TITLU în română: Despre traci şi tracologie. O scurtă incursiune
Subiect: The Thracians represent one of the mysterious peoples of Antiquity whose roots go back to prehistoric times, placing them, along with other nations such as the Hellenes, Illyrians, Celts, Germans or Slavs, among the primordial peoples of Europe. The aura of mystery that surrounds the Thracians’ world is mainly owed to the paradox that, although the writings of ancient historians and Greco-Latin mythology alike abound in references to the Thracians (where they are recorded as an extremely numerous people), the information we have on the Thracians does not come from themselves, but from third-party sources. These sources are primarily Greek and Roman, or stem from archaeological research that, once again, sheds light on the fact that the Thracian world had developed a complex culture, confirming the accounts of ancient authors. Given the fact that the epicenter of the Thracian world was the Carpatho-Danubiano-Pontic and Balkan areas, Romanian and Bulgarian researchers have naturally been interested in Thracian culture and the Thracian civilization. Thus, through the efforts of Bulgarian professor Alexander Fol and Romanian professor Dumitru Berciu, as well as those of other researchers from the two countries, a new field of scientific research was established under the title of ‘Thracology’. Since the beginning of its existence, Thracology has aroused a lively interest among many researchers from other parts of the world, this aspect being visible in the countless scientific international panels and the vast number of publications that have appeared in this relatively new field during the half-century since its establishment.
