The ''Vatra''
literary magazine was founded in 1885 by
Ion Luca Caragiale
Ion Luca Caragiale (; According to his birth certificate, published and discussed by Constantin Popescu-Cadem in ''Manuscriptum'', Vol. VIII, Nr. 2, 1977, pp. 179–184 – 9 June 1912), commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale, was a Romanians, ...
,
George Coşbuc and
Ioan Slavici
Ioan Slavici (; 18 January 1848 – 17 August 1925) was a Romanian writer and journalist from Austria-Hungary, later Romania.
He made his debut in ''Convorbiri literare'' ("Literary Conversations") (1871), with the comedy ''Fata de birău'' ("Th ...
and was published in
Romanian
Romanian may refer to:
*anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania
**Romanians, an ethnic group
**Romanian language, a Romance language
***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language
**Romanian cuisine, traditional ...
in the city of
Târgu Mureş Târgu (Romanian language, Romanian for "the market") starts off the names of several places in Romania:
*Târgu Bujor
*Târgu Cărbunești
*Târgu Frumos
*Berbești, Târgu Gânguleşti
*Târgu Jiu
*Târgu Lăpuș
*Logrești, Târgu Logreşti
*Tâ ...
,
Transylvania
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,
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military ...
(now in
Romania
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).
A new series of the magazine was published starting May 1971 under the direction of poet and playwright
Romulus Guga.
''Vatra'' means "the
hearth
A hearth () is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a low, partial ...
" in Romanian.
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External links
Revista Vatra
Defunct literary magazines published in Europe
Defunct magazines published in Romania
Magazines established in 1885
Magazines with year of disestablishment missing
Mass media in Târgu Mureș
Romanian-language magazines
Literary magazines published in Romania
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