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JOINT DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATED PROMOTION OF THE RURAL THEMATIC TOURISM
IN THE BIHOR - HAJDU - BIHAR EUROREGION
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Department of Geography, Tourism and Territorial Planning (DGTAT)
University of Oradea
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Department of Social Geography and Regional Development
University of Debrecen
H-4032 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1., e-mail: radiczs@delfin.klte.hu, internet:
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Archaeological monuments
Biharea
The soil fortress from Biharea, „Menumorut’s Fortress” („Cetatea lui Menumorut”)
has raised in the perimeter of a archaeological resort with many levels of habitation:
antiquity, prefeudalism, early feudalism. In Neolithic existed a settlement belonging to
Tisa culture, then to Baden and Coţofeni culture. Protothracic Ottoman culture (II-III) is
represented by the pottery discovered south of the fortress, the bronze deposit from the
end of this era and the beginning of Hallstatt. Here were found pottery, utensils, Dacian
ornaments, Roman pottery, terra sigillata. From the IV-VI centuries a.Ch. were removed
tools, other tools like grinders, weight of clay, and pottery made by hand and by the
wheel. Pottery from the X-XI century keeps the characteristic features from the VII-IX
century, being an organical, technological, typological and stylistic continuation of the
local pottery. From the XII-XIII century date back over 500 graves where the weapons are
missing, but not the ornaments - forehead rings, necklaces, bracelets, pendants, beads of
glass and paste, coins, vases. From the XII-XIV century were found iron spurs with little
wheels. Gradually, because of rivalry between Bihar and Oradea, Biharea settlement loses
primacy in favor of Oradea.
Bibliography:
Muzeul Ţării Crişurilor (1974), Repertoriul Monumentelor din judeţul Bihor, Oradea.