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PORT-CITIES OF THE LOWER DANUBE. A MILLENNIAL HISTORY BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE – The River and the Parchment The Lower Danube in 16th – 19th Century Materials – Medieval maps

ORAȘELE PORTURI DE LA DUNĂREA DE JOS. O ISTORIE MILENARĂ ÎNTRE RĂZBOI ȘI PACE – Fluviul și Pergamentul: Dunărea de Jos în cartografia secolelor XVI-XIX – Hărți medievale
The exhibition titled The River and the Parchment: The Lower Danube in 16th – 19th Century Materials brings together maps from the early days of European cartography, reflecting the evolution of a field which is becoming ever more important. The purpose of the exhibition is to showcase a general outlook on the different aspects of…
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POLITICAL AND CULTURAL DIPLOMACY – Statesmen as Authors

DIPLOMAȚIE POLITICĂ ȘI CULTURALĂ – Oameni de stat, autori de cărți
The exhibition presents a series of rare volumes of particular importance to the segment of the public interested in recent history. It attempts to outline the political influences that shaped the democratic convictions of Professor Constantinescu prior to his assumption of the presidential mandate in 1996, by way of notable volumes received from important Western…
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CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AND THE CULTURE OF PEACE – Awards and distinctions

DIPLOMAȚIE CULTURALĂ ȘI CULTURA PĂCII – Premii și distincții
The permanent exhibition offers visitors a documentary and symbolic perspective an the ways in which cultural diplomacy and the culture of peace may become instruments of foreign policy and international cooperation in support of classical diplomacy. The collection brings together a series of awards, orders, medals and honorary diplomas which Professor and later President Emil…
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THE HISTORY OF THE CULTURES AND CIVILIZATION OF THE LEVANT – Artefacts from the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Near East and Northern Africa

ISTORIA CULTURILOR ȘI CIVILIZAȚIEI LEVANTULUI – Artefacte din Balcani, Caucaz, Orientul Mijlociu și Nordul Africii
The exhibition titled “Artefacts from the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Near East and Northern Africa” constitutes an invitation to embark upon a journey that traverses millennia of history across a geographical space rendered fascinating by the cultural density that characterized it from Antiquity onwards. At the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization,…
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THE LEVANT, CRADLE OF ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS – Religious Orders and Medals

LEVANTUL, LEAGĂNUL RELIGIILOR ABRAHAMICE – Ordine și medalii religioase
In addition to its collection of rare religious books, the Institute’s Bibliothēkē also houses a selection of the religious orders and medals offered to President Emil Constantinescu by notable political and religious figures. The conferment of these orders and medals reflects a recognition of the efforts of Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania between 1996 and…
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RECENT HISTORY AND FUTURE ANTICIPATION – Romania’s Road to NATO

ISTORIA RECENTĂ ȘI ANTICIPAREA VIITORULUI – Drumul României spre NATO
The exhibition, included in the research project “Recent History and Future Anticipation” was realized with the support of the Romanian Foundation for Democracy, and includes facsimiles of high-level correspondence and photographs of official events that marked the course of Romania’s accession to NATO. Its initial vernissage was held in July 2022 at the Library of…
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CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AND THE CULTURE OF PEACE – Maps of the Levant

DIPLOMAȚIE CULTURALĂ ȘI CULTURA PĂCII – Hărți din Levant
The collection showcases five maps published between the 16th and 19th centuries in Europe’s major typographic centres for cartographic materials (copper engraving). The oldest, Typus Orbis Terrarum, was made by Abraham Ortelius in Anvers around 1575. A map by Nicolaus Visscher, Danubius, Fluvius Europae Maximus, A Fontibus Ad Ostia (Amsterdam, 1680), showcases the Lower Danube…
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NATURAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE – Dobrogea, Witness to the Millennial Civilizations of the Levant

PATRIMONIU NATURAL ȘI CULTURAL – Dobrogea, martor al civilizațiilor milenare ale Levanului
For the Day of Open Doors, emeritus professor Dan Alexandru Grigorescu, Scientific Coordinator of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, presented the programme “Dobrogea, Witness to the Millennial Civilizations of the Levant” to those visiting the Department for Nature, Culture and Society. The programme demonstrates the connection with the cultural, social…
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THE HISTORY OF THE CULTURES AND CIVILIZATION OF THE LEVANT – Medieval and Premodern Manuscripts from the Levant (12th – 17th c.) – Syriac, Arabic and Greek

Expoziția „Manuscrise medievale și premoderne din Levant (sec. XII-XVII)”
The exhibition titled Medieval and Premodern Manuscripts from the Levant (12th – 17th c.) presents copies of notable Christian manuscripts penned in Arabic, Syriac and Garshuni (Arabic written in Syriac characters) preserved across various collections throughout the Middle East, some of which have already been included in digitalization efforts proposed by academic centres in the…
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INTERFAITH DIALOGUE – Romania, Garden of the Madonna

DIALOGUL INTERRELIGIOS – România, grădina Maicii Domnului
25 years from the first visit of a Sovereign Pontiff to a majority-Orthodox country following the Great Schism of 1054   In May of 1999, 945 years after the Great Schism between Western and Byzantine Christianity, the leader of global Catholicism kissed the soil of a majority-Orthodox country, calling it the “Garden of the Madonna”.…
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THE LEVANT, CRADLE OF ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS – Rare religious books

LEVANTUL, LEAGĂNUL RELIGIILOR ABRAHAMICE – Fondul de carte religioasă
The exhibition organized for the Day of Open Doors in the Bibliothēkē of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization presents a series of rare religious tomes (both originals and facsimilies) drawn from the Emil Constantinescu Collection – notable family heirlooms and editions received from political and religious leaders from across the…
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