C O N T E N T S:

PAG.:
         STUDIES 
• Sorin Ignatescu
The Linear-Ceramic Inhabitation from Scheia-Siliste (the Suceava County) 		3
• Nicolae Ursulescu, Dumitru Boghian
Southern influences in the final phase of the Precucutenian Civilization		11
• Sergiu Haimovici
The Problem of a Case: the Study of the Fauna from Fit 25 of the Precucutenian Site from Târgu Frumos from the Viewpoint of the Archeozoological Methodology		21
• Dumitru Boghian
The Eneolithical Man and the Geographical Surroundings in the Bahlui Basin		37
• Dan Fartais
The Restoration of a Group of Zoomorphical Statuettes from the Suceava County		53
• Dumitru Boghian, Bogdan-Petru Niculica, Ilie Cojocaru, Petrea Pavel (student)
Few Consideration concerning Some Eneolithical Copper Axes 		57
• Bogdan Niculica
Stone Axes Belonging to the Bronze Age discovered in the Suceava County		67
• Bogdan Niculica, Sorin Ignatescu
Archeological Researches in the Suceava Plateau (II)		81
• Monica Gogu
The Archeological Discoveries Reflected in A.D. Xenopol's, N. Iorga's, C. C. Giurescu's and Gh. Bratianu's First Syntheses of Romanian History		99
• Mihai Lazar
Aspects of the Fiscality in Moldavia. Fiscal Drawings from Some Sheperd's Products		111
• Florin Pintescu
Statistical Data Concerning the German Population in the Radauti County during the Interwar Period		123
• Arcadie M. Bodale
Contributions to the History of the Putna Monastery's Domain from Its Foundation to Constantin Mavrocordat's Reforms (1466-1742) I. The Ways of the Forming and the Development of the Putna Domain II. The Character of the Land and Money Donations Made to the Putna Monastery III. The Evolution of the Putna Domain between 1466 and 1742		131
• Vasile M. Demciuc
The Foundation of the Metropolitan Church of Moldavia - the political and spiritual Implication in a South-Eastern European Context (1401-2001)		163
• Simona Petrariu
The Rural Settlements in the Tazlau Subcarparthians in the XIVth - XVIIIth Centuries		183
• Mihai Iacobescu
Bukovina and the Habsburg Myth 		189
• Stefan Purici
The High Society in Bukovina (the end of the XVIIIth Century - the first half of the XIXth Century)		197
• Palaghia Radion
The Romanian Options of "Alliance" during the Russian-Ottoman War (1806-1812) 		213
• Ilie Luceac
The Contribution of the Bukovinean Constantin Hurmuzaki to the Forming and Consolidation of the Modern Romanian State		225
• Mirela-Ana Voicu
Considerations Concerning the Evolution of the Armenian Community in Bukovina in the XIXth Century		233
• Dinu Balan
The National Romanian Unity from the Viewpoint of the 1848 Generation		247
• Dumitru Vitcu
The "Darnita" Episode in the Saga of the National Unification		267
• Mihai-Aurelian Caruntu
Preliminaries of the Second Rape of Bukovina		279
• Stefan Purici
The Move of the Southern Bukovina's Germans and Its Impact on the Romanian Sodety 		293
• Harieta Mareci
A Few Considerations on Teodor Balan's Historical Manuscriptic Work		303
         NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS 
• Mihai Lazar
A less known Aspect concerning the fiscal System of Medieval Moldavia		313
• Mircea Ignat
The Reference to the Post in the Mentality of the Inhabitants of Suceava of the Beginning of the Modern Age		317
• Constantin Serban
Information About Bukovina in the Historical Work of Gabriel Honore Riquetti Count of Mirabeau		325
• Radu Florian Bruja
The Guard of the Country - organization and objective		331
• Radu Florian Bruja
The Doctrine and the Program of the Front of the National Rebirth		335
• Harieta Mareci
"Europenism and Regionalism" the Beginning of a Dispute between "the European Idea" and "the Literary Society Junimea"		341
• Mirela Beguni
The Icon for the Modern Man 		347
• Vlad Gafita
The Interest "issue" in the district of Câmpulung (nineteen thirty to nineteen thirty-three) - Mas a pretext for antisemitical agitations from the right-extreme parties		355
• Nichita Adaniloaie
The Sufferings of the Dorna People during the First World War		359
• Emil Satco
A Master's Degree Thesis from 1945 of Great Interest		363
        DOCUMENTS 
• Olimpia Mitric
A New Manuscript from the School of Calligraphy and Miniatwe of the Dragomirna Monastery (1627)		365
• Mihai Iacobescu
The Status of Some Village Reading Rooms, Rural Educational Societies and the Association of the Romanian Teaching Staff Which Are in Cernauti's Archives		369
• Gavril Irimescu
Letters to and from Iancu Flondor from 1918-1924 Concerning the Romanian Political Life		379
• Harieta Mareci
From Teodor Balan's Archive		405
        THE CULTURAL LIFE IN BUKOVINA
• Alis Niculica
Aspects of Bukovina's Musical Life (1775-1918) 		423
• Petru Bejinariu
The Contributions of the Society for the Romanian Culture and Literature in Bukovina to the National Emancipation Movement 		429
• Ion Cozmei
Preliminaries to a Possible Comparative Approach: George Cosbuc and Taras Sevcenko		437
• Gheorghe Giurca
The University "Stefan cel Mare" - competence and professionalism		447
• Petru Russindilar
A Great Jurist, a Man of Culture and Politics - dr. Aurel Morariu 		455
• Nichita Adaniloaie
A Great School Inspector from Suceava: Serafim Ionescu		467
• Gheorghe Moldoveanu
Bukovinean Folklore - Ukrainean People 		477
         CHRONICLE
• Mihai Iacobescu
Great Scientific Events: the Fourth International Congress of Romanian Studies		481
• Stefan Purici
The International Conference "the Interregional Dialogue in Europe in 2001 and in the Future"		487
• Florin Pintescu
The Euroregion "the Upper Prut" between Present and Prospect. Marginal Notes on an International Scientific Conference		493
         A PRIVATE DIALOGUE WITH BOOKS
• Mihai Iacobescu
Ilie Rad, Aron Pumnul (1818-1866), Fundatia Culturala Româna, Cluj-Napoca, 2002, 340 p.		501
• Florin Pintescu
Mihai Lazar, Realitati fiscale din Tara Moldovei. Dari de cotitate în sfera economiei pastoresti (secolul al XV-lea - mijlocul secolului al XVIII-lea), Iasi, Editura Junimea, 2000, 265 p. + 6 planse		502
         REVIEWS
• Bogdan Niculica
Gheorghe Dumitroaia, Comunitati preistorice din nord-estul României. De la cultura Cucuteni pâna în bronzul mijlociu, Piatra Neamt, 2000, Bibliotheca Memoriae Antiquitatis, VII, 335 pagini, 115 figuri, 1 tabel, 6 harti incluse în text		509
• Sorin Ignatescu
Lesley and Roy Adkins, An introduction to archaeology, Grange Books, London, 1989, (aceasta editie a fost tiparita în 1996 în China by Leefung Asco Printers Ltd), 128 p. 		512
• Sorin Ignatescu
Nicolae Ursulescu, Contributii privind neoliticul si eneoliticul din regiunile est-carpatice ale României, vol. I, Editura Universitatii "Al. L Cuza", Iasi, 2000, 388 p.		515
• Mircea Ignat
Constantin C. Petolescu, Inscriptions de la Dacie Romaine - inscriptions externes concernant l'histoire de la Dacie (Ier-IIIe siecles), vol. I, 1996; vol. II, 2000, Ed. Enciclopedica, Bucuresti		520
• Mircea Ignat
Zoe Petre, Cetatea greaca - între real si imaginar, Ed. Nemira, Bucuresti, 2000, 430 p.		522
• Mihai Iacobescu
Mihai Lazar, Realitati fiscale din Tara Moldovei. Dari de cotitate în sfera economiei pastoresti (secolul al XV-lea - mijlocul secolului al XVIII-lea), Iasi, Editura Junimea, 2000, 265 p. + 6 planse		523
• Mihai Iacobescu
Ilie Luceac, Familia Hurmuzaki: între ideal si realizare (O istorie a culturii românesti în Bucovina în cea de-a doua jumatate a secolului al XIX-lea), Editura Alexandru cel Bun, Cernauti, Editura Augusta, Timisoara, 2000, 364 p.		524
• Florin Pintescu
Doina Alexa, Ion Nistor - dimensiunile personalitatii politice si culturale, Radauti, Editura Institutului Bucovina-Basarabia; 2000, 240 p.		528
• Rodica Nagy
George Mounin, Istoria lingvisticii, Traducere si postfata de Constantin Dominte, Editura Paideia, 1999		5354
• Olimpia Mitric
Viata Cuviosului Paisie de la Neamt, tiparita cu binecuvântarea I.P.S. Daniel, Mitropolitul Moldovei si Bucovinei. Editie îngrijita de Diac. Prof. Ioan Ivan, dupa manuscrisul nr. 154 din Biblioteca Manastirii Neamt, Editura "Trinitas", Iasi, 1997, 154 p. + ilustratii		537
• Olimpia Mitric
Mihai Mitu, Oameni si fapte din secolul al XVIII-lea românesc, Bucuresti, Editura Atos, 1999, 272 p.		539
• Olimpia Mitric
Tereza Sinigalia, Voica Maria Puscasu, Manastirea Probota, Editura Meridiane, Colectia Monumente Istorice, Bucuresti, 2000, 95 p. cu ilustratii		542
• Olimpia Mitric
Violeta Barbu, Miniatura brâncoveneasca, Editura Meridiane, Bucuresti, 2000, 125 p. + ilustratii		544
• Olimpia Mitric
Monahia Elena Simionovici, Sfânta Manastire Voronet, [editia a III-a, revazuta si adaugita], Editura Thausib, Sibiu, 2001,152 p. + ilustratii		545
• Mihai Iacobescu
Dumitru Vitcu, Relatiile româno-americane timpurii. Convergente-Divergente, Editura Albatros, Bucuresti, 2000, 358 p. 		548
• Stefan Purici
Teodor Pavel, Între Berlin si Sankt Petersburg. I. Românii în relatiile germano-ruse din secolul al XIX-lea, Cluj-Napoca, Presa Universitara Clujeana, 2000, 400 p.		549
• Stefan Purici
Marian Gajdoš, Stanislav Koneený, Mikuláš Mušinka, Rusíni / ukrajinci v zrkadle polstoroeia. Niektoré aspekty ich vývoja na Slovensku po roku 1945, Prešov - Užhorod, 1999, 157 s. 		552
• Stefan Purici
Mihai-Stefan Ceausu, Bucovina habsburgica de la anexare la Congresul de la Viena. Iosefinism si postiosefinism (1774-1815), Iasi, Fundatia Academica "A.D. Xenopol", 1998, 249 p.		557
         MEMENTO
• Mihai Iacobescu
Ionel Dârdala (1916-1994)		559
• Mihai Iacobescu and Harieta Mareci
Vasile Cristian, the Professor and the Historian at the Age of 65		563
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