C O N T E N T S:

PAG.:
         EDITORIAL
• Letter from Stephen the Great and Saint
3
         STUDIES 
• DUMITRU BOGHIAN
The Evolution of the Human Habitat around the Town of Suceava until the Constitution of the Medieval Town
5
• NICOLAE URSULESCU, DUMITRU BOGHIAN
The Main Results of the Archaeological Researches in the Precucutenian Site of Targu Frumos
13
• MIHAI LAZAR
Historiographic Aspects about the Fiscal Regime of the Cattle-Breeders in Moldavia
43
• OLIMPIA MITRIC
Scriptoria, Scriveners and North-Moldavian Manuscripts in Romanian (the XVIth - XIXth Centuries)
65
• GHEORGHE MOLDOVEANU
The Romanian Language in Bukovina in the Period of the Military Form of Government
83
• MIHAI STEFAN CEAUSU
The Ethno-demographic Evolution in Bukovina (the XVIIth - XIXth Centuries)
99
• CONSTANTIN UNGUREANU
The Jews in Bukovina
105
• STEFAN PURICI
Dacian-Romanianism and Regionalism at the Romanians of the 1848-1849's Bukovina
115
• DUMITRU VITCU
The Europe of the 1848's Generation
125
• GHEORGHE CLIVETI
Romania and "the South-East Crisis" (1878-1913). Arguments for a new approach
145
• MIHAI AURELIAN CARUNTU
The Native of Bukovina Refugees Drama (1940-1941)
153
         NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS 
• MIRCEA IGNAT
Did "the Great Dacians" existed? (Oracula Sibyllina, XII, 180-181)
171
• MIRCEA PAHOMI
Catholic Churches and Monasteries from Siret in the XIVth - XVth Centuries
175
• VICTOR DOBRESCU
Cernauca - a Symbol of the Romanian National Unity
181
• CONSTANTIN UNGUREANU
The Church Reform in Bukovina and its Traces for the Native of Bukovina Romanians
187
• CONSTANTIN SERBAN
The Putna Feast in 1871 and its Echo in the Media of Bucharest
193
• GEORGE OSTAFI
Stephen the Great's commemoration at Putna and Suceava in 1904
199
• VICTOR DOBRESCU
"The Normal School for Boys in Cernauti" refugee at Siret, Radauti county, Memories
205
• IOAN SCRIPCARIUC
The Drama of the "Bucovina's Archives" refuge
211
• SIMONA PAVELIUC
Some Aspects about the ceangai from the Tazlau Sub-Carpathians
217
        THE CULTURAL LIFE IN BUKOVINA
• VASILE VASILE
The Musical School from Putna
223
• VASILE DEMCIUC
The Mitropolitan Petru Movila - 400 Years since his Birth
231
• NICOLAE CÂRLAN
Petru Movila - a Faithful Son of the Romanian Nation
237
• MIRCEA PAHOMI
The School of the Putna Monastery between the XVth and XVIth Centuries
241
• VASILE DEMCIUC
The Activity of Grigorie Tamblac in Moldavia
247
• VASILE VASILE
Ciprian Porumbescu - Educator
259
• ILIE RAD
Aron Pumnul - Founder of the Romanian Middle-School Pupils' Library in Cernauti
263
• GHEORGHE MOLDOVEANU
Nicolai Gramada - a Specialist in Toponymy
277
• GHEORGHE GIURCA
Titu Maiorescu and the Cultural Life in Bukovina
285
• PAVEL TUGUI
The Poet Teofil Dumbraveanu
293
• ELENA BRÂNDUSA STEICIUC
The I. E. Toroutiu's Management at "Convorbiri Literare"
297
• CONSTANTIN SERBAN
Teofil Sauciuc Saveanu (1884-1971)
301
• EMIL SATCO
Natives of Bukovina in the Personalities' Forum
305
        DOCUMENTS 
• GAVRIL IRIMESCU
Two Letters from Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi kept in the Suceava's Archives
311
• HARIETA MARECI
The Betrayed Generation (Teodor Balan: the Drama of an Intellectual. Letters from Radu Rosetti)
321
        STUDENT'S WORKS
• MIRCEA STRUGARIU
Economical Situations and Problems in the1919/1925's Bukovina
327
         BUKOVINA IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD'S DEBATE
• STEFAN PURICI
Some Notes on the Volume of Studies "From the Historical Past of Bukovina (A Collection of Papers)", Cernauti, 1996, 250 p.
341
• MIHAI IACOBESCU
The Schwaben - Suceava - Cernauti Partnership
345
        TRANSLATIONS
• LEONIDE OUSPENSKY
The Theology of the Icon in the Orthodox Church, Paris, CERF, 1980 (translated by ADRIANA MIHAELA GROSU)
351
         THE CHRONICLE
• HARIETA MARECI
"The Borderland School" (14-19 June 1996, Sejny, Poland)
375
• STEFAN PURICI
"The Iasi's Academical Days" (the XIIth Edition, 10-11 October 1997, Radauti - Siret - Balinesti)
376
• MIHAI LAZAR
Dissertation on the History of Bukovina (7 March 1997)
377
         FUNDAMENTAL BOOKS
• Mihai Iacobescu
FLORIN CONSTANTINU, O istorie sincera a poporului român
379
         BOOK REVIEWS
• Mircea Ignat
Enciclopedia arheologiei si istoriei vechi a României, coordonator stiintific Constantin Preda, Ed. Enciclopedica, Bucuresti, 1994, 1996
383
• Mircea Ignat
Mircea Babes, Die Poienesti - Lukasevka Kultur, Bonn, 1993, 248 p.
384
• Dumitru Boghian
Eugen Comsa, Figurinele antropomorfe din epoca neolitica pe teritoriul României, Ed. Academiei Române, Bucuresti, 1995, 129 p.
386
• Mihai Iacobescu
Vasile Neamtu, Istoria orasului Baia, Iasi, 1997, 250 p.
389
• Costantin Serban
Francisc Pall, Romanians of Transilvania in the Middle Ages, Cluj Napoca, 1993, 40 p.
390
• Rodica Iatencu
Mircea Grigorovita, Din istoria colonizarii Bucovinei, Bucuresti, 1996, 160 p.
391
• Mihai Iacobescu
Lucian Boia, Istorie si mit în constiinta româneasca, Bucuresti, 1997
392
• Harieta Mareci
Frederik Kellogg, O istorie a istoriografiei române, Iasi, 1997, 180 p.
393
• Mihai Iacobescu
Compendiu istoriografic al Liceului "Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi" din Radauti, Iasi, 1997, 380 p.
395
• Mihai Iacobescu
Valeriu Cozma, Universitatea de stat din Moldova, 1946-1996, Chisinau, 594 p.
396
• Mihai Iacobescu
Jacques Rider, Mitteleuropa, Iasi, 1997, 163 p.
398
• Constantin Serban
Petru Russindilar, Hurmuzachestii în viata culturala si politica a Bucovinei, Iasi, 1995, 230 p.
400
• Gavril Irimescu
Ioan Saizu, Eminescu cât vesnicia, Iasi, 1997, 176 p.
401
         MEMENTO
• MIHAI IACOBESCU
The Historian Nichita Adaniloaie
403
• MIHAI IACOBESCU
Dimitrie Vatamaniuc
419
         OPINIONS
• * * *
The Declaration of the Men of Science and Culture from Suceava
427
• DUMITRU CUCU
The Repolarization of the Cultural Life in Bukovina
429
         LETTERS FROM READERS433
         THE SCIENTIFIC LIFE of the History Department in the "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava between 1993-1997435