HYPERION UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Faculty of Social, Humanistic and Natural Sciences

- History and Geography -

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

ROMANIANS AND THE BALKAN PEOPLES

- HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL

CONFLUENCES -

Third Edition

13 - 14 Mai 2016

Bucharest

HYPERION UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

Partners

ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION OF

BALKANISTIC AND

SLAVISTIC STUDIES

„NEOFIT RILSKI” UNIVERSITY

OF BLAGOEVGRAD

„LYUBEN KARAVELOV”

REGIONAL LIBRARY

RUSE

ŞTEFADINA COMSERV SRL

ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION

OF LIMNOLOGY OF HUMANISTIC GEOGRAPHERS

SCENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Professor PhD Ştefan Păun, Hyperion University of Bucharest,

Romania

Professor PhD Iulian Cârțână, Hyperion University of

Bucharest, Romania

Professor PhD Constantin Hlihor, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian

University, Bucharest, Romania

Professor PhD Marian Cojoc, Ovidius University, Constanța,

Romania

Academician Professor PhD Sabina Ispas, Director of the

“Constantin Brailoiu” Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of

the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania

Professor PhD Mihai Ielenicz, President of Geographical

Society of Romania, Bucharest University

Professor PhD Petre Gâştescu, Hyperion University of

Bucharest, Romania

Professor PhD Alexandru Oşca, Hyperion University of

Bucharest, Romania

Assistant Professor PhD Nicoleta Ciachir, Hyperion University

of Bucharest, Romania, President of the Romanian Association

of Slavistic and Balkanistic Studies

Associate Professor PhD Renata Tatomir, Hyperion University

of Bucharest, Romania

Researcher PhD Sorin Marcel Colesniuc, Vicepresident of the

Romanian Association of Slavistic and Balkanistic Studies,

Romania

Researcher PhD Serhii Hakman, The Bukovinian Center of

Politology of Czernowitz, Ukraine

Associate Profesor PhD Tania Kazandjieva, Kliment Ohridski

University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Associate Professor PhD Blagovest Njagulov, Institute of

Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Assistant Professor PhD Grigor Grigorov, Blagoevgrad

University, Bulgaria

Associate Professor PhD Elena Toma, Hyperion University of

Bucharest, Romania

Associate Professor PhD Elena Manolache, Hyperion

University of Bucharest, Romania

General Director, Nicolae Mihai, Ştefadina Comserv Srl,

Bucharest, Romania

Assistant Professor PhD Irina Lazăr, Hyperion University of

Bucharest, Romania

Assistant Professor PhD Luminiţa Ştefania Boboc, Hyperion

University of Bucharest, Romania

Assistant Professor PhD Samoilă Eduardt, Hyperion

University of Bucharest, Romania

Assistant Professor PhD Elena Bogan, Bucharest University,

Romania

Assistant Professor PhD Daniela Cotoară, Politechnic

University of Bucharest, Romania

PROGRAM

PLENARY ACTIVITIES

Hyperion University, Building A, 6th Floor, Conference Hall

Friday, May 13th 2016

Conference Opening and Keynote Speakers

10:30 – 11:30

Opening Speech: Professor PhD Sever-Irin Spânulescu,

Rector of Hyperion University of Bucharest, Romania

Opening Speech: Professor PhD Iulian Cârțână, Hyperion

University of Bucharest, Romania

Message from the “Constantin Brailoiu” Institute of

Ethnography and Folklore of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest,

Romania: Director, Academician Professor PhD Sabina Ispas

Message from The Society of Geography from Romania

presented by the Chairman Professor Phd Mihai Ielenicz

Message from The Bukovinian Center of Politology of

Czernowitz, Ukraine: Researcher PhD Serhii Hakman

Message from the Blagoevgrad University, Bulgaria:

Assistant Professor PhD Grigor Grigorov

Message from the „Lyuben Karavelov” Regional Library of

Ruse, Bulgaria: Director Teodora Evtimova

Message from the Association of Slavistic and Balkanistic

Studies: President, Assistant Professor PhD Nicoleta Ciachir

Message from the Romanian Association of the Humanistic

Geographers: Vicepresident, Associate Professor PhD Elena

Toma

Plenary speeches

12:00 - 13:00

Moderators: Professor PhD Ştefan Păun

Professor PhD Petre Gâştescu

1. Academician Professor PhD Sabina Ispas, Director of the

“Constantin Brailoiu” Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of

the Romanian Academy: Considerations about the Cultural

Traditions of the Daco-Romanians, the Romanians, and the

Balkan Slavs

2. Researcher PhD Blagovest Njagulov, Institute of Historical

Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Science: Dobrogea between two

myths

3. Professor PhD Constantin Hlihor, Dimitrie Cantemir

Christian University of Bucharest: Geopolitics of the Nation-

State in the Balkans in the Post-Cold War Era. 4. Professor PhD Petre Gâştescu, Hyperion University of

Bucharest: The Danube - Hydrographic Axis of European

Polarisation

Sessions papers

HISTORY SESSION – Part I

Hyperion University, Building A, 6th Floor, Conference Hall

Friday, 13th May 2016

13:30 – 17:30

Moderators

Professor PhD Ştefan Păun

Associate Professor PhD Renata Tatomir

Assistant Professor PhD Grigor Grigorov

1. Professor PhD Radu Vergatti, Vallachia University of

Targoviste, member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists:

The Romanians in the Written Chronicle of Henri de

Valenciennes (1208-1216)

2. Diana Cristiana Lupu, editor of the magazine “Military

Thought”, PhD Student Daniel Silviu Niculae, Carol I National

Defence University: Costache Petrescu - Figure of the Romanian

Community in the 1870’s Silistra

3. Associate Professor PhD Renata Tatomir, Hyperion

University of Bucharest: On the History of Freemasonry in the

Balkans in the Modern Era

4. Professor PhD Ion Giurcă, Hyperion University of

Bucharest: The Geopolitical and Geostrategic Situation in the

Balkans in the View of the Policy and Military Makers of

Bucharest (1914-1916)

5. Associate Professor PhD Doina Pungă, Hyperion

University of Bucharest: A inedited manuscript of Queen Mary

heritage stamps cabinet of the Romanian Academy

6. Professor PhD Ștefan Păun, Hyperion University of

Bucharest: On the Evolution of the Romanian Village in the

Interwar Period

7. Professor PhD Alexandru Oșca, Hyperion University of

Bucharest: Neutral Balkan Block. New Considerations

8. General Director, Nicolae Mihai, Ştefadina Comserv Srl,

Bucharest: Title Reserved

9. Principal Scientific Researcher Ion Constantin, The

National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, Bucharest:

The Nicolae Iorga's Contribution to the Founding and

Development of Southeast European Studies in Romania

10. Assistant Professor PhD Alin Spânu, University of

Bucharest: The Romanians from the South of the Danube to the

Attention of the Romanian State (1941)

11. Scientific Researcher PhD Enache Tușa, The Institute of

Political Sciences and International Relations "Ion. I.C. Bratianu"

of the Romanian Academy: The Balkan Aromanians and the

Project of Colonizations in Southern Dobrudja

12. Scientific Researcher PhD Doru Neagu, Oltenia Museum

of Slatina: Principality of the Pindus

13. Professor PhD Marian Cojoc, Ovidius University of

Constanța: On the Balkan Composition of the Anticommunist

Resistance Movement in Dobrogea

14. Scientific Researcher PhD Andreea Bădilă, The Institute

of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989: Security and

Cooperation in the Balcans. Romanian Implications

15. Assistant Professor PhD Daniela Cotoară, Politechnic

University of Bucharest: European Union citizenship and Free

movement

16. Constantin Alexandru Dumitrescu MA Student:

Destabilization of the Western Balkans in the late 90’s

Sessions papers

HISTORY SESSION – Part II

Hyperion University, Building A, 6th Floor, Conference Hall

Friday, 14th May 2016

12.00 – 16.00

Moderators

Assistant Professor PhD Nicoleta Ciachir

Scientific Researcher PhD Sorin Marcel Colesniuc

Researcher PhD Serhii Hakman

1. Associate Profesor PhD Tania Kazandjieva, Kliment

Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria: Des personnages

demonologiques dans le folklore bulgare et roumaine -

parallèles

2. Associate Professor PhD Grigor Grigorov, University of

Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria: Romanian Saints of Bulgarian Origin

(XIVth-XVIIIth centuries)

3. Professor PhD Ioan Opriș, Vallachia University of

Targoviste: B.P. Hașdeu and the Albanians

4. Assistant Professor PhD Nicoleta Ciachir, Hyperion

University of Bucharest, President of the Romanian Association

of Balkanistic and Slavistic Studies: The Balkan Solidarity

during the National Renaissance Period

5. Assistant Professor PhD Rita Barbu, Dimitrie Cantemir

Christian University, Bucharest: Romania's Diplomatic Activity

for the Rights of the Aromanians in the Ottoman Empire

(1900-1912)

6. Marius Dobrescu PhD, Writer, Romanian Association of

Balkanistic and Slavistic Studies: Prince William of Wied and

the Anti-State Movements in the Summer of 1914

7. Professor PhD Marin Badea, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian

University, Bucharest: Balkans and the Great Powers on the

Eve of the Outbreak of World War I.

8. Scientific Researcher PhD Serhii Hakman, The

Bukovinian Center of Politology of Czernowitz, Ukraine:

The Legal Regulation of the Problem of Bukovina after the

World War I. Ethnic Interests vs. Geopolitical Interests

9. Professor PhD Ion Calafeteanu, Vallachia University of

Targoviste: Grigore Gafencu and the Project of the Neutral

Balkan Block

10. Scientific Researcher PhD Sorin Marcel Colesniuc,

Vicepresident of the Romanian Association of Balkanistic and

Slavistic Studies: Aspects of the History of the Romanian

Association of Balkanistic and Slavistic Studies

11. Cornel Mărculescu PhD, Targoviste, Romania: Aspects of

the 1916 Campaign Reflected in Toma Dumitrescu’s Diary

12. Răzvan Mitu PhD, Deputy Secretary of the Romanian

Association of Balkanistic and Slavistic Studies: The Situation

of Jews in Bulgaria during the World War II

13. Assistant Professor PhD Camelia Brâncoveanu, Dimitrie

Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest: The Yugoslav Wars of

the '90s

14. Anna-Maria Atanasova, Chief Protocol, Embassy of the

Republic of Bulgaria in Romania: The Bulgarian Honorary

Consulate of Ploiesti

15. Blagovest Nikolov PhD Student, Anghel Kăncev University

of Ruse, Bulgaria: Energy Diversification in Romania and

Bulgaria. A Comparative View

16. Marian Harapcea PhD Student, Vallachia University of

Targoviste : Romania and Bulgaria. Nuclear Targets in 1956.

Sessions papers

GEOGRAPHY SESSION – Part I

Hyperion University, Building B, 1st Floor, Auditorium Hall

Friday, 13th May 2016

13:30 – 17:30

Moderators

Professor PhD Petre Gâştescu

Professor PhD Gheorghe Popescu

1. Professor PhD Mihai Ielenicz, University of Bucharest:

Wetlands and the Geographer’s role in their analysis

2. Professor PhD Gheorghe C. Popescu, Ph.D. candidate Iulia

Negrea, Dr. Monica Macovei, University of Bucharest, Faculty of

Geology and Geophysics: Infraproterosoic ”Mineralized bacteria”

in Letea levee sand – Danube Delta

3. Professor PhD Mirela Mazilu, University of Craiova,

Department of Geography, Ph.D. candidate Sabina Gheorgheci,

University of Bucharest, ”Simion Mehedinţi” Doctoral School:

Transboundary cooperation: cultural dimension of the European

integration

4. Associate PhD Elena Toma, Hyperion University of Bucharest:

Ethnic continuity in the southern Dobrudja environment

5. Associate PhD Claudia Căpăţână, Hyperion University of

Bucharest: Macedo-Romanians continuity in the Balkan

environment

6. Associate PhD Elena Manolache, Hyperion University of

Bucharest: Role of historic factors in the urban development of

Alba Iulia municipium

7. Researcher PhD Dumitru-Cătălin Rogojanu, Dacian and

Roman Civilization Museum, Deva: Identity consideration of

security in the western Balkans

8. Associate PhD Mădălina Andrei, Associate PhD Cezar

Gherasim, Spiru Haret University of Bucharest: Balkan

economic convergence through SUERD policy

9. Associate PhD Luminiţa Ştefania Boboc, Hyperion

University of Bucharest: Romanian autochthonous cultural

fundament and novel cultural elements brought by the migratory

population

10. Associate PhD Eduardt Samoilă, Hyperion University of

Bucharest: Romania and the activity of the Inter-Allied Danube

Commission 1918-1920

11. Assistant PhD Irina Lazăr Hyperion University of

Bucharest: Romanian units of cultural and religious interest in

the Balkans

12. Assistant PhD Elena Bogan, University of Bucharest:

European Union citizenship rights and Free movement

13. Dr. Daniel Vârdol, Hyperion University of Bucharest:

Romania and Bulgaria – Social-economic developments after

the accession in the European Union

14. Assistant Phd Cezar Gherasim, Assistant Phd Mădălina

Andrei, Spiru Haret University of Bucharest: Geo-political

evolution of the Balkan countries as reflected in the 19th and 20th

century maps

15. Iuliana Grumăzescu, Adrian Lupeş, ”Dimitrie Gusti”

Village Museum, Bucharest: Traditions and customs at the south

Danube Romanians

16. Teacher PhD Daniel Diaconescu, ”Ilie Popescu” school of

Şotânga: SSI influence on the Romanian foreign policy

(1940-1945)

17. Master student Diana Rădoi, Hyperion University of

Bucharest, Moscopole, a centre of urban resonance in the Balkans

18. Master student Ţuţuianu Laurenţiu, University of

Bucharest: Climatic trend in the Balkan Peninsula in the last

11700 years

Sessions papers

GEOGRAPHY SESSION – Part II

Hyperion University, Building B, 1st Floor, Auditorium Hall

Saturday, 14 May 2016

12:00 – 16:00

Moderators

Associate PhD Elena Toma

Associate PhD Elena Manolache

1. Associate PhD Claudia Căpăţână, PhD Daniel Vârdol,

Hyperion University of Bucharest: Geodemographic

modifications in the Balkan environment at the beginning of the

21st century

2. Associate PhD Ştef Vasile, Hyperion University of

Bucharest: Ancient fittings for the water supply of the Dacian

fortresses in Orăştie Mountains

3. Andoria Ioniţă, National Institute of Statistics: Demographic

shifts in south-eastern Europe

4. Teacher PhD Mihaela Manolea, ”Domnul Tudor” Technical

College Drobeta Turnu Severin, Mehedinţi: Romanian

communities in Serbian Banat

5. Teacher PhD Cristian Vlad Bârligeanu, Vulcana Pandele

School: Modelling shapes of the mountain sides, defined

through the frontal concordance relationship-through

coincidence

6. PhD Iulian Ştef, Alba Iulia County Hydrological Station:

Use of Mureş river waters in time

7. PhD candidate Amalia Boutte, University of Bucharest,

”Simion Mehedinţi” Doctoral School, PhD candidate Postea

Maria University of Bucharest, ”Simion Mehedinţi” Doctoral

School: Historic patrimony of Giurgiu county between

carelessness and conservation

8. Teacher Carmen Pahonţu, Auto-transport Technological

High School in Târgovişte: Geopolitical situation in the Balkan

Peninsula

9. Teacher Beatrice Simescu, ”Mihai Viteazu” Theoretical

High School in Vişina: Political-diplomatic activity displayed by

Romania at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919-1920

10. Teacher Dorina Grecu, Odobeşti Gymnasium School:

Present-day geodemographic structures

11. Ştefan Vasile Lazăr: Romanian ethnic structures in Bitolia

Macedonian environment.

12. Senior Teacher Victor Dan Trufaş, “Sigismund Toduţă”

Arts High-School, Deva: Geopolitics and energetic security in

the Balkans

13. Teacher Andreea Monica Vasile, ”Mihai Viteazu”

Theoretical High School in Vişina: European Union and the

Balkan environment – issues and solutions

14. Teacher Nicoleta Loredana Bobeică, Şotânga, Târgovişte:

Education dimensions of teaching-learning in the sciences

system

15. Teacher Manuela Camelia Lazăr, Şotânga, Târgovişte:

Human resource - theoretical aspects of the intellectual

development of children

16. Teacher Claudia Marinescu, ”Tudor Vladimirescu” School

in Târgovişte: Romanians in the Balkans - past and present