Locuri marcate de interdicţie în sistemul vechii proprietăţi româneşti: braniştile
Places Marked by Prohibition in the Old Romanian Property System: braniştile

Summary/Abstract: This article aims at providing an analysis of the toponymic micro-pattern constructed around the word branişte. Deeply rooted in our history – the word originates from Slavic (“to stop”) – and, according to some historians, dating back to the period when the Romanian principalities were founded, branişte or in combination with anthroponyms, appellatives or other toponyms: first, places where not only tree cutting was forbidden, but also any other kind of activity – hay making, cattle grazing, hunting, fishing, fruit harvesting – and, then, by metonymic transfer, other types of geographical items as well.

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