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Arhitectura din Banat – Repere istorice și evoluția așezărilor
Banat Architecture – Historical References and the Evolution of Settlements

Author(s): Marius Matei
Subject(s): Cultural history, Architecture, Political history, History of Communism
Published by: Editura Eurostampa
Keywords: architecture; deportations; Ottoman occupation; Austro-Hungarian occupation; communist regime;

Summary/Abstract: Territory of borders and confluences, the Banat area has a history that confirms this state. In a geographical area that includes eastern Austria, south-eastern Hungary, Vojvodina and Banat, there are many similarities in terms of the traditional organization of urban and rural localities, as well as in the architecture of buildings and churches. In addition to these similarities, there are obvious regional differences, but they all converge and prove that the inhabitants belong to an impressive common fund of culture and art. Collectivization took over the lands, abolished private property and uprooted an essential category – the peasants. The elite of the rural population, regardless of language and religion, in Banat was destroyed by deportations, imprisonment, dispersal to other areas.

  • Issue Year: 3/2022
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 133-152
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English, Romanian