Timok Valley, Sociological and Historical Aspects: The State of the Vitality of the Romanian Community in Eastern Serbia
Timok Valley, Sociological and Historical Aspects: The State of the Vitality of the Romanian Community in Eastern Serbia

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a socio-historical analysis of the Romanians from the Timok Valley, on the one hand, and on the other hand, proposes a radiography of the current problems faced by the Romanians in eastern Serbia. From the beginning, we delimit conceptually and methodologically the framework of this study, and later we establish which is the population we propose for analysis (with an emphasis on its origin) and the area under investigation. Then we identify the statistical dynamics recorded before and after 1944, until now, to highlight the evolution of the Romanians in the area of interest. Another objective of the material is to identify the key moments in history which had a strong influence on the relationship between the Romanians and the Serbian state. In the last part of the paper, we intend to present the current problems faced by the Romanians in the Timok Valley. Through this approach, we determine whether there can be a case of vitality and highlight the geopolitical manifestation of the Romanian community.

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