Statutele Făgărașului din anul 1508
The Statutes of Făgăraș from the Year 1508

Summary/Abstract: The document known as Statutele Făgărașului (The Statutes of Fogaras), issued on may 15, 1508, can be considered a monument of old Romanian legislation – unwritten until that moment. The first publication of the Latin text of the document come from 1885 (in Hungary) and then from 1921 (in Romania). Over the years various authors have translated short parts of the text, which they considered to be of interest to their own research, but a full translation into the Romanian language was never made. This ”problem” was remedied within this material, in the Annex being found the Romanian translation .Also, in this article I made a brief presentation of the historical evolution of Făgăraș Country from the first documentary mentions in the beginning of the 13th century until 1508, the year of the issuance of this document. I tried to capture the historical framework that facilitated the preservation of the elements of the Romanian traditions, to which the different articles contained in the Statutes belong, articles that reflect various specifics of the life of the romanians in the Făgăraș Region.

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