Η εργασία αναφέρεται στα ταφικά μνημεία στο κοιμητήριο του Αγίου Κωνσταντίνου στη Βραΐλα, παραδουνάβιο λιμάνι, όπου άνθισε μια από τις μεγαλύτερες ελληνικές κοινότητες της Ρουμανίας κατά το 19ο και το πρώτο μισό του 20ού αιώνα. Τα... more
Η εργασία αναφέρεται στα ταφικά μνημεία στο κοιμητήριο του Αγίου Κωνσταντίνου στη Βραΐλα, παραδουνάβιο λιμάνι, όπου άνθισε μια από τις μεγαλύτερες ελληνικές κοινότητες της Ρουμανίας κατά το 19ο και το πρώτο μισό του 20ού αιώνα. Τα μνημεία αυτά προσφέρουν πολλά στοιχεία για τη ζωή και τη δράση των ανθρώπων αυτών, με βάση τις επιγραφές και τις εικονιστικές μαρτυρίες. Αποτελούν επίσης ενδιαφέρουσες καλλιτεχνικές μαρτυρίες για το έργο Τηνιακών μαρμαρογλυπτών που έζησαν και εργάστηκαν στη Ρουμανία. The paper refers to the funerary monuments in the cemetery of St. Constantine in Braila, a Danube port, where one of the largest Greek communities in Roman flourished in the 19th and first half of the 20th century. These monuments offer a lot of information about the lives and actions of these people, based on the inscriptions and pictorial testimonies. They are also interesting artistic testimonies of the work of marble sculptors from the island of Tinos in the Cyclades who lived and worked in Romania.
Ediție critică și traducere ȋn limba română a secțiunii Brăila din registrul BOA TTd 483 Prelucrarea si imbunatatirea notitelor lasate de regretatul osmanist Mihai Maxim
Recent research on the history of confessional communities in the Ottoman Empire approaches the Orthodox church as not just an entity in and of itself with a long history prior to its capture by the Turks, but also as an Ottoman... more
Recent research on the history of confessional communities in the Ottoman Empire approaches the Orthodox church as not just an entity in and of itself with a long history prior to its capture by the Turks, but also as an Ottoman institution, recognized and regulated by the Porte as well as one privileged and with its own agency. This opens new perspectives for a more comprehensive understanding of the specific position and role of the Orthodox clergy in Ottoman society during the early modern period. Further studies of the role of the high clergy in Ottoman politics and social order should consider also the important evidence provided by bilingual Greek-Ottoman Turkish seals of some church hierarchs. The need to have legends in two languages on personal or church seals was dictated by the perpetual interaction of Orthodox clerics and church hierarchs with representatives of Ottoman administrative institutions. In such interactions both parties, while “governing” their flock or their subjects, had to be able to understand correctly each other’s official confirmations on various documents, and the imprints of bilingual clerical seals provided a means for that. We have not been able to locate any bilingual seal matrices used by Orthodox hierarchs serving in the Ottoman Empire. The seemingly total loss of such seal matrices notwithstanding, their existence is well attested by the imprints found on extant documents.
The present article discusses imprints of one such lost ecclesiastical bilingual seal, its owner, the documents stamped with it, and the documents’ significance for the mid-18th century.
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... 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).
This study presents new town plans discovered in the Ukrainian National Library in Kiev, namely four plans showing the fortress and the city of Braila, executed by the Russians immediately after occupying this important port on the Danube... more
This study presents new town plans discovered in the Ukrainian National Library in Kiev, namely four plans showing the fortress and the city of Braila, executed by the Russians immediately after occupying this important port on the Danube in November 1770, but also in the following period, until 1775. Of particular importance is the plan of the Braila fortress in 1770, which captures the fortifications at the level of detail, as well as a plan in French drawn also by the Russian in 1772. Inside the town the plans notice the former Turkish mosques, the so‐called “Wallachian church”, the cemeteries, the war‐damaged districts, the gardens, etc. We also publish a list of Brăila's plans that are in the Moscow Military and Historical Archives
