Albotina, loc spiritual și identitar pentru românii dintre Vidin, Dunăre și Timoc
Albotina, spiritual and identity place for the Romanians of Vidin, Danube and Timoc
Author(s): Emil ȚîrcomnicuSubject(s): Anthropology, Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Social differentiation, Rural and urban sociology, Eastern Orthodoxy, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Timoc; Albotin monastery; ethnography; Romanian minority; ethnic identity;
Summary/Abstract: On the road that connects the villages Gradeţ and Rabova at 20 km from Vidin, in a wood clearing known as Albotina, guarded by a former Ortodox monastery builded in the XIIIth century, the Romanian community from Bulgaria gather on the second day of Easter celebrate an important holiday. Here they have a sort of a ritual round dance dedicated to all young people who died in the year passed. One of the community leader told us that till 20 years ago they held the ritual ”frăsinelul” a custom which surviving into the entire area of Oltenia county Romania. Nowdays ”frasinelul” had become a modern folk festival. This article presents historical and ethnographic information about this spiritual place of the Romanian comunities from the Vidin county between the Timoc river and the Danube concerning to the last ethnographic researches conducted in 2009.
Journal: Etnosfera
- Issue Year: 9/2011
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 37-45
- Page Count: 9
- Language: Romanian