Monasteries Vișnevăț and Căpriana – two different ecclesial establishments. „Poiana” and „prisaca”
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. I [XVI], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie Chișinău, 2007
The article offers a detailed analysis of the documents of the XV-XIX centuries, both published and unpublished, on the history of the Căpriana monastery. This offers a possibility to map historical boundaries of the land owned by the monastery and to argue for the existence of two ecclesiastical establishments which are chronologically distinct and located in different places instead of a single monastery as it was traditionally observed. The author offers localization of some local medieval place-names; and specifies the older meanings of the Romanian words poiana (glade) and prisaca (apiary).
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