Using the theory of Cultural Trauma decribes the failure of the Asssyrian Christians to find international recognition of their population destruction min the years immediately after World War I. And then the breakthrough for political recognition of the Assyrian Genocide in the 1990s through the efforts of immogrants from Tukey forming political associtions in the European dispora.

The main archival source of MapRom database is the “Census of the population or Statistics of the Principalities (Wallachia and Moldova) of 1838”, ANIC, Fond Catagrafii, part I, Inventory number 501, volumes numbered I/8 to I/107 from the Historical National Archives, Bucharest, mostly unpublished and now digitized and automatized for the first time, in regard to Romani population.

This Census was conducted by the Interior Ministry in February 1838. It is the first preserved Romanian modern census of population and dwellings, which introduced new techniques of reviewing, such as the nominal lists and the great number (24) of demographic variables, including ethnicity. The unit of observation was the “household”, and the scope was to obtain detailed information about: 1) the settled population by age group, and sex; 2) the number of households and their structure; 3) the number of residential buildings and their distribution according to the material from which they are built; 4) population distribution according to their participation in economic activity; 5) distribution of population by skills and occupations.

Based on this information, the MapRom database presents: statistics of the Roma households per village, number of Roms per village, number of different Romani ethnic sub-groups (Lăieș, Vătraș, Rudar, Zlătar, etc), average Romani household size per village, age distribution, sex distribution, number of Roms per skill, geographic distribution of the Roms (in uplands and lowlands), cultivated land area by Roms per village, etc. We found insignificant number of free Roms, rest of them were slaves. For more than 50% of them, we have reconstructed, from other (unpublished) sources the name of the owners (private noblemen, or Monasteries and churches).

We searched for other statistical documents to complete our data from 1838 Census, such as the Statistics of the Turkish Gypsies (1833, manuscript ANIC, Vornicia temnitelor, file 354/1833), Statistics of Boyar Gypsy slaves (1832, manuscript ANIC, Diplomatice, dos. 147/1832) and Statistics of Monastery Gypsy slaves (1844, manuscript ANIC, Logofeția Pricinilor Bisericești, dos. 25/1844). etc. When we compared these statistics, we found major discrepancies leading to the important source critical conclusion that the 1838 census concerns mostly the permanently settled Gypsies and included few of the nomadic people. Further examination showed that the number of nomadic Gypsies was relatively small. We also found documents that indicated that Gypsies of the Muslim faith were not either registered in the 1838 census.Over time the nominal lists of the 1838 Census for four counties (Ialomiţa, Gorj, Mededinţi and Vâlcea) as well as some two rural sub-districts and two towns has been lost, but that for 14 Wallachian counties has been preserved and entered in MapRom. The five volumes of nominal material for the capital city Bucharest (with a very large and multi-ethnic population) was not researched in this project as the census there was complexly different from that of the rural provinces in form and execution, but it is hoped that it can be researched at a later date.

We estimate that MapRom gathers information on between two-thirds and three-fourths of Wallachia’s Romani population.

Den huvudsakliga arkivkällan till MapRom-databasen är "Folkräkningen eller furstestaternas statistik (Wallachia och Moldavien) 1838", ANIC, Fond Catagrafii, del I, inventeringsnummer 501, volymer numrerade I / 8 till I / 107 från Historiska Nationalarkivet, Bukarest, mestadels opublicerat och nu digitaliserat och automatiserat för första gången, med avseende på den romska befolkningen.

Denna folkräkning genomfördes av inrikesministeriet i februari 1838. Det är den första bevarade rumänska moderna folkräkningen av befolkning och bostäder, som introducerade nya granskningsmetoder, såsom de nominella listorna och det stora antalet (24) demografiska attribut, inklusive etnicitet. Observationsenheten var ”hushållet” och omfattningen var att få detaljerad information om: 1) den bosatta befolkningen efter åldersgrupp och kön; 2) antalet hushåll och deras struktur; 3) antalet bostadshus och deras fördelning enligt det material de byggs från; 4) befolkningsfördelning efter deras deltagande i ekonomisk verksamhet; 5) befolkningens fördelning efter färdigheter och yrken.

Baserat på denna information presenterar MapRom-databasen: statistik över de romska hushållen per by, antal romer per by, antal olika romska etniska undergrupper (Lăieș, Vătraș, Rudar, Zlătar, etc), genomsnittlig romsk hushållsstorlek per by, åldersfördelning, könsfördelning, antal romer per färdighet, romers geografiska fördelning (i höglandet och låglandet), odlad markyta av romer per by, etc. Vi har rekonstruerat information från slavägarna från andra källor.Med tiden har de nominella listorna för fyra län (Ialomiţa, Gorj, Mededinţi och Vâlcea) samt två landsbygdsområden och två städer gått förlorade, men de för 14 valakiska län har bevarats och skrivits in i MapRom. De fem volymerna av nominellt material för huvudstaden Bukarest (med en mycket stor och multietnisk befolkning) undersöktes inte i detta projekt eftersom folkräkningen där skilde sig komplext från landsbygdens provinser i form och utförande, men kan förhoppningsvis undersökas vid ett senare tillfälle.

Uppskattningsvis samlar MapRom information om mellan två tredjedelar och tre fjärdedelar av Wallachias romska befolkning.

At present there is relatively wide recognition that a genocide was perpetrated during World War I on Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs, Chaldeans and Arameans) in the shadow of the much more widespread and intensive Armenian Genocide. Scholarly research on this topic is, however, limited and undigested. This chapter discusses one of the complications of dealing with the Assyrian genocide, namely the inability to develop an iconic narrative of what happened in order to make a shared commemorative memory. During late Ottoman times, the Assyrian peoples were isolated from each other by territory, religion and dialect. In late Ottoman times, the various sects were noted for weak clerical leadership and were plagued by chronic internal strife. Perhaps because of this chaos, foreign missionaries found it easy to convert Assyrians. Genocide is in general not easy to explain. There are often multiple ideological, economic and social causes. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Hülya Adak, Fatma Müge Göçek and Ronald Grigor Suny; individual chapters, the contributors.

This is the first monograph on the history of the Rudari people of Romania and the first mapping of their settlements. The Rudari are a population which has traditionally inhabited the Balkan area and much of Central Europe. Many of them do not know the Romani language but speak Romanian dialects and today make a living out of carving wooden household items, although their Slavic name alludes to mining. Indeed, the Rudari were for centuries gold-prospectors and gold-washers working for the Crown of Wallachia and were administrated as slaves by a monastery situated on the auriferous Olt river. The authors have reconstructed the fascinating history of this ethnic group for a period of 500 years until the 19th century when gold-panning went in decline due to the exhaustion of the reserves of alluvial gold.

Book review of Morris and Ze'evi's book Thirty Years Genocide.