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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2016  
         
  Article:   NOTES ON THE IMAGE OF CROATIA AND THE CROATS WITH THE ROMANIANS FROM TRANSYLVANIA (1867-1914).

Authors:  VLAD POPOVICI. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The present study proposes to succinctly analyze the means of building an image of Croatia and Croats by the Romanians in Transylvania during the dualist period. Even though they were citizens of the same state, Croats rose, within Romanian press, and later in historical writings, a lot less interest than other nations in the Empire. This was both due to the limited direct interaction between the two nations, as well as the different political situation after 1867. Together with general geographical descriptions, the field of politics, social-cultural initiatives and the image of a people with martial attributes represented the main coordinates of the imagological construction within the Romanian press and school textbooks. The image is a generally positive one, showing even a slight feeling of inferiority from the Romanians’ side, generated, most probably, by the Croats’ success in preserving their historical autonomy, with all the social and cultural consequences deriving from it. Equality between the two nations is seen only in the military field, but here, too, with specific imagological nuances.

Keywords: Croatia, Croats, 19th century, imagology, Romanians, Transylvania 		 
         
     
         
         
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