Monday, January 21, 2013

First You Put Your Two Knees Close Up Tight




A bot my statcounter says is based in Bacău (link where the blue below is c/ped from) Romania (pronounced) has pinged Saturday's excellent but not that excellent post over 600 times in the past twenty-four hours. Bacău is the main city in Bacău County, Romania. As of 2011 census, it has a population of 133,460,[1] making it the 15th largest city in Romania. The city is situated in the historical region of Moldavia, at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, and on the Bistriţa River (which meets the Siret River about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the south of Bacău). The Ghimeş Pass links Bacău to Transylvania. Similarly to most urban centers in Moldavia, Bacău emerged on a ford that allowed water passage.[2] Colonists played a significant role in the development of the town.[3] Archaeological finds, some surface or semi-buried dwellings from the second half of the 15th century, suggest that Hungarians started to settle in the region after 1345–1347 when the territory was under the control of the king of Hungary.[4] They mainly occupied the flat banks of the river Bistriţa.[5] Discoveries of a type of 14th-century grey ceramic that has also been found in Northern Europe also suggests the presence of German colonists from the north.[6] Originally the town focused around the Roman Catholic community that settled near a regular local market frequented by the population of the region on the lower reaches of the river.[7] The town was first mentioned in 1408 when Prince Alexander the Good of Moldavia (1400–1432) listed the customs points in the principality in his privilege for Polish merchants.[8][9] (However, new research indicates that the first historical mention of the town is even earlier, occurring in a 1399 legal document of Prince Iuga of Moldavia, Alexander the Good's stepbrother[citation needed]). The customs house in the town is mentioned in Old Church Slavonic as krainee mîto ("the customs house by the edge") in the document which may indicate that it was the last customs stop before Moldavia's border with Wallachia.[10] The town's name that features in Old Church Slavonic documents as Bako, Bakova or Bakovia comes most probably from a personal name.[11] Men bearing the name Bakó are documented in Transylvania in the Middle Ages.[7] The town may have been named after a Hungarian innkeeper who, supposedly, had an inn, the first building in the town, on the road from Bacău to Roman.[citation needed] Another theory suggests that the town's name has a Slavic origin, pointing to the Proto-Slavic word byk, meaning "ox" or "bull", the region being very suitable for raising cattle; the term, rendered into Romanian alphabet as bâc, was probably the origin of Bâcău.[12] An undated document reveals that the şoltuz in Bacău, that is the head of the town elected by its inhabitants, had the right to sentence felons to death, at least for robberies, which hints to an extended privilege, similar to the ones that royal towns in the Kingdom of Hungary enjoyed.[13][14] Thus this right may have been granted to the community when the territory was under the control of the Kingdom of Hungary.[7] The seal of Bacău was oval which is exceptional in Moldavia where the seals of other towns were round.[15] Alexander the Good donated the wax collected as part of the tax payable by the town to the nearby Orthodox Bistriţa Monastery.[16] It was most probably his first wife named Margaret who founded the Franciscan Church of the Holy Virgin in Bacău.[17] But the main Catholic church in the town was dedicated to Saint Nicholas.[7] A letter written by John of Rya, the Catholic bishop of Baia refers to Bacău as a civitas which implies the existence of a Catholic bishopric in the town at that time.[17][18] The letter also reveals that Hussite immigrants who had undergone persecutions in Bohemia, Moravia, or Hungary were settled in the town and granted privileges by Alexander the Good.[19] The monastery of Bistriţa was also granted the income from the customs house of Bacău in 1439.[20] In 1435 Stephen II of Moldavia (1433–1435, 1436–1447) requested the town's judges not to hinder the merchants of Braşov, an important center of the Transylvanian Saxons in their movement.[21][22] From the 15th century ungureni, that is Romanians from Transylvania began to populate the area north of the marketplace where they would erect an Orthodox church after 1500.[7] A small residence of the princes of Moldova was built in the town in the first half of the 15th century.[23] It was rebuilt and extended under Stephen III the Great of Moldavia (1457–1504) who also erected an Orthodox church within it.[23] But the rulers soon began to donate the neighboring villages that had thereto supplied their local household to monasteries or noblemen.[24] Thus the local princely residence was abandoned after 1500.[25] The town was invaded and destroyed more than one time in the 15th–16th centuries.[25] For example, in 1467 King Matthias I of Hungary during his expedition against Stephen the Great set fire to all towns, among them Bacău in his path.[26] The customs records of Braşov shows that few merchants from Bacău crossed the Carpathian Mountains into Transylvania after 1500, and their merchandise had no particularly high value which suggests that the town was declining in this period.[25] The Catholic bishop of Arges whose see in Wallachia had been destroyed by the Tatars moved to Bacău in 1597.[25][27] From the early 17th century the bishops of Bacău were Polish priests who did not reside in the town, but in the Kingdom of Poland.[28] They only travelled time to time to their see in order to collect the tithes.[28] According to Archbishop Marco Bandini's report of the canonical visitation of 1646, the şoltuz in Bacău was elected among Hungarians one year, and another, among Romanians.[7][29] The names of most of 12 inhabitants of the town recorded in 1655 also indicate that Hungarians still formed their majority group.[25] In 1670 Archbishop Petrus Parcevic, the apostolic vicar of Moldavia concluded an agreement with the head of the Franciscan Province of Transylvania on the return of the Bacău monastery to them in order to ensure the spiritual welfare of the local Hungarian community.[29][30] But the Polish bishop protested against the agreement and the Holy See also refused to ratify it.[29][31] Due to the frequent invasions by foreign armies and plundering by the Tatars in the 17th century, many of its Catholic inhabitants abandoned Bacău and took refuge in Transylvania.[32] But in 1851 the Catholic congregation in the town still spoke, sang, and prayed in Hungarian.[33] The first paper mill in Moldavia was established in the town in 1851.[34] During World War I and the occupation of Bucharest by the Central Powers, Bacău was the headquarters of the Romanian Army.[citation needed] The town was declared a municipality in 1968. Not that the bot is probably there (and if you're not a bot, my apologies). Also too, last night Monica played the above Danny Kaye song, I'd never heard it before much less knew the title, but I know this Sea and Cake song below. and it makes me smile to believe they knew of the Danny Kaye song.


4 comments:

  1. @ BLCKDGRD: Nice. I wonder how the traffic stats will stack up for this one.

    @ ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©: Thanks for that.

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  2. i've been coming in to read on/in .. your ..place ..here ..over the last week ,i open and read a little and see some links that need to look at , poetic not literal , ..then i wander off in here ,of my room,rooming .., back hours later with it still.. sitting open , will someone pleas' tell low tec;(mouth missing here ) gir'l if this is a problem in any way ? this leaving open .. . / sweetest bun's rest ..for a moment , \skirt , oH , who is this greyhoos , had a quick look over , went to the site first over there that is suited to this girl that flows like an ice age coming of something of body in mot. ,minuet,of haunted w eathering , i felt faint like i did when ioz/jacob mentioned his brother ag. ..after i had said dew .faint in a very different way though / now to the tub .. .

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  3. Sorry, meant to reply, G, people were consistently indifferent as always.

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