peter clingsOct 15, 20202 minUsing Greek alphabet for Romanian words and namesSome of the reviewers of my proposed translation of the Boyla inscription raised the observation that no other inscription is known that...
peter clingsOct 9, 20208 minAn interpretation of the Buyla inscriptionThe most intriguing artifact in the Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós is the golden round tray for baptism. More on my critique of the dating...
peter clingsOct 4, 20203 minSantnicolau Mare treasury tells moreThere is a very interesting collection at the Museum in Vienna called the Treasure of Nagyszentmiklos. It contains various objects of...
peter clingsJul 13, 20203 minArchaeology 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...
peter clingsJun 29, 20203 minCommunities in Transylvania during the Dark AgesThere are quite a few archaeological sites that belong to the Dark Ages that can be attributed to a Romance speaking population if one...
peter clingsJun 22, 20201 minRomania before RomaniaThe name Romania was that of the Eastern Roman Empire. There is an interesting inscription at Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica) written on a...
peter clingsJun 8, 20203 minRomanians in the ancient Hungarian archives Extremely little written evidence for daily activities survived from the early Medieval Hungarian Kingdom from before the 13th century....
peter clingsJun 6, 20202 minDiploma of the Knights of St. John and the Mongol InvasionThe text lists for the very first time in any official Chancellery documents the Feudal organization of Southern Transylvania and...
peter clingsJun 6, 20202 minHow 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 ...
peter clingsJun 6, 20202 minFlaws that facilitated the Mongol InvasionI believe that Andrew II of Hungary had by mistake opened two wholes in the Eastern natural defence of Transylvania that invited in the...
peter clingsJun 6, 20203 minThe First Mongol Invasion though TransylvaniaThere are some very interesting chronicles from the East that shed some light onto the campaigns of the two Mongol generals. That...
peter clingsJun 6, 20202 minThe old Roman Roads in RomaniaI’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...
peter clingsJun 6, 20204 minWriting in the Romanian Language the result of a pecuniary conflictThere has never been a greater topic in the history of the old Romanian Culture than that of the beginning of writing in that language...