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History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness
Book by Lucian Boia; Central European University Press, 2001
Subjects:	Romania--Historiography, Romania--History--Philosophy
...Romanian nationality was born and developed in Oltenia, as far as the Hateg Valley. From Oltenia die Romanians spread into Transylvania, Muntenia...Oltenians force of expansion.2 For him, Oltenia was, and remains, the nucleus of Romanian...

The Romanians, 1774-1866
Book by Keith M. Hitchins; Oxford University, 1996
Subjects:	Romania--History--1711-1821, Romania--History--1821-1859, Romania--History--1859-1866
...left Bucharest, heading for his native Oltenia, where he hoped to use the monasteries...most of its roughly 4,000 men reached Oltenia and held their own against superior Ottoman...capture by the Turks and headed toward Oltenia. On 19 June his small force was defeated...

Medieval Architecture in Eastern Europe
Book by Heinrich L. Nickel, Alisa Jaffa; Holmes & Meier, 1981
...principalities. The Principalities of Oltenia and Moldavia In the Middle Ages Rumania...two main provinces of Rumania. In 1324 Oltenia Walachia became an independent principality...Turks, and the princes of Moldavia and Oltenia willingly offered asylum to the fleeing...

Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism
Book by Richard Frucht; Garland Pub., 2000
Subjects:	Europe, Eastern--Encyclopedias
...number of Wallachian princes (often as ban, or governor, of Oltenia southwestern Romania ) and ranked among the most powerful boiars...Golescu (1746 1818) supported the Habsburg occupation of Oltenia. Two Golescu brothers, Constantin (1777 1828), aptly called...

American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
Book by Mark Slobin; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects:	Jews--Music--Congresses, Klezmer Music--Congresses
...Pushkin , 232. A dance named bulgareasca is apparently known in Oltenia, but its music is unrelated to the sirba or to the Bessarabian...can be found in Corneliu Dan Georgescu, Melodii de joc din Oltenia (Bucharest: Editura Muzicala a Uniunii Compozitorilor, 1968...

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Historical Implications of a Romanian Lexical Family of Old Germanic Origin
Journal article by Adrian Poruciuc; Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 48, 2008
Subjects:	Languages
...of ban - of Severin, of Mehedinti, of Oltenia, or of Craiova - to their own tide of...by the boyar who acted as governor of Oltenia, and finally by the one who had the highest...Baneasa, Banesti, Banicesti), and Oltenia (Baniu, Banesti, Banfesti, Lunca Banului...

Between the Mother of the Wounded and the Virgin of Jiu: Romanian Women and the Gender of Heroism during the Great War
Journal article by Maria Bucur; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 12, 2000
Subjects:	Women--History
...female example stands out -- Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894-1917). Teodoroiu was born to a peasant family in the region of Oltenia. 55 Having shown intelligence and a desire to study in primary school, she received a scholarship to study in a gymnasium...

Record Reviews
Journal article by Norm Cohen; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 102, 1989
Subjects:	Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...culture in depth rather than a superficial overview of all of Romanian folk music. The three CDs are devoted to the provinces of Oltenia (near the junction of southwestern Romania, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria), Moldavia (on the northern border with the U...

"To End the Degeneration of a Nation": Debates on Eugenic Sterilization in Inter-war Romania
Journal article by Marius Turda; Medical History, Vol. 53, 2009
...Bucium, president of the juridical section of the Royal Romanian Society for Heredity and Eugenics in Craiova (the capital of Oltenia) were two such professionals. Relgis, for instance, did not accept that dysgenic individuals had a right to exist: "These...

Rascoala the Last Peasants' Revolt: In Early 1907 the Peasants of Romania Rose Up against Feudal Laws, Wealthy Landowners and the Agents Who Kept Them Living in Penury and Servitude. Markus Bauer Discusses the Legacy of an 'Unbelievable Bloodbath'
Magazine article by Markus Bauer; History Today, Vol. 60, September 2010
Subjects:	Peasant uprisings--History, Revolutions--History, Romanian history
...control since I do not have the army at my disposal. By March 20th the revolt had swept southwards reaching Wallachia and Oltenia. There the agricultural structures differed from those in Moldavia. There were almost no Jewish arendasi and most of the...

Oltenia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OLTENIA see Walachia . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

Craiova
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and industrial center of the agricultural and mineral-rich Oltenia region and is an important market for grain. Locomotives...site of a Roman settlement, Craiova became the capital of Oltenia in 1492. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1790 and burnt...

Walachia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...tributary of the Danube, divides Walachia into Muntenia or Greater Walachia (20,265 sq mi/52,486 sq km) in the east and Oltenia or Lesser Walachia (9,303 sq mi/24,095 sq km) in the west. With the rich Ploiesti oil fields and the industrialized...

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