Mențiuni despre sarea din Moldova în jurnalul de călătorie al lui Baltazar Hacquet (1739/40-1815)
Mentions about salt in Moldavia in the travelling journal of Baltazar Hacquet (1739/40-1815)

Summary/Abstract: The current study represents an analysis and an opportune capitalization of a valuable, but insufficiently or scarcely exploited historiographical resource. It is about the travel diary of the Austrian naturalist Baltazar Hacquet (1739/40-1815), written after his expeditions through Bukovina, Moldavia, Transylvania or Maramureș towards the end of the 18th century. The main purpose of the approach is to present, in a synthetic manner, the principal references related to salt. The main types of saline resources mentioned by the author, their exploitation regime or the ways of obtaining, using and distributing salt are noted here. The economic aspects deriving from the activities of exploiting this resource are also indexed. We consider the present endeavour as an appropriate approach meant to emphasize the defining role of this element in catalysing human habitation in certain environmental conditions.

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