resides in the historical significance of this town. Situated close to the
confluence of the rivers Moldova and Siret, this town developed in the
14th century, at a crossroads of several travel routes, in what used to be
considered, at that time, the border of the Moldavian territory, as
founded by Prince Dragoș.
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by Dan Dumitru Iacob, Constanta Vintila, Mihai-Bogdan Atanasiu, Valentin Constantinov, Bogdan Mateescu, Marius Chelcu, Adrian Magina, Elena Bedreag, daniel paval, Sorin Grigoruta, Daniela Damboiu, Rüsz-Fogarasi Enikő, and Petronel Zahariuc Volumul pe care îl propunem atenției mediului științific, în particular, și publicului, în genera... more Volumul pe care îl propunem atenției mediului științific, în particular, și publicului, în general, cuprinde ca arie tematică principală prezentarea și valorificarea surselor referitoare la patrimoniile materiale și culturale ale elitelor sociale din țările române, din secolele XVI–XIX, cu un accent mai mare pe Moldova și Țara Românească. Atenție se acordă însă și averilor altor categorii sociale, cum ar fi țărănimea și orășenimea, surprinse mai ales pentru Transilvania, precum și patrimoniilor instituționale. Substanța documentării o reprezintă sursele cu caracter patrimonial – în care includem documente diverse, cum ar fi: inventarele de avere, testamentele, foile de zestre, actele de vânzare-cumpărare, condicile de venituri și cheltuieli etc. – din care se pot extrage informații semnificative și detaliate despre dimensiunile, funcțiile și particularitățile averii unei familii sau ale unei instituții, constituirea, compoziția, transferul și dizolvarea unui patrimoniu, potențialul de putere și prestigiu, simbolurile de status social și mecanismele sociale ale distincției, aspectele genealogice, biografice și sociale referitoare la proprietari, practicile sociale și culturale specifice la nivel micro sau macrosocial.
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Coord.: Vasile Ciobanu, Judit Pal, Anda-Lucia Spânu, ediţie revăzută şi adăugită, (coautor), 2008
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Historia Urbana, 2023
This article aims to analyse several military plans and engravings found in the archives and libr... more This article aims to analyse several military plans and engravings found in the archives and libraries of Vienna, which illustrate and describe the phases of the battle that took place on 22 March 1788 near Botoșani town. The battle was fought between the Austrian troops, commanded by Colonel Michael von Fabri, and the Ottoman troops, commanded by Ibrahim Nazir Pasha. While the battle was not a significant event, its outcome had strategic consequences as it opened up new supply opportunities and hastened the defeat of the Turks at Hotin. The conflict has a particular resonance for the history of Moldavia and Botosani town, as it represents the first clash in the military campaign of 1788, which resulted in the occupation of the capital of Moldavia, the city of Iași, and a large part of this principality by Austrian and Russian troops.
Apart from establishing the military context that led to the creation of the plans and engravings, this article also highlights other aspects obtained from the research of these sources. These include updating bibliographical references, completing technical details, identifying the authors, and analysing the topography of the area and the urban structure of Botoșani town.
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Cities and Economy in Europe Markets and Trade on the Margins from the Middle Ages to the Present, Edited by Katalin Szende, Erika Szívós, Boglárka Weisz, Routledge, 2024
This chapter presents a series of historical landmarks related to the economic, social, legislati... more This chapter presents a series of historical landmarks related to the economic, social, legislative, and urban specificity of markets and fairs in the cities of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. It shows the legal frame of setting up, organising, and operating markets and fairs, the number, type, timing, and their topographic distribution both at the level of the principalities and inside towns. Based on case studies of the largest markets and fairs from Iaşi, Bucharest, Câmpulung, Târgovişte, Buzău, and Fălticeni, it shows how these places of exchange were built and equipped and the impact they had on urban development. It also demonstrates the economic and social importance of markets and fairs, referring in particular to the types of commercial activities carried out in these places, the geographical zones of origin of goods, the areas served by markets and fairs, the social profile of the participants and, last but not least, the cultural influences and the forms of sociability that these places of exchange promoted or generated.
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Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Sibiu (1956–2021): 65 de ani de provocări istoriografice și culturale, Rudolf Gräf și Andreea Buzaș, eds., Cluj-Napoca: Academia Română. Centrul de Studii Transilvane, 2022
In recent years, new cartographic sources relating to the town of Roman in the 18th and 19th cent... more In recent years, new cartographic sources relating to the town of Roman in the 18th and 19th centuries have been discovered in foreign archives and published. Since such sources, too little known or used, are also kept in the Romanian archives, in this article, we have proposed to analyse a plan concerning the delimitation of the Roman town core and town pasture, drawn up by the surveyor Gheorghe Vucinic in 1846-1848. The plan helps to understand better an essential historical process of Roman town, namely the reacquisition of the town's place and pasture by its inhabitants in exchange for two estates offered to the Roman Bishopric, which owned the place of town and the surrounding area. In the first part of this article, we have highlighted the context of the transaction using two crucial sources: an unpublished letter of exchange from 1848 and a ruler charter from 1852. In the second part of the paper, we analysed the plan from a technical and cartographic perspective, highlighting its documentary potential. Although not very detailed, the plan shows the boundary lines and the size of the town and pasture areas, the structure of the street network, the location of worship, several bridges and buildings, and the places of a new Jewish cemetery and a Bishopric's mill and abattoir. Last but not least, we have outlined the professional profile of the plan's author, the surveyor Gheorghe Vucinic, who also had a political career as mayor, prefect and member of parliament. In the appendices, in addition to the exchange contract of 1848 (Appendix I), we have added a summary list of the other plans made by Vucinic (Appendix II), a transcription of the plan's captions (Appendix III) and finally, a plate with the plan of Roman in 1848.
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Historia Urbana, 2022
In this article, we present an unknown plan of the town of Roman and its surroundings, provided b... more In this article, we present an unknown plan of the town of Roman and its surroundings, provided by the Russian State Military-Historical Archive in Moscow (RGVIA). Russian military engineers made the plan in 1770, during the Russian military occupation of Moldavia in the Russo-Turkish War (1769-1774). Our research objectives are mainly to describe and publish that plan, outline the historical context in which it appeared and highlight its topographical information. The plan captures an area of about 250 km 2 , which includes the Roman town and 12 nearby villages. It depicts a geographical landscape with noticeable differences from the current one, especially in terms of the hydrographic network, and it shows the geographic forms, the roads, the structure of the town and the locations of ecclesiastical and military objectives. The Russian military plan of the town of Roman from 1770 can be considered the oldest topographical survey of this urban centre in Moldavia.
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Historia Urbana, 2021
The subject of this article refers to a lesser-known cartographic source, regarding the most impo... more The subject of this article refers to a lesser-known cartographic source, regarding the most important city of Moldavia, Iași, and its neighboring area. The source is entitled “Plan von der moldauischen Hauptstadt Jassy und ihrer Gegend” [The Plan of Moldavian Capital Iași and its Surroundings] and probably was drawn by an Austrian staff officer in September 1788. The plan is owned by the Romanian Academy Library and has the dimensions of 405 × 476 mm and the scale 1 : 57 600. It is not very precise and detailed but provides valuable information on the geography, topography and toponymy of the area around the city of Iasi, from the end of the eighteenth century. The plan confirms a number of known historical and topographical information from narrative or other cartographic sources, such as Russian plans and estate plans, but it also presents some lesser-known details regarding changes to the hydrographic network, bridges and roads and, especially, about the position of the Austrian, Russian and Ottoman military units and camps in the vicinity of Iași, from the end of August and the beginning of September 1788. From this point of view, the plan is an additional proof regarding the strategic role that the city of Iași represented in the military operations carried out in this conflict zone, subsumed by the broader context of the Russian-Austro-Turkish War (1787–1792).
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Historia Urbana, 2020
In this study we set out to present an unknown map regarding the capital of the Principality of M... more In this study we set out to present an unknown map regarding the capital of the Principality of Moldavia, Iași city, and its surroundings from the middle of the 19th century. The map is entitled Jassi und Umgebung, it is provided by the Military Archives in Vienna (Kriegsarchive) and was created during the Austrian military occupation of Moldavia (1854–1857), during the Crimean War. The map points out yet again that, during that period, the Austrian army initiated geodetic activities in Moldavia, not only in Wallachia, as was known until now. Its realization was subordinated to an old political and military objective of the Habsburg monarchy for the exploration and mapping of its own territory but also of its political and economic influence areas located in the vicinity of its borders. For this reason, I briefly presented other military maps and plans regarding the Principality of Moldavia and the area of Iași in the 18–19th centuries, highlighting the historical context in which the map was drawn in 1855. Given the above, I paid a special attention to the identification of the officers who made the map (Anton Krzisch, Eduard van der Schlott / Sloot, Gustav von Löw, Rudolf von Friess and Franz Matosović), whose military careers we reconstructed in order to understand, on the one hand, how and where they acquired the cartographic knowledge and skills and, on the other hand, if they also made other topographic works related to the Romanian Principalities.
Due to its technical properties, dimensions (527 × 527 mm) and large scale (1 : 28 800), the map offers the most detailed and precise topographic perspective up to 1855 over an area of about 230 km2, which includes the Iasi city, centrally located, and 25 villages around it. The map shows the geographic forms and land usage, roads, structure of localities and households, locations and structures of ecclesiastical (churches, monasteries, cemeteries) and economic (mills, taverns, fountains and aqueducts, bricks, slaughterhouse, telegraph) objectives, headquarters of some institutions, public and private gardens, residences of the social elite in Iași and in its vicinity, etc. Topographic information is important and consistent, which is why the map can be used as a source of documentation for research topics in various fields: history and archaeology, geography and cartography, urbanism, toponymy and others.
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Costin Croitoru, Miscellanea Historica et Archaeologica in honorem Professoris Ionel Cândea septuagenarii, Editura Academiei Române - Muzeul Brăilei „Carol I” - Editura Istros, București - Brăila, 2019
The subject of this study refers to several aspects of the life and activity of a military who, a... more The subject of this study refers to several aspects of the life and activity of a military who, although was well‐known among his arms companions through his virtues and good deeds, didn’t have the chance of a historical posterity. The character of our current research is a foreigner whose destiny brought him on Romanian lands for a short time, a stay that had as outcome several testimonies of his professional competences. A notorious result of its passage through the Romanian Principalities is the plan of Brăila town in 1790, a precious source for the military history as well as for the history of military cartography, and especially for the Lower Danube’s town history. Therefore, we are talking about Captain Johann Vermatti von Vermersfeld (1754–1794), officer in the Habsburg army, who during this time was involved in the Russian‐Austrian‐Turkish War (1788–1791).
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Lupescu Makó Mária (coord.), Ionuţ Costea, Ovidiu Ghitta, Sipos Gábor şi Rüsz-Fogarasi Enikő, Cluj – Kolozsvár – Klausenburg 700. Várostörténeti tanulmányok. Studii de istorie urbană, Erdélyi Múzeum Egyesület, Kolozsvár, 2018
The objective of this article is to present an unknown original plan of Focşani town inventoried ... more The objective of this article is to present an unknown original plan of Focşani town inventoried at the Austrian State Archives in Vienna. It was realized in the course of the Austrian military occupation of Romanian Principalities (1855–1857), during the Crimean War. Due to its scale (1:14 400) the plan provides an accurate perspective of the town topography. It is important not only for the history of cartography, but it also provides information and suggestions for research in terms of urban history and urban geography. The topographic plan shows the structure of the Focşani town, with the hydrographic and street network, the location of houses, churches and monasteries, civil institutions and military facilities.
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Studii de istorie a orașelor: in honorem Paul Niedermaier, coord. Vasile Ciobanu și Dan Dumitru Iacob, Editura Academiei Române, Editura Istros a Muzeului Brăilei „Carol I”, Bucureşti – Brăila, 2017
The subject of this study are the two topographical plans of the Focșanii
Munteni town and its es... more The subject of this study are the two topographical plans of the Focșanii
Munteni town and its estate, on the border between Wallachia and Moldavia. These plans were carried out in 1848 by topographers Gheorghe Scipion and Constantin Aninoşanu and were used in the emancipation process of the urban community under the mastery of St. John's Monastery, which took over by force a large part of the town's territory and estate. These plans show us for the first time, in a very detailed manner and on a geographical scale, the topography of the town and its estate. The information contained therein refers to: landforms, water, vegetation and land use, localities and communication routes, parcels and topographical numbers of properties, buildings and vacant lands, bridges and barriers, boundaries of the localities and of the
town estate. Through their documentary potential, these plans can be particularly useful for historical, geographic, cartographic and town planning research.
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reflected in the land mapping documents, which represent an essential
tool for the proper understanding of the ancient urban land mapping
and an in-depth study of the urban infrastructure and development. In
comparison with other Romanian towns which are of a similar size or
importance, Roman boasts a diverse, consistent and extremely valuable
mapping legacy, which is also a primary source of historical
documentation.
The reason for choosing Roman as the focus of this new volume
resides in the historical significance of this town. Situated close to the
confluence of the rivers Moldova and Siret, this town developed in the
14th century, at a crossroads of several travel routes, in what used to be
considered, at that time, the border of the Moldavian territory, as
founded by Prince Dragoș.
Articles by Dan Dumitru Iacob
Apart from establishing the military context that led to the creation of the plans and engravings, this article also highlights other aspects obtained from the research of these sources. These include updating bibliographical references, completing technical details, identifying the authors, and analysing the topography of the area and the urban structure of Botoșani town.
Due to its technical properties, dimensions (527 × 527 mm) and large scale (1 : 28 800), the map offers the most detailed and precise topographic perspective up to 1855 over an area of about 230 km2, which includes the Iasi city, centrally located, and 25 villages around it. The map shows the geographic forms and land usage, roads, structure of localities and households, locations and structures of ecclesiastical (churches, monasteries, cemeteries) and economic (mills, taverns, fountains and aqueducts, bricks, slaughterhouse, telegraph) objectives, headquarters of some institutions, public and private gardens, residences of the social elite in Iași and in its vicinity, etc. Topographic information is important and consistent, which is why the map can be used as a source of documentation for research topics in various fields: history and archaeology, geography and cartography, urbanism, toponymy and others.
Munteni town and its estate, on the border between Wallachia and Moldavia. These plans were carried out in 1848 by topographers Gheorghe Scipion and Constantin Aninoşanu and were used in the emancipation process of the urban community under the mastery of St. John's Monastery, which took over by force a large part of the town's territory and estate. These plans show us for the first time, in a very detailed manner and on a geographical scale, the topography of the town and its estate. The information contained therein refers to: landforms, water, vegetation and land use, localities and communication routes, parcels and topographical numbers of properties, buildings and vacant lands, bridges and barriers, boundaries of the localities and of the
town estate. Through their documentary potential, these plans can be particularly useful for historical, geographic, cartographic and town planning research.
reflected in the land mapping documents, which represent an essential
tool for the proper understanding of the ancient urban land mapping
and an in-depth study of the urban infrastructure and development. In
comparison with other Romanian towns which are of a similar size or
importance, Roman boasts a diverse, consistent and extremely valuable
mapping legacy, which is also a primary source of historical
documentation.
The reason for choosing Roman as the focus of this new volume
resides in the historical significance of this town. Situated close to the
confluence of the rivers Moldova and Siret, this town developed in the
14th century, at a crossroads of several travel routes, in what used to be
considered, at that time, the border of the Moldavian territory, as
founded by Prince Dragoș.
Apart from establishing the military context that led to the creation of the plans and engravings, this article also highlights other aspects obtained from the research of these sources. These include updating bibliographical references, completing technical details, identifying the authors, and analysing the topography of the area and the urban structure of Botoșani town.
Due to its technical properties, dimensions (527 × 527 mm) and large scale (1 : 28 800), the map offers the most detailed and precise topographic perspective up to 1855 over an area of about 230 km2, which includes the Iasi city, centrally located, and 25 villages around it. The map shows the geographic forms and land usage, roads, structure of localities and households, locations and structures of ecclesiastical (churches, monasteries, cemeteries) and economic (mills, taverns, fountains and aqueducts, bricks, slaughterhouse, telegraph) objectives, headquarters of some institutions, public and private gardens, residences of the social elite in Iași and in its vicinity, etc. Topographic information is important and consistent, which is why the map can be used as a source of documentation for research topics in various fields: history and archaeology, geography and cartography, urbanism, toponymy and others.
Munteni town and its estate, on the border between Wallachia and Moldavia. These plans were carried out in 1848 by topographers Gheorghe Scipion and Constantin Aninoşanu and were used in the emancipation process of the urban community under the mastery of St. John's Monastery, which took over by force a large part of the town's territory and estate. These plans show us for the first time, in a very detailed manner and on a geographical scale, the topography of the town and its estate. The information contained therein refers to: landforms, water, vegetation and land use, localities and communication routes, parcels and topographical numbers of properties, buildings and vacant lands, bridges and barriers, boundaries of the localities and of the
town estate. Through their documentary potential, these plans can be particularly useful for historical, geographic, cartographic and town planning research.
The information contained in the plan confirms a number of already known aspects and offers some new details regarding the topography of the area, which highlights natural and anthropic landforms, private or public properties, churches, cemeteries, houses, streets and fountains, and people which populate it. The document is a cartographic testimony of how a large and long-lived boyar property in Iași was established, transferred and dissolved. Following the succession for more than a century gave us the opportunity to find out and correct some biographical details about the owners of this place and those of the neighbouring places, such as Anica Rosetti-Roznovanu and Maria Balş, born Bogdan, who ownership this property for almost three quarters of a century.
The inventory published here represents concrete proof of the funders’ concerns to endow and preserve the good state of the chapel, as well as of other places of worship administered by the family. As shown by the contents of the document, the image of the chapel integrated in the overall concept of the architecture and interior design characteristic to the Roznovanu palace in Iaşi, representing at the same time the founders’ testimony as God-fearers and the expression of power, wealth, and ambition of a family having climbed at the top of the social hierarchy on 19th century Moldavia.
decades of the 19th century, the Bratești hermitage had a modest fortune obtained through donations and financial aids and it consisted of estates, livestock and household goods, as well as clothes, dishes and books specific to the religious service.
The hermitage income came from two sources: on one hand, the financial aid provided annually by the owner of Paşcani estate, whom the hermitage depended on, and, on the other hand, the use of animal products, beekeeping and vineyards obtained in the hermitage household. The largest amounts were spent on animal
husbandry and also on the monks and servants’ salaries and the fees paid for agricultural or crafting activities. During the studied period, the budget balance was negative due to inefficient management and low efficiency of agricultural and zootechnical resources. Indirectly, the documents highlight the close relationship between the monastery and the owners of Pașcani estate, who took care about the material and financial supplies of the hermitage until the end of its existence.
one of the most famous historical monuments in Iași. The palace was built in 1830–1832, in the neoclassical style, by the great treasurer Iordache Rosetti Roznovanu and became one of the most representative boyar’s residences from Iași. The family owned the property until 1891, when Nicolae (Nunuţă) Rosetti Roznovanu sold it to Iași City Hall. In this article we present the residence’s original plans, after a copy from 1883. With these plans we can study the original architecture and functions of the palace, which underwent extensive changes at the end of 19th century and in the 20th century.
cost of the journey was very high, being equivalent to the income of one or two mediumsized estates, but they were sustained without problems by the famous and very rich Roznovanu family.
Balș from Dumbrăveni. In 1833, shortly after her husband’s death, she made her will and, after her death in 1848, the uthorities drew up the inventory of her assets. In the present study we have attempted to analyse and publish these two documents, which provide biographical information about Smaranda Balș, her assets and her undertakings. From a more general perspective, these sources offer information about the material culture, the lifestyle and the daily activities of the Moldavian boyars in the modern era.
artefacts and the resulting documents, such as probate inventories, have been used as historical sources for the past two centuries only; moreover, it only in the last decades that they have been submitted to thorough research. An inventory of goods is, above all, an economic statistics more or less relevant to the economic potential of a social or institutional entity. Probate inventories, along with other sources, provide many details about everyday life in a particular social environment. Recorded assets offer not only information about the material culture of a family, a social group or a social class, but also about the living standard, the habitable conditions, the social mechanisms of distinction, the social and cultural practices specific to these social backgrounds. Inventories of assets can reveal different cultural or artistic aspects, can acquaint us with private sociability, and can provide us with valuable information about the education, the preoccupations, the travels, the hobbies, the tastes and the personality of those who owned the assets. They record direct or circumstantial details about the daily program, domestic relations, food preferences, fashion, leisure, etc. Owing to the diversity of the contained information, probate inventories are inestimable sources both for the history of quotidian life, and for other specific research areas and directions specific to field of
social sciences and humanities.