Reference Type:  Book
Author: Neumann, Victor
Year: 1997
Title: Identităţi multiple în Europa regiunilor: interculturalitatea Banatului [Identités multiples dans l'Europe des régions. L'interculturalité du Banat]
Translated Title: [Multiple Identities in the Europe of Regions: the Interculturality of Banat / Többrétű identitások a régiók Európájában: Bánság interkulturalitása]
City: Timișoara
Publisher: Hestia
Number of Pages: 134
Language: Romanian, French
Keywords: history, intercultural, multiculturalism
Abstract: (ENG) Beginning in the eighteenth century, this region (Banat) inhabited by Romanians, Serbs, Germans, Hungarians, Jews, Slovaks, Turks, and Armenians, developed a genuine transethnic East European civilization. As the great turning plate between Vienna and Constantinople, the Banat area redefined Europe itself as an intercrossing of multiple traditions, rather than a homogeneous cultural space. As Victor Neumann puts it - If not entirely a Mitteleuropa, [the Banat was] in any case a Kleineeuropa, synthesizing the civilizations of the East and West.