Răzvan Pinca
Ioan Stremţan
Cercetări de geografie istorică şi arheologie medievală la Coşteiu (jud. Timiş) / Research of historical geography and medieval archeology at Coşteiu (Timiş County)
1 Ianuarie 2012
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deserted settlements
Coşteiu
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Abstract
Field identifi cation of deserted settlements is a great challenge of Romanian medieval historiography and
archaeology. Habsburg maps made in the eighteenth century (# e First Military Survey especially designed for
Banat in the years 1769–1772) are of great use in fi eld researches. By overlaying these and the contemporary
maps we can identify with suffi cient precision the old chores of village settlements, even those missing today.
Coşteiu is one of the cases, where documentary information in conjunction with cartographic data led to the fi eld
identifi cation of the old settlements Possa and Kostill, also confi rmed by archaeological excavations. A part of
the settlement was investigated at the missing Possa, where archaeological material dated in the XVth – XVIIIth
centuries were found; and also at the location of the deserted Kostill, where the discovered archaeological materials
can be dated to the XVIIIth – XIXth centuries.
