1918

If ever there was an Achilles' heel in both ancient and recent European history, then that was the Danubian delta. The inferior course of the Danube has often been both a defensive and an offensive line for all the great empires establishing their political borders

excerpts Short overview The modernization of Bucharest was a complex and dynamic historical process, spanning roughly the interval between 1848-1948, a period when the process of modernization of the Romanian society in its totality revolved around the town of Bucharest

For the Romanian cultural psyche, the interwar period still appears, after so many decades of indefatigable exegesis, as a real, alluring and embarrassing hortus conclusus, a closed garden of paradisiacal, yet so venomous intellectual flourishing. Major cultural achievements

Lilian Zamfiroiu (n. 1963, Sibiu) este licențiat al Facultății de Filologie din cadrul Universității din Bucureşti, specializarea română-franceză, și este doctor în istorie, cu lucrarea Relaţiile diplomatice româno-italiene între anii 1918 şi 1940, susținută