The other example with an european nation that has been on the intersection of 3 empires is Switzerland. And the Swiss are 1/3 German, 1/3 French and 1/3 Italian.
Learning about my people history from a Celt leaving on the other end of Europe. Last time proto Romanians and Celts were neighbors was over 2000 years ago
I find trace , in documents, of my family from 1300 .. my grandfather sell the house were he live to museum (450 years old wood house) ... Romania, Valahia, Dacia, Tracia.. name change but people not.. we are the same people more than 2000 years.. we live in north Romania
Not sure how you could present such a sophisticated subject so easily and naturally. It is obviously your own talent to retain and provide information in a simple and clear way. Truly amazing, especially that our culture and spirituality are really deep and stubborn, and hard to understand from an outside perspective. Many thanks, Benjamin.
Why do you want to impose a history of Romania without the multidisciplinary sources made by foreigners and included by different Romanians now in numerous books and it would be welcome if you correct the following obvious mistakes, because whatever you do your fate as an island separated from Europe is now sealed at the End of Time and your reprehensible deeds speak for you before God: 1. The presented map is false or at least misrepresenting the historical reality for Romania: in 1526 the battle of Mohacs, the Kingdom of Hungary - becomes a Turkish paschal - disappears from the map, becoming part of the Ottoman Empire. Many Hungarian counts sneaked onto domains in the Transylvania voivodeship. 2. The end of the century xvii The Habsburg Empire conquers the territory of the old Kingdom of Hungary, therefore it comes under the rule of the Emperor of Vienna. Transylvania is also part of this empire, but as a separate principality from the rest. 3. Mihai the Brave united the three Romanian countries - Muntenia, Bessarabia (Moldova), Transylvania due to the majority of the population speaking the Romanian language and at the coronation in Alba Iulia he said "this is craved what I craved". At that time the Szeklers fought in his army. He fulfilled his purpose for which he was born as a man on Earth. (Did you fulfill it? At least you grew something in spirit or now at the end you are going lower than where you came from). 4. The word Vlach - Valahia comes from German - Walhala - see their myth. Why did they have such great respect for this territory? Because their origin was from here, they are looking for the transformation of the name Get into Got. 5. We have some gold plaques, discovered at the end of the century. xix in which it is said that the Getae worshiped God calling him by the name Arimin, from here immediately the names Ruman and Roman with which the Geta population, the majority of the current territory of the country, is identified. 6. What Bulgarian (Slavic) Empires do you dream of when the names of their leaders were Romanian - e.g. Asan - Asanes and Romanians were the majority on both banks of the Danube. See Emperor Basil II - Bulgaroctonul (where it gets its name). 7. I tell you the ethnicity of Gelu, Glad, and Mnemurut, all found as lords of the lands of Transylvania, were Gets - Romanians and that is how they are written in the Gesta Hungarorum when the Uighurs - Hungarians came. 8. I look at you and I feel like telling you directly, your DNA is mixed with that of the draconian, as your eyes play in your head, because the DNA of the Romanians is 40% exactly like that of ancestors. No country in Europe has such a percentage of original ethnogenetic population. I and many other millions of Romanians are proof that the male population has not disappeared from Romania. Herodotus said - Geti - The Romans are the bravest of the Thracians. Therefore, they have no way of coming from the south when even now, even in Greece, populations can be easily identified that claim their origin from the current territory of Romania. 9. AI Cuza nationalized only the Greek monasteries, this as a consequence of what I said about the origin of the Thracians above with living on the primordial territory of Romania and the revelation of your lie, but he left the Romanian monasteries, which had existed for a long time, like the oldest known archdiocese is - Arges since the century. iii. Romania converted to Christianity through the missionary work of the apostle Andrei. 10. There is too much for a comment, but in short, you talk too much about Hungary - a Romanian name - and God did not want it to appear again as an independent country until after the Treaty of Trianon and only after all the lands Romanians asked for union with the country on December 1, 1918. Looking at Culture: from the spoken language, the folk dress, the solar models in the sculptures to the melody of the popular songs imitate the sounds of nature. It's not for nothing that we have a saying "codru is a brother to a Romanian". Because the iniquities of the darkness on Geea - Tera have come to an end, so everything that will happen here from now on will be within the limits approved by Arimin and in no case will you have an escape even in the snake hole for your iniquities along history. I would show you a video of what happened to the USA in Forth Worth following the discovery of an ancient ship in Afghanistan, but I'm sure you'll remember it as well, so that you realize how low you are for the fire that follows. You still have a few months to repent.
@mesager5438 Hey, you! Who are you quarrelling with? Have not taken your pills today? Even if you were right about the history of Romanians, which I very much doubt, why do you have this aggressive language? Where are your manners? You will not get any respect unless you give respect to others.
@@mesager5438you're making Romanians look stupid with such a comment. Please visit Wiktionary and Wikipedia and learn basic history, basic linguistics, and basic anthropology before commenting on a subject which is beyond your comprehension.
Very good video. You have many work and efort doing this video. I hope that you made more subcrivers, you deserve. I am portuguese and hope One day you made a video like that of Portugal and Spain ... Gratulations my friend
There is evidence in the Romanian language that there was a core of Latin based Christiany that was overlayed with a more complex church Christianity of Slavic origin. There are basic words in the Romanian language such as "Dumnezeu" (God), credinta (faith), cruce (cross) etc which are (late/vulgar) Latin derived. But also words primarily used in church such as slava (glory), duh (spirit), rob (slave) and so on which are Slavic derived. This would point to some sort of Slavic "re-christianization" in the region's history. As a side note, I've been binge watching your videos while going through a cold. Thank you for the quality content. The captivating accent also helps :). Oh, and to the best of my knowledge, Welsh and Vlach have a common root. The word comes from the germanic or proto-germanic word for "stranger" "other". Like the word "barbarian" was to latin or greek speakers.
Thank you for watching my videos. Appreciate that. Given your response, you would enjoy this one if you have not already seen it - ua-cam.com/video/qD5Q6bauvK0/v-deo.html
But that map of the Ottoman Empire you're showing is wrong - the three main principalities of Romania were never an ottoman territory per se but just dominated autonomous principalities (without independent Foreign Policy, basically, and with a mechanism through which the turks extorted the Romanians).
@@MatiaCovacescu First of all, you are stupid. Second, this is why: (a) the fact that Transylvania was under Hungarian rule does not make it Hungarian; its character was Romanian. It was a Romanian principality ruled for a while by Hungary (btw, before magyarization was complete, Hungary proper in the Panonnian plain wasn't Hungarian itself - it was just rulled by a rulling minority, the magyars); (b) The question here was about the time when Transylvania was also under the suzeranity of the Ottomans (like Hungary-proper itself, by the way - which didn't make it Turkish, it was till Hungarian).
Yes this guy is an idiot that has no credentials. He is a disinformation agent that should be investigated by SRI IM Germanic and Finish and a know more than this Agent.
Archealogical evidence for dacians past the 271AD pullout is virturally non existant. There are virtually no documented proof of dacians living north of the lower danube. Despite numerous written papers, not a single one says there was vlach or even native latin speaking population. Linguistics has very little to do with this since romanian attempt at artifical latinization in the 18th and 19th century. On top of this, we dont know what the dacian language is. Of course romanians have been known to forage evidence for this lapse of logic, with artifacts such as the Tartara tablets, and the sinaia lead plates. Who knows how many other artifacts are foraged as well.
We have a saying that goes something like "romanian folk dances involve a lot of jumping around because the ground was still lava when they where invented". Now that is clearly an exageration, but it's a cool joke about how old we feel
Great vid. As a romanian you confirmed what I already know and I learned some new things. I wisk I know many things about my nation between IIIrd century and XI.
Thank you for your work. Romania as a country is about the same age as Germany and Italy who were unified in the 19th century, but Romanians are as old as hills :)
Mihai had to collaborate with the feudal lords of the two conquered principalities. In Transylvania, the main power was the Hungarian feudal lords, the power of the Saxons had begun to decline, and the Szeklers were his allies. The Romanian feudal lords had been replaced or Hungarianized sometime before. So, in a few months, he could do nothing for the Romanians from Transylvania except for help and respect for their Orthodox religion. There were also connections between the three principalities, apart from Mihai's rule. There were alliances between Transylvania and Wallachia, between Transylvania and Moldova, and between all three on several occasions (15th, 16th and 17th centuries). The alliances were made against the Ottomans or to help themselves reach the throne (disregarding the interest of the Ottoman Empire or of the Polish Kingdom). There are testimonies from the 17th century, when Habsburg officials were afraid that, for example, the Romanians from Maramures could join Moldova, because they were of the same culture, language, and religion. The affinity between Romanians from the principalities was felt by the Austrian state in this case, as a threat. Interestingly, both those from Moldova and those from Wallachia used the name Romanian to refer to themselves.
Let's put it simply, Romania is the mystery of the globe and will remain so. The land here is magical - and it breeds wizards. Also from here, thousands of years before Rome, the creation of Rome itself began. If they were not "Vlachs", from the past (current Romanians), all of Europe spoke either Turkish or Russian or German. Now we are again a shield for the "crazies" from the west, being on the border with Ukraine. The peace of 1000 years will also be written here. After 1000 years, it's another problem. Dissensions with aliens begin, regarding the piece on Mars, assigned - New Romania, because it will be full of wizards Amazing work you do! (Yoda thinking)
I suspect the culture came first. When the Balkans and Pannonian Plain were swept by Huns, then Goths and then by a dozen different invaders for the next thousand years, somehow romance-language speakers scattered in the hills kept their culture and language, and then at some point they came together in the Carpathians and from there spread to the rest of Romania. By the way, in the Middle Ages, all non-romance speakers called speakers of romance languages "Romans". The Franks called the romance speakers of France "Romans". It took almost a thousand years for the French to identify themselves as French.
After the death of the king of Dacia Decebal, conquered by Rome, in 106 AD, the Kingdom of Dacia was divided among the descendants of others. And so they remained until the Middle Ages under the form of duchies (Glad, Seneslau, Menumorut, of which the Hungarian chronicles of the time also mention that they found them here and fought with them) or then the great principalities of Moldova, Multenia, Dobrogea and The rich Transylvania overrun by a series of rich robbers. A great empire for example. The inhabitants of the territory of ancient Dacia remained in place and perpetuated themselves until today, the continuity here, proven by a large study of Paleogenetics from Germany on the population of Romania. In 2012. We are the descendants of the Neolithic populations of 6000-7000 years ago of brilliant civilizations that succeeded each other on the territory of today's Romania. . Cucuteni, Gumelnita, Hamangia, etc., etc. for 7500 - 8000 years. Romanians carry their DNA back to the Dacians of the Getae-Goths, our ancestors. In conclusion, the inhabitants of ancient Dacia stayed here and developed until today. In all the provinces where we were separated by history, the same nation lived with the same language and customs. Gradually, gradually, the Daco-Romanian nation united. Under the name of Romania, from imperial Rome. The Romanian-Latin language is not from the Romans. In ancient Europe, vulgar Latin was spoken, meaning popular. This is what our Dacians and other nations from Europe used to say. Younger Romanians like us then chiseled it. From this popular Vulgar Latin came all the Romance languages in Europe. Not through false romanization. There are linguistics studies from Romania, France, Spain, USA. . The theme of Romanization of peoples is the great falsity of 19th century history.
@@mariadespina80 Once conquered and integrated into the Roman Empire, all inhabitants of a province became Romans. `Roman" was not an ethnicity, but a way of saying that one had become a citizen of the Roman empire who served in the imperial army and spoke Latin. Romanization was real, as the Latin language was instrumental for a disciplined and well-functioning army formed by men gathered from all the corners of the Empire. In some regions, the Romanization was overwritten by subsequent invasions, such as in Britain, North Africa or Palestiine. In some other regions, the Romanization proved to be more resiliant and gave rise to present day Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian etc),
@@mariadespina80 nu mai veni cu teorii handicapate ca ne faci de ras. Daca vrei sa te tragi din maimuta lui Burebista, trage-te la tine acasa cu usa inchisa.
I think the term Goths comes from the Geti, a Roman emperor decreed that the Geti should no longer be called by their name, and then the term Goti appeared. Before the Romans, the Geti (Dacians) lived in peace with the Sarmatians and other nations.
@@andreivlad3518 The Goths ('Gutþiuda' in their own language) have nothing to do with the Getae. The Goths were a union of Germanic tribes who spoke Gothic, a Germanic language that is well preserved, mainly due to the Bible translation done by Wulfila in the 4th century.
How you talk about my country nobody does it,I love when you talk about Romania just because you do your homework about it,I am not breathing when I listen to you ❤thank you mulțumesc mult❤
Cymru ? Thanks. It is amazing that a Westerner is interested in our history, moreover is doing a video about that. Min. 13:38 - Pastores Romanorum = shephards of the ROMANS, not "Romanians". Min. 14:19 - Gelu. The mentioned Hungarian chronicle "Gesta Hungarorum" (Deeds of the Hungarians) clearly mentions that he was Vlach = Romanian : "Gelou, a certain Romanian" (GLat. : Gelou quidam blachus), and tells us that he ruled (Lat. : dominium tenebat) a country inhabited by Romanians and Slavs (Lat. : blasii et sclaui).
because people called themselves romans in those murky centuries. This holds to scrutiny because otherwise there would have only been remnants of latin culture and only along the Danube and later along with greek at the Black Sea coast, and not in and over the Carpathian mountains. With horse barbarians at an all time high, sheep in the mountains became the ca$h crops during the murky centuries.
Moldovan chronicle of Grigore Ureche (mid 1600s) underlines the unity of Romanians: ”Românii, câţi se află lăcuitori la ţara ungurească şi la Ardeal şi la Maramureş, de la un loc sânt cu Moldovenii…” = "Romanians, as many as they live in Hungary, Transylvania and Maramuresh are together from the same spot with Moldavians..."
Nice in-depth analysis. How old are we? It's very difficult to establish that because we are very old... Dacians are in our national consciousness, Romans are there too and not because some demagogs told us so. How this nation was born? I have my own theory. Some Roman veterans were colonized in the Balkans and they started practicing what the natives (Thracians / Dacians / Getae) used to practice: mixing with the natives, getting married, having kids, building farms, raising sheep...living in the mountains, away from the violent barbarians... This way of life, our way of life - comes from ancient times and was favored by the geography of this place. Our people lived from the northern Carpathians down to Greece for centuries, they mixed with many other people, they kept their religious beliefs...and here we are. It's very difficult to state how it started because our nation is very old. Our land is very beautiful and I believe that many people loved it during the centuries and they preferred to live here and keep the flame alive. It's a "continuum" and personally I think it started thousands of years before our time. Otherwise I agree with your analysis.
Good work! Thank you for this video. As for the last question, I would argue it is safe to point the 19th century's revolutions as the awakening of national counciosness, any date before that is just speculation.
This is /the best/ short material I've ever seen/read on the history of the culture and of Romanians as a nation. Also I find it unbiased in any way. Amazing work!
Multe multumiri pentru obiectivitate. Surprised to find this youtoube channel and an approach to romanian history that is genuine and respectful. How old romanians are? Probably older than most are willing to admit. Considering romanian folk culture, the death rites, the birth rites, the marriage rites have elements that go back to the proto european layer ... I would say there is a continuity of cultural and generic material that goes very deep. Maybe 3-5-7 thousands year deep or more. Over this very ancient root that somehow made it to the 20 th century, there are many layers, painted over by various populations that passed by or stayed longer. I am very sad that with the end of 20 th century, beggining of 21 century, our ancestral rural way of life was very much diminished and with it we, the current generations, lost contact with that ancient vine that kept us together. Also there are many who scorn, ridicule and depreciate our most ancient traditions, labeling them as primitive superstitions and things we should get read of. I hope the work of people like you to make more romanian to understand the value of our traditions and the duty to preserve them for future generations.
Mulţumesc mult. Yes, I respect your country. That you speak a Romance Language makes your country more immediately accessible to me than Slavic or Greek.
1918, the idea came about around the 1840s with the wave of European nationalism. Before that, it wasn't straightforward and it was probably an interaction with the Romans/Dacians in the mountains interacting with the Slavs in the plains. You can see this with the other Roman-descended population in the Balkans and around who also live a pastoral life in the mountains. There are populations like this from Poland to Greece. So there was an expansion around mountain ranges even after the Romans left. The DNA stuff is slightly irrelevant , because besides some haplogroups like i-s17250 , who is heavily associated with Romanian and Moldavian and some of Ukraine. most of the genetics is the same as everyone else's in the region.
@@mirelchirila The most dominant Y-haplogroup in Romania is I2a which is also dominant in the Balkans and it tells us about a certain resilience and continuity of our peoples. Depending on which barbaric horde hit us, we may have sometimes retreated either to the mountains, or south or north of the Danube, but this was always our home.
@@nuescu no but there is this thing called writing, where people can record their thoughts and they stay there after their death. We also have this thing called history that compiles these writings into a cohesive narrative . It’s almost like you don’t have to travel through time to know things.
I don't agree so much with the video. Where I started to disagree is when you talked about Gesta Hungarorum, the shepherd's of the Romans and of course Duke Gelu. Gesta Hungarorum makes clear that Gelu was a Vlach, that the land's he ruled over was Transylvania, and his subjects were Vlachs and Slavs. Another thing it makes clear is that he was Duke of the Vlachs, making it clear that the Duchy was a Vlach political entity. ("Dum thutum audiuiesst a legaato, preparauit se cum suis militibus, et dimissis ibi sociis suis egressus est ultra siluas uersus orientem contra Gelou Ducem Blacorum") "When Tuhutum heard this from an envoy, he readied himself with his warriors and, having left his companions there, went forth eastwards beyond the woods against Gelou, duke of the Vlachs" ("dum cepisset audire ab incolis, bonitatem terre ultra siluane, ubi Gelou quidam Blacus") "When he learned from the inhabitants of the goodness of the land of Transylvania, where Gelou a Certain Vlach" ("Et habitarores terre illius uiliores homines essent tocius mundi, Quia essent blasji et Sclaui") "And that inhabitants of that land were the basest of the whole World, because they were Vlachs and Slavs" About the "shepherd's of the Romans", which is "ac pastores romanorum", is not in reference of the Romanians. As the text refers to the inhabitants of Pannonia, and among the "shepherd's of the Romans" were also the Vlachs (Blasji), "ac" means "and also". So the Pastores Romanorum probably refers the shepherds subjects to the Vlachs thus showing their Romanity or in reference to the one's subjected to Francia which claimed Roman imperial succession. Also another thing people must understand is that Vlachs were Romanians, or at least those in the region of Romanian influence, from modern day Romania, Moesia and Illyricum. Because you said that 'Vlachs eventually became Romanians', which is not the case as they always have been român. One thing I am glad about is your talk about Michael the Braves military and diplomatic campaign of 1599 - 1601, where he managed to dominate the three danubian Principalities. You made it clear that it was never based on nationalist interest, as no documents issued by Michael makes such claims. But one cannot deny this was the first United Romanian realm, based on political and administrative interests. One thing that I want to bring to the table is the 17th century after Michael the Brave, where the Romanian Orthodox Churches started to nationalise themselves. Saint Varlaam Moțoc, the Metropolitan of Moldavia under Vasile Lupu, translated many Byzantine laws from the time of Justinian into Romanian (pre limba româniască), and on expenses of Vasile Lupu, he granted them to "toată șemenița româniască" (to the whole seed of Romania). The latter was a reference to the all Romanian speaking territory. This movement took place after Michael the Brave, and some rulers like Mihnea Vodă claimed to be the ruler of both Moldavia and Wallachia.
The problem with the Gesta Hungarorum is that document also talk about cumans. And cumans arrived in that area only in 1200-1300. This document is not very accured
@@m.serban2523 It isn't 100% accurate as all the sources of that time. I recommend: ("Gesta Hungarorum as parody. The literary analysis of a medieval text") by Florin Curta, a recent study that adds the research of a similar discredited source from Britain called "De gestis Britonum" from the 12th century, conducted by Monika Otter.
@@cristidan1380 In fact we do. We have Nestors Chronicle which confirms Vlachs and Slavs inhabiting Transylvania and Pannonia before the Magyars. And also Jansen Enikels Chronicle from 1277, which talks about the Vlachs (Walachen) and the Avars (whom he calls "Ungern") as inhabiting the lands during Charlemagnes conquest of the Avars in the 9th century.
The origin theory of a nation can be easily manipulated by those who are connected in a large group of nations who are choosing to give legitimacy to certain historic writings or made-up stories.
And a lot of prsent day Hungarian and Russian propaganda is trying hard to manipulate and present what they are interested to promote in regards to Romania and Romanians.
@@mimisor66 , the daco-roman theory (fals propaganda) invented by wallachs priest (greco-catholic in Rome) in XIX century for justification of wallachs dream for Hungarian Transylvania .
Most comments are "trigger" comments, which is good for the algorithm. I appreciate how you structured the video, giving every low-read, nation(alist)-hyped mind a chance to make their own decisions. It is informative to see how foreigners are reading into our history (I am Romanian) and I appreciate that given the sensitive topic in this area of Europe, you kept yourself to the facts. Of course, I feel that culturally (I might be biased) one can dig up more info to regards to Romanians and I would like to see that, but given your perspective of defining the moment of Genesis by those 4 factors, it is an alright job in my opinion. Now, I have a question, this is the first video of yours I saw, and I've seen from your channel, that you are quite passionate about this country. I am just curious, what drove you to this passion?
I have studied Latin, and French. So being curious about eastern Europe, Romania was the easiest to get fast access into without wasting my time. Mulțumesc pentru ca tipule.
1877 was the years first independent Romanian state did appear. Before that, about three state formations under influence of one power or another. Before that, check out recorded history. First settlements were here about 10 thousands years ago, Cucuteni culture.
This is another great video. For me personally, I won't complicate this matter any further. Romania began with the Roman conquest and settlement of Dacia. That is the inception of the concept of "Romanian". Making a continuous ancestral lineage that is 1900 years old. Of course in such a large span of time, Romanians were influenced by other people, but the backbone of the Romanian nation is still the Roman settlement of this land.
Except it didnt and romanains and their history isnt as heroic and as glorious as the romanians make it out to be, and romanians were certiainly not the "first ones here"
The answer is simple for those who know history. Romania is a nation and not just a country due to the common language, common traditions, common history. The Romanian language does not have dialects like other languages, it is unitary in Romania. See also common genetics between areas. There is absolutely no surprise or lack between the years 300 and 1300... look for the Romanians in this period in the empires: Hun, Avar, Bulgar (I and II), Mongol. Many other peoples, like the Romanians, were temporarily part of different empires (Greeks, Bulgarians, Albanians in the Ottoman Empire, Byzantine). Poles, Baltics, Ukrainians, also were in different empires. So it is something common in Europe, the Romanians made their own states when they came out from under the different empires (1300s) and then in 1859 Romania appeared (the union of Wallachia + Moldova), later in 1918 + Transylvania. It is very simple and there is no "missing" period or mistery in the history of the Romanian people, there are many documents (Slavic, Greek, German, Hungarian, Arab) and archaeological research that confirm the continuity in this space.
I agree. Although the Romanian language (daco-Romanian) is unitary, there are still 3 dialects spoken today: Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian.
@@popacristian2056 Yes, there are 3 dialects but in other areas of the Balkans, not in Romania. In Romania it is a unitary language, without dialects (only ...graiuri... ,,speechs" and some regionalisms).
@@cllaudiusd521 That's right. Daco-Romanian is unitary spoken on the territory of Romania including Moldova across the Prut as well as the ethnic Romanians remaining outside the borders in Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Ukraine.
aaaa, low birth rate? migration of romanians to the west? migration from other people to Romania is not a concern, but who knows what the future brings? And God forbid some major conflict (nuclear?) that kills many people or displaces large populations. We should hope for the best, but not be complacent and still prepare for the worst.
@@ionut2v I'm not complacent at all. If you believe we are doing badly, how did we do when we didn't even have a country and had to retreat to the mountains constantly?
@@tricolourbearer2435 True... and it's difficult to say whether we are doing badly or not (for one we are chatting in English here :D ), but the challenges are different today (not saying we wont adapt), however I see how "nationalism" or "patriotism" are demonized in the west, and how they seem to be losing their national identity, who knows if that will be a challenge over here too.
@@ionut2v există o tendință vestică ce e și la noi, în orașe, dar mai ales la București. Nu știu ce dracu' va fi cu noi, cert e că eu rămân aici, nu dau bir cu fugiții
It was a change in the proportions of masculine haplogrups when migrations that bring other new haplogroups appear. *It was not a depletion of the existing local male population but a phenomenon with purely genetic causes. **14:55*
Ben, a study of the architecture, the people costumes, housing, way of living will lead you to very interesting conclusions. You will be surprised to see how similar are the popular costumes with those of the Dacians from Traian Column in Rome. Equally, two thirds of the Dacians tribal unions were outside Roman occupation. In my natal town, there is an ancient citadel call Petrodava (means stone citadel in Dacian) which used to be an important stronghold of the Carpi Dacian union of tribes. The name of my natal city is Piatra (Romanian word for stone) and Neamt (Romanian word for German - you read it as in Frantz - because for some hundred years there was a Teutonic Order Mark, until the foundation of the Moldavian Principality).
-Why don't we Romania have documents starting with the 14th century? Thanks to the IV Crusade 1202-1204 - that looted Constantinople and 3 days and 3 nights they carried archives and the great library of Constantinople, carried, a part reached the Vatican. That's why we who belonged to Constantinople have no documents regarding our multi-millenary Daco-Romanian past. ( "The Russian Chronicle from Novgorod XV century and the Byzantine chronicler Nicetas Akominatos, witness to the robbery)
@@BenLlywelyn Historical Romanian researchers visited the Vatican a few years ago and received approval to enter the Vatican archives. They researched there. This is how new data appeared, non-existent on Wikipedia. That is why I am well documented . Being a reference to Romania , my country, I brought here information.
@@BenLlywelynWith all the respect for your hard work, you are wrong. The Vatican's language is Latina, and, if the lost Dacian's documents are coming to the light, the entire story about the Romanian language deriving from Latin is falling. In fact, the Vatican is the first one they will never like to disclose the Dacian history, which is the ancestral Romanian history. Everyone will know,the Latin comes from our old Dacian language that I believe, it's still alive today. And this is only regarding our language, but the implications in other European nations ' history.
I don't know if your source of information about DNA is correct. As far as I know, the current DNA also varies gradually from one border to another and has similarities with the neighbors in all directions. If there were no men in this area in certain centuries, the invaders from Asia would have died of hunger because there would have been no farmers, only they did not live on milk and cheese. Whoever was the new boss in the area, would not have killed the farmers. The wars with Rome from 101-106 did not eliminate the male population, because in the year 117, after the death of Trajan, there was an important revolt of the locals, and don't say that it was a revolt only of Dacian women.
Regarding your last question - when did the Romanian consciousness appear - this boils down to two aspects: 1) the idea that we're descendents of Rome (106-1000) 2) the idea that Rome is no more and that we are our own people. (1204-1453-present).
Not so. Moldova and Walachia fought each other several times in Medieval times. In fact, there was no concept of a Romanian nation in medieval times since Greek-orthodox religion was the principalities' identity which was the same as the other Slavic ethnic people in the Balkans. After the first Union on 24th January 1859, the Moldovans wanted to annul it. So much for the Romanian identity in medieval times:_)) Most Romanians do not know their history of being brainwashed by communist propaganda.
in the period from 271AD to around the time of the 10th century there was little or no contemporary sources mentioning anyone who fit in the description of what a Romanian is today. So the entire daco romanian continuation theory which says the romanian culture formed imbetween this period despite there being no archealogical evidence, no contemporary evidence, and basically nothing to go on. Of course this is complete bullshit, but remember only romanians believe this anyways.
Come on ! The German families fought each other for power, the English fought the Scotts.....such were those times. Small principalities fighting each other. What we call now nations were formed mostly towards the end of the 19th century.
"Rural" in Romania means something else than in the rest of Europe: it means the town does not have manufacturing companies and cannot afford to pay for a set of services. There are "villages" of 10000 inhabitants who do not have the manufacturing or choose not to take on the expense. Had the same rule applied in Romania as in US or in UK Romania would be like 99% urban, that is all towns including the smallest, have a charter, a budget (including the possibility to take on debt), an elected mayor and an elected council. I wrote "99" because there are some towns who lost most of their population and will be folded into other neighbouring towns.
@@BenLlywelyn Yes, the smallest town has a lot of leeway in how they spend their money, and can even block government projects in the area they control if they choose to :) . After 1990 Romania managed to create a very effective system of local self-administration, my guess is involuntarily. The only limitation is loans taken by towns must be approved by the Ministry of Finance, mostly because the Ministry of Finance guarantees those loans. The main lever the government has when dealing with towns is whether the government gives them extra money or not (Bucharest is worth like 25% of the GDP, and gets back only 10% of the taxes paid in Bucharest, the rest is redistributed), which is why after the party in charge at the central level changes lots of mayors change their party :).
@@BenLlywelynThere are just 10 million greeks speakers in the world. With their magnificent cities their coulture had little influence in Europe compared to romanians wich are the proto indoeuropeans that named all the rivers and mountains in Europe.
Australian here, married to a Romanian. Had the pleasure of visiting her family back in 2022. Interesting country. The Carpathians were amazing, the people warm. The legacy of Communism still scene. I feel that they really don't appreciate their history, largley appears to be crumbling. My wife's DNA is largley Balkan and Greek with a touch of Swedish. My DNA is redominaltely UK and northern Europe. My family tree I've been able to research way back, like way back. One ancestor is Attila the Hun, born in Central Asia, which today is in present day Romania. Go figure. Went to a number of places shown here in the vid. Particlarly enjoyed the Saxon villages. If you ever walk into a pub in the mountains (particularly behind Brasov on the ski slopes) and its really cold, and you see a jug of water on the counter, whatever you do, don't pour a cup and knock it back without a thought. It's not water, it's Tuica (apologies, no accents on this computer), sounds a little like zzwika, it's 40% alcohol. Learnt the hard way. The walk back down from the ski slopes was pretty merry. What was the tune playing from around 9:30?
@@Istoricescu Well I gues then that the whole geneaology industry falls over then because it can't be scientifically proven, according to yourself. I can't prove my father is my father then unless I and he have a DNA test to prove so. Now that he's dead, I guess I'll just never know.
The romanian ancestors are possibly one or more pack of survivors after the catastropic events including megafloods that terminated the Old World from before the Younger Dryas period. Pyrenees, Alps and Carpathians will just apply for the best places to survive to regional or even continental tsunamis, one type of events that pack the YD boundaries. This is just my humble opinion based on multilevel integration of scientific facts
@@cezar211091 The survivors of events that are difficult to understand for those who do not have reference points, but which are widely reported in the specialized scientific literature, are real like the biblical story of the Flood. Exacty as there too, the heights of the mountains offered the refuges beaten by the terrible fate. The only question that troubles me and I try to find an answer to it is whether we and others in the Carpathian area are direct descendants of extremely powerful people forged under the auspices of an era extremely hostile to life, in general.. That's why I said it's "possible"
That should be right, but there were a lot of other nomad tribes that walked through these lands and left big footprints here. Important is that out of all those populations, the one that prevailed and asimilated the others was the vlach one (at least in the north of the Danube). In Hungary for exemple, the much smaller population of the nomad magyars dominated and overpowered and imposed its culture over the existing Panonian population.
NARAVUL DIN FIRE ,NU ARE LECUIRE. MA REFER LA POPORUL UNGURESC CARE PROVIN DIN UN TRIB DI NOMAZI DIN MONGOLIA ,PRIMA S AU OPRIT PE UN TERITORIU INTRE TURCIA SI IRAN APOI IAR AU MIGRAT PINA IN CIMPIA PANONICA UNDE S AU ACIUAT ( ASA ERA FELUL LOR) SI AU CREAT ACEST POPOR UNGARIA.
Initially I perceived you as arrogant, typical westerner looking down at romanians. I guess, this is your way of speaking. Much appreciated your work. I hope you can find a bottle of ȚUICĂ (plum brandy) or Wine, Made in Romania.
Of course Romania is old. Since ancient times, Waleachia was called "Tara Românească" by the Romanians themselves, which means Romanian land. Check out what “Tara Românească means” on Wukipedia! Now, what does “England” mean and what does “Deutschland” mean?
@@bujdososzekely Wallachia and Moldova were not created by the Hungarian kings. Tara Românească was created between 1270 - 1352 by Basarab Întemeietorul. He was the first independent ruler. And whether they were once vasal or not doesn't matter at all. Hungary has also been vasale throughout history.
Deutschland means the dacians land😂. Its because of the visigoths wich are 100% dacians ( celts and vulgar latin speakers) that named Sweden, Denmark and Finland Dacia in official documents. The heart of the germanic nations is Gotland wich was a colony of dacians.
@@mihaiilie8808 Deutschland, that is how Germans refer to Germany! And by that they mean German land.That's something everybody schuld know. What's wrong with you, are you uneducated? Your taking about Daciana is inappropriate in this context.
@@bujdososzekely I NOSTRI AVI DACII HANNO VISSUTO SU QUELLA TERRA DALL'ANNO 1000.A.C. INUTILE CERCARE AD INVENTARE ALTRE STORIE. I ROMANII HANNO CONQUISTATO SOLO 1/4 DELLA DACIA FINO ALLA MINIERA D'ORO (ROSIA MONTANA ) ANCORA OGGI LA PIÙ RICCA DI TUTTA L'EUROPA. IL MOME DELLA DACIA IN ROMANIA FU CAMBIATA MOLTO PIÙ TARDI.
There are many sources that prove that the Romanians called themselves Romanians and that they were only called by foreigners Wallachians. Only you pointlessly advance the assertion that Romanians evolved from Wallachians. In 1532, Francesco della Valle traveling in Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldova notes that the Romanians kept the name Romans (Romani) and "are called in their language Romans (Romei)". He even quotes the sentence "Sti Rominest?" ("do you speak Romanian?" for original Romanian "do you know Romanian?") Pierre Lescalopier, recounting his journey, notes in 1574 that those living in Wallachia, Moldavia and most of Transylvania say they are descendants of the Romans, calling their language "romanechte" (the French transcription for Romanian). The Lutheran preacher and the first Transylvanian Saxon historiographer Johann Lebel testifies in 1542 that ordinary Romanians call themselves "Romuini". Antonius Verantini, who settled in Transylvania as bishop of Alba Iulia, and later became cardinal and viceroy of Habsburg Hungary, also states in 1570 that "the Wallachians are called Romans" and offers an example: "When they ask if someone knows how to speak Wallachian, they say: do you speak Roman? And [when they ask] if someone is Wallachian they say: are you Roman? Pierre Lescalopier notes in 1574 that those living in Wallachia, Moldavia, and most of Transylvania say they are descendants of the Romanians, calling their language "romanechte" (the French transcription for Romanian Romanian). Convince yourself at least on Wikipedia, there search for "Name of Romania". You will find this information with the sources quoted.
The nation în modern meaning of the concept îs born only in the 18-th and 19-th centuries. Before we can speake only about peoples or populations or states everywhere / anywhere, but not modern nations nor in Europe neither în other continent. The Romanians were conscient of they Roman origins from begining and they are living în the large geographically space between Danube, Balkans and Carpathians Mountains as the descendants of the all Oriental Romanity în European continent.
between AD 101 and 106 the romans conquered us, we are still descendants of dacians, you can see it in the ear lobes, which are different. Romans have them detached and dacians have them attached. A lot of romanians still have attached ear lobes which means Romania is actually Dacia and our history starts way before the romans invaded us. They say they used to live next to us (Dacia), but they left the territory, established themselves, raised an army and came back to conquer what they already knew to be a wealthy land. They say the language that romans established as latin is derived from the language that the dacians were speaking, which were much more evolved then them at that point in history. I would love to hear more about this side of the story, but I presume it was forever deleted from history by the romans, who probably portrayed us dacians as savages, which I don't believe we were. What do you think about this? cheers!
That about the ears of romans and dacians are an urban Myth. It actually does us bad because people think the dacopaths are some soird of believers in aliens invasion, giants and other such esoteric things. To beat any argument just use science, haplogroups and DNA, paleogenetics, etc.
It is common sense that the Romanians called Vallachia Țara Românească (the Romanian Land). Search on wikipenia and there you will be told that it is so. In addition, from Basarab I the founder, who annihilated almost the entire Hungarian army at the Battle of Posada, to Neacșu's letter that refers to Țara Românească and Neagoe Basarab its leader, there were 26 rulers of Țara Românească. All of these documented. Not to mention those rules after Neacșu's letter. And you continue to insinuate that the Idea of Romania is new, that the Romanians did not have a state and this period was very nebulous. Take a look at Wikipedia where you can find a list of all the voivodes of Țara Românească.
Similar situations. Romania - Italy. How old is Italy? The Kingdom of Italy was a state formed in 1861 by the unification of Italy, under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia; it existed until 1946, when Italians opted for a republican constitution. The Kingdom was the first Italian state to include the entire Italian Peninsula since the fall of the Roman Empire. Antiquity, separate feudal states, unification = modern states. Romania was called Dacia in antiquity, Italy was called Rome in antiquity. Both got new names in the 19th century. Romania and Italy have the same age. They were kingdoms from antiquity. Dacia and Rome.
@@BenLlywelyn Yes. About the evolution of the Italian peninsula from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages when there were many statuettes in the boot that still fought among themselves. But also different dialects that even today do not understand each other. There was no homogeneous population like in Dacia-Romania. The Romanian language is a unitary language even in the territories in front of the borders where Romanians live. What is the explanation? The same race perpetuated from antiquity to today. Italy is special. What nations lived on its territory? How many languages spoken? Commonly, we have the creation of a modern state in the 19th century through various unions of territories of the same race in the case of Romania and ... everything after the disappearance of the Austro-Hungarian Empire when liberated, new national states appeared in Europe. Romania is one. On January 24, 1862, after partial rains, we got the name of Romania. From Rome, Romanus.. It is a complicated topic, but it is worth deciphering. Italy.
Would the fact that the "birth of a nation" cannot be pinpointed on a timeline mean it never died? Just changed, rolled with the punches from Dacian times?
@@BenLlywelyn it would be wild it that can be quantified, how much a nation formed with people living in the same area changed over the centuries. But at the same time, depends on what you are tracking, is the Modern state in an area, when it was officially added in foreign to that country documents, and recognized, or the more "untouchable" wish for unity under one banner that existed in an area.
The painting in the thumbnail may interest the presenter - the model was a socialite born in the Channel Islands who married a Romanian nobleman and the painter was an Austrian Jew who immigrated to Romania and made a name for himself there. He was eventually killed by the Austrian authorities for political reasons.
You supposedly don't like defining nationality genetically. But genetics comes in handy when you want to sing the old song of the hungarian revisionists and claim that the Romanians supposedly migrated from the south. But no serious historian would claim such a thing today, only the hungarian revisionists claim it. On the other hand, it is common sense who the migrantors are; the Maghyars and the Huns migrated to the territory of today's Hungary. This is still reflected in the country's name today. The Hungarians call their country MAGHYARoszag and the others call it HUNgary
@@mihailvormittag6211 And slavs were different? Or they were physically better looking and were easier accepted? Wondering why hungarians look like no mongols? Huh? Well well well. Ask the historian.
@@Info-God No, the Slavs were no better in this regard. It is well known why Hungarians don't look like Asians. First, the Panonian Plain was not depopulated when the Maghyars and the Huns invaded it, there was already a native population there. Secondly, the Maghyars of that time did not look Asian: the Finns and the Estonians, people from the Fino-Ugric language family like the Hungarians, also do not look Asian. And finally, the Huns were too few for their appearance to prevail, they were assimilated by the local population.h
@@mihailvormittag6211 Ha. I read that somewhere in 800 the huns have been eliminated physically by a r3volt of local populations: dacians, germans, celts(?). And the pope said it wants a maghyar language in Panonia. And with practically few 10s of families left, the pope created this nation.
There are 2 different relevant notions here - 1)Identity 2) The state or the polity Identity is a fluid and a bit vague notion whose birth cannot be dated exactly. Its main cimponents are languge and cultural practices(including religion/cultic practices) Unlike identity- Romanian statehood is clearly defined and can be exactly dated - and Romania just like Italy and Germany and other European nations were formed in the latter part of the 19th century. Romania's direct predecessors as a state were the so-called Danubaian principalities Wallachia and Molodova which were founded at.the end middle of the 13th century in Wallachia's.case and the.midddle of the 14th century un Moldova's.
The Dacians existed under the name Vlalahs , meaning speakers of the Latin language. The Byzantine chronicles mention them in documents. -Niketas Chroniates (12th century), Vlachs organized in a military state north of the Danube. Dacia's northern border was then today's Galicia. - Theodoros Prodomos 1118 - speaks of the Dacian race. - Ioanides .Kinames 1185 - Dacians- Vlachs in the Byzantine army. - The Wallachians, the descendants of the Dacians, are spoken about in many epics from the Middle Ages - the Song of the Niebelungs from 1200 ( the Wallachian people ) , the Song of Igor's Army - Russia IXth century.- describing their bravery in battle and their weapons - walahians near the Carpathians , Song of Roland..XI century , El Cid...etc.. - The Daco-Romanian unity was destroyed during Pope Innocent III and the Fourth Crusade, when the inquisition began. Then the Orthodox churches were destroyed as well as orthodox churches , books, chronicles, archives and diplomatic documents. -Why don't we have documents starting with the 14th century? Thanks to the IV Crusade 1202-1204 - that looted Constantinople and 3 days and 3 nights they carried archives and the great library of Constantinople, carried, a part reached the Vatican. That's why we who belonged to Constantinople have no documents regarding our multi-millenary Daco-Romanian past. ( "The Russian Chronicle from Novgorod XV century and the Byzantine chronicler Nicetas Akominatos, witness to the robbery)
Which are those genetic tests that support the statement that there is a genetic difference between Romanians on one side of the Carpathian arc and those on the other side of the Carpathian arc. Any serious person would cite the sources. What you say is nothing but nonsense, meant to support the cause of the Hungarian secessionists from Transylvania, who are trying to convince the Romanians from Transylvania that they should be separated from their brothers beyond the Carpathians.
@@BenLlywelyn It is appropriate to cite one's sources when making such a blatant claim. It is you who claims what you claim and not some scientist. You have to prove your claim if you want it to be credible, so that we can see for ourselves whether it is true. Otherwise you're just telling fairy tales. Which scientist should I ask? You have to tell me which one I should ask. You have to know from which scientist you heard or read that.
How old is Romania, is a wrong question!!! The right question is; how old is the Romanian nation, and its language??? On this matter I know more then anyone on earth, But You Tube is blocking my videos and delete my comments. Hope they didn't delete this comment!!!
@@BenLlywelyn Thank you. Good to know. In this case I will continue to bring some of real history of Romanians. Let me start with a little etymology. In Romanian the word for "copper" is ARAMA. ARMA means "weapon", but the word ARMS and ARMA are the same in other languages. In case you people don't know, the first ARMA (weapon) was made out of ARAMA (copper) Do you people see how the word ARMA/ARMS (weapon) evolved from ARAMA??? Romanian words explain themselves and how they evolved. This is only one word but I have hundreds of examples. The word ALARMA/ALARM which came from the Romanian A LA ARME (to the weapons) is a very international word. It evolved from Romanian language. The word ARAMA exist only in Romanian. Did you people get it so far???
The DNA from the Balkans is shared with that of the Bulgarians and the Croats because we were there, the ones who made and brought food to the Romans after Venice and Constantinople. In Croatia, after the second wave of plague in the Middle Ages, Romanians occupied 3/4 of Dubrovnik. In 1400, only one Romanian family had 10k sheep! that in 1552 trade with Venice was 40k Venetian ducats, today 6 million$, carried on donkeys in caravans. They had their port on the Adriatic Sea: Canale della Morlacca On the other side of the Balkans, the Romanian caravans from Constantinople were so strong that they founded a state: Dobrogea. And the Romanians also founded the Asanesti dynasty, that is, the Wallachian-Bulgarian state, the beginnings of the Bulgarian state. That is why our DNA is found everywhere in Croatia, Montenegro, Bulgaria. Let me say more about the Romanians from Poland or Urcaina?. That's why we emphasize the importance of the Dacians, because this explains the spread that the Romanians have in this part of Europe, with a great contribution to its history. One last example: Constantine opened the doors of pagan Rome with the Dacian troops formed by the Roman emperor of Dacian origins, Galerius.
nu stiu cum se face dar in romania oricat de grea era viata sau cat de saraci am fost evreii au trait tot timpul bine. vacante doua masini excursi in strainatate la ei nu era o problema. de ce tocmai tu ai facut un asa video lipsit de sens
@@MiomMiomissimo sunt machiavelicii. inca mai merge varianta auschvitz.. -vai am fost persecutati cineva trebuie sa plateasca pt asta ... s.a.m.d. si apoi mai e indoctrinarea religiei (la musulmani nu merge) varianta intoarce si celalalt obraz stiind ca scapa ca religia iti spune sa ierti si atunci incep manipularea. ca doar nu o sa ii persecuti ca sunt evrei nu vinovati de ceva. ei iti spun ce sa faci si apoi profita de tine ca ei te-au invatat. pe scurt sunt plini de idei machiavelice care suna bine dar in practica iti fac rau. cel mai bun sxemplu este datoria. sau datoriile la banci camete toate sunt idei jidanesti. . citeste-l pe eminescu cartea chestiunea evreiasca si inveti multe
Yes, officially, Emperor Rudolf helps Mihai (as virtual ruler of the three principalities) with money for the army that he will use in the battle of Guraslau, when he returns to the Transylvanian throne. Behind the scenes, it seems that Rudolf had other intentions, but he used Mihai to chase away Sigismund de Bathory. Among the officers hired by Michael was John Smith - the one with Jamestown.
Why so 'fearful' of genetics and race,ethnicity? I think is very interesting and in fact, a particular culture is born of those genes over a period of time. ie. European, Asian, African, etc. cultures are distinct and unique in their own way.
@@BenLlywelynoh, is that because the Third Reich used genetics as a litmus test (rather than culture/religion) when deciding whom to discriminate against, or worse...? On the other hand, don't Israeli universities study the Ashkenazi and Sephardic ancestries? I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with studying any subject if it helps us understand the world better, even if a horrible regime used that knowledge for evil.
Answer: a couple of centuries barely, now Valahia & Transylvania are much older but Romania as a state is an relatively recent Austro Hungarian Empire just like Yugoslavia was... & look at where those are today...
We Romanians never called ourselves vlachs. Its just an EXTERNAL nickname from the Germans deriving from the word "walhaz" which means "latin speakers"... by the way Germans also dont call themselves internally as "Germans" they call thelselves "Deutshce volk" and Deutschland. The nickname "Germans" was given by the Romans which means barbarians or savages. Also it doesnt matter there is a blank in history of Romania. All countries have such blanks. What is the history of Hungarians for example BEFORE they came to Europe, to Panonia from today's Russia. What was their lives there in Russia before coming to Europe and why did they leave?? The same can be said about Bulgaria, Vikings and many others...
@@timixx2270 yes, from the Ural region in central Russia is the origin of the Hungarian language, it's Finno-Ugric. But Turkic-speaking peoples may have also played a part.
Roman Macedonia was a province of ancient Rome, created in 146 BC, after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus defeated Andriscus of Macedon, the last self-styled King of Macedonia in the Fourth Macedonian War. The province incorporated the former Kingdom of Macedonia with the addition of Epirus, Thessaly, and parts of Illyria, Paeonia and Thrace. By 74 BC, the Roman legions under Gaius Scribonius Curio reached the lower Danube and proceeded to come into contact with the Dacians. Roman Dacia was a province of the Roman Empire, created in 106 AD, by emperor Caesar Nerva Traianus. Its territory consisted of what are now the regions of Oltenia, Transylvania and Banat.
@@BenLlywelyn From latin. Dacus =(The) Dacian Malus = Mean, Bad, Aggressive If you wish Malus = Mal-igne. The Mean Dacian. Or in Romanian: Dacul cel Rau. You can Google the Romanian wording if you want to check. It shows these 2 words, clearly, on a Hungarian (?) painting. Is real.
Claiming that all Dacian men were wiped out after the Romans conquered Dacia and only women were spared, is foolish, especially when there is clear evidence that supports the existence of Free Dacians around the area conquered by the Romans (about 20% of Dacian land was occupied by Romans, mostly the gold mines area). Some Dacian men served in the Roman army after the conquest, as it was normal at the time, but the entire male population couldn't disappear. Britannia was twice as long under Roman rule (4 centuries), their male population has also been wiped out?
Interesting thing about that woman with the flag from the first image in your vide. We know who she is, is not a random figure. She is Maria Rosetti and she is not born Romanian she was born in England and her name was Marie Grant. She has a fabulous life look her up is an interesting story.
Watch "DALMATIAN LANGUAGE - the missing link-( ROMANCE LANGUAGES) The extinct Dalmatian language was the link between Romanian and Italic languages So many similarities.
12:56 Where are these maps in this format from? I always see them but is there some place I can find them? Also, I do think ethnicity does define nationality in a good measure, at least in Europe. In America, for obvious reasons, not. I think ethnic nationalism is the basis of a nation, while civic nationalism is the cherry on top, so to speak. And you overestimate the influence of Romanian diaspora during post-communism and even today. It's virtually non-existent, we're not like the Poles or the Armenians in that department.
I find it odd That archeologists never excavated the settlement of sarmisegetusa were the Dacian capital was located It seems to me that someone is trying to hide something
@@BenLlywelynYou font know how archeology works in Romania. They wont dig such an important place except in the case there something obvious at the surface, and they will only dig just a tiny bit. It is made to preserve the rich artifacts that we have. One moron found a few rings with a detector, got home to get a better showel and returned to dig another 6 graves. He then got to museum wich send him to 5 years of jail because he destroyed the tombs just to reach the gold. Archeology and metal detecting here have serious and tough laws. You cant do it like in UK where you can take your metal detector everywhere On the whole romanian Black Sea shore if you are caight with a metal detector you go to jail because the whole sea shore its classified as a historical site. Our archeology is very litle studied and protected because we allready have a lot of artifacts to show( the most gold from Europe).
michael the brave wasnt concern with "romanian" nationality? this bad narative line of so many anti-romanians. he didnt raid couple of times the border lands, didnt burned all in his way to victory, didnt got a foothold and then extend the power. he tried remove old leaders and to use exactly the nationality, because in Transilvania there were more romanians than "trio nationes".
@@BenLlywelyn dude, this is an absolute statement. "opportunistic". you say this based on what? do you know the principles of war? of invading a land? you say opportunistic. why didnt stop at transilvania, the richiest and well defence territory of the 3? consolidate power in there, earning more money, raising bigger army. this is how things works. but no, he applied the same traitment to moldova, charging non-romanian troops + some romanian loyalist of the movila dinasty. he was based that romanians still valued romanians. again, no prior raids, foodhold
@@BenLlywelyn yes, because the romanian core lands did not have a king in between Decebal and Carol I (Charles I, posthumous "of Romania") from Bismarck's Germany. Even Michael the Brave refused to start a dynastic law like in Europe. For context, everybody was welcome to be a 'taran iobag' (peasant, but with a dark twist, similar in structure to a russian tzardom serf) as this geographical are (except somewhat Transylvania) basically jumped from Dark Ages, to fast paced enlightenment era directly into the industrial era, being early flight adopters among many other things. Skilled craftsman like mostly germans that got eventually mistreated by the Kingdom of Hungary were exempt and were sitting in early towns. The system of rule was to either buy from said foreign power the position of 'governor' or to be elected by the lords of said principality by agreement, to be the strongest by having most troops dedicated for military campaigns, or by just 'thoroughly pacifying' the naysayers and sending their family 'on a vacation'.
Romania is the ancient Kingdom of Dacia which, after the Roman conquest, was divided into provinces, duchies representing the same nation. Just like Italy, which became a national state in 1861 when all the city-states united. . The name "Romania" comes from the Latin Romanus meaning citizen of Rome. "The name Romania (in the specific form, with the vowels "o" and "â") was used for the first time officially, in state documents, in the years 1862-1866, for the territory resulting from the union of the Wallachia (Oltenia and Muntenia) , without Dobrogea) and Moldova (the central-western part - with the area north of the mouths of the Danube - without Bucovina and without most of Bessarabia). (…) The Constitution of 1866 consecrated the name of Romania. Abroad, the name Wallachia was also used for a while. Many people have forgotten, and others never knew that, until late in the 19th century, what Romanians generically called "Romania" was for any foreigner "Wallachia" (with different spellings and pronunciations). Due to this late constitution of the modern Romanian state and the imposition of the official name Romania only in the second part of the 19th century, many foreign authors were confused about the duality of the name of Wallachia-Romania and Wallachian-Romanian. It has often been said and written that the name Romania was "invented" or used for the first time by a Greek author, Dimitrie Philippide, around 1816, when he published in Leipzig the works Istoria României and Geografia României, referring in the lines large in the space of the old Trajan Dacia". The Great Union of 1918 was the historical process following which all the historical provinces inhabited by Romanians united in 1918 within the same national state, Romania. The preliminary stages were the Union of the Romanian Principalities in 1859 and the acquisition of independence following the war of 1877-1878, against the backdrop of the national renaissance of the Romanians during the 19th century. And the final union restoring the territory of ancient Dacia was in 1918 on December 1. the principle of Nations. Then the Romanian nation was united, a state named Romania- from Rome, Roman as a result of the legacy of the Roman conquest of Dacia from antiquity. Romania is a national, unitary state, the Latin language is unitary throughout the territory up to Bessarabia, ancient Romanian territory. .We are the only native European state. We were born here, we didn't come from. other territories. Paleogenetics tests (2012-Germany) confirm Daco-Romanian continuity here, for 6-7 millennia. P.S. Similar situation to Romania. The unification of Italy, according to the term originally from Italian, Risorgimento, was the social, political and administrative process that had the final result of the unification of the states of the Italian peninsula into a single nation, Italy. The unification of Italy was part of the process of establishing modern European nations , completed with the emergence of new unitary and independent national states in Western Europe (Belgium, Italy, Germany) and in the Balkans (Greece, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and at the beginning of the 20th century - Albania). All after the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The right of nations to self-determination. The national state of Italy - like the national state of Romania are as OLD - 100 years as national states . After escaping from the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, plundering. Italy is ancient Rome, Romania is ancient Dacia. Both divided into pieces that finally united as one nation. Simple.
During my very brief visit to the Transylvania area, I was struck by the history of people living on the hilltops & mountaintops. How they began to protect themselves from invaders by building walled towns atop the mountains, often with religious figures & beliefs there. My sense was of an ancient culture long protected by the mountainous area needing to consolidate due to hostile invasion. My sense about Romanian "attitude" is still of feeling invaded & beset by foreign culture.
''Between Rome and the 14th century, this large space within Europe is a wild?'' After the Roman conquest and the abandonment of Dacia by Aurelian with all the Roman administration, south of the Danube, the Dacians continued to exist. - The Turkish chronicle Ohuz Han (Oguzname) from the 9th century describes the opposition of the Urus (Russians), Ulak (Dacian Vlachs), they opposed the Cumans and that reminds of the Ulashuwi-Wallachians, when the Hungarians lived between the Don and the Dnieper. -In Pannonia and Moesia (Dacia Minor) there were 10 Dacian kingdoms, with some of them the Hungarian tribes started fighting. Ex. The kingdom of Salanus occupied by the Hungarians in 903, the king of Menu in 880, inherited from his ancestor - the Dacian dynasty. In 950, a Duke Gyla in Transylvania. Gelu, Glad, etc. But not all the information can be brought here. "Gesta Hungarorum" or The Deeds of the Hungarians of the anonymous notary of King Béla III. (Belae regis Hungariae notarius) is the oldest chronicle of Hungary. In 1200. See here the native Dacian or Wallachian population and the local Duke or rulers with whom with which the nomads Hungarians fought.
@@zoltan6451 Read here : "Gesta Hungarorum" or The Deeds of the Hungarians of the anonymous notary of King Béla III. (Belae regis Hungariae notarius) is the oldest chronicle of Hungary. In 1200. See here the native Dacian or Wallachian population and the local Duke or rulers with whom with which the Hungarians fought.
Written between 1282-1285, the Gesta Hungarorum is an ingenious and imaginative historical fiction of prehistory, medieval history and contemporary social history.@@mariadespina80
I will tell you how old Romania is. Getica written by Jordanes (Iordanes) around 500 AD tells the history of the Goths and all that followed. fun facts 1)The word “Ge” means “earth”. The word Get or Getae (Geti plural) means born out of the earth or man of earth (which has serious implications regarding who is not of earth). 2. The Roman Emperor **Claudius II Gothicus** (reigned 268-270 AD) is primarily credited with changing the perception from "Getae" to "Goths." Claudius II won a significant victory against the Goths, earning him the title "Gothicus," which started the more common use of "Goths" over "Getae." You see, all the evidence is there the Romanian land is the cradle of civilization. 3.Nicolae Densusianu wrote the book Dacia Preistorica (Ancient Dacia) which talks about so much everyone should know yet no one does including the Romanian Sphinx, ancient civilization such as Cucuteni Tripiliu, Turdas Vinca and so many artifacts over 7000 years old. 4)Romus and Remulus had the mother wolf, these founders of the Roman Empire is the ultimate proof Romania is the cradle of civilization. In ancient times the word Dac or Dacian used to mean “wolf”. So Dacia as a country was the great wolf mother. You see whose tits Romus and Remulus were sucking on? They were Dacians. My personal belief is there used to be a great worldwide civilization what we know today as Atlantis (maybe Lemuria was different civilization who knows). This civilization had an apocalypse known as the Younger Dryas. They knew what was about to happen so they set outposts (markers). That’s the sphinx. Everyone knows the Egyptian sphinx, you didn’t even mention the Romanian one, shame. So yeah the survivors were up in the mountains where the great flood did not reach them. These are the Getae, my ancestors, the ancestors of most of Europe and North Africa and Minor Asia (Pomponius Mela Map). So the question remains. Who were the not of earth invaders, the Annunaki? Went to all corners of the earth and spread their seed? Do they rule to this day? You work for them?
@@BenLlywelyn then please take this video down. It’s 100% inaccurate spreading a false narrative. It’s not only an insult to my people, it’s an insult to all earth born
@@BenLlywelynDo not take the videos down and please make more videos about Romania as you have a connexion with your knowledge about the celts. Critic is useful and a dacopat like myself, altough i get upset at times that you got the wrong facts, i cant get upset on you.
You didn’t say anything about Dacia. There are two Dacians that are guarding the Trajan's Column. Also there are historical writings about Mihai Viteazul that refer about Mihai “dacul” that united the Romanian Lands. Back then (in the 16th Century) the official and scientifical writings were still in Latin. You should also consider one of the pilons of society, the Education. I think that one good starting point of a nation is having Universities. Gheorghe Lazar was the founder of Romanian School.
It’s a miracle that we preserved our country in such a difficult neighborhood with 3 big empires!
Indeed.
The other example with an european nation that has been on the intersection of 3 empires is Switzerland.
And the Swiss are 1/3 German, 1/3 French and 1/3 Italian.
Which quite concretely means that we, Romanians, can work miracles! :)
@@BenLlywelynRomania it's an ARTIFICIAL NAME they should change the name to VALAHIA.
Agree
Learning about my people history from a Celt leaving on the other end of Europe. Last time proto Romanians and Celts were neighbors was over 2000 years ago
Romanians are celts i bet 😂
I find trace , in documents, of my family from 1300 .. my grandfather sell the house were he live to museum (450 years old wood house) ... Romania, Valahia, Dacia, Tracia.. name change but people not.. we are the same people more than 2000 years.. we live in north Romania
Nothing feels as nice as a well kept, old house passed on through the generations.
mars
@@BebyArte marș spune-i la centurista de mată
Not sure how you could present such a sophisticated subject so easily and naturally. It is obviously your own talent to retain and provide information in a simple and clear way. Truly amazing, especially that our culture and spirituality are really deep and stubborn, and hard to understand from an outside perspective. Many thanks, Benjamin.
You are very welcome.
Dear Mr. Ben,
Thank you for this brillant video! It is a pleasure to watch it
With love, from Romania
Thank you very much.
Why do you want to impose a history of Romania without the multidisciplinary sources made by foreigners and included by different Romanians now in numerous books and it would be welcome if you correct the following obvious mistakes, because whatever you do your fate as an island separated from Europe is now sealed at the End of Time and your reprehensible deeds speak for you before God:
1. The presented map is false or at least misrepresenting the historical reality for Romania: in 1526 the battle of Mohacs, the Kingdom of Hungary - becomes a Turkish paschal - disappears from the map, becoming part of the Ottoman Empire. Many Hungarian counts sneaked onto domains in the Transylvania voivodeship.
2. The end of the century xvii The Habsburg Empire conquers the territory of the old Kingdom of Hungary, therefore it comes under the rule of the Emperor of Vienna. Transylvania is also part of this empire, but as a separate principality from the rest.
3. Mihai the Brave united the three Romanian countries - Muntenia, Bessarabia (Moldova), Transylvania due to the majority of the population speaking the Romanian language and at the coronation in Alba Iulia he said "this is craved what I craved". At that time the Szeklers fought in his army. He fulfilled his purpose for which he was born as a man on Earth. (Did you fulfill it? At least you grew something in spirit or now at the end you are going lower than where you came from).
4. The word Vlach - Valahia comes from German - Walhala - see their myth. Why did they have such great respect for this territory? Because their origin was from here, they are looking for the transformation of the name Get into Got.
5. We have some gold plaques, discovered at the end of the century. xix in which it is said that the Getae worshiped God calling him by the name Arimin, from here immediately the names Ruman and Roman with which the Geta population, the majority of the current territory of the country, is identified.
6. What Bulgarian (Slavic) Empires do you dream of when the names of their leaders were Romanian - e.g. Asan - Asanes and Romanians were the majority on both banks of the Danube. See Emperor Basil II - Bulgaroctonul (where it gets its name).
7. I tell you the ethnicity of Gelu, Glad, and Mnemurut, all found as lords of the lands of Transylvania, were Gets - Romanians and that is how they are written in the Gesta Hungarorum when the Uighurs - Hungarians came.
8. I look at you and I feel like telling you directly, your DNA is mixed with that of the draconian, as your eyes play in your head, because the DNA of the Romanians is 40% exactly like that of ancestors. No country in Europe has such a percentage of original ethnogenetic population. I and many other millions of Romanians are proof that the male population has not disappeared from Romania.
Herodotus said - Geti - The Romans are the bravest of the Thracians. Therefore, they have no way of coming from the south when even now, even in Greece, populations can be easily identified that claim their origin from the current territory of Romania.
9. AI Cuza nationalized only the Greek monasteries, this as a consequence of what I said about the origin of the Thracians above with living on the primordial territory of Romania and the revelation of your lie, but he left the Romanian monasteries, which had existed for a long time, like the oldest known archdiocese is - Arges since the century. iii. Romania converted to Christianity through the missionary work of the apostle Andrei.
10. There is too much for a comment, but in short, you talk too much about Hungary - a Romanian name - and God did not want it to appear again as an independent country until after the Treaty of Trianon and only after all the lands Romanians asked for union with the country on December 1, 1918.
Looking at Culture: from the spoken language, the folk dress, the solar models in the sculptures to the melody of the popular songs imitate the sounds of nature. It's not for nothing that we have a saying "codru is a brother to a Romanian".
Because the iniquities of the darkness on Geea - Tera have come to an end, so everything that will happen here from now on will be within the limits approved by Arimin and in no case will you have an escape even in the snake hole for your iniquities along history. I would show you a video of what happened to the USA in Forth Worth following the discovery of an ancient ship in Afghanistan, but I'm sure you'll remember it as well, so that you realize how low you are for the fire that follows. You still have a few months to repent.
@mesager5438
Hey, you! Who are you quarrelling with? Have not taken your pills today?
Even if you were right about the history of Romanians, which I very much doubt, why do you have this aggressive language? Where are your manners?
You will not get any respect unless you give respect to others.
ce e bun la materialul asta? ca te face sa pari o simpla intamplare aleatoare a istoriei? treziti-va, cititi mai multe surse, ganditi
@@mesager5438you're making Romanians look stupid with such a comment. Please visit Wiktionary and Wikipedia and learn basic history, basic linguistics, and basic anthropology before commenting on a subject which is beyond your comprehension.
Videos about Romania are always amazing!
very good video, you can see the work done to create it. congratulations.
Kind of you. Thank you.
Very good video.
You have many work and efort doing this video.
I hope that you made more subcrivers, you deserve.
I am portuguese and hope One day you made a video like that of Portugal and Spain ...
Gratulations my friend
Portugal is worthy of such a video too.
Love your videos about Romania and the way you say eerie :)
There is evidence in the Romanian language that there was a core of Latin based Christiany that was overlayed with a more complex church Christianity of Slavic origin. There are basic words in the Romanian language such as "Dumnezeu" (God), credinta (faith), cruce (cross) etc which are (late/vulgar) Latin derived. But also words primarily used in church such as slava (glory), duh (spirit), rob (slave) and so on which are Slavic derived. This would point to some sort of Slavic "re-christianization" in the region's history.
As a side note, I've been binge watching your videos while going through a cold. Thank you for the quality content. The captivating accent also helps :).
Oh, and to the best of my knowledge, Welsh and Vlach have a common root. The word comes from the germanic or proto-germanic word for "stranger" "other". Like the word "barbarian" was to latin or greek speakers.
Thank you for watching my videos. Appreciate that. Given your response, you would enjoy this one if you have not already seen it -
ua-cam.com/video/qD5Q6bauvK0/v-deo.html
Un video foarte interesant și complex! Mulțumesc!
Multumesc foarte.
But that map of the Ottoman Empire you're showing is wrong - the three main principalities of Romania were never an ottoman territory per se but just dominated autonomous principalities (without independent Foreign Policy, basically, and with a mechanism through which the turks extorted the Romanians).
Which "three" principalities? Two! Transylvania belonged to the Hungarians!
@@MatiaCovacescu First of all, you are stupid. Second, this is why:
(a) the fact that Transylvania was under Hungarian rule does not make it Hungarian; its character was Romanian. It was a Romanian principality ruled for a while by Hungary (btw, before magyarization was complete, Hungary proper in the Panonnian plain wasn't Hungarian itself - it was just rulled by a rulling minority, the magyars);
(b) The question here was about the time when Transylvania was also under the suzeranity of the Ottomans (like Hungary-proper itself, by the way - which didn't make it Turkish, it was till Hungarian).
Yes this guy is an idiot that has no credentials.
He is a disinformation agent that should be investigated by SRI
IM Germanic and Finish and a know more than this Agent.
no, Hungary belonged to the Turks heh
@@Dimples_Mom Fals
WE VE BEEN HERE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
🤣 No you havent
@@schutzanzug6731 yep we do and u to since the europeans have very old origins even if some of them are come from Asia or other lands..t
Archaeology, documents, even linguistics can confirm this kind of a statement. Caps Lock is not a valid historic argument,
Archealogical evidence for dacians past the 271AD pullout is virturally non existant.
There are virtually no documented proof of dacians living north of the lower danube. Despite numerous written papers, not a single one says there was vlach or even native latin speaking population.
Linguistics has very little to do with this since romanian attempt at artifical latinization in the 18th and 19th century. On top of this, we dont know what the dacian language is. Of course romanians have been known to forage evidence for this lapse of logic, with artifacts such as the Tartara tablets, and the sinaia lead plates. Who knows how many other artifacts are foraged as well.
@@schutzanzug6731 Go and learn TRUE history first, in order for you to stop making "bs" allegations here 😠
We have a saying that goes something like "romanian folk dances involve a lot of jumping around because the ground was still lava when they where invented". Now that is clearly an exageration, but it's a cool joke about how old we feel
Good one.
and is still burning,belive me,i was at a wedding:romanian bride and a greek groom.wild!
Yeah. Romanian women are shitting on romanian men.
What kind of stupid invented joke is that? :)) Never heard it, where are you from in Romania?
@@Bayard1503 bucurești :))) de ce nu stii glumele cu adevăru' despre daci? :)))
Great vid. As a romanian you confirmed what I already know and I learned some new things. I wisk I know many things about my nation between IIIrd century and XI.
Mulțumesc.
Thank you for your work. Romania as a country is about the same age as Germany and Italy who were unified in the 19th century, but Romanians are as old as hills :)
Good analogy.
Mihai had to collaborate with the feudal lords of the two conquered principalities. In Transylvania, the main power was the Hungarian feudal lords, the power of the Saxons had begun to decline, and the Szeklers were his allies. The Romanian feudal lords had been replaced or Hungarianized sometime before. So, in a few months, he could do nothing for the Romanians from Transylvania except for help and respect for their Orthodox religion.
There were also connections between the three principalities, apart from Mihai's rule. There were alliances between Transylvania and Wallachia, between Transylvania and Moldova, and between all three on several occasions (15th, 16th and 17th centuries). The alliances were made against the Ottomans or to help themselves reach the throne (disregarding the interest of the Ottoman Empire or of the Polish Kingdom).
There are testimonies from the 17th century, when Habsburg officials were afraid that, for example, the Romanians from Maramures could join Moldova, because they were of the same culture, language, and religion. The affinity between Romanians from the principalities was felt by the Austrian state in this case, as a threat.
Interestingly, both those from Moldova and those from Wallachia used the name Romanian to refer to themselves.
Migratiile si expansiunea romanilor in Evul Mediu ua-cam.com/video/vEBeYGpTCcU/v-deo.html
Let's put it simply, Romania is the mystery of the globe and will remain so. The land here is magical - and it breeds wizards. Also from here, thousands of years before Rome, the creation of Rome itself began. If they were not "Vlachs", from the past (current Romanians), all of Europe spoke either Turkish or Russian or German. Now we are again a shield for the "crazies" from the west, being on the border with Ukraine. The peace of 1000 years will also be written here. After 1000 years, it's another problem. Dissensions with aliens begin, regarding the piece on Mars, assigned - New Romania, because it will be full of wizards Amazing work you do! (Yoda thinking)
Thank you. Aliens amused me.
Ce fumezi? Cât despre vrăjitori, te referi la rromi?
I suspect the culture came first. When the Balkans and Pannonian Plain were swept by Huns, then Goths and then by a dozen different invaders for the next thousand years, somehow romance-language speakers scattered in the hills kept their culture and language, and then at some point they came together in the Carpathians and from there spread to the rest of Romania. By the way, in the Middle Ages, all non-romance speakers called speakers of romance languages "Romans". The Franks called the romance speakers of France "Romans". It took almost a thousand years for the French to identify themselves as French.
After the death of the king of Dacia Decebal, conquered by Rome, in 106 AD, the Kingdom of Dacia was divided among the descendants of others. And so they remained until the Middle Ages under the form of duchies (Glad, Seneslau, Menumorut, of which the Hungarian chronicles of the time also mention that they found them here and fought with them) or then the great principalities of Moldova, Multenia, Dobrogea and The rich Transylvania overrun by a series of rich robbers. A great empire for example. The inhabitants of the territory of ancient Dacia remained in place and perpetuated themselves until today, the continuity here, proven by a large study of Paleogenetics from Germany on the population of Romania. In 2012. We are the descendants of the Neolithic populations of 6000-7000 years ago of brilliant civilizations that succeeded each other on the territory of today's Romania. . Cucuteni, Gumelnita, Hamangia, etc., etc. for 7500 - 8000 years. Romanians carry their DNA back to the Dacians of the Getae-Goths, our ancestors. In conclusion, the inhabitants of ancient Dacia stayed here and developed until today. In all the provinces where we were separated by history, the same nation lived with the same language and customs. Gradually, gradually, the Daco-Romanian nation united. Under the name of Romania, from imperial Rome.
The Romanian-Latin language is not from the Romans. In ancient Europe, vulgar Latin was spoken, meaning popular. This is what our Dacians and other nations from Europe used to say. Younger Romanians like us then chiseled it. From this popular Vulgar Latin came all the Romance languages in Europe. Not through false romanization. There are linguistics studies from Romania, France, Spain, USA. . The theme of Romanization of peoples is the great falsity of 19th century history.
@@mariadespina80 Once conquered and integrated into the Roman Empire, all inhabitants of a province became Romans. `Roman" was not an ethnicity, but a way of saying that one had become a citizen of the Roman empire who served in the imperial army and spoke Latin. Romanization was real, as the Latin language was instrumental for a disciplined and well-functioning army formed by men gathered from all the corners of the Empire. In some regions, the Romanization was overwritten by subsequent invasions, such as in Britain, North Africa or Palestiine. In some other regions, the Romanization proved to be more resiliant and gave rise to present day Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian etc),
@@mariadespina80 nu mai veni cu teorii handicapate ca ne faci de ras. Daca vrei sa te tragi din maimuta lui Burebista, trage-te la tine acasa cu usa inchisa.
I think the term Goths comes from the Geti, a Roman emperor decreed that the Geti should no longer be called by their name, and then the term Goti appeared. Before the Romans, the Geti (Dacians) lived in peace with the Sarmatians and other nations.
@@andreivlad3518 The Goths ('Gutþiuda' in their own language) have nothing to do with the Getae. The Goths were a union of Germanic tribes who spoke Gothic, a Germanic language that is well preserved, mainly due to the Bible translation done by Wulfila in the 4th century.
How you talk about my country nobody does it,I love when you talk about Romania just because you do your homework about it,I am not breathing when I listen to you ❤thank you mulțumesc mult❤
Multumesc!
Cymru ? Thanks. It is amazing that a Westerner is interested in our history, moreover is doing a video about that.
Min. 13:38 - Pastores Romanorum = shephards of the ROMANS, not "Romanians".
Min. 14:19 - Gelu. The mentioned Hungarian chronicle "Gesta Hungarorum" (Deeds of the Hungarians) clearly mentions that he was Vlach = Romanian : "Gelou, a certain Romanian" (GLat. : Gelou quidam blachus), and tells us that he ruled (Lat. : dominium tenebat) a country inhabited by Romanians and Slavs (Lat. : blasii et sclaui).
because people called themselves romans in those murky centuries. This holds to scrutiny because otherwise there would have only been remnants of latin culture and only along the Danube and later along with greek at the Black Sea coast, and not in and over the Carpathian mountains. With horse barbarians at an all time high, sheep in the mountains became the ca$h crops during the murky centuries.
Very good documented.You
surprised me couple of times 🙏❤
Moldovan chronicle of Grigore Ureche (mid 1600s) underlines the unity of Romanians: ”Românii, câţi se află lăcuitori la ţara ungurească şi la Ardeal şi la Maramureş, de la un loc sânt cu Moldovenii…” = "Romanians, as many as they live in Hungary, Transylvania and Maramuresh are together from the same spot with Moldavians..."
Thanks!
Thank you very much.
Nice in-depth analysis. How old are we? It's very difficult to establish that because we are very old... Dacians are in our national consciousness, Romans are there too and not because some demagogs told us so. How this nation was born? I have my own theory. Some Roman veterans were colonized in the Balkans and they started practicing what the natives (Thracians / Dacians / Getae) used to practice: mixing with the natives, getting married, having kids, building farms, raising sheep...living in the mountains, away from the violent barbarians... This way of life, our way of life - comes from ancient times and was favored by the geography of this place. Our people lived from the northern Carpathians down to Greece for centuries, they mixed with many other people, they kept their religious beliefs...and here we are. It's very difficult to state how it started because our nation is very old. Our land is very beautiful and I believe that many people loved it during the centuries and they preferred to live here and keep the flame alive. It's a "continuum" and personally I think it started thousands of years before our time. Otherwise I agree with your analysis.
Unde există dacii in conștiința noastră națională? Ce vă mai place să mirosiți sub coada oii...
Good work! Thank you for this video. As for the last question, I would argue it is safe to point the 19th century's revolutions as the awakening of national counciosness, any date before that is just speculation.
Thank you. As you clearly do, I admire the 19th century age of romantic revolution. It is a fascinating period.
This is /the best/ short material I've ever seen/read on the history of the culture and of Romanians as a nation. Also I find it unbiased in any way. Amazing work!
Kind indeed. Thank you.
Multe multumiri pentru obiectivitate.
Surprised to find this youtoube channel and an approach to romanian history that is genuine and respectful.
How old romanians are? Probably older than most are willing to admit. Considering romanian folk culture, the death rites, the birth rites, the marriage rites have elements that go back to the proto european layer ... I would say there is a continuity of cultural and generic material that goes very deep. Maybe 3-5-7 thousands year deep or more. Over this very ancient root that somehow made it to the 20 th century, there are many layers, painted over by various populations that passed by or stayed longer.
I am very sad that with the end of 20 th century, beggining of 21 century, our ancestral rural way of life was very much diminished and with it we, the current generations, lost contact with that ancient vine that kept us together. Also there are many who scorn, ridicule and depreciate our most ancient traditions, labeling them as primitive superstitions and things we should get read of.
I hope the work of people like you to make more romanian to understand the value of our traditions and the duty to preserve them for future generations.
Mulţumesc mult. Yes, I respect your country. That you speak a Romance Language makes your country more immediately accessible to me than Slavic or Greek.
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I am Hungarian but great video! Well done! Finally an unbiased video about the history of Romania!
I could see how bias maybe difficult for Hungarians when discussing Romania. Both of your countries have a great deal to offer one another.
1918, the idea came about around the 1840s with the wave of European nationalism. Before that, it wasn't straightforward and it was probably an interaction with the Romans/Dacians in the mountains interacting with the Slavs in the plains. You can see this with the other Roman-descended population in the Balkans and around who also live a pastoral life in the mountains. There are populations like this from Poland to Greece. So there was an expansion around mountain ranges even after the Romans left. The DNA stuff is slightly irrelevant , because besides some haplogroups like i-s17250 , who is heavily associated with Romanian and Moldavian and some of Ukraine. most of the genetics is the same as everyone else's in the region.
@@mirelchirila The most dominant Y-haplogroup in Romania is I2a which is also dominant in the Balkans and it tells us about a certain resilience and continuity of our peoples. Depending on which barbaric horde hit us, we may have sometimes retreated either to the mountains, or south or north of the Danube, but this was always our home.
so you are a time traveller
@@nuescu no but there is this thing called writing, where people can record their thoughts and they stay there after their death. We also have this thing called history that compiles these writings into a cohesive narrative . It’s almost like you don’t have to travel through time to know things.
@@mirelchirilaso DNA is irrelevant but writing is... especially what dacians wrote.
@@nuescu and let me guess you have secret Dacian scrolls that no one else has .
I missed you Ben!
Thank you kindly.
Thank you Mr. Ben for the concern about the history of these areas. Respect!

Welcome.
I don't agree so much with the video. Where I started to disagree is when you talked about Gesta Hungarorum, the shepherd's of the Romans and of course Duke Gelu. Gesta Hungarorum makes clear that Gelu was a Vlach, that the land's he ruled over was Transylvania, and his subjects were Vlachs and Slavs. Another thing it makes clear is that he was Duke of the Vlachs, making it clear that the Duchy was a Vlach political entity.
("Dum thutum audiuiesst a legaato, preparauit se cum suis militibus, et dimissis ibi sociis suis egressus est ultra siluas uersus orientem contra Gelou Ducem Blacorum")
"When Tuhutum heard this from an envoy, he readied himself with his warriors and, having left his companions there, went forth eastwards beyond the woods against Gelou, duke of the Vlachs"
("dum cepisset audire ab incolis, bonitatem terre ultra siluane, ubi Gelou quidam Blacus")
"When he learned from the inhabitants of the goodness of the land of Transylvania, where Gelou a Certain Vlach"
("Et habitarores terre illius uiliores homines essent tocius mundi, Quia essent blasji et Sclaui")
"And that inhabitants of that land were the basest of the whole World, because they were Vlachs and Slavs"
About the "shepherd's of the Romans", which is "ac pastores romanorum", is not in reference of the Romanians. As the text refers to the inhabitants of Pannonia, and among the "shepherd's of the Romans" were also the Vlachs (Blasji), "ac" means "and also". So the Pastores Romanorum probably refers the shepherds subjects to the Vlachs thus showing their Romanity or in reference to the one's subjected to Francia which claimed Roman imperial succession. Also another thing people must understand is that Vlachs were Romanians, or at least those in the region of Romanian influence, from modern day Romania, Moesia and Illyricum. Because you said that 'Vlachs eventually became Romanians', which is not the case as they always have been român. One thing I am glad about is your talk about Michael the Braves military and diplomatic campaign of 1599 - 1601, where he managed to dominate the three danubian Principalities. You made it clear that it was never based on nationalist interest, as no documents issued by Michael makes such claims. But one cannot deny this was the first United Romanian realm, based on political and administrative interests. One thing that I want to bring to the table is the 17th century after Michael the Brave, where the Romanian Orthodox Churches started to nationalise themselves. Saint Varlaam Moțoc, the Metropolitan of Moldavia under Vasile Lupu, translated many Byzantine laws from the time of Justinian into Romanian (pre limba româniască), and on expenses of Vasile Lupu, he granted them to "toată șemenița româniască" (to the whole seed of Romania). The latter was a reference to the all Romanian speaking territory. This movement took place after Michael the Brave, and some rulers like Mihnea Vodă claimed to be the ruler of both Moldavia and Wallachia.
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The problem with the Gesta Hungarorum is that document also talk about cumans.
And cumans arrived in that area only in 1200-1300.
This document is not very accured
@@m.serban2523 It isn't 100% accurate as all the sources of that time. I recommend: ("Gesta Hungarorum as parody. The literary analysis of a medieval text") by Florin Curta, a recent study that adds the research of a similar discredited source from Britain called "De gestis Britonum" from the 12th century, conducted by Monika Otter.
When a historian has one source, he has none, so until we find another document to coroborate with "Gesta..." we have nothing
@@cristidan1380 In fact we do. We have Nestors Chronicle which confirms Vlachs and Slavs inhabiting Transylvania and Pannonia before the Magyars. And also Jansen Enikels Chronicle from 1277, which talks about the Vlachs (Walachen) and the Avars (whom he calls "Ungern") as inhabiting the lands during Charlemagnes conquest of the Avars in the 9th century.
The origin theory of a nation can be easily manipulated by those who are connected in a large group of nations who are choosing to give legitimacy to certain historic writings or made-up stories.
And a lot of prsent day Hungarian and Russian propaganda is trying hard to manipulate and present what they are interested to promote in regards to Romania and Romanians.
@@mimisor66 , the daco-roman theory (fals propaganda) invented by wallachs priest (greco-catholic in Rome) in XIX century for justification of wallachs dream for Hungarian Transylvania .
@@bujdososzekely pathetic hun... crying on every post 🤣
Esatto!!!
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I appreciate how you structured the video, giving every low-read, nation(alist)-hyped mind a chance to make their own decisions. It is informative to see how foreigners are reading into our history (I am Romanian) and I appreciate that given the sensitive topic in this area of Europe, you kept yourself to the facts.
Of course, I feel that culturally (I might be biased) one can dig up more info to regards to Romanians and I would like to see that, but given your perspective of defining the moment of Genesis by those 4 factors, it is an alright job in my opinion.
Now, I have a question, this is the first video of yours I saw, and I've seen from your channel, that you are quite passionate about this country. I am just curious, what drove you to this passion?
I have studied Latin, and French. So being curious about eastern Europe, Romania was the easiest to get fast access into without wasting my time. Mulțumesc pentru ca tipule.
1877 was the years first independent Romanian state did appear. Before that, about three state formations under influence of one power or another. Before that, check out recorded history. First settlements were here about 10 thousands years ago, Cucuteni culture.
Yes, old settlements. Another culture.
@@BenLlywelyn Yes, from where actual culture comes.
This is another great video. For me personally, I won't complicate this matter any further. Romania began with the Roman conquest and settlement of Dacia. That is the inception of the concept of "Romanian". Making a continuous ancestral lineage that is 1900 years old. Of course in such a large span of time, Romanians were influenced by other people, but the backbone of the Romanian nation is still the Roman settlement of this land.
Thank you for sharing. Perhaps the areas around Constanța mark a significant continuation of Roman settlement?
@@BenLlywelyn Yes and the mountains of Transylvania where people sought refuge.
Except it didnt and romanains and their history isnt as heroic and as glorious as the romanians make it out to be, and romanians were certiainly not the "first ones here"
@@schutzanzug6731 Hungarian propaganda... Next!
@@UlpianHeritor When your false history is called out and I’m the one being called the propagandist you know your world is twisted
We're like 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳 🪳, we'll never dissappear and we'll never go away...🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
Und niemals hat Romania existiert.... Migranten cca 1890......
I like your videos on Romania as you are not biased, and the content is very accurate.
When some videos on Hungary?
What kind of content would you like on Hungary?
@BenLlywelyn the controversial origins. The unique language. You can add the Fins in this category as well.
The answer is simple for those who know history. Romania is a nation and not just a country due to the common language, common traditions, common history. The Romanian language does not have dialects like other languages, it is unitary in Romania. See also common genetics between areas. There is absolutely no surprise or lack between the years 300 and 1300... look for the Romanians in this period in the empires: Hun, Avar, Bulgar (I and II), Mongol. Many other peoples, like the Romanians, were temporarily part of different empires (Greeks, Bulgarians, Albanians in the Ottoman Empire, Byzantine). Poles, Baltics, Ukrainians, also were in different empires. So it is something common in Europe, the Romanians made their own states when they came out from under the different empires (1300s) and then in 1859 Romania appeared (the union of Wallachia + Moldova), later in 1918 + Transylvania. It is very simple and there is no "missing" period or mistery in the history of the Romanian people, there are many documents (Slavic, Greek, German, Hungarian, Arab) and archaeological research that confirm the continuity in this space.
I agree.
Although the Romanian language (daco-Romanian) is unitary, there are still 3 dialects spoken today: Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian.
@@popacristian2056 Yes, there are 3 dialects but in other areas of the Balkans, not in Romania. In Romania it is a unitary language, without dialects (only ...graiuri... ,,speechs" and some regionalisms).
@@cllaudiusd521 That's right. Daco-Romanian is unitary spoken on the territory of Romania including Moldova across the Prut as well as the ethnic Romanians remaining outside the borders in Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Ukraine.
You cant just claim something like this when the dacian language is EXCTINCT. 😂😂😂@@popacristian2056
@@zoltan6451 Ai?!
Bag seama ca mongoleza inca se vorbeste undeva... Poate vrei sa te duci la origini!?
We are a people that has refused again and again to be extinguished and at this point literally nothing can make us disappear
aaaa, low birth rate? migration of romanians to the west? migration from other people to Romania is not a concern, but who knows what the future brings? And God forbid some major conflict (nuclear?) that kills many people or displaces large populations. We should hope for the best, but not be complacent and still prepare for the worst.
@@ionut2v I'm not complacent at all. If you believe we are doing badly, how did we do when we didn't even have a country and had to retreat to the mountains constantly?
@@tricolourbearer2435 True... and it's difficult to say whether we are doing badly or not (for one we are chatting in English here :D ), but the challenges are different today (not saying we wont adapt), however I see how "nationalism" or "patriotism" are demonized in the west, and how they seem to be losing their national identity, who knows if that will be a challenge over here too.
@@ionut2v există o tendință vestică ce e și la noi, în orașe, dar mai ales la București. Nu știu ce dracu' va fi cu noi, cert e că eu rămân aici, nu dau bir cu fugiții
The Fury of the Tsar , book on the colision of the West and the East in Central Europe and the Hungary ua-cam.com/video/3W3AbgzrjEE/v-deo.html
Like your approach.
Thank you.
It was a change in the proportions of masculine haplogrups when migrations that bring other new haplogroups appear. *It was not a depletion of the existing local male population but a phenomenon with purely genetic causes. **14:55*
The question is, how do you know so much? Respect to you!
Work. Also, Ioan is a Welsh name too. So our countries share this.
Ben, a study of the architecture, the people costumes, housing, way of living will lead you to very interesting conclusions. You will be surprised to see how similar are the popular costumes with those of the Dacians from Traian Column in Rome. Equally, two thirds of the Dacians tribal unions were outside Roman occupation. In my natal town, there is an ancient citadel call Petrodava (means stone citadel in Dacian) which used to be an important stronghold of the Carpi Dacian union of tribes. The name of my natal city is Piatra (Romanian word for stone) and Neamt (Romanian word for German - you read it as in Frantz - because for some hundred years there was a Teutonic Order Mark, until the foundation of the Moldavian Principality).
Therr are no doubt some Dacian traces. But we know almsot nothing about the area pre-Rome.
@@BenLlywelynWe dont know much about anybody in Europe pre Rome.
@@BenLlywelyn , dacians and wallachs is different people .
Ce va mai fute pa voi grija...
@@bujdososzekely Yes, they are not like the Huns and the Hungarians who rode the same breed of horses.
I2 is Y-chromosome DNA, so, Ben, you are wrong to say we owe it strictly to the women.
You can still thank women.
@@BenLlywelyn a little defensive?
We thank women, starting with Maica Domnului!
Are you going to do a deep dive in to each of the nations you speculated could be the oldest in Europe?
-Why don't we Romania have documents starting with the 14th century?
Thanks to the IV Crusade 1202-1204 - that looted Constantinople and 3 days and 3 nights they carried archives and the great library of Constantinople, carried, a part reached the Vatican. That's why we who belonged to Constantinople have no documents regarding our multi-millenary Daco-Romanian past. ( "The Russian Chronicle from Novgorod XV century and the Byzantine chronicler Nicetas Akominatos, witness to the robbery)
The Vatican could not care less about your past. They are not hiding anything from you. Come to your senses.
@@BenLlywelyn Historical Romanian researchers visited the Vatican a few years ago and received approval to enter the Vatican archives. They researched there. This is how new data appeared, non-existent on Wikipedia. That is why I am well documented . Being a reference to Romania , my country, I brought here information.
@@BenLlywelynWith all the respect for your hard work, you are wrong. The Vatican's language is Latina, and, if the lost Dacian's documents are coming to the light, the entire story about the Romanian language deriving from Latin is falling. In fact, the Vatican is the first one they will never like to disclose the Dacian history, which is the ancestral Romanian history. Everyone will know,the Latin comes from our old Dacian language that I believe, it's still alive today. And this is only regarding our language, but the implications in other European nations ' history.
Great video. And yes, make a video about your DNA results.
Well, nevermind, I just caught up to your DNA results video.
Thank you for coming back and watching.
I don't know if your source of information about DNA is correct. As far as I know, the current DNA also varies gradually from one border to another and has similarities with the neighbors in all directions.
If there were no men in this area in certain centuries, the invaders from Asia would have died of hunger because there would have been no farmers, only they did not live on milk and cheese. Whoever was the new boss in the area, would not have killed the farmers.
The wars with Rome from 101-106 did not eliminate the male population, because in the year 117, after the death of Trajan, there was an important revolt of the locals, and don't say that it was a revolt only of Dacian women.
Regarding your last question - when did the Romanian consciousness appear - this boils down to two aspects: 1) the idea that we're descendents of Rome (106-1000) 2) the idea that Rome is no more and that we are our own people. (1204-1453-present).
Not so. Moldova and Walachia fought each other several times in Medieval times. In fact, there was no concept of a Romanian nation in medieval times since Greek-orthodox religion was the principalities' identity which was the same as the other Slavic ethnic people in the Balkans. After the first Union on 24th January 1859, the Moldovans wanted to annul it. So much for the Romanian identity in medieval times:_)) Most Romanians do not know their history of being brainwashed by communist propaganda.
in the period from 271AD to around the time of the 10th century there was little or no contemporary sources mentioning anyone who fit in the description of what a Romanian is today. So the entire daco romanian continuation theory which says the romanian culture formed imbetween this period despite there being no archealogical evidence, no contemporary evidence, and basically nothing to go on. Of course this is complete bullshit, but remember only romanians believe this anyways.
@@octavianciutacu6162Not guite… as today the liders fight but not on their own they oblidge the population into a conflict that does not concern them
Come on ! The German families fought each other for power, the English fought the Scotts.....such were those times. Small principalities fighting each other. What we call now nations were formed mostly towards the end of the 19th century.
@@octavianciutacu6162 , romanianization the Hungarians (Csangos) in Csangoland , Moldova ua-cam.com/video/JazRNjGmZwo/v-deo.html
"Rural" in Romania means something else than in the rest of Europe: it means the town does not have manufacturing companies and cannot afford to pay for a set of services. There are "villages" of 10000 inhabitants who do not have the manufacturing or choose not to take on the expense. Had the same rule applied in Romania as in US or in UK Romania would be like 99% urban, that is all towns including the smallest, have a charter, a budget (including the possibility to take on debt), an elected mayor and an elected council. I wrote "99" because there are some towns who lost most of their population and will be folded into other neighbouring towns.
It must also grant a lot of independence.
@@BenLlywelyn Yes, the smallest town has a lot of leeway in how they spend their money, and can even block government projects in the area they control if they choose to :) . After 1990 Romania managed to create a very effective system of local self-administration, my guess is involuntarily. The only limitation is loans taken by towns must be approved by the Ministry of Finance, mostly because the Ministry of Finance guarantees those loans. The main lever the government has when dealing with towns is whether the government gives them extra money or not (Bucharest is worth like 25% of the GDP, and gets back only 10% of the taxes paid in Bucharest, the rest is redistributed), which is why after the party in charge at the central level changes lots of mayors change their party :).
@@BenLlywelynThere are just 10 million greeks speakers in the world. With their magnificent cities their coulture had little influence in Europe compared to romanians wich are the proto indoeuropeans that named all the rivers and mountains in Europe.
Australian here, married to a Romanian. Had the pleasure of visiting her family back in 2022. Interesting country. The Carpathians were amazing, the people warm. The legacy of Communism still scene. I feel that they really don't appreciate their history, largley appears to be crumbling. My wife's DNA is largley Balkan and Greek with a touch of Swedish. My DNA is redominaltely UK and northern Europe. My family tree I've been able to research way back, like way back. One ancestor is Attila the Hun, born in Central Asia, which today is in present day Romania. Go figure.
Went to a number of places shown here in the vid. Particlarly enjoyed the Saxon villages.
If you ever walk into a pub in the mountains (particularly behind Brasov on the ski slopes) and its really cold, and you see a jug of water on the counter, whatever you do, don't pour a cup and knock it back without a thought. It's not water, it's Tuica (apologies, no accents on this computer), sounds a little like zzwika, it's 40% alcohol. Learnt the hard way. The walk back down from the ski slopes was pretty merry.
What was the tune playing from around 9:30?
How can Central Asia be in present day Romania? Romania is in Europe, Central Asia is in Asia😂😊
@@mimisor66also did not get what he wanted to say by that
There is no scientific proof able to link you to Attila, mate
@@Istoricescu Well I gues then that the whole geneaology industry falls over then because it can't be scientifically proven, according to yourself. I can't prove my father is my father then unless I and he have a DNA test to prove so. Now that he's dead, I guess I'll just never know.
As if you could appreciate how much we appreciate our history. As if you somehow did Romanian history at school.
The romanian ancestors are possibly one or more pack of survivors after the catastropic events including megafloods that terminated the Old World from before the Younger Dryas period. Pyrenees, Alps and Carpathians will just apply for the best places to survive to regional or even continental tsunamis, one type of events that pack the YD boundaries. This is just my humble opinion based on multilevel integration of scientific facts
Transylvania sounds like a nice place to go to avoid world doomsday events.
That's a bit of a stretch.
@@cezar211091 The survivors of events that are difficult to understand for those who do not have reference points, but which are widely reported in the specialized scientific literature, are real like the biblical story of the Flood. Exacty as there too, the heights of the mountains offered the refuges beaten by the terrible fate. The only question that troubles me and I try to find an answer to it is whether we and others in the Carpathian area are direct descendants of extremely powerful people forged under the auspices of an era extremely hostile to life, in general.. That's why I said it's "possible"
That should be right, but there were a lot of other nomad tribes that walked through these lands and left big footprints here.
Important is that out of all those populations, the one that prevailed and asimilated the others was the vlach one (at least in the north of the Danube).
In Hungary for exemple, the much smaller population of the nomad magyars dominated and overpowered and imposed its culture over the existing Panonian population.
NARAVUL DIN FIRE ,NU ARE LECUIRE. MA REFER LA POPORUL UNGURESC CARE PROVIN DIN UN TRIB DI NOMAZI DIN MONGOLIA ,PRIMA S AU OPRIT PE UN TERITORIU INTRE TURCIA SI IRAN APOI IAR AU MIGRAT PINA IN CIMPIA PANONICA UNDE S AU ACIUAT ( ASA ERA FELUL LOR) SI AU CREAT ACEST POPOR UNGARIA.
Initially I perceived you as arrogant, typical westerner looking down at romanians. I guess, this is your way of speaking. Much appreciated your work. I hope you can find a bottle of ȚUICĂ (plum brandy) or Wine, Made in Romania.
That sounds tasty.
@👍BenLlywelyn
Whisky its rubish...!
Țuica its very good for healty !
Of course Romania is old. Since ancient times, Waleachia was called "Tara Românească" by the Romanians themselves, which means Romanian land. Check out what “Tara Românească means” on Wukipedia! Now, what does “England” mean and what does “Deutschland” mean?
Ungro-wallachia and Moldova was vasal states , was created by the Hungarian Kings in XIV. century from Cuman teritory .
@@bujdososzekely
Wallachia and Moldova were not created by the Hungarian kings. Tara Românească was created between 1270 - 1352 by Basarab Întemeietorul. He was the first independent ruler. And whether they were once vasal or not doesn't matter at all. Hungary has also been vasale throughout history.
Deutschland means the dacians land😂. Its because of the visigoths wich are 100% dacians ( celts and vulgar latin speakers) that named Sweden, Denmark and Finland Dacia in official documents.
The heart of the germanic nations is Gotland wich was a colony of dacians.
@@mihailvormittag6211 , you need learn history !!!
The true story of wallachs-mongols ("romanians") ua-cam.com/video/xaUbU6L7jnI/v-deo.html
@@mihaiilie8808
Deutschland, that is how Germans refer to Germany! And by that they mean German land.That's something everybody schuld know. What's wrong with you, are you uneducated? Your taking about Daciana is inappropriate in this context.
Romanian culture have 4000 years old,before Dacians.
@andreivlad3518 , is a wallach dream !!!
@@bujdososzekely its true😘
55 million years ago, when the first Romanians were taming the dinosaurs.
@@UlpianHeritor , the romanian people name only 150 years ago was invented !!!
@@bujdososzekely I NOSTRI AVI DACII HANNO VISSUTO SU QUELLA TERRA DALL'ANNO 1000.A.C. INUTILE CERCARE AD INVENTARE ALTRE STORIE. I ROMANII HANNO CONQUISTATO SOLO 1/4 DELLA DACIA FINO ALLA MINIERA D'ORO (ROSIA MONTANA ) ANCORA OGGI LA PIÙ RICCA DI TUTTA L'EUROPA. IL MOME DELLA DACIA IN ROMANIA FU CAMBIATA MOLTO PIÙ TARDI.
Any thoughts on the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture !?
Millennia before anyone thought of themselves as Romanian.
@@BenLlywelyn Or as English or German or Hungarian or American for that matter.
Romania is quite old even older its neighbours but its not old enough for Romanian nationalists that claim the country is over 10000+ years old.
Yes, some of these people are nuts.
Only 10.000+?? I would say it's about 66.000.000 years old.
There are many sources that prove that the Romanians called themselves Romanians and that they were only called by foreigners Wallachians.
Only you pointlessly advance the assertion that Romanians evolved from Wallachians.
In 1532, Francesco della Valle traveling in Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldova notes that the Romanians kept the name Romans (Romani) and "are called in their language Romans (Romei)". He even quotes the sentence "Sti Rominest?" ("do you speak Romanian?" for original Romanian "do you know Romanian?")
Pierre Lescalopier, recounting his journey, notes in 1574 that those living in Wallachia, Moldavia and most of Transylvania say they are descendants of the Romans, calling their language "romanechte" (the French transcription for Romanian).
The Lutheran preacher and the first Transylvanian Saxon historiographer Johann Lebel testifies in 1542 that ordinary Romanians call themselves "Romuini".
Antonius Verantini, who settled in Transylvania as bishop of Alba Iulia, and later became cardinal and viceroy of Habsburg Hungary, also states in 1570 that "the Wallachians are called Romans" and offers an example: "When they ask if someone knows how to speak Wallachian, they say: do you speak Roman? And [when they ask] if someone is Wallachian they say: are you Roman?
Pierre Lescalopier notes in 1574 that those living in Wallachia, Moldavia, and most of Transylvania say they are descendants of the Romanians, calling their language "romanechte" (the French transcription for Romanian Romanian).
Convince yourself at least on Wikipedia, there search for "Name of Romania". You will find this information with the sources quoted.
The nation în modern meaning of the concept îs born only in the 18-th and 19-th centuries. Before we can speake only about peoples or populations or states everywhere / anywhere, but not modern nations nor in Europe neither în other continent.
The Romanians were conscient of they Roman origins from begining and they are living în the large geographically space between Danube, Balkans and Carpathians Mountains as the descendants of the all Oriental Romanity în European continent.
It's true we don't know how old is Romania, but we know that Iliescu is older than Romania.
between AD 101 and 106 the romans conquered us, we are still descendants of dacians, you can see it in the ear lobes, which are different. Romans have them detached and dacians have them attached. A lot of romanians still have attached ear lobes which means Romania is actually Dacia and our history starts way before the romans invaded us. They say they used to live next to us (Dacia), but they left the territory, established themselves, raised an army and came back to conquer what they already knew to be a wealthy land. They say the language that romans established as latin is derived from the language that the dacians were speaking, which were much more evolved then them at that point in history. I would love to hear more about this side of the story, but I presume it was forever deleted from history by the romans, who probably portrayed us dacians as savages, which I don't believe we were. What do you think about this? cheers!
That about the ears of romans and dacians are an urban Myth.
It actually does us bad because people think the dacopaths are some soird of believers in aliens invasion, giants and other such esoteric things.
To beat any argument just use science, haplogroups and DNA, paleogenetics, etc.
It is common sense that the Romanians called Vallachia Țara Românească (the Romanian Land). Search on wikipenia and there you will be told that it is so. In addition, from Basarab I the founder, who annihilated almost the entire Hungarian army at the Battle of Posada, to Neacșu's letter that refers to Țara Românească and Neagoe Basarab its leader, there were 26 rulers of Țara Românească. All of these documented. Not to mention those rules after Neacșu's letter. And you continue to insinuate that the Idea of Romania is new, that the Romanians did not have a state and this period was very nebulous. Take a look at Wikipedia where you can find a list of all the voivodes of Țara Românească.
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As a romanian i ask if you can make a video about the modern history of romania 19, early 20th centuries
200 years is a long time. Which part of that?
Excellent, as usually. Talking about mothers... the terms country and nation are feminine nouns in Romanian.
As they are in other Latin languages.
Welsh for nation/country in Welsh (gwlad), is feminine.
Similar situations. Romania - Italy.
How old is Italy?
The Kingdom of Italy was a state formed in 1861 by the unification of Italy, under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia; it existed until 1946, when Italians opted for a republican constitution. The Kingdom was the first Italian state to include the entire Italian Peninsula since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Antiquity, separate feudal states, unification = modern states. Romania was called Dacia in antiquity, Italy was called Rome in antiquity. Both got new names in the 19th century. Romania and Italy have the same age. They were kingdoms from antiquity. Dacia and Rome.
Maybe a video about Italy?
@@BenLlywelyn Yes. About the evolution of the Italian peninsula from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages when there were many statuettes in the boot that still fought among themselves. But also different dialects that even today do not understand each other. There was no homogeneous population like in Dacia-Romania. The Romanian language is a unitary language even in the territories in front of the borders where Romanians live. What is the explanation? The same race perpetuated from antiquity to today. Italy is special. What nations lived on its territory? How many languages spoken? Commonly, we have the creation of a modern state in the 19th century through various unions of territories of the same race in the case of Romania and ... everything after the disappearance of the Austro-Hungarian Empire when liberated, new national states appeared in Europe. Romania is one.
On January 24, 1862, after partial rains, we got the name of Romania. From Rome, Romanus..
It is a complicated topic, but it is worth deciphering. Italy.
@@mariadespina80 The unification of Italy is a good story.
Would the fact that the "birth of a nation" cannot be pinpointed on a timeline mean it never died? Just changed, rolled with the punches from Dacian times?
At some point you change so much you are no longer the same nation, do you think?
@@BenLlywelyn it would be wild it that can be quantified, how much a nation formed with people living in the same area changed over the centuries. But at the same time, depends on what you are tracking, is the Modern state in an area, when it was officially added in foreign to that country documents, and recognized, or the more "untouchable" wish for unity under one banner that existed in an area.
The painting in the thumbnail may interest the presenter - the model was a socialite born in the Channel Islands who married a Romanian nobleman and the painter was an Austrian Jew who immigrated to Romania and made a name for himself there. He was eventually killed by the Austrian authorities for political reasons.
This is fascinating. Thank you.
@@BenLlywelyn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Daniel_Rosenthal and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Rosetti respectively.
Thank you ...
You supposedly don't like defining nationality genetically. But genetics comes in handy when you want to sing the old song of the hungarian revisionists and claim that the Romanians supposedly migrated from the south. But no serious historian would claim such a thing today, only the hungarian revisionists claim it. On the other hand, it is common sense who the migrantors are; the Maghyars and the Huns migrated to the territory of today's Hungary. This is still reflected in the country's name today. The Hungarians call their country MAGHYARoszag and the others call it HUNgary
Invaded not migrated.
@@Info-God
You're right, "invaded" is the right word, because the Maghyars and the Huns came in looting and slaughtering.
@@mihailvormittag6211 And slavs were different? Or they were physically better looking and were easier accepted?
Wondering why hungarians look like no mongols? Huh? Well well well. Ask the historian.
@@Info-God
No, the Slavs were no better in this regard. It is well known why Hungarians don't look like Asians. First, the Panonian Plain was not depopulated when the Maghyars and the Huns invaded it, there was already a native population there. Secondly, the Maghyars of that time did not look Asian: the Finns and the Estonians, people from the Fino-Ugric language family like the Hungarians, also do not look Asian. And finally, the Huns were too few for their appearance to prevail, they were assimilated by the local population.h
@@mihailvormittag6211 Ha. I read that somewhere in 800 the huns have been eliminated physically by a r3volt of local populations: dacians, germans, celts(?). And the pope said it wants a maghyar language in Panonia. And with practically few 10s of families left, the pope created this nation.
There are 2 different relevant notions here -
1)Identity
2) The state or the polity
Identity is a fluid and a bit vague notion whose birth cannot be dated exactly. Its main cimponents are languge and
cultural practices(including religion/cultic practices)
Unlike identity- Romanian statehood is clearly defined and can be exactly dated - and Romania just like Italy and Germany and other European nations were formed in the latter part of the 19th century.
Romania's direct predecessors as a state were the so-called Danubaian principalities Wallachia and Molodova which were founded at.the end middle of the 13th century in Wallachia's.case and the.midddle of the 14th century un Moldova's.
The Dacians existed under the name Vlalahs , meaning speakers of the Latin language. The Byzantine chronicles mention them in documents.
-Niketas Chroniates (12th century), Vlachs organized in a military state north of the Danube. Dacia's northern border was then today's Galicia.
- Theodoros Prodomos 1118 - speaks of the Dacian race.
- Ioanides .Kinames 1185 - Dacians- Vlachs in the Byzantine army.
- The Wallachians, the descendants of the Dacians, are spoken about in many epics from the Middle Ages - the Song of the Niebelungs from 1200 ( the Wallachian people ) , the Song of Igor's Army - Russia IXth century.- describing their bravery in battle and their weapons - walahians near the Carpathians , Song of Roland..XI century , El Cid...etc..
- The Daco-Romanian unity was destroyed during Pope Innocent III and the Fourth Crusade, when the inquisition began. Then the Orthodox churches were destroyed as well as orthodox churches , books, chronicles, archives and diplomatic documents.
-Why don't we have documents starting with the 14th century?
Thanks to the IV Crusade 1202-1204 - that looted Constantinople and 3 days and 3 nights they carried archives and the great library of Constantinople, carried, a part reached the Vatican. That's why we who belonged to Constantinople have no documents regarding our multi-millenary Daco-Romanian past. ( "The Russian Chronicle from Novgorod XV century and the Byzantine chronicler Nicetas Akominatos, witness to the robbery)
Thank you 😉
Which are those genetic tests that support the statement that there is a genetic difference between Romanians on one side of the Carpathian arc and those on the other side of the Carpathian arc. Any serious person would cite the sources. What you say is nothing but nonsense, meant to support the cause of the Hungarian secessionists from Transylvania, who are trying to convince the Romanians from Transylvania that they should be separated from their brothers beyond the Carpathians.
Ask a scientist.
@@BenLlywelyn
It is appropriate to cite one's sources when making such a blatant claim. It is you who claims what you claim and not some scientist. You have to prove your claim if you want it to be credible, so that we can see for ourselves whether it is true. Otherwise you're just telling fairy tales. Which scientist should I ask? You have to tell me which one I should ask. You have to know from which scientist you heard or read that.
How old is Romania, is a wrong question!!!
The right question is; how old is the Romanian nation, and its language???
On this matter I know more then anyone on earth, But You Tube is blocking my videos and delete my comments.
Hope they didn't delete this comment!!!
@ravenalbj , nu l au sters😅,toti avem aceasta problema
Your comment is not deleted.
@@BenLlywelyn Thank you. Good to know.
In this case I will continue to bring some of real history of Romanians.
Let me start with a little etymology.
In Romanian the word for "copper" is ARAMA.
ARMA means "weapon", but the word ARMS and ARMA are the same in other languages.
In case you people don't know, the first ARMA (weapon) was made out of ARAMA (copper)
Do you people see how the word ARMA/ARMS (weapon) evolved from ARAMA???
Romanian words explain themselves and how they evolved. This is only one word but I have hundreds of examples.
The word ALARMA/ALARM which came from the Romanian A LA ARME (to the weapons) is a very international word. It evolved from Romanian language.
The word ARAMA exist only in Romanian.
Did you people get it so far???
@@ElenaGheorghita-nu2vt Nu nu aveti problema mea. Videourile mele sunt blocate. Citeste raspunsul dat lui Ben mai jos, si vei intelege de ce!!!
You're kind of pathetic
Epic video!
You know I am really curious if Wallace is related to Wallachia :)
Salutations from Upper Valachia - Muntenia.
Yes, Wallace is related linguistically to Wallachia. en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/walhaz
The DNA from the Balkans is shared with that of the Bulgarians and the Croats because we were there, the ones who made and brought food to the Romans after Venice and Constantinople. In Croatia, after the second wave of plague in the Middle Ages, Romanians occupied 3/4 of Dubrovnik. In 1400, only one Romanian family had 10k sheep! that in 1552 trade with Venice was 40k Venetian ducats, today 6 million$, carried on donkeys in caravans. They had their port on the Adriatic Sea: Canale della Morlacca
On the other side of the Balkans, the Romanian caravans from Constantinople were so strong that they founded a state: Dobrogea. And the Romanians also founded the Asanesti dynasty, that is, the Wallachian-Bulgarian state, the beginnings of the Bulgarian state. That is why our DNA is found everywhere in Croatia, Montenegro, Bulgaria. Let me say more about the Romanians from Poland or Urcaina?. That's why we emphasize the importance of the Dacians, because this explains the spread that the Romanians have in this part of Europe, with a great contribution to its history. One last example: Constantine opened the doors of pagan Rome with the Dacian troops formed by the Roman emperor of Dacian origins, Galerius.
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nu stiu cum se face dar in romania oricat de grea era viata sau cat de saraci am fost evreii au trait tot timpul bine. vacante doua masini excursi in strainatate la ei nu era o problema.
de ce tocmai tu ai facut un asa video lipsit de sens
De ce oare 🤔
@@MiomMiomissimo
sunt machiavelicii.
inca mai merge varianta auschvitz.. -vai am fost persecutati cineva trebuie sa plateasca pt asta ... s.a.m.d. si apoi mai e indoctrinarea religiei (la musulmani nu merge) varianta intoarce si celalalt obraz stiind ca scapa ca religia iti spune sa ierti si atunci incep manipularea. ca doar nu o sa ii persecuti ca sunt evrei nu vinovati de ceva. ei iti spun ce sa faci si apoi profita de tine ca ei te-au invatat. pe scurt sunt plini de idei machiavelice care suna bine dar in practica iti fac rau.
cel mai bun sxemplu este datoria. sau datoriile la banci camete toate sunt idei jidanesti. .
citeste-l pe eminescu cartea chestiunea evreiasca si inveti multe
Yes, officially, Emperor Rudolf helps Mihai (as virtual ruler of the three principalities) with money for the army that he will use in the battle of Guraslau, when he returns to the Transylvanian throne. Behind the scenes, it seems that Rudolf had other intentions, but he used Mihai to chase away Sigismund de Bathory.
Among the officers hired by Michael was John Smith - the one with Jamestown.
Yes, internal Austrio Hungarian rivalries often helped Romanian divide them.
Why so 'fearful' of genetics and race,ethnicity? I think is very interesting and in fact, a particular culture is born of those genes over a period of time. ie. European, Asian, African, etc. cultures are distinct and unique in their own way.
Many who practice Judaism are uneasy around genetics as a determinant of nationality for historical reasons.
@@BenLlywelynHitler and Ramses ( biggest jew haters in history) had haplogroup E wich is jewish haplogroup.
@@BenLlywelynoh, is that because the Third Reich used genetics as a litmus test (rather than culture/religion) when deciding whom to discriminate against, or worse...? On the other hand, don't Israeli universities study the Ashkenazi and Sephardic ancestries? I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with studying any subject if it helps us understand the world better, even if a horrible regime used that knowledge for evil.
Answer: a couple of centuries barely, now Valahia & Transylvania are much older but Romania as a state is an relatively recent Austro Hungarian Empire just like Yugoslavia was... & look at where those are today...
Yugoslavia was nothing like Romania.
We Romanians never called ourselves vlachs. Its just an EXTERNAL nickname from the Germans deriving from the word "walhaz" which means "latin speakers"... by the way Germans also dont call themselves internally as "Germans" they call thelselves "Deutshce volk" and Deutschland. The nickname "Germans" was given by the Romans which means barbarians or savages. Also it doesnt matter there is a blank in history of Romania. All countries have such blanks. What is the history of Hungarians for example BEFORE they came to Europe, to Panonia from today's Russia. What was their lives there in Russia before coming to Europe and why did they leave?? The same can be said about Bulgaria, Vikings and many others...
Interesting question about Hungary.
Hungarians didn't come from Russia
@@timixx2270 yes, from the Ural region in central Russia is the origin of the Hungarian language, it's Finno-Ugric. But Turkic-speaking peoples may have also played a part.
Roman Macedonia was a province of ancient Rome, created in 146 BC, after the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus defeated Andriscus of Macedon, the last self-styled King of Macedonia in the Fourth Macedonian War. The province incorporated the former Kingdom of Macedonia with the addition of Epirus, Thessaly, and parts of Illyria, Paeonia and Thrace. By 74 BC, the Roman legions under Gaius Scribonius Curio reached the lower Danube and proceeded to come into contact with the Dacians. Roman Dacia was a province of the Roman Empire, created in 106 AD, by emperor Caesar Nerva Traianus. Its territory consisted of what are now the regions of Oltenia, Transylvania and Banat.
Michael the Brave = Dacus Malus. The mean dacian a hungarian nickname.
But what does Dacus Malus mean?
@@BenLlywelyn From latin.
Dacus =(The) Dacian
Malus = Mean, Bad, Aggressive
If you wish Malus = Mal-igne.
The Mean Dacian. Or in Romanian: Dacul cel Rau. You can Google the Romanian wording if you want to check.
It shows these 2 words, clearly, on a Hungarian (?) painting. Is real.
@@Info-God👍
@@BenLlywelyn In latin = the Bad Dacian .
Claiming that all Dacian men were wiped out after the Romans conquered Dacia and only women were spared, is foolish, especially when there is clear evidence that supports the existence of Free Dacians around the area conquered by the Romans (about 20% of Dacian land was occupied by Romans, mostly the gold mines area). Some Dacian men served in the Roman army after the conquest, as it was normal at the time, but the entire male population couldn't disappear. Britannia was twice as long under Roman rule (4 centuries), their male population has also been wiped out?
I did not say 'all".
@@BenLlywelyn Please check again what you said between 17:26 and 17:40.
@@BenLlywelyn Maybe you didn't use the word "all" but you clearly insinuated that most men were gone.
All Dacians and Getae were moved south of Danube by the Romans!
Interesting thing about that woman with the flag from the first image in your vide. We know who she is, is not a random figure. She is Maria Rosetti and she is not born Romanian she was born in England and her name was Marie Grant. She has a fabulous life look her up is an interesting story.
How is it that Romanians do not have access to this video in their language? Is it an error? Isn't it a form of hiding the truth?
??? There are plenty of UA-cam channels in the Romanian language. Maybe you haven't bothered to look.
If you would like to translate the whole things for me and enter time stamps on the sentences, I will put it in.
Watch "DALMATIAN LANGUAGE - the missing link-( ROMANCE LANGUAGES)
The extinct Dalmatian language was the link between Romanian and Italic languages
So many similarities.
12:56 Where are these maps in this format from? I always see them but is there some place I can find them?
Also, I do think ethnicity does define nationality in a good measure, at least in Europe. In America, for obvious reasons, not. I think ethnic nationalism is the basis of a nation, while civic nationalism is the cherry on top, so to speak. And you overestimate the influence of Romanian diaspora during post-communism and even today. It's virtually non-existent, we're not like the Poles or the Armenians in that department.
Neom on Wikipedia. See my reference below in the description.
@@BenLlywelyn Thanks, finally found them.
I find it odd
That archeologists never excavated the settlement of sarmisegetusa were the Dacian capital was located
It seems to me that someone is trying to hide something
It has been excavated dozens of times.
@@BenLlywelynYou font know how archeology works in Romania. They wont dig such an important place except in the case there something obvious at the surface, and they will only dig just a tiny bit.
It is made to preserve the rich artifacts that we have.
One moron found a few rings with a detector, got home to get a better showel and returned to dig another 6 graves. He then got to museum wich send him to 5 years of jail because he destroyed the tombs just to reach the gold.
Archeology and metal detecting here have serious and tough laws. You cant do it like in UK where you can take your metal detector everywhere
On the whole romanian Black Sea shore if you are caight with a metal detector you go to jail because the whole sea shore its classified as a historical site.
Our archeology is very litle studied and protected because we allready have a lot of artifacts to show( the most gold from Europe).
@@BenLlywelyn i was there in 2019
right where the ceremonial capital was centered
nobody did anything right there
totally untouched
michael the brave wasnt concern with "romanian" nationality? this bad narative line of so many anti-romanians. he didnt raid couple of times the border lands, didnt burned all in his way to victory, didnt got a foothold and then extend the power. he tried remove old leaders and to use exactly the nationality, because in Transilvania there were more romanians than "trio nationes".
ua-cam.com/video/XTdEpbjGdAw/v-deo.html
@@bujdososzekely ruzzo-hungarian propaganda detected. opinion rejected.
He was an opportunist, and an excellent one.
@@BenLlywelyn dude, this is an absolute statement. "opportunistic". you say this based on what? do you know the principles of war? of invading a land? you say opportunistic. why didnt stop at transilvania, the richiest and well defence territory of the 3? consolidate power in there, earning more money, raising bigger army. this is how things works. but no, he applied the same traitment to moldova, charging non-romanian troops + some romanian loyalist of the movila dinasty. he was based that romanians still valued romanians. again, no prior raids, foodhold
@@BenLlywelyn yes, because the romanian core lands did not have a king in between Decebal and Carol I (Charles I, posthumous "of Romania") from Bismarck's Germany. Even Michael the Brave refused to start a dynastic law like in Europe. For context, everybody was welcome to be a 'taran iobag' (peasant, but with a dark twist, similar in structure to a russian tzardom serf) as this geographical are (except somewhat Transylvania) basically jumped from Dark Ages, to fast paced enlightenment era directly into the industrial era, being early flight adopters among many other things. Skilled craftsman like mostly germans that got eventually mistreated by the Kingdom of Hungary were exempt and were sitting in early towns.
The system of rule was to either buy from said foreign power the position of 'governor' or to be elected by the lords of said principality by agreement, to be the strongest by having most troops dedicated for military campaigns, or by just 'thoroughly pacifying' the naysayers and sending their family 'on a vacation'.
Romania is the ancient Kingdom of Dacia which, after the Roman conquest, was divided into provinces, duchies representing the same nation. Just like Italy, which became a national state in 1861 when all the city-states united. .
The name "Romania" comes from the Latin Romanus meaning citizen of Rome.
"The name Romania (in the specific form, with the vowels "o" and "â") was used for the first time officially, in state documents, in the years 1862-1866, for the territory resulting from the union of the Wallachia (Oltenia and Muntenia) , without Dobrogea) and Moldova (the central-western part - with the area north of the mouths of the Danube - without Bucovina and without most of Bessarabia). (…)
The Constitution of 1866 consecrated the name of Romania. Abroad, the name Wallachia was also used for a while. Many people have forgotten, and others never knew that, until late in the 19th century, what Romanians generically called "Romania" was for any foreigner "Wallachia" (with different spellings and pronunciations). Due to this late constitution of the modern Romanian state and the imposition of the official name Romania only in the second part of the 19th century, many foreign authors were confused about the duality of the name of Wallachia-Romania and Wallachian-Romanian. It has often been said and written that the name Romania was "invented" or used for the first time by a Greek author, Dimitrie Philippide, around 1816, when he published in Leipzig the works Istoria României and Geografia României, referring in the lines large in the space of the old Trajan Dacia". The Great Union of 1918 was the historical process following which all the historical provinces inhabited by Romanians united in 1918 within the same national state, Romania. The preliminary stages were the Union of the Romanian Principalities in 1859 and the acquisition of independence following the war of 1877-1878, against the backdrop of the national renaissance of the Romanians during the 19th century.
And the final union restoring the territory of ancient Dacia was in 1918 on December 1. the principle of Nations. Then the Romanian nation was united, a state named Romania- from Rome, Roman as a result of the legacy of the Roman conquest of Dacia from antiquity.
Romania is a national, unitary state, the Latin language is unitary throughout the territory up to Bessarabia, ancient Romanian territory. .We are the only native European state. We were born here, we didn't come from. other territories. Paleogenetics tests (2012-Germany) confirm Daco-Romanian continuity here, for 6-7 millennia.
P.S. Similar situation to Romania. The unification of Italy, according to the term originally from Italian, Risorgimento, was the social, political and administrative process that had the final result of the unification of the states of the Italian peninsula into a single nation, Italy. The unification of Italy was part of the process of establishing modern European nations , completed with the emergence of new unitary and independent national states in Western Europe (Belgium, Italy, Germany) and in the Balkans (Greece, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and at the beginning of the 20th century - Albania). All after the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The right of nations to self-determination.
The national state of Italy - like the national state of Romania are as OLD - 100 years as national states .
After escaping from the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, plundering. Italy is ancient Rome, Romania is ancient Dacia. Both divided into pieces that finally united as one nation. Simple.
BS
During my very brief visit to the Transylvania area, I was struck by the history of people living on the hilltops & mountaintops. How they began to protect themselves from invaders by building walled towns atop the mountains, often with religious figures & beliefs there. My sense was of an ancient culture long protected by the mountainous area needing to consolidate due to hostile invasion. My sense about Romanian "attitude" is still of feeling invaded & beset by foreign culture.
Transylvania is incredibly defendable if you hold thr key passes. I can see why its sense if differentness has endured.
You should get a honorific romanian citizenship for your amazing research!
Sounds like a deal.
@@BenLlywelyn , the Szekely people is not happy because after shameful Trianon Dictate in 1920. get the romanian citizenship .
@@BenLlywelyn , 250000 Szekely singing the Hungarian anthem in Csiksomlyo , Szekelyland , Transylvania ua-cam.com/video/G2v5j1IiZQs/v-deo.html
@@bujdososzekely😇
''Between Rome and the 14th century, this large space within Europe is a wild?''
After the Roman conquest and the abandonment of Dacia by Aurelian with all the Roman administration, south of the Danube, the Dacians continued to exist.
- The Turkish chronicle Ohuz Han (Oguzname) from the 9th century describes the opposition of the Urus (Russians), Ulak (Dacian Vlachs), they opposed the Cumans and that
reminds of the Ulashuwi-Wallachians, when the Hungarians lived between the Don and the Dnieper.
-In Pannonia and Moesia (Dacia Minor) there were 10 Dacian kingdoms, with some of them the Hungarian tribes started fighting. Ex. The kingdom of Salanus occupied by the Hungarians in 903, the king of Menu in 880, inherited from his ancestor - the Dacian dynasty. In 950, a Duke Gyla in Transylvania. Gelu, Glad, etc. But not all the information can be brought here.
"Gesta Hungarorum" or The Deeds of the Hungarians of the anonymous notary of King Béla III. (Belae regis Hungariae notarius) is the oldest chronicle of Hungary. In 1200. See here the native Dacian or Wallachian population and the local Duke or rulers with whom with which the nomads Hungarians fought.
True not all the stolen history can be stolen from Hungarians here 😂
The Hungarian tribes didnt fight against Vlachs or "dacians" you can look It Up anywhere .
@@zoltan6451 Read here :
"Gesta Hungarorum" or The Deeds of the Hungarians of the anonymous notary of King Béla III. (Belae regis Hungariae notarius) is the oldest chronicle of Hungary. In 1200. See here the native Dacian or Wallachian population and the local Duke or rulers with whom with which the Hungarians fought.
Written between 1282-1285, the Gesta Hungarorum is an ingenious and imaginative historical fiction of prehistory, medieval history and contemporary social history.@@mariadespina80
You should look into 1241 see what happened there . @@mariadespina80
I will tell you how old Romania is.
Getica written by Jordanes (Iordanes) around 500 AD tells the history of the Goths and all that followed.
fun facts
1)The word “Ge” means “earth”. The word Get or Getae (Geti plural) means born out of the earth or man of earth (which has serious implications regarding who is not of earth).
2. The Roman Emperor **Claudius II Gothicus** (reigned 268-270 AD) is primarily credited with changing the perception from "Getae" to "Goths." Claudius II won a significant victory against the Goths, earning him the title "Gothicus," which started the more common use of "Goths" over "Getae."
You see, all the evidence is there the Romanian land is the cradle of civilization.
3.Nicolae Densusianu wrote the book Dacia Preistorica (Ancient Dacia) which talks about so much everyone should know yet no one does including the Romanian Sphinx, ancient civilization such as Cucuteni Tripiliu, Turdas Vinca and so many artifacts over 7000 years old.
4)Romus and Remulus had the mother wolf, these founders of the Roman Empire is the ultimate proof Romania is the cradle of civilization.
In ancient times the word Dac or Dacian used to mean “wolf”. So Dacia as a country was the great wolf mother. You see whose tits Romus and Remulus were sucking on? They were Dacians.
My personal belief is there used to be a great worldwide civilization what we know today as Atlantis (maybe Lemuria was different civilization who knows). This civilization had an apocalypse known as the Younger Dryas. They knew what was about to happen so they set outposts (markers). That’s the sphinx. Everyone knows the Egyptian sphinx, you didn’t even mention the Romanian one, shame. So yeah the survivors were up in the mountains where the great flood did not reach them. These are the Getae, my ancestors, the ancestors of most of Europe and North Africa and Minor Asia (Pomponius Mela Map).
So the question remains. Who were the not of earth invaders, the Annunaki? Went to all corners of the earth and spread their seed? Do they rule to this day?
You work for them?
If I woked for the rulers of the earth I would have a more expensive camera.
@@BenLlywelyn then please take this video down. It’s 100% inaccurate spreading a false narrative. It’s not only an insult to my people, it’s an insult to all earth born
@@BenLlywelynDo not take the videos down and please make more videos about Romania as you have a connexion with your knowledge about the celts.
Critic is useful and a dacopat like myself, altough i get upset at times that you got the wrong facts, i cant get upset on you.
You didn’t say anything about Dacia. There are two Dacians that are guarding the Trajan's Column. Also there are historical writings about Mihai Viteazul that refer about Mihai “dacul” that united the Romanian Lands. Back then (in the 16th Century) the official and scientifical writings were still in Latin.
You should also consider one of the pilons of society, the Education. I think that one good starting point of a nation is having Universities. Gheorghe Lazar was the founder of Romanian School.
Dacia is another story.