A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 20. - Száz éve alakult a Békéscsabai Múzeum-Egyesület (Békéscsaba, 1999)

Csobai Lászlóné: Some feature of nationality-life of Romanians in Gyula in the two centuries after settling

A gyulai románok nemzetiségi életének héhány jellemzője... Some feature of nationality-life of Romanians in Gyula in the two centuries after settling - Csobai Lászlóné Résumé The author makes statements in this study about specifically formed class relations of history of Romanians living in Gyula, concerning the place and role of settlement lived by Hungarian, Romanian, German people occupied in the whole community. The study would like to draw researchers' attention to connections what are essential from the point of view of understanding economical, cultural development of the whole nationality. Not the last aim of the study is that the majority should know more and more about the history and culture of ethnic minority living together with them for centuries. The study entitled "Some feature of nationality-life of Romanians in Gyula in the two centuries after settling" pointed with summarizing intention to specifically formed history of Romanians living in Gyula and to its class relations. It summarized clearly the role of Romanians in Gyula fulfiled in the discussed term /from reorganization of the county in 1715, untill around the First World War / and the reached population relations and selforganizing cultural efforts attached strongly to church. It throws light upon proportion and representation of local government of Hungarians and Germans living together with Romanians of the town. It presented in a different chapter the cultural associations of Romanians in Gyula, pointing out their role, importance and emphasizing at the same time the activity of the orthodox church in spreading culture. It presented two outstanding personages, culture patronizing , supporting Maecenases of Romanians in Gyula. In his study the author didn't strive for completeness, for documenting his message he choosed this time the most important, most typical facts, data. In addition to romanian and hungarian written sources, he applied consistently the methods of "oral history". Beside all of these he used sources got into the collections of Békés county museum last years. (Translated by Schaferné Веке Katalin) 377