Onomastic mentions about the first “protected areas” in the Romanian space
Onomastic mentions about the first “protected areas” in the Romanian space

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to highlight the distribution in the Romanian space of the first "protected areas", attested in the Middle Ages. These mentions are toponymic highlighted by names derived from the word, with Slavic origin Braniște, which meant the place where the cutting of the forest is forbidden. These measures adopted both by the prince and by boyars and monasteries, had the role and purpose of preserving the hunting ground. Such names are frequent to the south and east of the Carpathians, in the medieval states of Wallachia and Moldavia, but appear both in southern and northern Transylvania and south of the Danube in the Serbian area of Timoc (that is inhabited by Romanians). In support of such measures are also the onomastic attestations derived from the word cerbar = worker responsible for caring for stag, highlighted both by anthroponyms and by toponyms. The collected data has been extracted both from medieval collections and from topographical maps made since the late 18th century.

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