Looking through the curtain of history (original) (raw)
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International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION, 2019
In the context of the World War I outbreak and given the lack of a direct railway line between Transylvania and Bukovina, the Austro-Hungarian army is forced to find a quick and operative solution to the supply of weapons, food, but also to restore the supply to the Austro-Hungarian empire with manganese ore, dolomite, lumber, cereals, animals and other goods provided by Bukovina. Therefore, they considered building a fast link between Transylvania and Bukovina, along a spectacular route, namely, the Prundu Bârgăului-Vatra Dornei railway line. In the successful realization of this great project an ingenious, even revolutionary solution was found for those days: the construction of a railway line with normal gauge, adapted to trains and the petrol-electric traction, according to a model that was used and successfully put into practice since 1912 in Austrian Tirol. The works were completed in a very short time, even though there were very harsh working conditions and the route was extremely difficult. Both the Austro-Hungarian army and civilians from neighbouring villages and prisoners of war contributed to this success.
European Union, Romania and Railway Transport
Conference Proceedings (part of ITEMA conference collection), 2020
This paper aims to present the role railway transport plays in European Union and in Romania. The importance of this mode of transport is shortly put to the reader forefronts, while at the same time there is presented its share in land transport market. Road transport has its advantages, but its market share cannot be motivated only by market considerations; there are other factors which put this type of transport on a predominant position. The advantages of rail transport are presented face-to-face with road transport especially for passengers’ transport, how railway transport can gain a greater share in land transport market, and how it can contribute to create the conditions of a more sustainable future.
George Bariț on Railways around the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Transylvanian Review, 2021
The paper focuses on George Bariț (1812–1893), a Romanian historian, national activist, journalist and businessman from Transylvania. He was strongly interested in railways, which were at that time a very new mode of transportation in Transylvania and Hungary. As a lead journalist at the Gazeta de Transilvania, a Romanian newspaper published in Brașov (Kronstadt, Brassó), he wrote many articles on the design and construction of the railway network in the country, regularly informing his readers on the topic. He saw in the railways a way through which transportation, economy and society in general could progress. He was also a theoretician of the construction of railways, pointing to the necessity of involving the ministerial and local authorities, the challenges of the terrain crossed by the “iron road,” and the financial costs involved. An important contribution is his description of the effective construction of a viaduct and a tunnel near Bratislava. Bariț experienced transportation by train in its early decades: in 1847 he took the train from Buda to Bratislava, while five years later he travelled by train through Germany to Belgium and wrote newspaper articles and letters describing those experiences. As a traveler he saw numerous aspects pertaining to train journeys around 1850: the transformation of the art of traveling by train (speed, landscape), the social behavior of the fellow passengers, the train stations and their challenges, without forgetting the technical progress.
Foreign Travelers in the Romanian Lands and the Symbolism of the Borders (1710-1810)
2019
In the present study, we are generally looking at the way in which the realities of the Romanian space were captured through travel reports drawn up by foreigners who crossed the Romanian Countries. Foreign travelers crossing the Romanian Principalities come mostly from Western and Northern Europe. Also, their presence in Romanian space is due to the political, military and economic duties received from the states that sent them. When approaching the Romanian Countries, the voyagers note a few things, namely: the militarized border, the customs, the quarantine and the army, the customs officials and the passport. A border with so many elements of identification does not exist between the Romanian Countries and the Ottoman Empire. From this perspective, the Romanian Lands appeared to the vast majority of foreigners as part of the Ottoman Empire. Also, travelers are optimistic about the transition to Transylvania and with suspicion and mistrust of the crossing to Moldavia and Wallachia.
Analysis of the railway system in the region of Serbian Banat
2021
Technical and exploitation condition of most railways in Serbian Banat is unsatisfactory. Railway stations in Serbian Banat region transport extremely small number of passengers. The volume of railway freight transport, even in the conditions of liberalization of the railway market, is still small.
A possible historiographic Banatian project
Having in view the proximity that existed during the course of history between the Romanians and the Serbian peoples, their common past, thus, a synthetical approach of these relations is imposed now in the years of the integration into a united Europe. Thus, it is necessary to achieve a history of the Banatian historiography which should be based on the documentary sources in the archives, yet insufficiently valued, of the four main ethnic groups which have once formed the population of historical Banat: Romanian, Germans, Serbians and Hungarians. Until the achievement of this desideratum, a starting point is constituted by the highlight of the published papers which have as subject mainly the Romanian-Serbian generally regarded in different political contexts, which have represented the object of researches. The present study briefly analyses the main papers published mostly in Romania.