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Some
preliminary results of research on orientation of some Paleochristian
and Byzantine churches of Dobrogean area (Capidava, Histria,
Niculitel), Romania, are reported with conclusion. For some
religions, the celebration of the saint who was to patronize
the church was found through the direct view on the physical
horizon of the sunrise point, which determined the placement
of the altar and thus the longitudinal axis of the church.
This way of drawing out allows us nowadays to determine the
patron of some churches of which there remained only ruins.
The paper also describes a computer database as well as a
series of drafts regarding the analysed churches - a part
of the archaeometrical and archaeoastronomical research developed
in Romania within the framework of the "AstroDacia"
Project. The universities of Cluj, Iasi, Sibiu and Alba-Iulia
as well as the Museum of History in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca
and Deva also joint this project.
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