În căutarea unor așezări medievale de pe Valea Mureșului − Sâmbăteni și Păuliș
In Search of Medieval Settlements on Mureș River Valley − Sâmbăteni and Păuliș

Summary/Abstract: The research is aimed at discovering the old medieval sites, of the current Sâmbăteni and Păuliș villages, on the lower course of Mureș River. It is an area with numerous habitat movements, due to the insecurities of the medieval period, the Habsburg systematizations from the 18th and 19th centuries and to the natural cataclysms with devastating effects until as late as the 20th century. This study puts together the available written documentation with the cartographic one and obtains beside a delimitation of the sites, some data corrections regarding the edification of important buildings, the population movement and the demographical evolution of the settlements. As a result, the Sâmbăteni village is easy to localize and there are obtained quite exact chronological references of its movement but regarding Păuliș, the reconstruction of these aspects is quite difficult. Only the comparison of maps of the same period can lead to re-evaluations of habitats' evolution in relation to their location. Eventually, the guidelines offered by this research can become subject for future surface and archaeological research that can discover more complete components of living, verifying and correcting the results of the studies so far.

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