Vasile Stroescu şi românii din Bihor
Vasile Stroescu and Romanians of Bihor County
Author(s): Mihail IlievSubject(s): History
Published by: Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a Moldovei
Keywords: nobleman Vasile Stroescu; Romanians of Bihor County; donations; cultural institutions
Summary/Abstract: This article presents some information regarding the relationship of Bessarabian nobleman Vasile Stroescu and Romanians of Bihor County (Romania). These relations are highlighted by a series of unpublished documentary evidences from the Oradea archives. Vasile Stroescu constantly supported cultural institutions on both sides of the Carpathians. Thanks to his donations for the Transylvanian Orthodox clergy between 1910 and 1913, in the amount of about one million crowns, there were saved from Magyarization about two hundred schools and over one hundred and thirty Romanian churches.
Journal: Tyragetia (Serie Nouă)
- Issue Year: VI/2012
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 253-263
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Romanian