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| | Monica Spiridon : : Cultures of Memory/Memories of Culture - PAPER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The capital-city of the Byzantine Empire has been identified as Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul or Tsargrad in particular circumstances by various groups of characters in works by the same author, or even by the same character in the same text revolving around religious, political, social, economic or emotional variables. |
 | | Since it is impossible to nickname this abnormal space “Moscow” the narrator chooses to substitute it with the name of a city set as an ideal model by the Russian tsars. |
 | | Tsargrad, the imperial city of the Caesars, becomes for the oppressed Romanians the Soviet metropolis — Moscow, the allegedly Third Rome. |
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