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especially linguistic, regarding the romanians from timoc, Bulgaria was
published after 1965 by t. teaha, Virgil nestorescu, etc. It was published
too the work of folk collection Cântece bătrâneşti şi doine by Cristea
sandu Timoc, Bucureşti, 1967. Gh. Bolocan recorded texts in 1955 and
Virgil nestorescu did dialectal field work in 28 villages in timoc region,
as part of the inter-academic collaboration between the Academy of the
popular republic of Bulgaria and the Academy of the Socialist republic of
romania, on 1969–1976. After 1993 in timoc were done ethno-folkloric
researches by the researchers of the Institute of ethnography and Folklore
“c. Brăiloiu”. Monica Budiş published ethnographical data in the work
Comunitatea românescă de pe Valea Timocului Bulgăresc (The Romanian
Community from the Valley of Bulgarian Timoc), Bucureşti, Editura Militară,
2001. linguistic researches were done by the researchers of the Institute of
linguistic from Bucharest, within inter-academic exchanges. A small part
was published by Virgil nestorescu, Românii timoceni din Bulgaria (The
Romanians from Timoc, Bulgaria), Bucureşti, Editura Fundaţiei culturale
române, 1996. researches were done also by the folklorists from Craiova:
Nicolae Panea, cornel Bălosu, Gheorghe obrocea, on 1993–1995, the
results being published in the book Folclorul românilor din Timocul
bulgăresc (The Folklore of the Romanians from Bulgarian Timoc), editura
omniscop, Craiova, 1996.
Ethnographical data
ethnographically, the romanian population in this space is divided in
three categories, with little ethno-folkloric differences: pădureni (nickname
for those living in forests), văleni (nickname for those living in valleys) and
câmpeni (nickname for those living in the plains).
the customs of the family cycle (birth, wedding, funeral), the calendar
feasts, the traditions, the songs are positively valuated by the youths
especially those of rural origin. In some villages artistic teams were formed
and succeeded, by associations, to reach folkloric festivals in romania.
But, because of massive emigration of the active population the olds din not
preserve the customs, still living in their memory. Asking about a custom,
often you hear that there is nobody to perform it, there are no more people
in the village. example from Drujba village: “yes, there was coral singing,
not any more, there are no more children. In our village there are three,
four children, a girl in the valley and other two, three children. When I was
child, I went carol singing, there were many children then. In every house