A. S. · 1972
The article announces Romania’s forthcoming national atlas, Atlasul Republicii Socialiste România, to be issued annually and completed in 1978. It will contain 76 plates with approximately 350 maps, covering physical geography and the country’s economic and social conditions. Each plate will include explanatory text and multilingual summaries. Its design follows recommendations of the International Geographical Union.
Bernard Rouleau · 1977
The review describes Romania’s national geographic atlas, planned under the International Geographical Union’s national-atlas recommendations and printing standards. Its projected 76 plates in 13 chapters cover physical geography, administration, history, ethnography, population and economic activities, ending with a synthesis of the economy and tourism development. Physical geography accounts for 41% of the planned plates and economic and social subjects for 59%. Each 61 × 86 cm folding plate carries explanatory notes in Romanian, French, English and Russian, often with inset maps and diagrams. Publication is planned in annual fascicles; the first received contains eight plates printed in 1972 or 1973. The reviewer singles out the treatment of current karst landform processes as particularly original. While expecting conventional graphic presentation without innovation, the reviewer praises the atlas as a substantial compilation of knowledge and research on Romania.
Françoise Conac · 1977
F. Conac reviews the National Atlas of Romania while it is still being prepared by the Academy of Sciences' Institute of Geography, attached in 1975 to Bucharest's Faculty of Geography and Geology. Following International Geographical Union recommendations, it is planned to contain 13 chapters and 76 plates; eight plates appeared in autumn 1975, and 20 are reported as being printed. Six chapters are to cover physical geography and seven historical, demographic, settlement and economic subjects. Teams from the institute and universities produce plates with maps on the front and legends, graphics, sections, statistics and commentary on the back; Romanian texts are fully translated into French, English and Russian. Conac praises the luxurious production and carefully arranged contents, and expects remarkable quality on the evidence of the published material. Nearly all issued maps concern physical geography, with population density the exception. He notes that the climate maps do not reproduce the 1965 Meteorological Institute atlas and anticipates new material across the planned plates, particularly on toponymy, migration, nationalities, traffic, industry and land improvement. Once complete, the atlas is to succeed the geographical atlas compiled under V. Tufescu in 1958–1965, which had not been updated.
