Misiune creştină în secolele 6-10 pe teritoriul României şi Slovaciei pe baza descoperirilor arheologice
Christian Mission in the Territories of Today’s Romania and Slovakia in the 6th-10th Centuries, Based on Archaeological Finds

Summary/Abstract: The present study, ‘Christian Mission in the Territories of Today’s Romania and Slovakia in the 6th-10th Centuries, Based on Archaeological Finds’, deals with the period of the so-called ‘dark centuries’ in the history of Christianity in the territory of today’s Romania, approximately between the years 620 and 900. Despite the fact that many attempts have been made to find, in this territory, the traces of organized Christian communities, there is very little evidence available; that is why, in Romanian historiography, they speak of the ethnogenesis of the Romanian people formed at the time of the migration waves. The author of this study tries to point at the archaeological evidence of some Romanian settlements from this period, showing that, at the time, there existed well-organized communitites, whose inhabitants would use the Romanian or Latin language and who had a strong Christian identity, although not always belonging to main stream Orthodoxy. These are, in particular, the organized communities in Dobrogea and in the western part of the Carpathian Mountains (in the region close to the city of Nitra in today’s Slovakia).

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