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    Using Greek alphabet for Romanian words and names
    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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    An interpretation of the Buyla inscription
    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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    Santnicolau Mare treasury tells more
    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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    Archaeology in central Romania
    peter clings
    • Jul 13, 2020
    • 3 min

    Archaeology in central Romania

    The former capital city of Transylvania is located somewhat in the middle of it. It is called Alba Iulia, but used to be known also as...
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    Communities in Transylvania during the Dark Ages
    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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    Romania before Romania
    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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    Romanians in the ancient Hungarian archives
    peter clings
    • Jun 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    Romanians in the ancient Hungarian archives

    Extremely little written evidence for daily activities survived from the early Medieval Hungarian Kingdom from before the 13th century....
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    Diploma of the Knights of St. John and the Mongol Invasion
    peter clings
    • Jun 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    Diploma of the Knights of St. John and the Mongol Invasion

    The text lists for the very first time in any official Chancellery documents the Feudal organization of Southern Transylvania and...
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    peter clings
    • Jun 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    How could the Mongol invaders defeat the Hungarian Kingdom in one battle only in 1241?

    I have found a host of bizarre inconsistencies related to the interpretation of events pertaining to the First invasion of the ...
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    Flaws that facilitated the Mongol Invasion
    peter clings
    • Jun 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    Flaws that facilitated the Mongol Invasion

    I believe that Andrew II of Hungary had by mistake opened two wholes in the Eastern natural defence of Transylvania that invited in the...
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    The First Mongol Invasion though Transylvania
    peter clings
    • Jun 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    The First Mongol Invasion though Transylvania

    There are some very interesting chronicles from the East that shed some light onto the campaigns of the two Mongol generals. That...
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    The old Roman Roads in Romania
    peter clings
    • Jun 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    The old Roman Roads in Romania

    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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    Writing in the Romanian Language the result of a pecuniary conflict
    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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