While on holiday in Cluj, Romania, I embarked on a small digitisation project. My girlfriend, Ruxandra, is from Cluj, and her family still lives here. Within their library, her parents have kept this manuscript for about 60 years. The book was found in Făgăraş, a mountain town near the Carpathians between Sibiu and Braşov. Ruxandra’s grandfather was an orthodox […]
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Amateur Digitisation
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Fagaras
fagaras Originally uploaded by Janrito Karamazov. Caught in between the development of new economic centers and the shutting down of gigantic communist era factories, small towns in Romania struggle to find new life. Fagaras, a once commercial and political center of the Feudalist Europe is a clear example of this phenomenon. Fagaras was once the home of […]
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