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Despre populația de la Romula
On Romula population

Author(s): Mariana Balaci Crînguş
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Ancient World
Published by: Editura Mega Print SRL
Keywords: population; qualitative research; social status; ethnic groups

Summary/Abstract: A series of individuals passed Romula, the capital of Dacia Inferior within the most three centuries under the Roman domination, who created the population of that settlement. A little part of them left a name on a tombstone, but the most of them rested anonymous and we might know them through the investigation in the town necropolises or on the basis of their material culture. More documentary sources have been used during my research; epigraphic data, sculptural monuments, necropolises, and also archeological investigations concerning the Romula population’s material culture. Three social-cultural communities are to be set of after analyzing these sources, among other items; Dardanians-Dalmatians, Syrian-Palmyrens, and Thraco-Dacians were the populations who co-habited there. I do believe not to err when speaking rather about multiculturalism in Romula, and not about phenomenon of interculturalism. But I may to note that what the province Romanisation meant also happened in Romula, and that was the process that succeeded to gather and make co-habiting that population who set there for different reasons

  • Issue Year: 1/2019
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 207-213
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English, Romanian