The Situation of the Archaeological Findings in the Area of Cenad (Timiş County) in the Context of Debates on the Cultural Role of this Political, Administrative and Religious Centre in the Middle Ages
Abstract In the context of increasingly intense debates regarding the cultural role that the Comitat of Cenad, and especially the Fortification of Morisena, had in the propagation of religious ideas, political administration and economical implications of this local power center lying at the border of present day Romania and Hungary, our study intends to be a retrospective of archaeological findings till the present time, trying to clarify ‘the landscape’ of sites discovered by now – their spatial distribution, their importance, their relation with the old Morisena power center – but also to capture the topographical- archaeological features specific to this area. Our research combines field work and documentary work in a landscape archaeology study, in order to clarify the situation of this historical area within the medieval cultural landscape. During this study, we try to dismantle Romanian historiography theories based on erroneous data, and to check the authenticity of those based on archaeological findings.