Alexander’s Reception in the Romanian Culture

The fascinating personality of the great Macedonian penetrated long ago and in various ways in the Romanian culture. Firstly, by means of Alexandria, the popular book known from Ireland to the Java Islands, then, at a sc...

The Noble Lorraine Charles de Joppecourt and the History of the Principality of Moldavia in the Second Decade of the 17th Century

This essay represents an erudite hermeneutics on the historical testimony of Charles de Joppecourt (XVIIth century) concerning the art of warfare and politics in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the region of the B...

THE ATTITUDE OF THE LOCAL ROMANIAN POPULATION OF BESSARABIA TOWARDS THE RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES AND  THE PROBLEM OF “REACTIVE IDENTITY”

The subject of this paper concerns the relations between the czarist authorities and the Romanian population from Bessarabia, at the end of the 19th and the beginning and the 20th centuries. The author analyses the proce...

ARABII ŞI ISLAMUL PÂNĂ ÎN SECOLUL AL XIII-LEA II. Expansiunea islamică

The Arabs and the Islam until the 13th century II. The Islamic Expansion

Soon after the death of Prophet Muhammad, the Muslim State witnessed profound transformations both at the level of the internal structure and in its external status. This evolution can be subdivided into three stages. Th...