TRANSYLVANIAN IDENTITIES: SWEDISH TRAVELLERS’ OBSERVATIONS FOR THE 17TH – 19TH CENTURIES REALITIES
TRANSYLVANIAN IDENTITIES: SWEDISH TRAVELLERS’ OBSERVATIONS FOR THE 17TH – 19TH CENTURIES REALITIES

Summary/Abstract: Transylvanian identities: Swedish travellers’ observations for the 17th – 19th centuries realities. Swedish travellers’ observations regarding Transylvania’s peoples represent a pertinent external view on the complex relationship between ethnicity, confession and nationality in 17th – 18th centuries, religious beliefs shared by the distinct ethnic communities they encountered in this area being one of the most important markers of identity. Moreover, these notes offer a number of plausible historical explanations for the changes which occurred during the 19th century in the ways that national identity was conceived by the Hungarian, Saxon and Romanian elites, this process taking place especially after the 1848-1849 Revolution and until the dissolution of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in 1918.

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