AUTHOR: Neculai IURAŞCU THE DIPLOMAT DUMITRU IURAŞCU – A SON OF GALAŢI Danubius, XXVIII, Galaţi, 2010, pp. 87-98. Abstract The article presents several reference points from Dumitru Iuraşcu’s life and activity. Dumitru Iuraşcu descended from a noble Moldavian family, his family name being signaled from as early as the end of the XIV-th century and…
AUTHOR: Viorica PISICĂ Danubius, XXIX, Galaţi, 2011, pp. 349-356. Abstract The first bust of Mihail Kogălniceanu ever erected was placed in Galaţi, in 1893, only two years after the death of the great Romanian politician. Along time, it underwent a series of changes of location and even small modifications, all of them briefly presented by…
AUTHOR: Marius MITROF Danubius, XXIX, Galaţi, 2011, pp. 325-348. Abstract Descending from an old family of archons from Chios Isle, Greece, Chrissoveloni family, through its representative, Zannis, arrived in Galaţi and settled here in 1848, laying down the bases of a cereal meter in the harbour. It was the starting point for the expansion of…
AUTHOR: Mariana-Delia POHRIB THE CONSTITUTIVE ACT AND THE STATUTES OF THE BULGARIAN COMMUNITY FROM GALAŢI (1930) Danubius, XXIX, Galaţi, 2011, pp. 219-236. Abstract The Bulgarian community, along with other local communities, brought its contribution, not to a high extent, but still not to a neglectable one, to the formation of the economic, social, political,…
AUTHOR: Elena Ingrid BAHAMAT Danubius, XXIX, Galaţi, 2011, pp. 169-204. Abstract Investigating the history of a human community involves knowing the level of the costs of living. Therefore, in order to acquire a proper understanding of the life in Galaţi, at the end of the XIX-th century, the answers to the following questions: How…
AUTHOR: Constantin ARDELEANU Danubius, XXIX, Galaţi, 2011, pp. 163-168. Abstract As few information is kown regarding the situation of the prisons from Galaţi during the period of the Règlements Organiques, this paper brings to the fore two interesting testimonies regarding the condition of the prisoners from Galaţi: the unpublished reports written by the British…
AUTHOR: Eugen DRĂGOI THE CHURCH “THE DORMITION OF THE THEOTOKOS” FROM ROŞCANI, GALAŢI COUNTY. SOME UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTARY TESTIMONIES Danubius, XXIX, Galaţi, 2011, pp. 149-162. Abstract The village Roşcani, Băneasa commune, Galaţi county, is documentary attested in 1555, but it had existed even before the age of Stephen the Great (1457-1504). The oldest known church of…
AUTHOR: Maria Magdalena TULUŞ Danubius, XXIX, Galaţi, 2011, pp. 105-124. Abstract The testimonies of foreign travellers hold an important place for the researcher who means to reconstitute the history of the Romanian Principalities. The offered image is that of a society which oscillates between tradition and novelty, between medievalism and modernity, both in terms…