Elemente de românitate în Peninsula Balcanică. Nicolae Iorga şi „Cinci conferinţe despre Veneţia”
Elements of Romanianness in the Balkan Peninsula. Nicolae Iorga and "Five Conferences on Venice”

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of 20th century, Nicolae Iorga sustained some interesting but less known lectures about the relations between imperial Venice and some Romanian origin populations. Better called aromanians (also N. Iorga does not make always this distinction), they lived in Balkan Peninsula, having good and intense relations with Venice. Iorga explains this relations through their common ethnic origins - first Roman, then thraco-illirian one. They also shared an important Byzantine heritage. But the Romanian and Aromanian populations from Balkans, on one hand, and the Venetian one, on the other hand, were, in the same time, very different. This distinctions are explain by Iorga using anthropogeographical or ratzelian arguments, emphasizing the geographic or natural factor`s importance. (Adriatic Sea, Danube river, or Carpathian mountains are such determining factors, decisive for the direction of civilizations).

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