O hartă inedită a orașului Roman și a împrejurimilor sale, de la mijlocul secolului al XIX-lea
An Unpublished Map of Roman Town and its Countryside Area of the mid-19th Century

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this article is to present an unknown original map of Roman town and to the southern and western countryside area of the town. The map is inventoried at the Austrian State Archives in Vienna, under the title Plan von Roman, 1856, and was conducted during the Austrian military occupation of Moldova from 1855 to 1857, during the Crimean War. The map is part of a larger cartographic material, unfinished or yet unidentified, probably initiated to update the ʽOtzellowitzʼ map (1788–1790), which shows only the western part of Moldova. In this sense, the map is an undeniable proof that, at the middle of the nineteenth century, the Austrians started surveying activities in Moldova, not only in the Wallachia, as it was known before. Due to its large scale (1: 28 000), the map provides the most accurate perspective of the area topography, until the appearance of Romanian and foreign military maps in the last third of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the next century. For this reason, it is a valuable documentary source for both geographers and historians. The map is important for the history of cartography, but it provides information and suggestions for research in terms of urban history, urban geography, toponymy and hydronymy. The map shows the structure of the Roman town and of several villages in the southwest of the town, but also it show the communications network, forms of relief and locations of isolated households and other types of objectives: ecclesiastically (church and monasteries), economically (mills, inns, distillery, beehives, brickyards), military (stables, military cemetery).

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