„The frontiers of the Roman Empire, over 5000 km long, stretch from the Atlantic coast of Scotland, along the Rhine and the Danube, also enclose the Banat region and Transylvania, then going down along the Oriental Carpathians to the Black Sea; from the southern coast of the Black Sea they continue towards the Near East until the Red Sea; then, in North Africa, they line the edge of the Sahara desert until the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Over this entire area, visible traces of fortifications, roads and settlements are still preserved, but numerous monuments still lay hidden underneath the earth. Despite the fact that the Roman frontiers crossed regions with different relief and climate, they constitute a whole in that they were designed to protect Roman territories. The research of these monuments and the preservation policy regarding them was and is unequal in the various presentday states on whose territory traces of the Roman frontier are to be found. Consequently, in the ‘80s of the 20th century, the idea of globally protecting the Roman frontiers, viewed as a unitary monument, was met. In 1987, Hadrian’s Wall in United Kingdom was declared a UNESCO monument. It was followed in 2005 by the German-Raetian sector, on which occasion the UNESCO committee decided to set up the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ site. (...)

This project through its complexity generated an interdisciplinary approach of the proposed subject stimulating such future attempts in the archaeological research field. By using the latest technical methods of non-destructive investigation the project did not damage the stratigraphy of the archaeological site obtaining instead a high amount of data otherwise time consuming judging from the archaeological excavations perspective contributing also to the preservation of the cultural heritage.” - Introduction

„A rămas destul de puţin cunoscută evoluţia locuirii medievale timpurii din partea românească a Banatului, cu presupuse schimbări intervenite în decursul vremii, alături de eventuale tendinţe și aspecte specifice. În lipsa altor surse la îndemână, fără îndoială că noi contribuţii sunt de așteptat din partea arheologiei. În ultimele trei decenii, rolul decisiv a revenit săpăturilor preventive, într-o măsură sau alta fiind investigate și în acest spaţiu noi situri, din păcate cu rezultate doar semnalate, cazul celor mai multe dintre ele. Cel de la Giarmata–Baraj a fost identificat în anul 2011 pe traseul Autostrăzii Timișoara–Lugoj, urmând la scurt timp cercetarea arheologică preventivă, susţinută de un colectiv al Institutului de Arheologie și Istoria Artei al Academiei Române din Cluj-Napoca.” (din „Cuvânt-înainte”)

Țara Năsăudului este una dintre micro-regiunile României care s-a bucurat de o atenţie ştiinţifică aparte, nu doar din partea istoricilor, ci dinspre întregul spectru al ştiinţelor umaniste şi sociale. Bibliografiile istorice ale României au acumulat, volum de volum, numeroase titluri dedicate temei: fie cărţi, fie studii şi articole provenite atât din periodice ştiinţifice locale, cât şi din principalele reviste de istorie din centrele universitare sau din diverse volume de studii. Această valoroasă literatură ştiinţifică a devenit în timp tot mai amplă, solicitând cercetătorilor, şi mai ales cercetătorilor debutanţi, un efort consistent de documentare bibliografică.

Organizarea şi activitatea Regimentului 17 (2 românesc) de graniţă pe teritoriul năsăudean au legat acest spaţiu de ansamblul istoriei Monarhiei habsburgice într-un mod mai intim şi pe alocuri chiar mai spectaculos decât alte regiuni locuite de români. (din „Introducere”)

Romanian nationalism has been and it still is a research topic that has generated and still generates various controversies, both at the level of the opinions of the authors who have dealt with this subject, and at the level of the interpretations that the reader can have on such a topic. And the analysis of the evolution of Romanian nationalism since 1989 is a theme that can be included in this framework of different, and sometimes even contradictory, approaches. Moreover, any analysis of post-communist Romanian nationalism may have its limitations, in terms of the authors’ approaches, and because, in general, approaches to nationalism have a certain potential for inaccuracy. The nationalist phenomenon is very complex because it refers to the people (the nation) and the country and quite often the boundary between nationalism and patriotism, for example, is quite weak. And in the Romanian case, things were even more complicated, both because the nationalism responded to a need for homogeneity existing in the post-communist Romanian society, and because the Romanian nationalism had a specific and quite complex typology.

In this paper, we referred more to those aspects that looked at the presence of nationalism in areas such as society, culture, religion or interethnic relations. Moreover, the period chosen for the study was rather a delicate one, considering the fact that the last decade of the twentieth century was, for Romania, a period of search of the road that the country needed to straighten, after half a century of totalitarian regime. And studying nationalism in such a historical context may have different interpretations, especially since post-communist Romanian nationalism, as some Romanian authors have stated, could be considered as paradigmatic for nationalism in general, because of its subtlety and complexity. (from the „Introduction”)