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This is the first monograph on the history of the Rudari people of Romania and the first mapping of their settlements. The Rudari are a population which has traditionally inhabited the Balkan area and much of Central Europe. Many of them do not know the Romani language but speak Romanian dialects and today make a living out of carving wooden household items, although their Slavic name alludes to mining. Indeed, the Rudari were for centuries gold-prospectors and gold-washers working for the Crown of Wallachia and were administrated as slaves by a monastery situated on the auriferous Olt river. The authors have reconstructed the fascinating history of this ethnic group for a period of 500 years until the 19th century when gold-panning went in decline due to the exhaustion of the reserves of alluvial gold.
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The Wallachian Gold-Washers, Julieta Rotaru
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
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- Titel
- The Wallachian Gold-Washers
- Untertitel
- Unlocking the Golden Past of the Rudari Woodworkers
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Julieta Rotaru
- Verlag
- Brill | Schöningh
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2023
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 307
- ISBN10
- 3506790382
- ISBN13
- 9783506790385
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Geschichte
- Beschreibung
- This is the first monograph on the history of the Rudari people of Romania and the first mapping of their settlements. The Rudari are a population which has traditionally inhabited the Balkan area and much of Central Europe. Many of them do not know the Romani language but speak Romanian dialects and today make a living out of carving wooden household items, although their Slavic name alludes to mining. Indeed, the Rudari were for centuries gold-prospectors and gold-washers working for the Crown of Wallachia and were administrated as slaves by a monastery situated on the auriferous Olt river. The authors have reconstructed the fascinating history of this ethnic group for a period of 500 years until the 19th century when gold-panning went in decline due to the exhaustion of the reserves of alluvial gold.