Transylvany Info & Docu Centre, London, UK

02/03/2021

By now a Christmas classic, this hit by Jona Lewie has always struck a very deep chord in my heart - as a most reluctant raw recruit in ceausescu's communist Romanian army back in 1985 - but especially so since I met Suzanne Elizabeth around Saint Patrick's Day 2011 ... .

02/03/2021

''SOMEBODY TOLD ME (THAT YOU STILL LOVE ME ...)'', a very fine romantic as well as melancholic song in French interpreted by Carla Bruni. ENJOY!.

10/12/2020

CELEBRAM SI IN ACELASI TIMP ONORAM MEMORIA MARELUI SI DISTINSULUI CARTURAR REGE AL UNGARIEI MATEI CORVINUL prin inceperea acestei Campanii de Lobbying in favoarea micilor dar foarte interesantelor Popoare Khanty si Mansy din Siberia de Vest, popoare ce constituie astazi CELE MAI APROPIAT INRUDITE GRUPURI ETNICE cu Maghiarii / Ungurii cei Vechi ... .

06/12/2020

Sometimes Poets and Good Poetry CHANGE the Course of History [''Cateodata Poetii si Poezia Buna SCHIMBA Cursul Istoriei''].

30/11/2020

WE ARE CELEBRATING AND AT THE SAME TIME HONOURING THE MEMORY OF THE NOBLE AND SCHOLARLY GREAT KING OF HUNGARY MATTHIAS CORVINUS by starting this Lobbying Campaign in favour of the Khanty and Mansy Peoples of Western Siberia (also known historically as the Voguls and Ostyaks), and who are THE CLOSEST living relatives today of the Magyars / Hungarians of Old ... .

17/11/2020

ISTORIE ADEVARATA N-E F-A-L-S-I-F-I-C-A-T-A ... .

14/11/2020

THIS VERY PLEASING AESTETHICALLY HISTORICAL MAP OF EASTERN CENTRAL EUROPE ['THE CARPATHIAN BASIN'] WHICH I HAVE JUST COME ACROSS ON WIKIMEDIA COMMONS - AND MADE INITIALLY BY CHARLES LOUIS POSNER IN THE 19th CENTURY - WAS MODIFIED SLIGHTLY BY US AT THE T.I.D.C. IN ORDER TO BETTER SHOW THE IDEAL NATURAL GEO~HISTORICAL BORDERS OF BOTH COUNTRIES ... .

15/10/2020

Extremely Interesting, Captivating, as well as Enlightening Modern History Documentary on the Meteoric Political Career of a Man of Greatest Moral Conviction, Determination, and Courage ... .

14/10/2020

Very original and moving Sea Shanty [Sailor's Traditional Working Song] describing in a very poignant way the career as a Corsaire Heroic Ship of the CConfederacy of the CSS Alabama ... a CLAD sloop type OF vessel which just after it was built at the City of Birkenhead, England, was initially known as the ''Enrica'' ... . RIP.

14/10/2020

This is one of the best and most loved iconic ''minstrel'' tunes from the Wonderful Musical Legacy of the former Confederate States of America ... .

14/10/2020

This rather well-known Folk Song from the former - and I understand PRESENT - Confederacy of the South IS DEDICATED NOT TO A LOUISIANA SWEETHEART (as some folks might believe from its lyrics ...) BUT TO A CERTAIN ENGLISH ''ESSEX GIRL'' FROM HERTFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND. Her name is Suzzie - Suzanne Elizabeth - and I am very much still in love with her ... .

23/09/2020

05/07/2020

MODIFIED 19th CENTURY GERMAN MAP OF HUNGARY, TRANSYLVANIA, AND GALITZIA, IN ORDER TO SHOW THE TRUE SHAPE OF GREATER TRANSYLVANIA's FOUR ORIGINAL HISTORICAL PROVINCES or REGIONS [TRANSYLVANIA PROPER + THE BANAT + CRISHANA + MARMATZIA], AND IN ADDITION SOME MUCH SMALLER DISPUTED TERRITORIES LIKE THE TERRITORY OF SEVERIN / SZORENY AND THE ONE OF BODROGKOZ [''ISLE OF BODROG''], AS WELL AS FOUR HISTORICAL DISTRICTS FORMING THE RUMP ''PARTIUM'' ... . KOVAR, KOZEP SZOLNOK, CRASZNA, AND FELSO ZARAND ... .

27/06/2020

MISS JULIA KUBINYI, THE LOVELY AND MOST TALENTED HUNGARIAN FOLK SINGER TO OFFER THE WORLD A RENDITION OF OUR NEW ARDELLYAN [TRANSYLVANIAN] NATIONAL ANTHEM ~ ''GENTLY FLOWS (AWAY) RIVER MAROS'' ... !!!!

24/06/2020

NICE AND RATHER LARGE MAP SHOWING IN A VERY SUGGESTIVE AND POIGNANT WAY THE VARIOUS SECESSIONIST AND AUTONOMIST NATIONAL MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE (THE HISTORICAL REGION OF TRANSYLVANIA PROPER IS ALSO CLEARLY SHOWN AS BEING A BREAK~AWAY PROVINCE OF ROMANIA, WITH ITS HUNGARIAN~SPEAKING ANCIENT SEKLER PEOPLE AND THE ''PARTIUM'' AREA WHICH HAS A PANNONIAN HUNGARIAN MAJORITY ...).

24/06/2020

THIS SIMPLIFIED BUT STILL VERY RELEVANT AND TELLING ETNOGRAPHICAL MAP (SLIGHTLY MODIFIED BY US, IN ORDER TO AVOID ANY CONFUSIONS ESPECIALLY BY UN~INFORMED FOREIGNERS ...), SHOWS MOST CLEARLY THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF OUR 3 [T-H-R-E-E] DIFFERENT EASTERN~ROMANCE SPEAKING PEOPLES FROM NORTH OF THE LOWER DANUBE ... .

24/06/2020

THIS IS THE COVER OF THE BOOK ''LA ROMANIE'' BY THE GREAT FRENCH SCHOLAR J. A. VAILLANT, ON WHICH IN THE ACTUAL SUB~TITLE THE PROPER ETNONYM OF OUR PEOPLE, THE ''TRANSYLVANIAN~ROMANIANS'' IS MENTIONED [AS ''A-R-D-I-A-L-I-E-N-S'' ...]. PROOF POSITIVE THAT INTELLIGENT AND LEARNED WESTERNERS WERE ALREADY USING IT AS EARLY AS MID 19th CENTURY, WHEN THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED ... .

24/06/2020

THIS IS THE LOVELY IMAGE OF A HUNGARIAN HAJDUK [''IRREGULAR'' SOLDIER, BUT VERY BRAVE AND FIERCE FIGHTER ...], FROM THE TIMES WHEN THE MILITARY FRONTIER WAS STILL A STRATEGICAL REALITY ON THE STRIP OF LAND IN CROATIA, SLAVONIA, SIRMIUM, AND THE BANAT NEIGHBOURING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. NOT ALL OF THESE ''HAJDUKS'' WERE ACTUALLY MAGYAR BY ETHNICITY, MANY WERE SERBIAN, CROATIAN, ARDELLYAN [''WALLACH / OLAH''], SLOVAKIAN, AND RUTHENIAN IN ORIGIN .... .

22/06/2020

THIS IS YET ANOTHER VERY EXQUISITE BLACK AND WHITE FRENCH ANTIQUE MAP OF HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA (COUNTRY ALSO KNOWN IN CONTEMPORARY 17th AND 18th CENTURIES' ENGLISH EVERY~DAY PARLIANCE AS ''TRANSYLVANY'', MEANING TRANSYLVANIA PROPER WITH THE WHOLE OF THE BANAT, CRISHANA [GENERALLY COGNATE WITH THE ''PARTIUM''], AND MARMATZIA [GENERALLY KNOWN IN HUNGARIAN AS THE ''UPPER TISZA REGION'']). THE MAP ALSO SHOWS THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES / REGIONS OF CROATIA, SLAVONIA, AND DALMATIA ... . ENJOY ... !!!!

22/06/2020

EARLY ADMINISTRATIVE AS WELL AS POLITICAL FRENCH MAP OF HUNGARY ENTITLED ''HONGRIE DIVISEE DANS CIRCLES ET COMTES''. VERY CLEAR BLACK AND WHITE MAP AS WELL AS VERY PLEASING FROM A SHEER ESTETHIC POINT OF VIEW ... .

22/06/2020

BEAUTIFUL EARLY 19th CENTURY ROMANTIC AND PICTURESQUE STAMP REPRESENTING A VIEW OF THE TOWNS OF NOVE ZAMKY (IN TODAY's SLOVAKIA) AND VISEGRAD (IN TODAY's HUNGARY). ENJOY ... !!!!

22/06/2020

THIS IS A MOST BEAUTIFUL ATMOSPHERIC AND ROMANTIC EPOQUE STAMP SHOWING A NICE VIEW OF THE TWO TWINNED CITIES OF BUDA AND OFEN (WHICH WERE TO LATER UNITE AS BUDAPEST, THE CAPITAL OF HUNGARY ...). ON SALE FROM BARRY LAWRENCE RUDERMAN.

22/06/2020

L'UNGARIA NUOVAMENTE DESCRITTA ET ACCRESIUTA DA VARIE NOTIZIE DA GIACOMO CANTELLI DI VIGNOLLA. A.D. 1686.

22/06/2020

THIS IS A VERY NEAT BUT POWERFUL ITALIAN MAP OF THE YEARS JUST BEFORE WWI ON WHICH OF ALL THE NATIONALITIES ENUMERATED THERE (IN THE LEGEND~EXPLANATION) WE ARDELLYANS or TRANSYLVANIAN~ROMANIANS ARE MOST MISTAKENLY LISTED AND CALLED ''ROMIANS'' ... .SO I JUST HAD TO CORRECT THAT, AND PUT A-R-D-E-L-L-Y-A-N-S INSTEAD, WHICH i ALSO SUPERIMPOSED ON THE COLOUR ORANGE PATCH(ES), THE ONE REPRESENTING OUR PEOPLE ... .

21/06/2020

THIS MOST EXQUISITE BOTH IN TERMS OF GEOGRAPHICAL AND ETNOLOGICAL DETAIL, AS WELL AS GRAPHICALLY 1868 CARL FREIHERR VON CZOERNIG MAP WAS MODIFIED IN ORDER TO SHOW MORE CLEARLY THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN THE HUNGARIAN PART OF THE THEN NEWLY~DECLARED DUALIST MONARCHY OF THE MAGYARS, ARDELLYANS, AND TRANSYLVANIAN SAXONS. THESE DIFFERENT LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL GROUPS OF HUNGARY & TRANSYLVANIA ARE MARKED ON THIS MODIFIED VERSION OF THE MAP IN DARK GREEN, BLACK, AND BRIGHT RED RESPECTIVELY.

21/06/2020

OFFICIAL ETNOGRAPHICAL 1911 MAP OF AUSTRIA HUNGARY (HAVING THE AREAS INHABITED BY VARIOUS SUBGROUPS OF THE ROMANIAN~SPEAKING ARDELLYAN PEOPLE SHOWN IN SUPERIMPOSED RED LETTERS)

21/06/2020

THIS SIMPLIFIED ENGLISH LANGUAGE MAP SHOWING THE DISTRIBUTION OF ''RACES'' i.e. NATIONALITIES IN AUSTRIA HUNGARY MAKES CLEAR FOR THE VIEWER THE ACTUAL LOCATION IN ARDEALL / TRANSYLVANIA OF THE VARIOUS SUB~GROUPS OF THE ARDELLYAN PEOPLE

18/06/2020

THE RATHER HUMBLE TRANSYLVANIAN COUNTRY HOUSE OR COTTAGE WHERE MY ILLUSTRIOUS INTELLECTUAL FOREBEAR GEORGE BARITIU or BARIT [1812 - 1893] WAS BORN IN IN THE VILLAGE OF LOWER JUCU (''JUCU DE JOS'' IN ROMANIAN, ''ALSO JUK'' IN HUNGARIAN ...).

18/06/2020

THE SO~CALLED ''26 COUNTIES'' FORMERLY UNTIL THE ''PEACE'' TREATY OF TRIANON BELONGING TO THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY AND WHICH WERE I-L-L-E-G-A-L-L-Y OCCUPIED BY IMPERIALISTIC KINGDOM OF [SOUTHERN] RUMANIA aka ''THE OLD KINGDOM'' or ''REGAT' AS A RESULT OF THE BANDIT ''TREATY'' OF 17 AUGUST 1916 BETWEEN THE SAID FOREIGN POWER AND THE FRENCH AND THE BRITISH EMPIRES (PLUS RUSSIA AND ITALY ...) ... :( :( :(.