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Author : Ştefan Pascu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Transylvania written by Ştefan Pascu and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milton G. Lehrer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Transylvania, History and Reality written by Milton G. Lehrer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ion Grumeza
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 076184466X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Dacia written by Ion Grumeza and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-05-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the little known story of Dacia, the powerful and rich land that became Transylvania and Romania. This kingdom was once the cornerstone of Eastern Europe. By A.D. 1, Dacia was the third largest military power in Europe, after the Romans and Germans. Most historians mistook the Dacians for Sarmatians, Scythians, even Slavs. This book revives the Dacian history and contributes to our understanding of the region as it is today. The wars, economy, and traditions of this Transylvanian land permeate the geopolitics of today's Balkan countries. To understand what is happening today in Modern Europe, we need to return to the study of this area. This book provides the context for the invasions that molded the Balkan and Eastern European nations that continue to redraw their borders and impose ethnic domination on each other.
Author : Béla Köpeczi
Publisher : East European Monographs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Transylvania written by Béla Köpeczi and published by East European Monographs. This book was released on 2001 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes of a three-volume history of Transylvania are designed to present Transylvanian history in a European context and with due attention to Transylvania's links to Hungary, the Habsburg Empire, the Romanian Principalities, Turkey and other states of Europe. The comparative approach is also prominent in the presentation of Transylvania's internal affairs in that the authors address the history--demographic, economic, social, political and cultural--of the three major national groups: Romanian, Hungarian, and Saxon.
Author : Paul Kovi
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Paul Kovi's Transylvanian Cuisine written by Paul Kovi and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kovi first learned to know and love food in his native Transylvania, a region rich in folklore and food-lore. In this book, he has collected essays by Transylvanian writers, illustrating the history of Transylvanian cuisine and extolling the more poetic aspects of its cooking. Then he presents recipes collected from villages and hearths to rediscover the lost art of the original Transylvanian cooking and flavors.
Author : Pascual Martínez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999446833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (468 download)
Download or read book The Saxons of Transylvania written by Pascual Martínez and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saxons of Transylvania' documents a fading civilization with a mix of archival images, new photographs, illustrations and storytelling. In their second book photographed in Romania, Martínez + Sáez focus on ethnic German Saxons returning to Transylvania to preserve their distinct culture and heritage built over eight centuries. Indigenous to the region, their conflicted story is told through legend and history, and with current texts, revealing an uncertain future for what is now a dispersed group of people.
Author : Catalin Gruia
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781492354970
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Saxon Transylvania written by Catalin Gruia and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transylvanian Saxons The saga of a civilization in 4 parts: colonization, splendor, decline and today's touristic heritage Underdeveloped country seeking investors – this was the slogan of Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism. Like flowers competing for pollinators, its states outdid each other in advertising economic privileges and legislative facilities to attract Western investors. The different governments which took turns in the last 15 years in the Victoria Palace from Bucharest did not bothered to go beyond mere declarations of good intentions; but, while TV channels broadcast their formal speeches, the exodus was underway for the most enterprising part of the population, the only one related to the West: Transylvania's German guests.The Saxons: 800 years of history in Transylvania800 years ago, like managers looking for personnel to recruit, the first Hungarian kings invited guests from the West to develop the Transylvania they were gradually conquering. Although it lay at the edge of the known world, the Saxons let themselves be lured by this promised land, a natural fortress full of riches, with the Carpathians for walls. They came, they worked, and they built in Transylvania a civilization which reached its apogee in the sixteenth century. Pandora's Box opened wide for the Saxons after the Second World War, too. Less than 15.000 stayed in Romania. Most of them returned to the West, seeking the same thing that had brought their ancestors here: prosperity. Their heritage, however, remains and calls us to discover it.The Rise and Fall of Saxon Transylvania is a concise journalistic of the Saxon civilization, following its history through:• The Colonization: The Promised Land. Like managers with vacancies in the organizational chart, the first Hungarian kings invited guests from the West to develop a Transylvania that was in process of being conquered.• The Rise: Sibiu, Grand Square, no. 8. The Hecht House was the home of a great medieval merchant. Its metamorphoses and the series of its owners shape the story of the rise of the Transylvanian Saxons.• The Decline: Pandora's box. The star of the Saxons began to fade in the 18th century, when they failed to obtain the 23rd validation of their privileges. In the era of nationalism, they dealt with a new kind of ruler – the nation state – who was determined to assimilate them at any cost.• The present: Romania's German heritage. The majority of the Saxons returned to the West, seeking the same thing that had brought their ancestors here: prosperity. Their heritage, however, remains and calls us to discover it.Dear Reader – stop here for a second, please!You should know from the very beginning this is not an exhaustive, academic paper. Author Catalin Gruia is a veteran journalist who has written and reported for the Romanian edition of National Geographic for over 10 years. What you'll find here is a concise journalistic account of the Saxon civilization."For almost a year and a half, I traded in Bucharest for a little country house in Mures. During that time, taking advantage of the trips in which I followed the Saxons' traces for a National Geographic documentary, I discovered in Transylvania a foreign country. And I fell in love with Siebenbürgen!"* For behind the scenes information about Gruia's books -->www.catalingruia.com
Author : Istvan Pivarcsi
Publisher : New Europe Books
ISBN 13 : 0982578156
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Just a Bite written by Istvan Pivarcsi and published by New Europe Books. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mustering his extensive experience on the scene of the world's richest source of vampire lore, Transylvania, historian and author István Pivárcsi seeks to peel away the effects of popular culture and set the record straight, addressing essential questions in dozens of bite-size chapters: How did vampire legends emerge in the Balkans, Romania, and Transylvania? How did other monsters eventually coalesce as what we know as vampires? Who was the real Vlad the Impaler, and how did he come to personify the classic vampire? How did vampire-related oral traditions evolve over the centuries—and then explode with unprecedented force in both literature and popular culture from the mid-nineteenth century on? The ideal short reference for anyone with at least a passing interest in the undead, Just a Bite includes an extensive two-part appendix comprising a comprehensive glossary of vampire terms as well as a chronology of human beings' fascination (and interaction) with vampires through history. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Aura Imbarus
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1936332205
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Out of the Transylvania Night written by Aura Imbarus and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'd grown up in the land of TRANSYLVANIA, homeland to Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, and, worse, the Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu--who turned Romania into a land of gray-clad zombies who never dared to show their individuality, and where neighbors became informants, and the Securitate made people disappear," writes the author. "Daylight empowered the regime to encircle us like starved wolves, and so night had always been the time to steal a bit of freedom. As if bred into our Transylvanian blood, we were like vampires who came to life after sundown. I buried the family jewels and left my outpost to join the action . . . tonight Ceausescu would die!"Known for using stand-ins to pose for him, Aura doubts if it was even Ceausescu himself who was killed that night. Nevertheless, when her countrymen topple one of the most draconian regimes in the Soviet bloc, Aura Imbarus tells herself that life post-revolution will be different. But little in the country changes. With two pieces of luggage and a powerful dream, Aura and her new husband flee to America. Through sacrifice and hard work, the couple acquire the "American Dream"--but discover that straddling two cultures is much more complicated than they expect.
Author : Miklos Banffy
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0375712305
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volumes II & III written by Miklos Banffy and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Washington Post Best Books of 2013** The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Miklós Bánffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism in Hungary, Bánffy’s novels were translated in the late 1990s to critical acclaim and appear here for the first time in hardcover. They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided, the second and third novels in the trilogy, continue the story of the two aristocratic cousins introduced in They Were Counted as they navigate a dissolute society teetering on the brink of catastrophe. Count Balint Abády, a liberal politician who defends his homeland’s downtrodden Romanian peasants, loses his beautiful lover, Adrienne, who is married to a sinister and dangerously insane man, while his cousin László loses himself in reckless and self-destructive addictions. Meanwhile, no one seems to notice the gathering clouds that are threatening the Austro-Hungarian Empire and that will soon lead to the brutal dismemberment of their country. Set amid magnificent scenery of wild forests, snowcapped mountains, and ancient castles, THE TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY combines a Proustian nostalgia for a lost world, insight into a collapsing empire reminiscent of the work of Joseph Roth, and the drama and epic sweep of Tolstoy.
Author : Holly Case
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Between States written by Holly Case and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. The struggle between Hungary and Romania for control of Transylvania seems at first sight a side-show in the story of the Nazi New Order and the Second World War. These allies of the Third Reich spent much of the war arguing bitterly over Transylvania's future, and Germany and Italy were drawn into their dispute to prevent it from spiraling into a regional war. But precisely as a result of this interaction, the story of the Transylvanian Question offers a new way into the history of how state leaders and national elites have interpreted what "Europe" means. Tucked into the folds of the Transylvanian Question's bizarre genealogy is a secret that no one ever tried to keep, but that has remained a secret nonetheless: small states matter. The perspective of small states puts the struggle for mastery among its Great Powers into a new perspective.
Author : Jaap Scholten
Publisher : Helena History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781943596072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Comrade Baron written by Jaap Scholten and published by Helena History Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deluxe edition. In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into lorries. Under the terror of Gheorghiu-Dej and later Ceauescu the aristocracy led a double life: during the day they worked in quarries, steelworks and carpenters' yards; in the evening they secretly gathered and maintained the rituals of an older world. To record this episode of recent history, Jaap Scholten travelled extensively in Romania and Hungary and sought out the few remaining aristocrats who survived communism and met the youngest generation of the once distinguished aristocracy to talk about the restitution of assets and about the future.
Author : Lucian Boia
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789639116979
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (169 download)
Download or read book History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness written by Lucian Boia and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the idea that there is a considerable difference between reality and discourse, the author points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythicized from the perspectives of the present day, present states of mind and ideologies. He closely examines historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Boia's innovative analysis identifies several key mythical configurations and shows how Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries. The strength of History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness lies in the author's ability to fully deconstruct the entire Romanian historiographic system and demonstrate the increasing acuteness of national problems in general, and in particular the exploitation of history to support national ideology.
Author : Ricardo Delgado
Publisher : Clover Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781951038618
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Dracula of Transylvania written by Ricardo Delgado and published by Clover Press, LLC. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History bleeds evil. 1899 Transylvania bleeds of history and evil. Young Solicitor Jonathan Harker braves ghosts, demons, living skeletons, and armies of rats, as he encounters Dracula of Transylvania, the Son of Satan. The demonic, shapeshifting vampire imposes his wrath, malice, and vengeance upon an England about to enter the Modern Era, crushing everything in his path. Dracula of Transylvania is a fresh, bold retelling of the classic Stoker dark fairy tale with the pulse-pounding pace of the modern thriller. It is a gripping new softcover novel lavished with incredible concept art from one of Hollywood's leading Conceptual Designers, Ricardo Delgado. Murder among English tombstones! Daring chases through the infamous underground Paris Ossuaries! A spectacular gladiatorial battle within Rome's Colosseum during the Witching Hour! All this topped by a fever-pitch chase through Europe to the most terrifying place on earth: Castle Dracula. Dracula of Transylvania is The Exorcist meets Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, in a sprawling yet haunting adventure with the air of the Victorian Era Ghost story. It is a powerful, unrelenting, and fascinating new vision of one of literature's most feared characters. This edition is footnoted throughout with historical facts from the Ancient to the Modern World.
Author : Bronwen Riley
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780711227811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (278 download)
Download or read book Transylvania written by Bronwen Riley and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vanishing world captured in wonderful photographs by one of Romania's best-loved photographers.
Author : Chip Wagar
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781495498909
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (989 download)
Download or read book The Carpathian Assignment written by Chip Wagar and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kalvary Istvan, a retired colonel in the Royal Hungarian cavalry, takes up a post as chief of police of the Bistritz district in Transylvania in 1896. His hopes of a peaceful retirement are dashed when he learns of his predecessor's disappearance, along with his pretty young wife. A manhunt for a serial killer is also underway in the district, led by a brilliant young investigator named Gabor Kasza. Istvan and Kasza use the latest methods of scientific, deductive reasoning and the new field of psychiatry in their investigations, and eventually focus on the Roma. The mountain people of the Carpathians have a different explanation for the killings - the name "Dracula" is whispered.
Author : Tudor Salagean
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004311343
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Transylvania in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century written by Tudor Salagean and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Transylvania in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century Tudor Salagean describes the deep transformations of a country that was the scene of a fierce resistance against the great Mongol invasion of 1241-1242. In the second half of the thirteenth century, with the rise of the provincial nobility, Transylvania redefines its internal political system, which reached its maturity during the rule of Ladislas Kan (1294-1315). The appearance of a complex congregational system, also achieved in this period, is connected with the assertion of Regnum Transilvanum, which represents a historical link between the early medieval regnum Erdewel of duke Gyula and the regnum transsilvaniensis of the Union of 1459, announcing the rise of the early modern Principality of Transylvania.
