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The Romanian Ethnographic Atlas. Feasts and Customs. Bulgaria
Because the population of romanian origin is nor evenly spread on all
the territory of Bulgaria regional maps will be used: timoc area, the north
of Bulgaria (from Silistra to lom) and so on. Also, because of regional
ethnographic reasons, the volumes of ethnographical data will have the
same logic.
the thematic of the questionnaires used in Bulgaria is the follow:
1. Feasts and customs from the family cycle (the birth, the wedding,
the funeral).
2. Calendar feasts and customs:
2.1. Feasts and customs with fixed data;
2.2. Feasts and customs with non-fixed data;
2.3. Feasts and customs in agro-pastoral calendar;
2.4. Community feasts and customs;
2.5. Mythical representations;
2.6. oral stories regarding the founding of the settlements.
the data of the project and the stage of the researches as well as a
rich illustrative material from the researched localities from the north of
Bulgaria are pointed out on the site www.etnologia.ro.
Linguistic and ethnographic researches in north of Bulgaria
the ethnographic data regarding the romanians from the region
between Vidin, the Danube and timoc in Bulgaria are scarce. In this area,
in the second half of the xIx th century G. lejean, Felix Kanitz, Gustav
Weigand, C. Jirecek, etc. did researches. the romanian massive group
from timoc was noted on the maps of G. lejean (annex of the Ethnographie
de la Turquie d’Europe, 1861), G.M. Mackensie and Irby (The Turks,
the Greeks and the Slavons. Travels in Slavonic provinces of Turkey in
Europe, 1867), h. Kiepert (Ethnographische Übersicht des Orients), Carl
Sax (Ethnographische Karte der Europäischen Türkey, 1876), A. Synvet
(Carte ethnographique de la Turquie d’Europe, 1877), e.G. ravenstein
(Ethnographical map of Turkey in Europe, 1880), G. Weigand (Völkerkarte
des rümanischen Sprachgebietes – Linguistischer Atlas, 1909). later,
Bulgarian and Serbian researchers mention the romanians from over the
Danube, inclusive those of timoc.
etnografic român, vol. ii, ocupaţiile”, Revista Română de Sociologie, Bucureşti: Editura
Academiei române, anul xIx, nr. 5-6, (2008): 533-536.