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Aleksander Paroń, Pieczyngowie. Koczownicy w krajobrazie politycznym i kulturowym średniowiecznej Europy, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN, Wrocław 2015, ss. 520.
Get PDFBizancjum i Arabowie. Spotkanie cywilizacji VI-VIII wiek. Redaktorzy naukowi Teresa Wolińska, Paweł Filipczak, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, Warszawa 2015, ss. 652, il., mapy.
Get PDFRola Biljany Plavšić w pierwszych latach istnienia Republiki Serbskiej w Bośni i Hercegowinie (BiH) (1992–1998)
Get PDFBiljana Plavšić was one of the leading politicians of the Republika Srpska in the 90s. During the war (1992–1995) she was called an Iron Lady because of her promotion of extreme nationalist views. This nickname previously belonged to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher because she was a strong politician. The question is whether Plavšić was an equally strong politician? After the war, she was the President of the Republika Srpska, but she was against her old political collaborators. In addition, as the only accused, Plavšić admitted her guilt during the Bosnian war in the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia. Her role, however, is usually neglected in the literature about war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is why, this article would like to discuss the Plavšić’s role.Biljana Plavšić was one of the leading politicians of the Republika Srpska in the 90s. During the war (1992–1995) she was called an Iron Lady because of her promotion of extreme nationalist views. This nickname previously belonged to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher because she was a strong politician. The question is whether Plavšić was an equally strong politician? After the war, she was the President of the Republika Srpska, but she was against her old political collaborators. In addition, as the only accused, Plavšić admitted her guilt during the Bosnian war in the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia. Her role, however, is usually neglected in the literature about war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is why, this article would like to discuss the Plavšić’s role
Spisek Jana przeciw carowi Piotrowi (928) - raz jeszcze
Get PDFThe article refers to a repeatedly discussed subject of the rebellion staged by John, the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria, against Peter his (?)step-brother. The author of the study has reanalysed sources on the plot for motives of the conspiracy, its scope, attitude of the Byzantine Empire towards the rebellion and John’s fate after the year 928. The conspiracy has been concluded to have primarily been an aspect of the struggle for power amongst the successors of Simeon. which is not supposed to have been instigated by Byzantium in any way.The article refers to a repeatedly discussed subject of the rebellion staged by John, the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria, against Peter his (?)step-brother. The author of the study has reanalysed sources on the plot for motives of the conspiracy, its scope, attitude of the Byzantine Empire towards the rebellion and John’s fate after the year 928. The conspiracy has been concluded to have primarily been an aspect of the struggle for power amongst the successors of Simeon. which is not supposed to have been instigated by Byzantium in any way
Instituti i Studimeve për krimet dhe pasojat e komunizmit, Fjalor enciklopedik i viktimave të terrorit komunist, red. Azem Qazimi i in., Tirana 2012–2016, t. 1–5.
Get PDFContemporary Romanian Migrations to Serbia: Stages, Actors, Reasons
Get PDFThis paper aims at offering insight into the contemporary migration of Romanians towards Serbia, starting with the interwar period, continuing with the communist rule and focusing on the period after the fall of the Romanian communist regime, in 1989. What this study does is delimit the stages of the Romanian migration to Serbia, identify the social categories taking part in these migratory processes, the preferred regions for settling in Serbia, as well as the reasons behind people’s decision to leave the country. I also show how the Romanian emigrants relate to the Romanian autochthonous communities in Serbia (the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia and the Romanians of Vojvodina), in which they usually settle.After presenting the theoretical background relating to ethnic migrations, I introduce a new theoretical concept, reverse ethnic migration, which best fits the situation of contemporary Romanian migrants to Serbia. These migrations take place from a majority (Romanians in Romania) towards a national minority (Romanians or Vlachs in Serbia), thus in an „opposite” direction. The migrations are not state supported and they are individual in most of the cases. I argue that the interwar migrations were state planned, being the result of the Yugoslav-Romanian School Convention from 1933; those taking place during communism were triggered, in many instances, by political reasons; while the post-communist migration was labour oriented
Błażej Cecota, Arabskie oblężenia Konstantynopola w VII–VIII wieku. Rzeczywistość i mit, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2015, ss. 208+4 nlb. [Byznatina Lodzensia XXI]
Get PDFThe Valachian way of life in stories about domestic origins in the Hungarian medieval chronicles
Get PDFIn the paper I analyze the description of the way of life of the Hungarians and the local inhabitants of the Carpathian Basin during the Hungarian Conquest in the Hungarian chronicles: Gesta Hungarorum of the Anonymous Notary of King Béla (III) and Gesta Hungarorum of Master Simon of Kéza. The originally homeland of the Hungarians, called Scythia, was described as a rich land full of pastures and rivers inhabited by happy nomadic people. They left their land because of a fame and found on Tisza and Danube a similar country. According to the chroniclers they met between others the Vlachs who were characterised in a pastoral context by them. They lived in the same semi-nomadic way of life, as the former Hungarians, however, they occurred in Transylvania only in the 12th century, when the Hungarians changed their semi-nomadism to sedentarism. Therefore the semi-nomadic way of the Valachian life was noted as their identification factor by the high-medieval chroniclers
Błażej Szefliński, Trzy oblicza Sawy Nemanjicia. Postać historyczna ̶ autokreacja ̶ postać literacka, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2016, s. 344.
Get PDFO tajemniczym poprzedniku wielkiego żupana Serbii Stefana Nemanji, zwanym Tihomirem
Get PDFThe paper is focused on the figure of the predecessor of grand župan Stephen Nemanja. The name of thismysterious person has not been preserved in any source. However mentions in different sources enable toresearch major facts in his life. On the basis of convergent evidence of several sources, his name can bereconstructed as Stephen Tihomir. He was born probably about 1105 as the first son of one of membersof Vukanović dynasty – Stephen Vukan or Zavida. In his childhood he spent a few years in Zeta wherehis father escaped from Raška. There is no data about Tihomir until the year 1165 when he was appointedgrand župan by the emperor Manuel Komnenos. During his short reign he was driven by his brothersto capture the youngest one – Nemanja. However Nemanja managed to flee and take over the throne.Nemanja’s brothers had to escape. They came back with the Byzantine troops commanded by TheodorPadiates but they lost in the battle near Pantino. One of the brothers was drowned in the Sitnica river then.Most scholars believe it was Tihomir but more careful analysis of sources suggests it was another brotherof Nemanja (maybe his name was Constantin), not his predecessor. It is hard to say what happened toTihomir after the battle – maybe he lived in Skopie, maybe he came back to Serbia, acknowledged hisyoungest brother supreme power and received his own principality. If he had come back, he would havedied before September 27th 1186.The paper is focused on the figure of the predecessor of grand župan Stephen Nemanja. The name of thismysterious person has not been preserved in any source. However mentions in different sources enable toresearch major facts in his life. On the basis of convergent evidence of several sources, his name can bereconstructed as Stephen Tihomir. He was born probably about 1105 as the first son of one of membersof Vukanović dynasty – Stephen Vukan or Zavida. In his childhood he spent a few years in Zeta wherehis father escaped from Raška. There is no data about Tihomir until the year 1165 when he was appointedgrand župan by the emperor Manuel Komnenos. During his short reign he was driven by his brothersto capture the youngest one – Nemanja. However Nemanja managed to flee and take over the throne.Nemanja’s brothers had to escape. They came back with the Byzantine troops commanded by TheodorPadiates but they lost in the battle near Pantino. One of the brothers was drowned in the Sitnica river then.Most scholars believe it was Tihomir but more careful analysis of sources suggests it was another brotherof Nemanja (maybe his name was Constantin), not his predecessor. It is hard to say what happened toTihomir after the battle – maybe he lived in Skopie, maybe he came back to Serbia, acknowledged hisyoungest brother supreme power and received his own principality. If he had come back, he would havedied before September 27th 1186