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peter clings
- Oct 15, 2020
- 2 min
Using Greek alphabet for Romanian words and names
Some of the reviewers of my proposed translation of the Boyla inscription raised the observation that no other inscription is known that...
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peter clings
- Oct 9, 2020
- 8 min
An interpretation of the Buyla inscription
The most intriguing artifact in the Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós is the golden round tray for baptism. More on my critique of the dating...
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peter clings
- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
A possible origin of the name Magyar
Looking at the story in the De Administrando Imperio at chapter "40. Of the clans of Kabaroi and the Turks" that made the tribal...
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peter clings
- Oct 4, 2020
- 3 min
Santnicolau Mare treasury tells more
There is a very interesting collection at the Museum in Vienna called the Treasure of Nagyszentmiklos. It contains various objects of...
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peter clings
- Sep 30, 2020
- 2 min
Toponyms in the De Administrando Imperio familiar today
There are quite a few toponyms that are familiar to a modern reader. In this blog post I am listing them with the source text for future...
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peter clings
- Jun 29, 2020
- 3 min
Communities in Transylvania during the Dark Ages
There are quite a few archaeological sites that belong to the Dark Ages that can be attributed to a Romance speaking population if one...
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peter clings
- Jun 22, 2020
- 2 min
Pannonia just before the arrival of the Magyar tribes
The importance of a Roman legacy of roads, and ruins in the formation of the early medieval states in Europe can be reflected also in the...
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peter clings
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
Romania before Romania
The name Romania was that of the Eastern Roman Empire. There is an interesting inscription at Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica) written on a...
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peter clings
- Jun 8, 2020
- 2 min
Mapping the Roman Road onto modern day Romania roads
I’ve taken my time to mark in black the modern day roads in Romania that were build on top of the ancient Roman Road system in order to...
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peter clings
- Jun 7, 2020
- 2 min
Nicolaus Olahus a great humanist of the 16th century
Nicolaus Olahus was born to Stefan Olahus, first cousin of Matthias Corvinus, and Borbala Hinsar in Hermanstadt (Sibiu) on January 10,...
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peter clings
- Jun 6, 2020
- 4 min
Writing in the Romanian Language the result of a pecuniary conflict
There has never been a greater topic in the history of the old Romanian Culture than that of the beginning of writing in that language...
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peter clings
- Jun 6, 2020
- 5 min
The importance of Matthias Corvinus
Matthias Corvinus was arguably the most important Monarch of the 15th century Europe. It was for his extraordinary merits that the...
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