The copies of 46 documents regarding the Romanians in Serbia from the inter-war period were exhibited on Friday at the Uzdin's Romanian House in Serbia.
The exhibition originator, director of the respective cultural establishment Vasile Barbu, told AGERPRES that this archive pieces are coming from the inventory of the Mehedinti County Department within the Romanian National Archive, the documents dating since 1918-1941.
"This documents relate, mainly, to the Romanians cultural condition from the geographic areas of former Yugoslavia, also illustrate the hardships of the local communities which had to struggle with the lack of books and magazines printed in Romanian. Much of them give us information about the Drobeta-Turnu Severin Free University's efforts to organize conferences across the border, supported, among others by C. Radulescu-Motru, Gh. Ionescu-Sisesti, Ion Pilat, N. Iorga, I. Gh. Duca, Sextil Puscariu, Pamfil Seicaru, O. Goga and Gala Galaction," Barbu stated.
He revealed that documents issued by the I. G. Bibicescu Library in Turnu Severin still exist, from which results the diligences made in the former Yugoslav area in order to found 39 branches, each one featuring 400 volumes in Romanian.
"There is a document referring to the necessity of a book written in Romanian, with Cyrillic letters for the Romanians living in Timoc Valley, authored by Atanasie Petrovici, director of the Regular School in Timisoara," Barbu added, according to Agerpres.
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