A space between empires - Laurentiu Radvan

Descriere A space between empires - Laurentiu Radvan

Original sources serve as the foundation for any researcher interested in the past. Archives libraries and museums grant us access to written materials documents chronicles memoirs inscriptions seals coins maps and more. Each of these conveys valuable information and by compiling all this data we can attempt to reconstruct larger or smaller pieces of past events in towns. Although they are not very old town plans belong to these sources providing valuable information on the evolution of urban settlements. They may contain hints about the emergence of towns their organisation streets neighborhoods fortifications major and minor structures churches and houses topography and local hydrography public works economic facilities and much more. In recent decades there has been an increase in literature about towns based on already known historical plans and what seemed discoverable in the archives appeared to have already been covered. However as new town plans in the Romanian area have recently been found in the archives of Vienna and especially Moscow we are granted the opportunity to return to our origins and a specific question what new information can old town maps offer from the Introduction

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