Grbovi Vukčića Hrvatinića

Author(s): Amer Sulejmanagić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 48/2015

The article offers an analysis of the heraldic legacy of several members of the Vukčić Hrvatinić family (Hrvoje, Katarina, and Juraj Vojsalić), attested in sources of sphragistic, numismatic, and heraldic nature, as well as in stone and metal reliefs. The author has taken into account the heraldic images in coins issued by Hrvoje as a Herzog of Split, in his Glagolitic missal, a relief on the wall of his catacombs in Jajce, and in the so-called Illyrian Book of Heraldry, which has been considered as a secondary source. As for the relief on the wall of his catacombs in Jajce, the author has offered a fresh insight, opting for the heraldic representation of mourning in accordance with the funerary-sepulchral function of the given space. Regarding the fact that the present historiographic, heraldic, and numismatic scholarship has used rather erroneous terminology for Hrvoje’s two coats-of-arms, the author has here proposed new and more adequate terms. Earlier hypotheses on the origin of Hrvoje’s heraldry and its models in the light of their bearer’s vassal status and his change of seniors (first Ladislaus of Naples and then Sigismund of Luxemburg) have been confirmed, and the origin of crosses on one of his coats of-arms clarified. The author has also established an evolutionary chronology of Hrvoje’s heraldry. Since the first coat-of-arms (with figures on the shield and in ornamentation) used by Hrvoje appears in many variants, the author has analysed their development and established an order of emergence, followed by an analysis of the substitution of this coat-of-arms through a second one, taking into account the monetary reasons for this heraldic reform. As for the evolution of Hrvoje’s heraldry, the author has concluded that, before introducing the first coat-of-arms ith the figures of his first senior, the duke must have had his own, personal proto-heraldry, which has so far been documented only fragmentarily, and defined its elements (figures). Thereby the only available data on the heraldry of other members of the Vukčić Hrvatinić family offered by the contemporary primary sources has taken into consideration: reliquaries commissioned by Katarina and the seal of Juraj Vojsalić, used by Hrvoje’s children Vuk and Vojislav.

Legyőzhetetlen rokonság

Author(s): István Máté / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 01/2017

Mészáros Csaba: Tekintély és bizalom. Kultúra és társadalom két szibériai faluközösségben

Печати на изповедника на император Йоан І Цимисхий (969-976), намерени в България

Author(s): Ivan Yordanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 13/2013

Stamps as part of society’s or state’s everyday life give objective and correct information. It can be divided generally into direct and indirect. The direct one comes from the text written on the stamp, the indirect one - from the place where it has been found. In the past they received mail sealed with the stamp in question. The article studies the stamps of Adrianople’s bishop - Nikolay, found in Bul¬garia - in Preslav and Silistra and comments on the issues as to where and to whom the mail sealed with them was addressed.

Печатът на кесаря Тервел (705-721)

Author(s): Ivan Yordanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2012

The paper presents and comments on an exceptionally important artifact of medieval Bulgarian history - Khan Tervel’s seal as a Caesar. It describes the author’s ‘journey” to that unique artifact, which is part of the collection of Harvard University’s branch in Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. The seal belonged to Khan Tervel as a Caesar and was used for stamp¬ing correspondence received in Constantinople (720-721). This is the earliest Bulgarian sphragistic artifact and is quite different from the images of Byzantine emperors and we could say that the signet is in fact the first portrait of Bulgaria’s medieval art.

Спомен за митрополит св. Марко Преславски

Author(s): Valya Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2012

The article is an attempt at reminding and summarizing historical facts connected with the life of St Marko Preslavsky, bishop of Preslav during the reign of King Ivan Assen II (1218-1241). His name is mentioned in connection with the removal of St Petka’s relics from the town of Kallikratia on the Sea of Marmara to the capital of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom. He is mentioned in Paisii Hilendarski’s Slavonic-Bulgarian History as a “person with a profound knowledge” and “who died on his throne in Preslav”.

Педагогическото образование в Шумен (1879-1944)

Author(s): Rositsa Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2012

The subject of this historical narrative is the different stages of preparation of teach-ers in Shumen in the period from 1879 till 1944. The pedagogical edication started with the establishment of a Temporary Teacher-training school in 1879, continued with Dr Peter Beron Teacher-Training Institute, changed in the pedagogical edication from 1919 to 1935, and fin-ished with the opening of the Teacher Institute for high-school teachers with a board and a farm. There is a description of the school programmes at different periods, the work of teachers and students. There is also representation to persons who helped for an approval of Shumen as a pedagogical edication centre in the period from 1879 till 1944.

Руският журналист Александър Молчанов за българо-руските отношения (1882)

Author(s): Rositsa Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2013

The article presents the meeting of the Russian journalist Alexander Molchanov with Bulgarian king Alexander I and the events surrounding the meeting of the Serbian king Milan in Rousse in October 1882. At the same time one of the most difficult issues in the Bulgarian-Russian relations during the period - "military matters" is discussed. The essence and the opportunities of resolving the “military matters” as well as its importance for the king Alexander I and the Bulgarian-Russian relations in the context of some of the most difficult years (1879-1885) are central to the topic.

Политическата роля на военните министри в Княжество България (1879-1885)

Author(s): Rositsa Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2011

This historical narrative presents the political role of military ministers in Bulgaria during the period 1879-1885. The Bulgarian system of government returned into Bulgarian hands when the Temporary Russian Rule finished. A perimeter for Russia became the presence of its generals in the Bulgarian army and the Military Ministry, which was headed by Russian generals. Usually Russian ministers, such as generals Parensov, Krilov, Kaulbars and Kantakusin, here general Ernrot was an exception, left the country after conflicts with the Bulgarian monarch, Prince Aleksandar. They were, however, high ranking Russian generals who proved themselves in battlefields and universities. They also supported Bulgaria to establish the foundations of its army. The conflict between them and Prince Aleksandar was generated by the lack of synchrony in the relations between Russia and the Bulgarian monarch who had to lead and use the Bulgarian army. This competition had a diplomatic palate and intrigues. Moreover, it had a negative reflection on Russian-Bulgarian relations and provoked a domestic political crisis, which lasted about ten years.

Аспирациите на Италия на балканите и политиката на Турция за регионално сьтрудничество в периода от есента на 1932 до лятото на 1933 г.

Author(s): Memish Merdan / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2010

Some tendencies and events in the international life of the autumn of 1932 and summer of 1933 which led to hastening Turkish diplomacy in the Balkans and outlining the so-called "south- Balkan group" are the subject of this article. Chronologically, the article comprises the period between the third and fourth Balkan conferences when the foundations for regional cooperation on the peninsula are laid through the active participation of the Turkish diplomacy and all this was later incorporated in the Balkan Entente.

Początki polskiej administracji na ziemi kłodzkiej po zakończeniu II wojny światowej

Author(s): Krzysztof Łagojda / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 03/2018

The aim of the article is to present in detail the beginnings of the Polish administration in the Kłodzko region just after the end of the Second World War. The chronological framework of the text closes in 1945. The article describes the events connected with the arrival of the representatives of the government of the Republic of Poland and their groups, as well as the Operational Groups of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Industry. The author focuses on the development of relations between the Polish administrative apparatus and Soviet war commanders and permanent residents of the Kłodzko Land. The author presents the attitude of the German population towards the Polish government. He describes the difficulties faced by Poles in the first months after the war. An important aspect presented in the text is the struggle for the takeover of industrial plants in Kłodzko from the Soviet hands, as well as the scale of their plundering. The author hypothesizes that despite a formal handover of power by the Soviets in June 1945, Poles did not exercise authority in the areas officially taken over. The act was merely a gesture. The Soviets ruled these areas informally and nothing happened without their permission. In the article, the author uses a descriptive method with a strict chronology, but also a geographical method (the specificity of the Kłodzko region as part of the Western Territories) and partly a comparative method, presenting, among other things, the activities of various public administration groups.

Originalul și imitația. Note istoriografice pe marginea unor documente privind muzeul de mulaje înființat de Alexandru Odobescu

Author(s): Andi Mihalache / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 02/2011

The author calls the attention on several files in the Collection of the Ministry of Cults and Public Instruction from the National Archives of Bucharest, with major focus on the span of 1890-1892. The documents reveal the efforts made by the Romanian authorities, namely the Foreign Affairs Ministry, to buy as many plaster casts as possible from the greatest museums worldwide. Scattered here and there, the documents referring to the acquiring of plaster casts seem today mere details of bureaucratic nature, with no particular sense. In reality, those documents, apparently with no relevance, are the expression of some fashions and tastes very popular in Europe, about which the Romanian archives recorded only late echoes. Although stereotyped, evasive or contradictory, the documents in the Collection of the Ministry of Cults and Public Instruction involuntarily underline museum-related conceptions at the end of the 19th century. And that is because the Romanians’ requests were not received everywhere in the same way. When these plaster casts were acquired, one could see that the Greeks used to leave discoveries in situ, and did not centralize them in the capital. Consequently, no general inventories of the sculptures found by that time had been made; the task of the possible amateurs of casts was thus more difficult, as they had to find out first where a given sculpture was deposited and only afterwards to have the emissaries make the copy. The French made copies for money, believing that this was a way to advertise the originals and therefore to attract the tourists. The English, on the contrary, were rather reluctant to copying, considering that this way the “rarity” of the work of art was annulled, undermining the monopoly of the British museums. From their point of view, the copy “spoiled” the prototype, rendering it a cliché, depriving it of its uniqueness.

Recollections

Author(s): Cătălin Botoșineanu,Florin Cîntic,Mihai Cojocariu,Alina Frunză,Liviu-George Maha,Ionuţ Nistor,Petronela-Raluca Podovei,Ana - Maria STAN,Daniel-Mihail Șandru,Petronel Zahariuc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 09/2018

Хроника активности истраживача из Историјског института УЦГ на истраживању културно-историјског насљеђа током пројекта „Валоризација црногорских катуна кроз одрживи развој пољопривреде и туризма“

Author(s): Ivan Laković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3-4/2017

Partycypatywne działania promocyjne jako czynnik budowania tożsamości regionalnej. Przykład województwa łódzkiego

Author(s): Agnieszka Michalska-Żyła,Beata Michalska-Dominiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7/2018

The aim of the article is to present a specific approach to the problem of constructing the regional identity of the Lodzkie Region based on activities promoting the region. Attention was focused on those activities that have specific form of so-called “events”. These initiatives have, in addition, a function integrating representatives of various communities associated with the region and an educational function within the scope of ideas and methodologies of design thinking (as the big idea of the Lodzkie brand). Attention was drawn to their “out of the box” and innovative approach to the construction of regional identification.

Pe sub teii de pe Strada Domnească

Author(s): Marius Mitrof / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 21/2014

Known as the second longest European linden street, after Berlin’s „Unter der Linden”, [Domnească] Princely Street from Galați traverses the city from the Danube Cliff to Carol Park. It is one of the city traffic and, therefore, one of the most important of Galați, a street filled with history, belonging to the old part of town. Situated on the hillside of the city, Princely Street appeared with the free port status, granted for the city by Prince Mihail Sturdza in 1836, was named in honour of the ruler and was finalised by 1857.Until 1953, Princely Street started from Royal Square (today’s intersection of the Brăilei street with Princely Street) and complete the Public Garden, in Ștefan cel Mare Square, is continuing to the north, Carol King Boulevard. Buildings housing owners of different nationalities and occupations, buildings that housed the headquarters manage institutions, Consulates, constructed with a specific architecture according to age can be admired today.New buildings, represented by blocks of flats with their own postwar architecture according to Eastern Europe are the result of systematization started in 1953, following the mining and the destruction of the city center by the German army. Princely Street became Republic Avenue, extending toward the Danube river, over the former streets, and to the north, beyond the Public Garden. After 1990 Republic Avenue returned to the initial name, Princely Street.Above all, Linden trees still dominate all length of about four km from Princely Street, covering the street with linden flowers fragrance in lime yellow jacket. Part of Princely Street, between „Mihai Eminescu” City Park and The Public Garden was ranked historical monument, „Domnească Street” Urban Ansembly.

Болница Стобарт кроз реч и слику

Author(s): Svetlana Velimirac / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 9/2019

Book review: "Bolnica Stobart " (Stobart Hospital), ed. Tatjana Janković, Kragujevac, 2018. ISBN 978-86-83007-76-9

Bio sam novinar Radio Gračanice i direktor Narodnog univerziteta – memoarske bilješke

Author(s): Omer Hamzić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 48/2019

In these memoir notes the author describes some interesting details from his work biography, firstly his memories of the beginnings of his career at the Radio Station, which was merged with the People’s University immediately after its foundation. The paper is divided into two larger units. In the first the author describes how he was employed in 1971 and how he ripened as a journalist, how he was the first person that created “crazy” radio shows on the local radio which were very popular and listened to. He had no idea that he would become the director of the People’s University seven years later and surpass his former bosses. During his tenure as the youngest among the directors of the former municipality of Gračanica he resolved several major issues of the institution (this part of the memoirs deals with this question as well – the strengthening of the library, the establishment of a routine in the new House of Culture, the “Delegate newsletter”, a permanent solution for the music school, ect.). Although he worked vastly different jobs later, the author states that he always stayed a journalist “by trade”. He would return to that job during the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), when he lost his son in one shelling of Gračanica and suffered minor wounds himself. He was a noted commentator on Radio Gračanica and one of the most valuable members of the local war newspaper “Biljeg vremena”. He couldn’t help but mention it, even though it may have fallen outside of the context of the whole story – which had to be cut at a certain point… He lacked the words to describe the death of his boy, as always, so he had to finish his story at the risk of being misunderstood. Although subjectively intoned as a memory, this rather readable and interesting material is a significant contribution to the study of the cultural past of Gračanica, as his native area, and especially of the People’s University and Radio Gračanica.

Az aranymadár, avagy Kemény Zsigmond elveszett szerelme, regénye és kastélya

Author(s): Tibor Weiner Sennyey / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2020

Verbéna, bordásfal és szónoklatok. A kolozsvári Református Leánygimnázium felépítésének és felavatásának története fikcióban és a kortárs sajtóban

Author(s): Júlia-Réka Vallasek / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2020

Noile simboluri heraldice ale oraşelor Criuleni, Glodeni, Străşeni

Author(s): Silviu Andrieş-Tabac / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2019

On June 7, 2016, the National Committee of Heraldry under the President of the Republic of Moldova launched a circular letter to the authorities of all the cities without symbols approved and registered in the General Armorial of the Republic of Moldova. The request has been to return to the procedure of elaboration and formalization of the civic coats of arms and flags. Following this appeal, since the end of 2016, there has been an increase of interest in civic heraldry and vexillology by the authorities concerned. Thus, the elaboration process started or was resumed after the old delays in the towns of Biruinţa, Cantemir, Corneşti, Criuleni, Ghindeşti, Glodeni, Lipcani, Străşeni, Taraclia and others, some of which succeeded in finalizing the registration procedure.The author reports about the coats of arms and flags of three of these cities, which have the status of “raion” (=district) residence: the town of Criuleni (approved and registered in 2017, authors: Silviu Andrieş-Tabac, Alexandru Moraru, Veaceslav Vatamaniuc; painter: Veaceslav Vatamaniuc), town of Glodeni (2018, authors: Vitalii Şuberneţkii, Piotr Balobin, Constantin Bogatov, Silviu Andrieş-Tabac; painter: Alexandr Cernovskii) and municipality of Străşeni (2018, author: Silviu Andrieş-Tabac, painter: Mariana Şlapac). In all three cases, the course from the first projects to the official ones was a sinuous and difficult one, so that solving the problem of symbols was perceived as an achievement by local authorities, but also as a relief by the National Committee of Heraldry.