Drumul Teleajenului si Drumul Buzăului. Noi repere geografice i istorice
Author(s): Alexandru Ionut Cruceru,Cezar Buterez / Language(s): Romanian
/ Issue: 17/2012
Keywords: historical roads; Teleajen; Buzău; historical geography; Brașov; Carpathians
Modern methods of spatial analysis, archive documents, old maps and the
apparition of new studies sometimes impose additions designed to prove or disprove
previous thesis. Despite the popularity enjoyed today, the hypothesis developed in the
last century referring to the Teleajen and Buzău historical roads, does not adequately
reflect our view of the relationships, social phenomena, and especially the true identity
of the two routes. Through this article we want to draw a number of issues regarding
the roads, to raise a number of questions and hypotheses and to guide the research in a more rewarding way than that practiced so far, of course, whether our view will justify
this assumption. Because there are many factors that contribute to the emergence,
evolution and disappearance of roads, the study of transport routes, especially those of
old, is proving difficult. As we descend in the past, there are fewer documents, and
those existing only capture fragments that often give place to many interpretations. In
the reconstitution of the Teleajen and Buzău roads, we start by studying the landscape,
seeking the optimal Transcarpathian routes (in distance and difficulty) for trade using
carts. Second, we take account of archaeological discoveries, of economic, social and
political factors involved in the movement of goods between Țara Românească and
Transylvania throughout the Middle Ages, and the strategic-military ones which were
imposed from time immemorial. The new view that we propose in this study is based
on documents which were hardly used in previous research, and accounts of foreign
travelers about the Romanian Countries, the chronic of Prejmer village and toponymic
evidence systematically collected from the study area. The theory we formulate aims
to provide an alternative and also to bring up the subject of older commercial and
military communication ways of the Curvature Carpathians. We consider that
Historical Geography, the branch of Human Geography which studies static and
dynamic relationships between social phenomena and geographical space, to be the
best approach in what we wish as a final goal to be the objective knowledge of the
historical roads.
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