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 clingsOct 1, 20203 minDe Administrando Imperio mentioning name of Romanian origin There are surprisingly quite a few Romanian names in the DAI. The highest ranking person with that name was mentioned in the chapter "50....
peter clingsSep 30, 20202 minToponyms in the De Administrando Imperio familiar todayThere 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...
peter clingsSep 27, 20203 minAncient traces of the title VoievodeI am currently reading the English translation of the famous De Administrando Imperio (DAI) and I am surprised to find in it the first...
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 22, 20202 minPannonia 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...
peter clingsJun 7, 20202 minNicolaus Olahus a great humanist of the 16th centuryNicolaus Olahus was born to Stefan Olahus, first cousin of Matthias Corvinus, and Borbala Hinsar in Hermanstadt (Sibiu) on January 10,...
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, 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...
peter clingsJun 6, 20205 minThe importance of Matthias CorvinusMatthias Corvinus was arguably the most important Monarch of the 15th century Europe. It was for his extraordinary merits that the...