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@History Time, thank you, this was a great video and a subject that is hardly ever brought up let alone discussed with objective facts. The mudding of Romania's history is a great pain for me, I deeply wish I could know more about the time before roughly 1000 AD but sources are so rare and as you pointed out too, the Dacians were not much for writing things down. The one thing I would like to ask is, to my knowledge Rome also had a strong financial motivation to invade Dacia as well. The Roman gold mines in Transylvania supposedly rejuvenated Rome near single-handedly. The one at Rosia Montana is actually not even exhausted and the original Roman galleries and tunnels are still up today. Are you aware of this being accurate or might it be propaganda?
i think it was worth mentioning the traitors that led the Romans to victory, and the huge amounts of gold taken from the Dacians, that revived the Roman empire. Other than that, really good video. Thank you.
@Bau Bau-ul romanofonilor Analfabetule nu ai 7 ani de acasă tu ca individ ce sa mai vorbim de cât de cinstiți erau dacii. Dacă ar fi așa deja I ai umilit chiar tu prin educația ta. Dacii au fost ce au fost nici o născocire de a ta sau altui dacofob nu o să îi facă mai grozavi decât au fost. Îmi pare rău că te ai simțit ofensat dar tot un gunoi ai rămas.. 👍
Thank you! Nobody could beat us then, only the Romans, but they actually didn't beat us, the fail was from us, we had traitors who sold the roads secrets...In my point of view nobody could beat us, I am not saying this because I am a romanian but trust me, even for modern wars (excluding planes) is very hard to come in Carpathian mountains and not expect a loose.
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@B-List History, fucked the Romans up, the Tatars, dragged Suleiman the Magnificent through the mud amongst many other Ottoman humiliations, held fortresses against the Poles manned by no more than dozens of soldiers, never gave in to the Hungarians, gave the germans hell in WW1 in the Marasti, Marasesti and Oituz offensives and lastly kicked the soviets the fuck ooooouuuut of here not too long ago. Hell yeah, you're right we ARE tough bastards. Thank you for making me think about that.
There actually are a few. Unfortunately all are in Romanian and I don't think I ever seen a sub-title ever made for them If none the less you are curios, try Dacii (1966) - ua-cam.com/video/yXXz295qtTE/v-deo.html There is also a more recent series called "Getii". Hope this helps, and good luck find sub-titles.
You can see the movie Dacii with english subtitles ( press CC button) . Dacii (1966 / English subtitles / HD) ua-cam.com/video/PbduBMbHTXE/v-deo.html This movie is almost perfect in the historical accuracy sence. They used archeological data and the pictures of Trajan's column from Rome to show Roman legions in their glory. Cinematography is great. I've heard they used something like 5,000 extras ( real soldiers) to create battle scenes.
I have read that Ancient Dacia was the primary source of gold for the ancient "Mediterranean" world. I also saw a history video that indicated the area(s) Dacia once occupied are still loaded with gold. Pretty sure it's one of the reasons the Romans wanted to take it so much.
The campain against Dacia was the biggest in the entire Roman History, thats because Dacia was a real threat to Roma and at that time they where almost bankrupt and Dacia had tons of gold. Today the Rosia Montana has an estimated 250Tons of Gold left, after 3Empires exploated almost 1000Tons of Gold....
as Hispania was the biggest producer of silver in Europe, Dacia had the biggest gold reserves known to man in Europe at that time, and the Roman Empire, expanding a bit too quickly to really put enough currency into economy to stabilize it, saw the opportunity to take it's gold I'm not too sure about this, but some of the writers and chronicals at that time said that the plunder in gold and silver from Dacia was the greatest spoils of war that were recorded in the empire's history (although I wouldn't count on this, we all know that many of these writers were "overestimating"their nations achievements)
The Dacian kingdom represented a threat to the borders of Rome, Trajan moved 150,000 men, half of the imperial legions, for the invasion, just remember that eight years after the conquest of Dacia, Trajan defeated the the Parthian Empire with the same number of legions and conquered Ctesiphon. At that time Rome was at its highest military power.
Equal to Rome?? In no way... probably Dacia could muster an army of 50.000, not professional soldiers mind you. Probably as many allies which were not willing to fight all the way to the end. Trajan brought 150.000 and there were plenty of other troops left in the Empire. It's enough to look at the size of the opponents. But yeah, Dacia was a threat... an independent kingdom on the border of the Roman Empire??? That was unacceptable for them.
@@charlesb5333 actually they are there to honour his heritage he was an ilirian thracian so... And the Empire itself was ruled by a couple of dacian emperors so...
From Constantine to Justinian and more, ruling dynasties had thracian blood. That;s why after some fighting , Geto-gots pointed to Rome, their natural enemy, and not pushed more against Byzantium, that was seen as kin.
@@charlesb5333 you are onto something, they were brothers. the latest historical findings claim same origin and migration from Balkan to Italy before founding of Rome and destruction of Ethrurians
Well, you call it a tribute, they thought of it as a bribe... it was much more cost effective to simply bribe some tribes on the outskirts of the empire. It actually worked for centuries, until the Goth invasion
@Jonny B lol, Domitian wasn't a weak ruler Modern Historians view him as an esteemed and excellent General. He was a straight up Autocrat who exercised personal absolute power. He won a Victory in 88 A.D, Tapae. He couldn't capitalize on it (he could have) because there was an uprising of the legions against him in Germania. After that, he was forced to take of more revolts in Pannonia. His best choice was to agree with Decebalus on some compromise, the revolts in Pannonia would take up most of the rest of Domitian's rule.
VALAH 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that is just bullshit :)))))ahahahahahahahahha They didn’t believe in immortality!! They had in their culture the fact that when someone was being born it was mourned by the other because of the hard life he will find and when someone died, he was celebrated because he ended up all the problems he had in life.. also they didn’t burried anyone but incinerate because Dacians thought that Zamolxis was waiting for them.. who knows maybe he still does 🤣🤣🤣
After conquering Dacia, Trajan brought back Decebal's treasury - 330 tons of Silver and 160 tons of gold, with which he rebuilt Rome, the capital and built the Column of Trajan.
+History Time By the way many of the dacians prisoners that had been taken to Rome became very important and welty people and its mentioned that 3 of them became emperors of Rome.
@@L2Xenta and vlach albano macedo put trajan in government song idiot how you aclaim you are from getae ans masaget scityans they was iranians aramaic sanskritic speakers stupid idiots
Decebal is in Romanian because the language dropped the Latin suffix, but it comes from Decebalus. We don't know the Dacian form since we have no Dacian written sources, we know almost nothing about their language.
ive always loved the name Dacian didnt know it was romanian. its always meant somethin to me dont know why. i never heard it before i knew what it meant .
Actually Romanians are not Dacians at all. They consider themselves more Romans than Dacians, and the name Romania comes from the name Rome. In their national anthem they sing about Trajan and Romans, nothing about Decebal or Dacians. The only one nation that could assign the Dacian ancestors are Moldavian because they were free Dacians after Rome conquered Dacia and there are not any argue that Dacians abandoned that territory.
@@bulicanugicu4228 no. they do not consider themselves more Romans than Dacians. That utter shit. Romanians come from Dacians and Tracians plus other migratory groups.
The Sarmizegetusa picture at the beginning of the video is simply wrong... that really is the Roman city built after the conquest :). They named it after the old one which was deep in the mountains
Diurpaneus or Duras was a totally different king, he ruled when Rome was governed by emperor Domitian , after an important victory against romans, he gave the power to Decebal because he saw him as a capable leader who could rule over dacians after that he remained an advisor of Decebal, at least that's what one of the theories says, no one knows if Diurpaneus was the same person as Duras or that Decebal was called like that.
Not semitic ,baal' but ,bal'( strong in Sanskrit)+ dece from ,dasa'( 10) in Sanskrit. As strong as 10. Another example. Bal from ,balaur'( dragon) Bal from massagetae surname Balahura( bal/ strong+ hura/ hara( gifted) The one gifted with strength.
You forgot to mention that the Roman's brought so much gold after the Damian wars that Rome suspended taxes all over its empire for 1 year!! Yet the bulk of the Dacian gold is still buried somewhere in the transylvanian mountains probably in one of the many caves since Romania has the most underground caves in the world...plus today Romania has the biggest gold reserve in the world in rosea Montana aka res mountain.
Wrong and wrong There is no official "country with the most underground caves in the world",but that would most likely be Mexico,they have one of the longest underground caves in the world. Australia is considered to have the most gold mine reserves in the world,we are not even in the top 10.
@@prehistoriccreature1800 SHUT UP, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME OR ABOUT MY FAMILY WHEN MY MOTHER WAS ITALIAN , MY FATHER WAS ITALIAN, MY ANCESTORS WAS ITALIANS AND GREEKS , SO, SHUT UP KID , ARE YOU JUST AN CHILD AND NOTHING MORE
where are the hungarians talking crap about romanians being albanians coming from danube river? :)))) nice video btw i just read something about king Duras a few days ago. you have my like and subscribe.
Hungarians are known as being a xenophobic nation, no one knows their true origins, most of the people accepts the theory that they are finno-ugric, but to be honest, they sound nothing like finno-ugric people.
@@Player-stahn That's because both languages share similar roots genius, illyrian and dacian were languages related to each other so many albanian words are similar with romanian words.
@@notyourdaddude1957 @Sticla Voda @Sticla Voda the Balkan homeland of the Romanians: 1. Illyria was under Roman rule in 600 years long, just like Hipania or Gallia. It's enough to Latinising the people. But Dacia was only 160 years long occupied by Romans in bloody war. Not possible to Latinising local people in 160 years in war. 2. The Romans occupied only one 3rd of the Dacian lands, there were free Dacians too. Why would be Latinised the free Dacians? It's nonsense. And if 2/3 of the Dacians didn't Latinised so where they are? 3. The Roman army in Dacia provincia wasn't made up by Latin speakers, but they were mostly Syrians and Germans. Only few military generals spoke Latin language. How the Syrians Latinised the Dacians? 4. Even if there was some Latin speakers and they made children for the Dacian ladies, the babies why would they speak Latin then? The babies learn language always from their mothers and never from the soldier-fathers who already left or died. 5. How is possible that the Romanian language have similarities with the Albanian language if they did not lived together earlier? Don't tell me that the Albanians migrated from Transylvania to the West Balkan. 6. The medieval chronicles mentioned Vlachs it means Latin speakers. Also in Hungarian chronicles mentioned Volochi and Blachi for two different people. Volochi is Latin speaker, Blachi is the Bulaq people which is Karluk-Turkic folk came in Pannonia with the Huns and they still lived there till 9th century, side of the Szekelys which is Hungarian folk also remained Huns. 7. The first mention of the Romanians from 11th century from North-Greece, Albania and the region of Ochrid lake, where the Romanian related Aromans still living. It surely about the modern Romanians. 8. If the Romanian-Vlachs were mentioned in some documents from North of Danube just because of their shepherd lifestyle. They moved a lot everywhere in the Balkan peninsula but even till Northern Carpathians and they reached Silesia too (present time Poland). So if there are few mentions of Vlachs it doesn't mean that they lived in that regions only they travelled there. 9. During the Slavic invasion on the Balkans 6-7th century the whole Balkan Slavised for example the Hunnic Bulgars, or the Latin Dalmatians too. Only the people didn't who had no too much connection with the Slavs who didn't live in towns or villages. Exactly the Vlach shepherds, because of their nomadic lifestyle didn't Slavised, but the Romanian language has massive Slavic influence. In present Romania there weren't any Slavic invasion cause of the German-Gepids, Hunnic-Avars and other Hunnic-Hungarian people who lived there. 10. The Romanians are Latin speakers. Why they liked to use Cyrillic alphabet if they lived next to Hungary where the official language was the Latin and always used the Latin alphabet? Of course the Romanians came from central Balkan where the Cyrillic alphabet needed to be useful. 11. The Romanians are Orthodox, if they lived in Transylvania, why they liked to have Orthodox religion in the Roman Catholic Hungarian Kingdom? Of course the Romanians came from the Central Balkan where the Orthodox Church is the main religion so they wouldn't choose other. 12. If the Romanians are descendants of the Dacians, why they never called Transylvania as Dacia? Why they took the Latin name of Transylvania? Why they took the Hungarian name of Transylvania as Erdely to Ardeal (pronunciation is same).? 13. What it means the name of Transylvania? Trans = over, beyond Sylvania (Sylvanus) = forest What was called forest? The Bihar forest was called simply forest. So Transylvania means beyond the forest, beyond the Bihar forest. But wait, it's from the view of Budapest not Bucharest. It means the Hungarians gave the name to Transylvania. If the Romanians gove it would be called as Transcarpathia...... otherwise Ardeal does not have meaning in the Romanian language, but Erdely in Hungarian language came from Erdő (forest) Erdő-elve (beyond the forest....) 14. Why the Romanians have ethnic relatives in the Balkan? Aromans, Istroromans, Macedoromans and Megloromans 15. Okay the Romanians have no own chronicles, but doesn't exist any story, folk-song, or even children's tales about the Dacians from medieval times? Why the Daco-Roman continuity theory was created in 19th only? 16. If the Romanians are descendants of the Dacians, so what they did from the 3rd century to 13th century? What battles they fought? What towns they lived? Where are their churches or cemeteries? Where are the archaeological founds.? They were highly civilised no? Where are the buildings? Why the Romanians took the nsme of city (oras) from the Hungarian ''varos'' (pronunciation is the same)? 17. The Romanians were called Roumains, Rumanians, Rumanisch in other languages. But Rome in that languages is Rome and the empire is Roman empire not Ruman. The name of the Romanians came from Rum and Rumelia which is the Persian name of Byzantine empire and Turkish name of the Balkan. So Ruman means people from Rum. Roman means people from Rome. Ruman is the present time Romanians. Roman is the ancient Romans from Roman empire.
Hello. Great way of telling it. I need to mention also some facts, dacian tribes were much larger than the teritory Traian took under his wing, only 15% of Dacia was conquered and for a verry little perioud compared to other regions in the world. Also, after the getae-dacian&tracian(exactly the same people) rebelled, many times in history Rome was sacked by them, for example Alaric I born in modern day Romania. Also to be mentioned Constantine The Great in memory of his dacian fellows built the largest statues in Rome with dacian figures. This means something:)
The treasure of the Dacian kings, at the time Decebal was finally defeated, is estimated at about 300 tons / 300,000 kilograms of gold. It was hidden in a river-bed. The flow of the river was temporarily diverted to bury the gold. Unfortunately a traitor disclosed the location to the Romans. Trajan inherited a bankrupt empire. The Dacian gold improved the finances so well, that the city of Rome could afford a spree of construction of new public buildings, among other things. The gold was obtained by mining inside Dacia. The mining was extended by the Romans, and has been continued to the present time. Before the re-discovery of America by Columbus, Transylvania was the most important source of gold for Europe.
In sensul sarcastic. Mesajul era pentru cei ce cred ca ai nostrii nu au existat pana la venirea lor in Europa...dupa ei, noi am aparut din neant in 1918!
Cosmin Barbu Nu-ti bate capul, astia nu zic doar despre noi asa ceva. Practic toti vecinii le-au furat pamantul (la fel zic de slovaci si sarbi). Dupa ei, jumatate de Europa trebuia sa fie a lor.
Stiu, dar uneori parca nu se merita sa-i lasi asa. Cand ei inca alergau dupa cai prin stepele Asiei sa-i domesticeasca, noi ajunsesem sa aparam Zidul lui Hadrian in Britania...cam asta e diferenta istorica ua-cam.com/video/P4fo0k7Fj9k/v-deo.html
@ cosmin... Ideia asta cu romani ca servitori si aparatori al Imperiului Roman mi se pare comica... ;) Vedem acelasi lucru cu Gotii care spun ca sunt descendati din Geti in scrierile lor... si ei tot mercenari au fost in legiunile Romane. Dar mai comic este situatia de astazi cu Armata Romana... mercenari pentru americani, noul Imperiu Roman. Personal nu cred ca exemplul tau e unul bun... Ca unii dintre noi au ajuns pe vremea aia sa apare Zidul lui Hadrian nu este un lucru bun.
The reason they were so successful is because of their religion. They believed in some sort of Valhalla, if the warrior dies in battle they will live with their gods forever.
@@vranceanknight4212 the very little information we have seems to suggest that the language and physique of Dacians was perhaps from a common balto-slavic origin, in which case it's tied to proto-Germanic as well.
Me Alexander Tu ai citit acest studiu pe care l-ai citat aici? Iti spune clar ca românii sunt din p.d.v. genetic un amestec de populatii: ai adn de la traco-iliri, slavi, celto-italici, etc. Toate studiile despre adn-ul românilor spun aceleasi lucruri, ca in zona aceasta a avut loc un amestec puternic de populatii. Asa s-a nascut poporul român. O tradiție bazata pe elemente dacice, slavone, o limba descendenta a latinei si o religie preluata de la romani.
Me Alexander brilliantmaps.com/the-genetic-map-of-europe/ Poate intelegi si tu ceva din genetica. Cum ziceam, poti observa amestecul de populatie, nu "suntem daci". Oricum, daca tu zici ca romanii au fost crestinati dupa anul 1100 imi dau seama ca nu esti "fan daci" esti pur si simplu un propagandist maghiar. La Budapesta n-aveti acces la studiile si rapoartele arheologice romanesti? Gasiti acolo cate dovezi va doriti, trebuie doar sa le cititi.
Me Alexander Si ce anume din ce ai citit in studiul respectiv nu corespunde cu ce am zis eu? Studiul spune clar ca romanii nu sunt daci, romani sau slavi, din p.d.v. genetic, sunt un amestec de populatii antice, peste care vin si elemente de la popoarele migratoare. Doar un idiot crede ca romanii erau doar cei din peninsula italica, statutul de roman nu se refera la etnie. Pune mana si citeste, lasa propaganda maghiara, ca nu mai are succes! Nu va mai crede nimeni, cu atat mai putin romanii adevarati!
Me Alexander Si uite Ianos, daca studiezi harta o sa vezi ca românii sunt un amestec de: traci; greco-roman, anatolieni; slavi; celto-italici; Asta e realitatea, nu conteaza daca sunt eu mandru sau nu.
Maybe you only cover historical events, but I'd really like it if you made videos on the religion and culture of Dacian, Thracians, Illyrians, Gettae, and Macedonians as they are rarely discussed as opposed to the celts and Germans. While you're at it it would be cool to see similar content on the pre-Turkic Indo-European people's of Anatolia.
You have no idea how happy I am to be romanian. If I wasnt I probably would have had an obsession with it. Even the language is so beautiful bfjsjfbebsh
Emperor Trajan crossed the Danube with 75000 legionaries and 80 000 auxilliaries, while Decebal had 200000 soldiers plus many thousands of Roxolany horsemen, It was a huge war
A truly sad event for out history, unlike Burebista who fought against celts and other barbaric tribes, Decebal had to fight the "civilised" people and in the end he lost. And here we are today, idolizing Trajan like some kind of hero, in truth he just wanted our gold that was like a breath of fresh air for the whole empire
He also wanted to end the constant raids into Roman territory that had destroyed Moesia, which was carried out by Dacians and allies against their own kinsman on the other side of the border.
we know about dacians more but we hide it. Actually romanian is dacian. However romanians created a fake history to link themselves to rome in an attempt to seek help from the west during 1848 revolutions Indo-european analysis on the romanian language is very clear: “latin” words are not inherited from latin but come from “palasca” the substrate which gave latin and slavic and other languages. Thats why dacian/romanian is similar with latin and slavic but didnt have the historical conditions to adopt it because dacians/romanians basically assimilated everyone that came here to live. It is an analysis any linguist can make for you if you happen to know one. Problem is romanians are not ready to accept they are not the “sons” of rome, but their uncles or grandparents
I believe that Sarmatian/Scythian tradition and history is not to be underestimated, especially in military, in the conflict with the Romans. I grew up close to Ziridava and the castrum of the 13th legion, 'Gemina', that was frontier land. The legion there had recruited sarmatian cataphracts - and went to Britain with them... Dacian warriors often are shown with Scythian/Sarmatian-like gear.
What! The Dacians invented and made there own war machine and they came of with foundary designs that were use all the way up to the Napoleonic wars. And the walls and architecture of Dacia was always the way they had invented. Sorry if this post is bit contentious but I’m sick of people putting down Romanians or make it look like they can’t invent their own technology or that they never contribute to innovations in history. Not only Romanian but other Eastern Europeans.
Two years passed, but I need to answer this. lol Some sources say that the woods were so thick that the Romans couldn't pass through them with their horses, so perhaps that is why they chose the gorge. It makes sense because to this day our woods, especially in the southern areas are formed of tall trees and tangled, tight thicket on the forest floor. You cannot lead a horse through that.
There should a movie made about Decebalus in America cinema today!It is a very interesting part of history. I know big budget films are frowned upon nowadays;but i think this type of production,given the time’s would draw huge audiences 🎭🎬
I would love to see Emperor Trajan on the big screen but let's be honest here. Dacians were no different to many Germanic tribes the Romans had to fight in Western Roman province of Germania. sure, Dacians were different but still got defeated. also, Romans defeated the Thracians, basically the cousins of Dacians south of the Danube river, modern Bulgaria.
In the king Burebista times the Dacia's teritory included actualy teritory of Romania but also Panonia plane (Hungary today), south of Ukraine, the teritory of Republic of Moldova. Herodot, the great historian said about Dacians: " Dacians are the best wariors and correct people from all the tribes of Tracians". And today Romanians are the grand, grand, grand Sons of Dacians and I'm produs because i was born in Romania. Greetings from Romania!!!
Sarmizegetusa - read as SarmeeZehGEtoosah. Read "GE" as in GErmany. It was a fortress whose name is made of 2 names : Sarmi + Get = Sarmates + Getae, 2 people of those times who lived in the area.
Dacians were outnumbered by Roman legions from 2 continents,they have defeated the Romans in the previous wars before ,Romans were scared shitless of Dacians,the Trajan column is full of funny Roman bravery propaganda,more than that the Romans only conquered around 20 % of Dacia ,they were scared of going deeper in the Carpathians where the free Dacians allied with the Scytho Sarmatian could had destroyed and Roman legions and descend into a shame and weakening of Rome ,very possible the Geto Dacians to be the same so called goths who burned down Rome ,according to the ostrogoth Jordanes in his Getica work the Geto Dacians are the same Getic people the getii /gotii known as Goths.
Yes very possible the Goths were the Getae. My theory is that the Goths came from Denmark. The Danes were later called "Dacos" by the Romans. The Goths came "out of nowhere" 100 years after the Romans occupied western Dacia. Surprise surprise, the "Huns" came out of nowhere 100 years after Dacia being occupied aswell. I think that the "Huns" were the "Dahae" and "massagetae" (Great getae) tribes from the Caspian Sea. The Dahae are called "Dasa" in Sanskrit. The Dahae and the Massa Getae were simply the Dacians and the Getae, all the same. I think that the Dacians when they were occupied sent some men to these areas to request reinforcement.
@@Alex-hz2xg Dacians whas getae under romans or (getae from here -D,aci.[Free dacians whas getae,messagetae or the big getae.Sarmants under getae whith the capital; Sarmi seGetusa.] Herodot father of the history say; The getae whas the most o f the world Dialect of romanian language can find in Nord India,Sud Russia,Kazackstan places were whas never romans . In Asia, over 80.000.000 people speak Romanian andreeasoarero.wordpress.com/in-asia-over-80-000-000-people-speak-romanian/ .www.google.com/search?q=messagetae++map&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjn9uafgKToAhUZtqQKHeOhDesQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=messagetae++map&gs_l=img.3...163982.176820..177446...0.0..0.170.1494.0j12......0....1..gws-wiz-img.FcmvnaWJn20&ei=ARFyXqfyEJnskgXjw7bYDg&client=firefox-b-d#imgrc=hM168nYXwUJIaM&imgdii=IAy8Ou5PaQcafM
There was nothing else of relevance to conquer in Dacia. The "free dacians" had no center of power, and represented no political unity. They had been broken forever after Adamclimsii and the posterior fall of Decebalus. "DACIA" was no more, and never came to be anything else after.
@@Mz-ci8wg well, the Roman Dacia continued officially for another 150 years, so it came to be at least that; and the Romans included the name "Sarmisegetuza" (Ulpia Traiana Sarmisegetuza) in it. The only reason why they'd do that is to try to assimilate remaining Dacians, despite the fact that they brought people from all over the Empire into Roman Dacia. After the Aurelian retreat, they were unfortunately also starting to lose the Roman culture due to subsequent invasions, and having had the previous cultural center destroyed (the Dacian one), only a few things survived. There is this for example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biertan_Donarium .. some pottery and other archeological stuff, but nothing major - i.e: no real writing. There was cultural stagnation for many centuries thereafter. Strangely, this item is from the 5th century, but it's not really clear how the population was christened (the retreat was before the time of Constantine).
The Goths were not Getae. The Goths spoke a Germanic language, the Getae/Dacians did NOT. "Zalmos" = skin - completely different than the Germanic version. In fact, the sounds in the language are reportedly closer to Asian Languages/Iranian (i.e: a satem language). Also, all the Dacian leaders we know of did not have Germanic sounding names. Moreover, neither did place names: "The Dacian linguistic area is characterised mainly with composite names ending in -dava, or variations such as -deva, -daua, -daba, etc. The settlement names ending in these suffixes are geographically grouped as follows: In Dacia: Acidava, Argedava, Argidava, Buridava, Cumidava, Dokidaua, Karsidaua, Klepidaua, Markodaua, Netindaua, Patridaua, Pelendova, *Perburidava, Petrodaua, Piroboridaua, Rhamidaua, Rusidava, Sacidaba, Sangidaua, Setidava, Singidaua, Sykidaba, Tamasidaua, Utidaua, Zargidaua, Ziridava, Zucidaua - 26 names altogether. In Lower Moesia (the present northern Bulgaria) and Scythia Minor (Dobruja): Aedabe, *Buteridava, *Giridava, Dausdavua, Kapidaua, Murideba, Sacidava, Scaidava (Skedeba), Sagadava, Sukidaua (Sucidava) - 10 names in total. In Upper Moesia (the present districts of Nish, Sofia, and partly Kjustendil): Aiadaba, Bregedaba, Danedebai, Desudaba, Itadeba, Kuimedaba, Zisnudeba - 7 names in total." Finally, the dacian plant names we know of do not have Germanic names either: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dacian_plant_names
I really appreciate how much you put into the research for this video and I know it wasn't easy to find images of dacian and daco-roman scenes. However, if I can make one suggestion concerning the editing is that you have to hold on images for a couple more seconds, especially if it's one that you're showing for the first time. Remember, in the editing phase you've already seen these pics dozens of times, but we the viewers have never seen them before and we need a moment to assimilate them. Otherwise good narration, good vid, keep up the good work!
oh nice :) he was maybe greater then even decebal. made a huge army of 200 000 dacian men. btw stefan cel mare greatest romanian ever you need to look at him he was truly TRULY a legendary leader pls just look at his history what he did
@@bogdan.md01 He was born in southern Spain from an old and noble italian familly... Either way, both Italians and Spaniards are far more closely related to Romanians than to north africans. The only europeans who are actually close to North Africa from a genetic point of view, are greeks, albanians and some bulgarians.
@@antoniudraculea4507 false. northern africa was in contact with the latin world for way much more time than us. besides, northern africa is a part of the mediterranean , unlike romania.
Romanian preserved the Latin case system and grammar while the other Romance languages developed prepositions and dropped the case system entirely. This means Romanian is the closest language to Latin in terms of grammar. It's impossible to communicate the Latin vocative case in Italian, but when a Romanian hears "et tu brute" they know exactly how Caeser meant it(or Shakespeare rather). Other people who hear Romanian think it sounds closest to Latin. To me Italian sounds quite effeminate with its "o" endings. Romanian is the only romance language that still maintains a masculine and authoritative sound like Latin does. The case declensions in Romanian are inherited directly from Latin. Therefore, they cannot be "sooo different". Italian does not even have case declensions. It is so different from Latin that it is astounding that Italian as well as other western romance languages actually come from Latin. The "complemento di vocazione" in Italian is just adding "oh" in front of the nouns, much like in English. But this is not how Latin functions and it doesn't really capture the mood of the Latin and Romanian vocative case.
You are right. As a rommnian, i speak all romance languages to various degrees, but for me, latin was the easiest to learn, even though i don't use it, i simply could not stop learning it, because it is so close to romanian, i had so much fun learning it. And the pronounciation is very similar to romanian.
the Balkan homeland of the Romanians: 1. Illyria was under Roman rule in 600 years long, just like Hipania or Gallia. It's enough to Latinising the people. But Dacia was only 160 years long occupied by Romans in bloody war. Not possible to Latinising local people in 160 years in war. 2. The Romans occupied only one 3rd of the Dacian lands, there were free Dacians too. Why would be Latinised the free Dacians? It's nonsense. And if 2/3 of the Dacians didn't Latinised so where they are? 3. The Roman army in Dacia provincia wasn't made up by Latin speakers, but they were mostly Syrians and Germans. Only few military generals spoke Latin language. How the Syrians Latinised the Dacians? 4. Even if there was some Latin speakers and they made children for the Dacian ladies, the babies why would they speak Latin then? The babies learn language always from their mothers and never from the soldier-fathers who already left or died. 5. How is possible that the Romanian language have similarities with the Albanian language if they did not lived together earlier? Don't tell me that the Albanians migrated from Transylvania to the West Balkan. 6. The medieval chronicles mentioned Vlachs it means Latin speakers. Also in Hungarian chronicles mentioned Volochi and Blachi for two different people. Volochi is Latin speaker, Blachi is the Bulaq people which is Karluk-Turkic folk came in Pannonia with the Huns and they still lived there till 9th century, side of the Szekelys which is Hungarian folk also remained Huns. 7. The first mention of the Romanians from 11th century from North-Greece, Albania and the region of Ochrid lake, where the Romanian related Aromans still living. It surely about the modern Romanians. 8. If the Romanian-Vlachs were mentioned in some documents from North of Danube just because of their shepherd lifestyle. They moved a lot everywhere in the Balkan peninsula but even till Northern Carpathians and they reached Silesia too (present time Poland). So if there are few mentions of Vlachs it doesn't mean that they lived in that regions only they travelled there. 9. During the Slavic invasion on the Balkans 6-7th century the whole Balkan Slavised for example the Hunnic Bulgars, or the Latin Dalmatians too. Only the people didn't who had no too much connection with the Slavs who didn't live in towns or villages. Exactly the Vlach shepherds, because of their nomadic lifestyle didn't Slavised, but the Romanian language has massive Slavic influence. In present Romania there weren't any Slavic invasion cause of the German-Gepids, Hunnic-Avars and other Hunnic-Hungarian people who lived there. 10. The Romanians are Latin speakers. Why they liked to use Cyrillic alphabet if they lived next to Hungary where the official language was the Latin and always used the Latin alphabet? Of course the Romanians came from central Balkan where the Cyrillic alphabet needed to be useful. 11. The Romanians are Orthodox, if they lived in Transylvania, why they liked to have Orthodox religion in the Roman Catholic Hungarian Kingdom? Of course the Romanians came from the Central Balkan where the Orthodox Church is the main religion so they wouldn't choose other. 12. If the Romanians are descendants of the Dacians, why they never called Transylvania as Dacia? Why they took the Latin name of Transylvania? Why they took the Hungarian name of Transylvania as Erdely to Ardeal (pronunciation is same).? 13. What it means the name of Transylvania? Trans = over, beyond Sylvania (Sylvanus) = forest What was called forest? The Bihar forest was called simply forest. So Transylvania means beyond the forest, beyond the Bihar forest. But wait, it's from the view of Budapest not Bucharest. It means the Hungarians gave the name to Transylvania. If the Romanians gove it would be called as Transcarpathia...... otherwise Ardeal does not have meaning in the Romanian language, but Erdely in Hungarian language came from Erdő (forest) Erdő-elve (beyond the forest....) 14. Why the Romanians have ethnic relatives in the Balkan? Aromans, Istroromans, Macedoromans and Megloromans 15. Okay the Romanians have no own chronicles, but doesn't exist any story, folk-song, or even children's tales about the Dacians from medieval times? Why the Daco-Roman continuity theory was created in 19th only? 16. If the Romanians are descendants of the Dacians, so what they did from the 3rd century to 13th century? What battles they fought? What towns they lived? Where are their churches or cemeteries? Where are the archaeological founds.? They were highly civilised no? Where are the buildings? Why the Romanians took the nsme of city (oras) from the Hungarian ''varos'' (pronunciation is the same)? 17. The Romanians were called Roumains, Rumanians, Rumanisch in other languages. But Rome in that languages is Rome and the empire is Roman empire not Ruman. The name of the Romanians came from Rum and Rumelia which is the Persian name of Byzantine empire and Turkish name of the Balkan. So Ruman means people from Rum. Roman means people from Rome. Ruman is the present time Romanians. Roman is the ancient Romans from Roman empire.
Good history lesson. The only criticism I have is that the poster didn't spend any time on the end of the reign of Nerva and the accession of Trajan and the circumstances which does involve Decebalus and the Treaty in question which also played a part in the events that lead up to the Dacian Wars. But Still, a good history lesson for those into european history back in the day.
A few corrections: decebal's real name was Diurpaneu. He got the nickname of Decebal after the war in 87, where he was leading the troops as a general. Decebal means: strong as 10. He was very brave and very strong and skillful in combat and warfare, which led him to him being proclaimed as king after. Also, we know that he was the son of Scorillo(former king of Dacia), as the latest archeological proof shows us, items on which were written: Decebalus per Scorillo, which translates to: Decebal, the son of Scorillo. And yes, Duras was Diurpaneu's uncle.
Rome actually had around 70,000 soldiers to the Dacians 40,000 in the first war (101) the Romans had about 40,000 porters who didn't actually fight. In the second war (105) Rome had 80,000 and 70,000 porters while Dacia had about 60,000. Usually when Rome fought barbarians they were outnumbered since they were stretched thin but the Dacian war was an exception.
Thanks for this, but 10 minutes? The entire Dacian campaign was a major headache to the Romans, having to muster legions from throughout the region several times and come up with new feats of engineering to move the armies in place. Not to mention the enormous wealth the conclusion of the wars generated to Trajan and Rome for centuries after.
Dacians (known to Romans) and Getae (known to Greeks) were already speaking Latin when were conquered by the Romans. It is a known fact, hidden by the current academic people. They spoke a vulgar Latin (very old Latin). They were also known as the most brave and fair from all Thracians. And btw, the main goal of Trajan war campaign against Dacia was gold. The Dacians were very rich and Dacia was full of resources. The Romans were kind of broke at that point, the Roman empire was falling and they needed gold and goods (livestock, slaves, wood, iron, silver and so on) very fast. After this successful war campaign by Trajan, Rome had flourished. They took around 165 tons of gold and 330 tons of silver. One other fact hidden. Allies of Decebal were bribed by the Roman empire and they have been promised lands and titles to sell Decebal. They were told if they don't obey and they lose, all their families were to be exterminated. That is why they defected and left Decebal to fight Trajan alone. If this wouldn't have happened, maybe no roman emperor could have ever conquered Dacia. The Dacians had a very claver plan of hiding its fortune (gold and silver). They hide it under a river. But after their defeat, it was Bicilis that told the Romans where the gold was hidden. He was a traitor. Dio Cassius said at that time, that after Dacians defeat, the Roman people had been exempt for paying taxes for 1 year and the Colosseum games have been again restarted for 123 days in a row for the entertainment of the people. He also noted that the cereal quantity that was taken from Dacia was well over the total quantity it was imported into Rome from all other places. Trajan had begun building new roads and buildings with Dacians gold. So the main reason for this war was money and fear. They were afraid Dacia may become too rich and powerful and could threatened Rome. It is written in history that many Roman emperors tried with no success to conquer Dacia until Trajan. As a matter of fact, Rome had paid tribute to Dacia under Domitian rule.
This is not a "known fact" it is a bs Dacopathic propaganda. Dacians certainly did not speak Latin before the Romans conquered Dacia. Latin was introduced in the Roman province of Dacia by the Romans themselves. Stop eating shit.
@@UlpianHeritor Propaganda my ass, it's called thinking. and not believing the BS stories from schools. They lie for a reason. Explain this: peoples and territories conquered by the Romans for much longer than the occupation of Dacia, like Illyricum and Dalmatia (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia) or Macedonia or many other examples like Panonia region (Hungary), none of them speak any Latin or have any Latin words in their language. They are all Slavic based languages. One other point you are missing: Dacia was never 100% conquered by the Romans. Only east of Dacia and Sarmisegetuza region (the capital) were. Roxolani region and the rest were never under Roman ruling. But Tracia was, it was fully occupied and was ruled by the Romans much longer than was Dacia. Tracia is Bulgaria today. And yet, the Bulgarians speak... bulgarian, a Slavic language. So, you should think before you speak. The facts speak for themselves. Take a look at this video (it is a timeline video, very useful) and see how long was Roman occupation in various regions and tell me if they managed to change the language, or at least influence it, in regions where they have stayed longer than Dacia. /watch?v=w5zYpWcz1-E
patricke absolutely non of the known Dacian words are even close to Latin. None of the City names are close to Latin. None of the personal names are close to Latin. Suffixes such as -dava (city) has nothing to do with Latin.
After the Dacian conquest, less then 25% of its original population remained. And they mixed up into the Roman colonists. That's why Romania is still a Latin speaking country.
It's not sure if less than 25% of its original population remained. Yes, according to Roman sources hundreds of thousands of Dacians were captured. But Roman sources were also propaganda. Say that 50,000 Dacians were captured, the Romans would write 500,000. The Emperor had to impress the people as best as he could. Making mistakes as an Emperor could lead to terrible consequences (most Roman Emperors were killed by their own people). Secondly, only the western part of Dacia was occupied (probably because that's where all the gold was). I do not think that the Romans killed off all the Free Dacians in the eastern parts of Dacia. And who knows, maybe the Romanian area was not the only area inhabited by Dacians. My own theory is that Dacians/Getae lived north of Romania aswell, perhaps as far as Denmark, and to the east as far as nowadays Turkmenistan, back then the homeplace of the Massagetae and the Dahae (called Dasa/Dasha in Sanskrit). The Danes were later called "Dacos" by the Romans.
Dacia was never occupied by the Roman empire, they came after Dacia gold, because the roman empire in an economic crisis 2. The Hispanic emperor Trajan is recognising in one of his letters that the Hispanic people were cousins, because he said something like now i have to fight against the people of my ancestors, recognising also that the dacians were the ancestors of Romans also 3. Zalmoxis, the God of dacians is the first man who teach matts to greak people, the first who teach medicine to Egyptian people, he theach them how to pull out the whole brain of dead persons through the nose and how to preserve the body, so from this we can easily came to the conclusion that the dacians were the largest people and also the anciest of the Europe and in the world 4. The Dacian people were blonde with blue or green eyes, than we should look at the northern people, Sweden, Norwegian, etc.. 5. The Dacians as the ancestors of Romans do not speak Latin and they not used within the dacians territory, they speak Dacian, Latin is used only when they must treat with Romans 6. In the Bucegi mountain it have been found stones with the human foot and hand in it, which is a proof that the dacians were using the recipe of melting stone, because it can been seen clearly the hand and the foot size of a recent born, a young man and an old. 7. Its impossible to think that the Romans could have had relations with the dacians women, because ofter the capital Sarmizegetusa fall the Romans troupes that remain had to fight with the other tribes like free dacians as the charpiens and costoboci so its imposible to imagine a marital relationship between the victims and their killers 8. The foot and the hand print in the stone found in the Bucegi mountain has an antique established age as 15 thousand years that means that the dacians were even oldest than the Chinese people
there is a Turulbird fan here who actually believes there can be no permanent living outside walled cities, and that the Wiki holds the ultimate truth... quite sad, that is. Maybe it was the wolves who drove out anybody trying to live upon this land, until some smallish tribe came in from the Urals and BANG, here came civilization ! then some bloody shepherds flocked here from the south and multiplied like rabbits. utterly obvious.
The Romans had the numerical advantage. Decebalus should have fought a retreating style battle and drew the 200k Roman force into a gorilla type scorch earth and harassing supply lines. IDK
102 and 105 wars were prepared by the empire since its king was cezar.they needed roman born mountain warriors from spain and galia to be able to take on the dacians.they had to wait for a loial generation to be born before they could do that.took them around 130 years.the most gold they ever took from anywhere.romania
Sarmizegetusa was lost because of a dacian traitor who informed romans where the buried water pipes are. That summer was very hot and without water, dacians were forced to try to escape, some of them preferred to jump from the walls instead of dying from thirst .
E nostim faptul ca noi am ramas cu numele de Romania, dupa Roma, si ca Italia se numeste asa dupa un trib care se numea Vitalia datorita faptului ca cresteau vite(cautati surse ca nu va mint).
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@History Time, thank you, this was a great video and a subject that is hardly ever brought up let alone discussed with objective facts. The mudding of Romania's history is a great pain for me, I deeply wish I could know more about the time before roughly 1000 AD but sources are so rare and as you pointed out too, the Dacians were not much for writing things down.
The one thing I would like to ask is, to my knowledge Rome also had a strong financial motivation to invade Dacia as well. The Roman gold mines in Transylvania supposedly rejuvenated Rome near single-handedly. The one at Rosia Montana is actually not even exhausted and the original Roman galleries and tunnels are still up today. Are you aware of this being accurate or might it be propaganda?
It's actually wrong. The s and z are reversed. Sarmisegetuza.
the dacians are sarmatians and therefor the ancestors of serbia , romania and therefor for all slavs
i think it was worth mentioning the traitors that led the Romans to victory, and the huge amounts of gold taken from the Dacians, that revived the Roman empire. Other than that, really good video. Thank you.
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Actually Burebista didn’t just unify the Dacian states, he also counquered most of the Celtic tribes and some nearby land
I'll be covering him in a video in the not too distant future :)
@Bau Bau-ul romanofonilor Bau bau mars la televizor că ți-a început un nou sezon din Pokémon...
@Bau Bau-ul romanofonilor Analfabetule nu ai 7 ani de acasă tu ca individ ce sa mai vorbim de cât de cinstiți erau dacii. Dacă ar fi așa deja I ai umilit chiar tu prin educația ta. Dacii au fost ce au fost nici o născocire de a ta sau altui dacofob nu o să îi facă mai grozavi decât au fost. Îmi pare rău că te ai simțit ofensat dar tot un gunoi ai rămas.. 👍
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I admire Romanians ability to give huge headaches to any invaders
Definitely.
Thank you! Nobody could beat us then, only the Romans, but they actually didn't beat us, the fail was from us, we had traitors who sold the roads secrets...In my point of view nobody could beat us, I am not saying this because I am a romanian but trust me, even for modern wars (excluding planes) is very hard to come in Carpathian mountains and not expect a loose.
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@Eupraxious you're insane aren't you?
@B-List History, fucked the Romans up, the Tatars, dragged Suleiman the Magnificent through the mud amongst many other Ottoman humiliations, held fortresses against the Poles manned by no more than dozens of soldiers, never gave in to the Hungarians, gave the germans hell in WW1 in the Marasti, Marasesti and Oituz offensives and lastly kicked the soviets the fuck ooooouuuut of here not too long ago. Hell yeah, you're right we ARE tough bastards. Thank you for making me think about that.
I want to see an action movie about daco-roman wars . It will be more interesting than those movies about roman soldiers fighting brits .
There actually are a few. Unfortunately all are in Romanian and I don't think I ever seen a sub-title ever made for them
If none the less you are curios, try Dacii (1966) - ua-cam.com/video/yXXz295qtTE/v-deo.html
There is also a more recent series called "Getii".
Hope this helps, and good luck find sub-titles.
Jerry Springer Subtitles are no problem for me . I am romanian 😉. I know those movies , I was reffering to modern movies with better special effects .
YEEEEES that would be awesome. have big hollywod budgets and foreign actors and make it a big production!
I wouldn't recommend watching any "history" movie made during the comunist era. It's mostly propaganda.
You can see the movie Dacii with english subtitles ( press CC button) .
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This movie is almost perfect in the historical accuracy sence. They used archeological data and the pictures of Trajan's column from Rome to show Roman legions in their glory. Cinematography is great. I've heard they used something like 5,000 extras ( real soldiers) to create battle scenes.
I have read that Ancient Dacia was the primary source of gold for the ancient "Mediterranean" world. I also saw a history video that indicated the area(s) Dacia once occupied are still loaded with gold. Pretty sure it's one of the reasons the Romans wanted to take it so much.
The campain against Dacia was the biggest in the entire Roman History, thats because Dacia was a real threat to Roma and at that time they where almost bankrupt and Dacia had tons of gold. Today the Rosia Montana has an estimated 250Tons of Gold left, after 3Empires exploated almost 1000Tons of Gold....
lekkki1 romania has europe biggest gold reserve...and dacia in 50 bc had a vast army equal to rome
as Hispania was the biggest producer of silver in Europe, Dacia had the biggest gold reserves known to man in Europe at that time, and the Roman Empire, expanding a bit too quickly to really put enough currency into economy to stabilize it, saw the opportunity to take it's gold
I'm not too sure about this, but some of the writers and chronicals at that time said that the plunder in gold and silver from Dacia was the greatest spoils of war that were recorded in the empire's history (although I wouldn't count on this, we all know that many of these writers were "overestimating"their nations achievements)
The Dacian kingdom represented a threat to the borders of Rome, Trajan moved 150,000 men, half of the imperial legions, for the invasion, just remember that eight years after the conquest of Dacia, Trajan defeated the the Parthian Empire with the same number of legions and conquered Ctesiphon. At that time Rome was at its highest military power.
Equal to Rome?? In no way... probably Dacia could muster an army of 50.000, not professional soldiers mind you. Probably as many allies which were not willing to fight all the way to the end. Trajan brought 150.000 and there were plenty of other troops left in the Empire. It's enough to look at the size of the opponents. But yeah, Dacia was a threat... an independent kingdom on the border of the Roman Empire??? That was unacceptable for them.
My name is Dacia. My mom named me after people she read about in a history textbook, so I've always been interested in this.
Hello from a man who has dacian ancestors, your comment made my day.
Today ur named after a car
@@CarmenRosaMarisolZoila and whos the car named after? Why are u retarded?
@@medievalfarmerstudio4762 romanian name but no grasp of romanian sarcasm. What a waste
Hello. In Romania we call the girls Daciana and the boys Dacian!
Glory to the Dacian generals adorned on Constantine`s Arch in Rome. Never forgotten!
yeah... but maybe because he was dacian himself?
What victor usually honors an enemy with such a great monument?...unless, they had deeper and now kept secret connections.
@@charlesb5333 actually they are there to honour his heritage he was an ilirian thracian so... And the Empire itself was ruled by a couple of dacian emperors so...
From Constantine to Justinian and more, ruling dynasties had thracian blood. That;s why after some fighting , Geto-gots pointed to Rome, their natural enemy, and not pushed more against Byzantium, that was seen as kin.
@@charlesb5333 you are onto something, they were brothers. the latest historical findings claim same origin and migration from Balkan to Italy before founding of Rome and destruction of Ethrurians
did you knew that before Trajan came to power, Romans were forced to pay tribute to Dacians just to pass near the Danube river?
Well, you call it a tribute, they thought of it as a bribe... it was much more cost effective to simply bribe some tribes on the outskirts of the empire. It actually worked for centuries, until the Goth invasion
We was paying tribute even before not only for Danube, the purpose it was to maintain peace
Yes, but now it is called Romania, not Dacia...ask yourself why
@Jonny B lol, Domitian wasn't a weak ruler Modern Historians view him as an esteemed and excellent General. He was a straight up Autocrat who exercised personal absolute power. He won a Victory in 88 A.D, Tapae. He couldn't capitalize on it (he could have) because there was an uprising of the legions against him in Germania. After that, he was forced to take of more revolts in Pannonia. His best choice was to agree with Decebalus on some compromise, the revolts in Pannonia would take up most of the rest of Domitian's rule.
folks dont discuss more
that was the past!!!!
Congrats to Romanian people!!!!
This is wrong, I faked my own death, as I if I would ever lose...
Lol
Bend the knee tho
Yeah,ik
And you live for 2000 years already. Typical Decabalus
Lmao
Good work man! This is probably my favorite historical war. Good brief overview of Decabalus and the Dacian Wars. Keep up the good work.
VALAH 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that is just bullshit :)))))ahahahahahahahahha
They didn’t believe in immortality!! They had in their culture the fact that when someone was being born it was mourned by the other because of the hard life he will find and when someone died, he was celebrated because he ended up all the problems he had in life.. also they didn’t burried anyone but incinerate because Dacians thought that Zamolxis was waiting for them.. who knows maybe he still does 🤣🤣🤣
Good bless Romania. Amen !
Top notch stuff! Decebalus was an undoubted bad-ass!
🇲🇩As MANOWAR said once, "Feel the Power of My Sword!" 🇲🇩 HAIL to DECEBAL! Thank you very much for this video
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After conquering Dacia, Trajan brought back Decebal's treasury - 330 tons of Silver and 160 tons of gold, with which he rebuilt Rome, the capital and built the Column of Trajan.
Spoils he financed the useless campaign in the east
I freaking love your channel! So much more detailed than others!
Thanks mate!! So much more on the way ! And soon! :)
+History Time Finaly some one had the balls to talk about Dacians
+History Time By the way many of the dacians prisoners that had been taken to Rome became very important and welty people and its mentioned that 3 of them became emperors of Rome.
Proud to be Romanian !!!!!
@@ulanten892 retard?
@@ulanten892 romanians are descendants of dacians and roman colonizers
@@ulanten892 Dacians are the ancestors of romanians, did you hit your head?
I live in a village in Bulgaria which contains the ruins of Nicopolis ad Istrum, the city founded by Trajan to celebrate his victory over the Dacian.
Well... Trajan and Rome got very rich after obtaining the Dacian gold and also its gold mines for a long time.
@@L2Xenta and vlach albano macedo put trajan in government song idiot how you aclaim you are from getae ans masaget scityans they was iranians aramaic sanskritic speakers stupid idiots
Dacia is still there,trajan was a homosexual,they fake romanisation,they still our landguage and culture
@@bradsorin1969you soeao the Language of the romans not dacain
The name "Decebalus" is Romanized since it actually is spelled "Decebal". Very concise and well done!
Decebal is in Romanian because the language dropped the Latin suffix, but it comes from Decebalus. We don't know the Dacian form since we have no Dacian written sources, we know almost nothing about their language.
In fact his name was Daci Balo!
History and the music of Adrian von Ziegler in the background. Marvelous.
You forgot to mention the huge head someone sculpted in a mountain of decebalus it looks amazing honestly.
I went there:
a place called "portile de fier" aka Iron Gates
google "chipul lui Decebal - portile de fier"
I love your presentation man! Thanks for providing this information in an entertaining way.
Thank you! Thanks for stopping by :)
ive always loved the name Dacian didnt know it was romanian. its always meant somethin to me dont know why. i never heard it before i knew what it meant .
Still today is a very common family name (Dacian) in Romania. Salute to you! 👍
Actually Romanians are not Dacians at all. They consider themselves more Romans than Dacians, and the name Romania comes from the name Rome. In their national anthem they sing about Trajan and Romans, nothing about Decebal or Dacians. The only one nation that could assign the Dacian ancestors are Moldavian because they were free Dacians after Rome conquered Dacia and there are not any argue that Dacians abandoned that territory.
@@bulicanugicu4228 thanks for the explanation excellent. Damn romans
@@bulicanugicu4228🤦🏽♀️ Romanians are a mix of everything. FYI
@@bulicanugicu4228 no. they do not consider themselves more Romans than Dacians. That utter shit. Romanians come from Dacians and Tracians plus other migratory groups.
The Sarmizegetusa picture at the beginning of the video is simply wrong... that really is the Roman city built after the conquest :). They named it after the old one which was deep in the mountains
you are right ,it was the ulpia trajana sarmizegetusa ,the dacian sarmizegetusa is a few km to the east
@@tomaocatvianpuiu3558 You mean at least 100 km to the North East in Orastie Mountains.
@Bau Bau-ul romanofonilor Nu imi vine sa cred ca am citit toata tampenia asta de text pe care i vomitat-o.
Actually Decebalus was a nickname given to him by the romans meaning strong as ten people- dece+baal..his actual name was Diurpaneus
Wrong !
His formal name was Decebal .
The Romans called him Decebalus to kinda integrate his name in the Latin world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorilo#/media/File:Alba_Iulia_National_Museum_of_the_Union_2011_-_Decebalus_Per_Scrorilo.JPG
Diurpaneus or Duras was a totally different king, he ruled when Rome was governed by emperor Domitian , after an important victory against romans, he gave the power to Decebal because he saw him as a capable leader who could rule over dacians after that he remained an advisor of Decebal, at least that's what one of the theories says, no one knows if Diurpaneus was the same person as Duras or that Decebal was called like that.
@Agim Retkoceri yeah, Decebal's name means White Death, it's true, he covered himself in snow and used his Mosin Nagant rifle to kill romans
Not semitic ,baal' but ,bal'( strong in Sanskrit)+ dece from ,dasa'( 10) in Sanskrit.
As strong as 10.
Another example.
Bal from ,balaur'( dragon)
Bal from massagetae surname Balahura( bal/ strong+ hura/ hara( gifted)
The one gifted with strength.
You forgot to mention that the Roman's brought so much gold after the Damian wars that Rome suspended taxes all over its empire for 1 year!! Yet the bulk of the Dacian gold is still buried somewhere in the transylvanian mountains probably in one of the many caves since Romania has the most underground caves in the world...plus today Romania has the biggest gold reserve in the world in rosea Montana aka res mountain.
@Bau Bau-ul romanofonilor interesant grate ms
But still poor
Wrong and wrong
There is no official "country with the most underground caves in the world",but that would most likely be Mexico,they have one of the longest underground caves in the world. Australia is considered to have the most gold mine reserves in the world,we are not even in the top 10.
@@alexandrupatrascu1780 yes, he's probably saying that in the interwar period we had the largest gold export in Europe
Romania has the largest gold resources in EU at least
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I feel proud and privileged to have the Dacians and the Romans as my ancestors.
This statement is an offence to your Dacians ancestors....
Im very proud to have italian ancestry and Blood
Ha ha ha...
@@giuvannicammora2821 Italians ≠romans
@@giuvannicammora2821
no, you're not lol
@@prehistoriccreature1800 SHUT UP, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME OR ABOUT MY FAMILY
WHEN MY MOTHER WAS ITALIAN , MY FATHER WAS ITALIAN, MY ANCESTORS WAS ITALIANS AND GREEKS , SO, SHUT UP KID , ARE YOU JUST AN CHILD AND NOTHING MORE
Thank you for your depth of knowledge, your respect and impartiality for genuine history - Respect ✊
where are the hungarians talking crap about romanians being albanians coming from danube river? :)))) nice video btw i just read something about king Duras a few days ago. you have my like and subscribe.
RIA RIA GO BACK TO ALBANIA!
Hungarians are known as being a xenophobic nation, no one knows their true origins, most of the people accepts the theory that they are finno-ugric, but to be honest, they sound nothing like finno-ugric people.
@@notyourdaddude1957 ROMAnian sounds like albanian
@@Player-stahn That's because both languages share similar roots genius, illyrian and dacian were languages related to each other so many albanian words are similar with romanian words.
@@notyourdaddude1957 @Sticla Voda @Sticla Voda the Balkan homeland of the Romanians:
1. Illyria was under Roman rule in 600 years long, just like Hipania or Gallia. It's enough to Latinising the people. But Dacia was only 160 years long occupied by Romans in bloody war. Not possible to Latinising local people in 160 years in war.
2. The Romans occupied only one 3rd of the Dacian lands, there were free Dacians too. Why would be Latinised the free Dacians? It's nonsense. And if 2/3 of the Dacians didn't Latinised so where they are?
3. The Roman army in Dacia provincia wasn't made up by Latin speakers, but they were mostly Syrians and Germans. Only few military generals spoke Latin language. How the Syrians Latinised the Dacians?
4. Even if there was some Latin speakers and they made children for the Dacian ladies, the babies why would they speak Latin then? The babies learn language always from their mothers and never from the soldier-fathers who already left or died.
5. How is possible that the Romanian language have similarities with the Albanian language if they did not lived together earlier? Don't tell me that the Albanians migrated from Transylvania to the West Balkan.
6. The medieval chronicles mentioned Vlachs it means Latin speakers. Also in Hungarian chronicles mentioned Volochi and Blachi for two different people. Volochi is Latin speaker, Blachi is the Bulaq people which is Karluk-Turkic folk came in Pannonia with the Huns and they still lived there till 9th century, side of the Szekelys which is Hungarian folk also remained Huns.
7. The first mention of the Romanians from 11th century from North-Greece, Albania and the region of Ochrid lake, where the Romanian related Aromans still living. It surely about the modern Romanians.
8. If the Romanian-Vlachs were mentioned in some documents from North of Danube just because of their shepherd lifestyle. They moved a lot everywhere in the Balkan peninsula but even till Northern Carpathians and they reached Silesia too (present time Poland). So if there are few mentions of Vlachs it doesn't mean that they lived in that regions only they travelled there.
9. During the Slavic invasion on the Balkans 6-7th century the whole Balkan Slavised for example the Hunnic Bulgars, or the Latin Dalmatians too. Only the people didn't who had no too much connection with the Slavs who didn't live in towns or villages. Exactly the Vlach shepherds, because of their nomadic lifestyle didn't Slavised, but the Romanian language has massive Slavic influence. In present Romania there weren't any Slavic invasion cause of the German-Gepids, Hunnic-Avars and other Hunnic-Hungarian people who lived there.
10. The Romanians are Latin speakers. Why they liked to use Cyrillic alphabet if they lived next to Hungary where the official language was the Latin and always used the Latin alphabet? Of course the Romanians came from central Balkan where the Cyrillic alphabet needed to be useful.
11. The Romanians are Orthodox, if they lived in Transylvania, why they liked to have Orthodox religion in the Roman Catholic Hungarian Kingdom? Of course the Romanians came from the Central Balkan where the Orthodox Church is the main religion so they wouldn't choose other.
12. If the Romanians are descendants of the Dacians, why they never called Transylvania as Dacia? Why they took the Latin name of Transylvania? Why they took the Hungarian name of Transylvania as Erdely to Ardeal (pronunciation is same).?
13. What it means the name of Transylvania? Trans = over, beyond Sylvania (Sylvanus) = forest
What was called forest? The Bihar forest was called simply forest. So Transylvania means beyond the forest, beyond the Bihar forest. But wait, it's from the view of Budapest not Bucharest. It means the Hungarians gave the name to Transylvania. If the Romanians gove it would be called as Transcarpathia...... otherwise Ardeal does not have meaning in the Romanian language, but Erdely in Hungarian language came from Erdő (forest) Erdő-elve (beyond the forest....)
14. Why the Romanians have ethnic relatives in the Balkan? Aromans, Istroromans, Macedoromans and Megloromans
15. Okay the Romanians have no own chronicles, but doesn't exist any story, folk-song, or even children's tales about the Dacians from medieval times? Why the Daco-Roman continuity theory was created in 19th only?
16. If the Romanians are descendants of the Dacians, so what they did from the 3rd century to 13th century? What battles they fought? What towns they lived? Where are their churches or cemeteries? Where are the archaeological founds.? They were highly civilised no? Where are the buildings? Why the Romanians took the nsme of city (oras) from the Hungarian ''varos'' (pronunciation is the same)?
17. The Romanians were called Roumains, Rumanians, Rumanisch in other languages. But Rome in that languages is Rome and the empire is Roman empire not Ruman. The name of the Romanians came from Rum and Rumelia which is the Persian name of Byzantine empire and Turkish name of the Balkan. So Ruman means people from Rum. Roman means people from Rome. Ruman is the present time Romanians. Roman is the ancient Romans from Roman empire.
The falx is a terrifying weapon... so much nope
Hello. Great way of telling it. I need to mention also some facts, dacian tribes were much larger than the teritory Traian took under his wing, only 15% of Dacia was conquered and for a verry little perioud compared to other regions in the world. Also, after the getae-dacian&tracian(exactly the same people) rebelled, many times in history Rome was sacked by them, for example Alaric I born in modern day Romania. Also to be mentioned Constantine The Great in memory of his dacian fellows built the largest statues in Rome with dacian figures. This means something:)
The treasure of the Dacian kings, at the time Decebal was finally defeated, is estimated at about 300 tons / 300,000 kilograms of gold. It was hidden in a river-bed. The flow of the river was temporarily diverted to bury the gold. Unfortunately a traitor disclosed the location to the Romans. Trajan inherited a bankrupt empire. The Dacian gold improved the finances so well, that the city of Rome could afford a spree of construction of new public buildings, among other things.
The gold was obtained by mining inside Dacia. The mining was extended by the Romans, and has been continued to the present time. Before the re-discovery of America by Columbus, Transylvania was the most important source of gold for Europe.
@C F Amsterdam - - OK, people who read this, take "500 tons of gold" as reference information to be trusted.
Avem vreun roman pe aici? :D
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Suntem ce suntem, conteaza ce facem !
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Dan D, eu zic ca mai multe popoare si-au lasat amprenta in ADN-ul nostru
I only just discovered your channel, and I've already watched many of your videos. Great stuff
After reading some of the comments I realised that Herodotus, Dio and others didn't know anything about History :)))
In sensul sarcastic. Mesajul era pentru cei ce cred ca ai nostrii nu au existat pana la venirea lor in Europa...dupa ei, noi am aparut din neant in 1918!
@ Cosmin...
Glumesti dar ai glumit corect... ;)
Herodot chiar nu a stiut mare lucru despre Geti.
Cosmin Barbu Nu-ti bate capul, astia nu zic doar despre noi asa ceva. Practic toti vecinii le-au furat pamantul (la fel zic de slovaci si sarbi). Dupa ei, jumatate de Europa trebuia sa fie a lor.
Stiu, dar uneori parca nu se merita sa-i lasi asa. Cand ei inca alergau dupa cai prin stepele Asiei sa-i domesticeasca, noi ajunsesem sa aparam Zidul lui Hadrian in Britania...cam asta e diferenta istorica ua-cam.com/video/P4fo0k7Fj9k/v-deo.html
@ cosmin...
Ideia asta cu romani ca servitori si aparatori al Imperiului Roman mi se pare comica... ;) Vedem acelasi lucru cu Gotii care spun ca sunt descendati din Geti in scrierile lor... si ei tot mercenari au fost in legiunile Romane. Dar mai comic este situatia de astazi cu Armata Romana... mercenari pentru americani, noul Imperiu Roman.
Personal nu cred ca exemplul tau e unul bun... Ca unii dintre noi au ajuns pe vremea aia sa apare Zidul lui Hadrian nu este un lucru bun.
The reason they were so successful is because of their religion. They believed in some sort of Valhalla, if the warrior dies in battle they will live with their gods forever.
it was weird, they were apparently sad when a baby was born, as they knew some form of suffering would follow for that new person..
Maybe they were related, the Proto-Germanic faith took influences from the older Dacian faith?
@@vranceanknight4212 the very little information we have seems to suggest that the language and physique of Dacians was perhaps from a common balto-slavic origin, in which case it's tied to proto-Germanic as well.
@@empyrionin slavic they didnt exist in that time around
Zamolxism
The dacian wars is so historically underrated.
I love the time period maps
decebal means' the strengh of ten bears'
Din ce sursă ai luat asta?
Ion Coman vb serious?
Jack am intrebat daca vb serios pentru ca asta se invata in classle primare
etimologia vb de la.sine.
se pare ca tu ai deja ideile formate.nu stiy ce rost ar mai avea sa iti raspun
You just won yourself a Dacian follower
Cam greu, dacii au cam disparut, la fel si romanii. Au ramas românii!
Me Alexander Tu ai citit acest studiu pe care l-ai citat aici? Iti spune clar ca românii sunt din p.d.v. genetic un amestec de populatii: ai adn de la traco-iliri, slavi, celto-italici, etc. Toate studiile despre adn-ul românilor spun aceleasi lucruri, ca in zona aceasta a avut loc un amestec puternic de populatii. Asa s-a nascut poporul român. O tradiție bazata pe elemente dacice, slavone, o limba descendenta a latinei si o religie preluata de la romani.
Me Alexander
brilliantmaps.com/the-genetic-map-of-europe/
Poate intelegi si tu ceva din genetica. Cum ziceam, poti observa amestecul de populatie, nu "suntem daci".
Oricum, daca tu zici ca romanii au fost crestinati dupa anul 1100 imi dau seama ca nu esti "fan daci" esti pur si simplu un propagandist maghiar.
La Budapesta n-aveti acces la studiile si rapoartele arheologice romanesti? Gasiti acolo cate dovezi va doriti, trebuie doar sa le cititi.
Me Alexander
Si ce anume din ce ai citit in studiul respectiv nu corespunde cu ce am zis eu? Studiul spune clar ca romanii nu sunt daci, romani sau slavi, din p.d.v. genetic, sunt un amestec de populatii antice, peste care vin si elemente de la popoarele migratoare. Doar un idiot crede ca romanii erau doar cei din peninsula italica, statutul de roman nu se refera la etnie.
Pune mana si citeste, lasa propaganda maghiara, ca nu mai are succes!
Nu va mai crede nimeni, cu atat mai putin romanii adevarati!
Me Alexander
Si uite Ianos, daca studiezi harta o sa vezi ca românii sunt un amestec de: traci; greco-roman, anatolieni; slavi; celto-italici;
Asta e realitatea, nu conteaza daca sunt eu mandru sau nu.
I am proud to be the combined race of two kinds of human who were brave, rich, dominant, strong called Romanian.
Rich and dominant is this a new hit from florin salam or guta? That thinking is toxic.
@@Laup2ten nah that's gypsy or roma, if you can't subscribe a proper comment then don't please
Archangel nah, rich and dominant is a toxic thinking from wich conflicts are made.
Grow up please
@@Laup2ten I agree with this comment ;) but the early one is a bit of crap
Ferbinte Gabriel: "brave, rich, dominant, strong and being romanian don't match.
Maybe you only cover historical events, but I'd really like it if you made videos on the religion and culture of Dacian, Thracians, Illyrians, Gettae, and Macedonians as they are rarely discussed as opposed to the celts and Germans.
While you're at it it would be cool to see similar content on the pre-Turkic Indo-European people's of Anatolia.
You have no idea how happy I am to be romanian. If I wasnt I probably would have had an obsession with it. Even the language is so beautiful bfjsjfbebsh
Thank you for making this video. Beautifully made!
Emperor Trajan crossed the Danube with 75000 legionaries and 80 000 auxilliaries, while Decebal had 200000 soldiers plus many thousands of Roxolany horsemen, It was a huge war
A truly sad event for out history, unlike Burebista who fought against celts and other barbaric tribes, Decebal had to fight the "civilised" people and in the end he lost. And here we are today, idolizing Trajan like some kind of hero, in truth he just wanted our gold that was like a breath of fresh air for the whole empire
He also wanted to end the constant raids into Roman territory that had destroyed Moesia, which was carried out by Dacians and allies against their own kinsman on the other side of the border.
we know about dacians more but we hide it. Actually romanian is dacian.
However romanians created a fake history to link themselves to rome in an attempt to seek help from the west during 1848 revolutions
Indo-european analysis on the romanian language is very clear: “latin” words are not inherited from latin but come from “palasca” the substrate which gave latin and slavic and other languages.
Thats why dacian/romanian is similar with latin and slavic but didnt have the historical conditions to adopt it because dacians/romanians basically assimilated everyone that came here to live.
It is an analysis any linguist can make for you if you happen to know one.
Problem is romanians are not ready to accept they are not the “sons” of rome, but their uncles or grandparents
Decedalus was asking for it
Great video !!!!
Thank you for the wonderful video! And for all the other videos you are giving us
Why is not talked about the dacians statues that are over 100 in all over actual Italy?
Naaaahhh...they just respected the dacians
they all come from Trajan Forum, they were a series of 70 pieces, 8 of them you can see on top of Constantine Arch.
I believe that Sarmatian/Scythian tradition and history is not to be underestimated, especially in military, in the conflict with the Romans. I grew up close to Ziridava and the castrum of the 13th legion, 'Gemina', that was frontier land. The legion there had recruited sarmatian cataphracts - and went to Britain with them... Dacian warriors often are shown with Scythian/Sarmatian-like gear.
What! The Dacians invented and made there own war machine and they came of with foundary designs that were use all the way up to the Napoleonic wars. And the walls and architecture of Dacia was always the way they had invented. Sorry if this post is bit contentious but I’m sick of people putting down Romanians or make it look like they can’t invent their own technology or that they never contribute to innovations in history. Not only Romanian but other Eastern Europeans.
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Outstanding!!! I needed another Roman History fix. Well Done.
This is so wonderful!
You keep churning out good quality bite sized clips. Keep it up.
I wish I was independently wealthy so I could visit every interesting historical landmark
I like the music in this video. It fits with the Dacian theme.
...who sees THAT pass and thinks "Yeah, lets just walk right in there"??
Two years passed, but I need to answer this. lol Some sources say that the woods were so thick that the Romans couldn't pass through them with their horses, so perhaps that is why they chose the gorge. It makes sense because to this day our woods, especially in the southern areas are formed of tall trees and tangled, tight thicket on the forest floor. You cannot lead a horse through that.
There should a movie made about Decebalus in America cinema today!It is a very interesting part of history. I know big budget films are frowned upon nowadays;but i think this type of production,given the time’s would draw huge audiences 🎭🎬
I would love to see Emperor Trajan on the big screen but let's be honest here.
Dacians were no different to many Germanic tribes the Romans had to fight in Western Roman province of Germania.
sure, Dacians were different but still got defeated.
also, Romans defeated the Thracians, basically the cousins of Dacians south of the Danube river, modern Bulgaria.
he seemed very treacherous.
In the king Burebista times the Dacia's teritory included actualy teritory of Romania but also Panonia plane (Hungary today), south of Ukraine, the teritory of Republic of Moldova. Herodot, the great historian said about Dacians: " Dacians are the best wariors and correct people from all the tribes of Tracians". And today Romanians are the grand, grand, grand Sons of Dacians and I'm produs because i was born in Romania. Greetings from Romania!!!
Sarmizegetusa - read as SarmeeZehGEtoosah. Read "GE" as in GErmany.
It was a fortress whose name is made of 2 names : Sarmi + Get = Sarmates + Getae, 2 people of those times who lived in the area.
Dacii când se uneau, erau de neînvins!
De aia au fost cuceriti de Romani asai?:))))
Eu fost cuceriti =)))
MarcusKuann nu erau uniti in totalitate
Corect si asta,am citit undeva ca daca erau uniti,aveau a doua cea mai mare armata din europa
Ideea e ca dupa mult timp si multe incercari ale romanilor au fost cuceriti.
Excellent video. Thank you very much.
Thank you for this informative video!
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Great video
Thanks! Tons more on the way :)
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Dacians were outnumbered by Roman legions from 2 continents,they have defeated the Romans in the previous wars before ,Romans were scared shitless of Dacians,the Trajan column is full of funny Roman bravery propaganda,more than that the Romans only conquered around 20 % of Dacia ,they were scared of going deeper in the Carpathians where the free Dacians allied with the Scytho Sarmatian could had destroyed and Roman legions and descend into a shame and weakening of Rome ,very possible the Geto Dacians to be the same so called goths who burned down Rome ,according to the ostrogoth Jordanes in his Getica work the Geto Dacians are the same Getic people the getii /gotii known as Goths.
Yes very possible the Goths were the Getae. My theory is that the Goths came from Denmark. The Danes were later called "Dacos" by the Romans. The Goths came "out of nowhere" 100 years after the Romans occupied western Dacia. Surprise surprise, the "Huns" came out of nowhere 100 years after Dacia being occupied aswell. I think that the "Huns" were the "Dahae" and "massagetae" (Great getae) tribes from the Caspian Sea. The Dahae are called "Dasa" in Sanskrit. The Dahae and the Massa Getae were simply the Dacians and the Getae, all the same. I think that the Dacians when they were occupied sent some men to these areas to request reinforcement.
@@Alex-hz2xg Dacians whas getae under romans or (getae from here -D,aci.[Free dacians whas getae,messagetae or the big getae.Sarmants under getae whith the capital; Sarmi seGetusa.] Herodot father of the history say; The getae whas the most o f the world Dialect of romanian language can find in Nord India,Sud Russia,Kazackstan places were whas never romans . In Asia, over 80.000.000 people speak Romanian andreeasoarero.wordpress.com/in-asia-over-80-000-000-people-speak-romanian/ .www.google.com/search?q=messagetae++map&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjn9uafgKToAhUZtqQKHeOhDesQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=messagetae++map&gs_l=img.3...163982.176820..177446...0.0..0.170.1494.0j12......0....1..gws-wiz-img.FcmvnaWJn20&ei=ARFyXqfyEJnskgXjw7bYDg&client=firefox-b-d#imgrc=hM168nYXwUJIaM&imgdii=IAy8Ou5PaQcafM
There was nothing else of relevance to conquer in Dacia. The "free dacians" had no center of power, and represented no political unity. They had been broken forever after Adamclimsii and the posterior fall of Decebalus. "DACIA" was no more, and never came to be anything else after.
@@Mz-ci8wg well, the Roman Dacia continued officially for another 150 years, so it came to be at least that; and the Romans included the name "Sarmisegetuza" (Ulpia Traiana Sarmisegetuza) in it. The only reason why they'd do that is to try to assimilate remaining Dacians, despite the fact that they brought people from all over the Empire into Roman Dacia.
After the Aurelian retreat, they were unfortunately also starting to lose the Roman culture due to subsequent invasions, and having had the previous cultural center destroyed (the Dacian one), only a few things survived. There is this for example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biertan_Donarium .. some pottery and other archeological stuff, but nothing major - i.e: no real writing. There was cultural stagnation for many centuries thereafter. Strangely, this item is from the 5th century, but it's not really clear how the population was christened (the retreat was before the time of Constantine).
The Goths were not Getae. The Goths spoke a Germanic language, the Getae/Dacians did NOT. "Zalmos" = skin - completely different than the Germanic version. In fact, the sounds in the language are reportedly closer to Asian Languages/Iranian (i.e: a satem language). Also, all the Dacian leaders we know of did not have Germanic sounding names.
Moreover, neither did place names:
"The Dacian linguistic area is characterised mainly with composite names ending in -dava, or variations such as -deva, -daua, -daba, etc. The settlement names ending in these suffixes are geographically grouped as follows:
In Dacia: Acidava, Argedava, Argidava, Buridava, Cumidava, Dokidaua, Karsidaua, Klepidaua, Markodaua, Netindaua, Patridaua, Pelendova, *Perburidava, Petrodaua, Piroboridaua, Rhamidaua, Rusidava, Sacidaba, Sangidaua, Setidava, Singidaua, Sykidaba, Tamasidaua, Utidaua, Zargidaua, Ziridava, Zucidaua - 26 names altogether.
In Lower Moesia (the present northern Bulgaria) and Scythia Minor (Dobruja): Aedabe, *Buteridava, *Giridava, Dausdavua, Kapidaua, Murideba, Sacidava, Scaidava (Skedeba), Sagadava, Sukidaua (Sucidava) - 10 names in total.
In Upper Moesia (the present districts of Nish, Sofia, and partly Kjustendil): Aiadaba, Bregedaba, Danedebai, Desudaba, Itadeba, Kuimedaba, Zisnudeba - 7 names in total."
Finally, the dacian plant names we know of do not have Germanic names either:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dacian_plant_names
I really appreciate how much you put into the research for this video and I know it wasn't easy to find images of dacian and daco-roman scenes. However, if I can make one suggestion concerning the editing is that you have to hold on images for a couple more seconds, especially if it's one that you're showing for the first time. Remember, in the editing phase you've already seen these pics dozens of times, but we the viewers have never seen them before and we need a moment to assimilate them. Otherwise good narration, good vid, keep up the good work!
make one of burebista. or stefan cel mare ,mihai viteazul, vlad tepes greatest romanian leaders
Burebista is on the way :)
oh nice :) he was maybe greater then even decebal. made a huge army of 200 000 dacian men. btw stefan cel mare greatest romanian ever you need to look at him he was truly TRULY a legendary leader pls just look at his history what he did
Also Decebalus had 200,000 men to face 150,000 Romans.
u'r comparing apples to oranges. 150,000 soldiers vs ?... checkout ua-cam.com/video/lIr8u0j08gU/v-deo.html
150,000 Roman legionaries vs 200,000 Dacian warriors, an absolutely logical comparison.
Excellent
Trajan was one of them. He was recorded as saying. I return, to the land of my ancestors.
Source and quote?
"land of my ancestors" my ass. He was born in southern spain. He was most likely more related to the northern african people than the dacians.
@@bogdan.md01 He was born in southern Spain from an old and noble italian familly... Either way, both Italians and Spaniards are far more closely related to Romanians than to north africans.
The only europeans who are actually close to North Africa from a genetic point of view, are greeks, albanians and some bulgarians.
@@antoniudraculea4507 false. northern africa was in contact with the latin world for way much more time than us. besides, northern africa is a part of the mediterranean , unlike romania.
@@bogdan.md01 istoricul Dio Cassius n.155-d.229, imbecilule.
Why dont you have a mega intro that includes "what time is it? History Time?" Come on
I did think of this at one stage, but decided to instead keep it strictly history and start videos by going bam straight into it.
Romanian preserved the Latin case system and grammar while the other Romance languages developed prepositions and dropped the case system entirely.
This means Romanian is the closest language to Latin in terms of grammar.
It's impossible to communicate the Latin vocative case in Italian, but when a Romanian hears "et tu brute" they know exactly
how Caeser meant it(or Shakespeare rather).
Other people who hear Romanian think it sounds closest to Latin. To me Italian sounds quite effeminate with its "o" endings.
Romanian is the only romance language that still maintains a masculine and authoritative sound like Latin does.
The case declensions in Romanian are inherited directly from Latin. Therefore, they cannot be "sooo different". Italian does not even have case declensions.
It is so different from Latin that it is astounding that Italian as well as other western romance languages actually come from Latin.
The "complemento di vocazione" in Italian is just adding "oh" in front of the nouns, much like in English.
But this is not how Latin functions and it doesn't really capture the mood of the Latin and Romanian vocative case.
You are right. As a rommnian, i speak all romance languages to various degrees, but for me, latin was the easiest to learn, even though i don't use it, i simply could not stop learning it, because it is so close to romanian, i had so much fun learning it. And the pronounciation is very similar to romanian.
Nice to hear that celtic music on the background.
:) lasa ca e muzica frumoasa
ua-cam.com/video/jiwuQ6UHMQg/v-deo.html(muzica asta e aici undeva,in aceste 2 ore..)
Mie chiar imi place.
Proud to be a Romanian :D
the Balkan homeland of the Romanians:
1. Illyria was under Roman rule in 600 years long, just like Hipania or Gallia. It's enough to Latinising the people. But Dacia was only 160 years long occupied by Romans in bloody war. Not possible to Latinising local people in 160 years in war.
2. The Romans occupied only one 3rd of the Dacian lands, there were free Dacians too. Why would be Latinised the free Dacians? It's nonsense. And if 2/3 of the Dacians didn't Latinised so where they are?
3. The Roman army in Dacia provincia wasn't made up by Latin speakers, but they were mostly Syrians and Germans. Only few military generals spoke Latin language. How the Syrians Latinised the Dacians?
4. Even if there was some Latin speakers and they made children for the Dacian ladies, the babies why would they speak Latin then? The babies learn language always from their mothers and never from the soldier-fathers who already left or died.
5. How is possible that the Romanian language have similarities with the Albanian language if they did not lived together earlier? Don't tell me that the Albanians migrated from Transylvania to the West Balkan.
6. The medieval chronicles mentioned Vlachs it means Latin speakers. Also in Hungarian chronicles mentioned Volochi and Blachi for two different people. Volochi is Latin speaker, Blachi is the Bulaq people which is Karluk-Turkic folk came in Pannonia with the Huns and they still lived there till 9th century, side of the Szekelys which is Hungarian folk also remained Huns.
7. The first mention of the Romanians from 11th century from North-Greece, Albania and the region of Ochrid lake, where the Romanian related Aromans still living. It surely about the modern Romanians.
8. If the Romanian-Vlachs were mentioned in some documents from North of Danube just because of their shepherd lifestyle. They moved a lot everywhere in the Balkan peninsula but even till Northern Carpathians and they reached Silesia too (present time Poland). So if there are few mentions of Vlachs it doesn't mean that they lived in that regions only they travelled there.
9. During the Slavic invasion on the Balkans 6-7th century the whole Balkan Slavised for example the Hunnic Bulgars, or the Latin Dalmatians too. Only the people didn't who had no too much connection with the Slavs who didn't live in towns or villages. Exactly the Vlach shepherds, because of their nomadic lifestyle didn't Slavised, but the Romanian language has massive Slavic influence. In present Romania there weren't any Slavic invasion cause of the German-Gepids, Hunnic-Avars and other Hunnic-Hungarian people who lived there.
10. The Romanians are Latin speakers. Why they liked to use Cyrillic alphabet if they lived next to Hungary where the official language was the Latin and always used the Latin alphabet? Of course the Romanians came from central Balkan where the Cyrillic alphabet needed to be useful.
11. The Romanians are Orthodox, if they lived in Transylvania, why they liked to have Orthodox religion in the Roman Catholic Hungarian Kingdom? Of course the Romanians came from the Central Balkan where the Orthodox Church is the main religion so they wouldn't choose other.
12. If the Romanians are descendants of the Dacians, why they never called Transylvania as Dacia? Why they took the Latin name of Transylvania? Why they took the Hungarian name of Transylvania as Erdely to Ardeal (pronunciation is same).?
13. What it means the name of Transylvania? Trans = over, beyond Sylvania (Sylvanus) = forest
What was called forest? The Bihar forest was called simply forest. So Transylvania means beyond the forest, beyond the Bihar forest. But wait, it's from the view of Budapest not Bucharest. It means the Hungarians gave the name to Transylvania. If the Romanians gove it would be called as Transcarpathia...... otherwise Ardeal does not have meaning in the Romanian language, but Erdely in Hungarian language came from Erdő (forest) Erdő-elve (beyond the forest....)
14. Why the Romanians have ethnic relatives in the Balkan? Aromans, Istroromans, Macedoromans and Megloromans
15. Okay the Romanians have no own chronicles, but doesn't exist any story, folk-song, or even children's tales about the Dacians from medieval times? Why the Daco-Roman continuity theory was created in 19th only?
16. If the Romanians are descendants of the Dacians, so what they did from the 3rd century to 13th century? What battles they fought? What towns they lived? Where are their churches or cemeteries? Where are the archaeological founds.? They were highly civilised no? Where are the buildings? Why the Romanians took the nsme of city (oras) from the Hungarian ''varos'' (pronunciation is the same)?
17. The Romanians were called Roumains, Rumanians, Rumanisch in other languages. But Rome in that languages is Rome and the empire is Roman empire not Ruman. The name of the Romanians came from Rum and Rumelia which is the Persian name of Byzantine empire and Turkish name of the Balkan. So Ruman means people from Rum. Roman means people from Rome. Ruman is the present time Romanians. Roman is the ancient Romans from Roman empire.
Great work brother and very accurate 👍💯
A fallen hero, risen by his superb doings. A true romanian!
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No 😏
I am italian from Rome and Decebal was not romanian
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Decebalus is Dacian. Romanians are Dacians.
I try to know everything I can, and them see something on a people I've overlooked. Thank you
Decebalus means he had ten balls, so was very brave
LMAO
Good history lesson. The only criticism I have is that the poster didn't spend any time on the end of the reign of Nerva and the accession of Trajan and the circumstances which does involve Decebalus and the Treaty in question which also played a part in the events that lead up to the Dacian Wars. But Still, a good history lesson for those into european history back in the day.
A few corrections: decebal's real name was Diurpaneu. He got the nickname of Decebal after the war in 87, where he was leading the troops as a general. Decebal means: strong as 10. He was very brave and very strong and skillful in combat and warfare, which led him to him being proclaimed as king after. Also, we know that he was the son of Scorillo(former king of Dacia), as the latest archeological proof shows us, items on which were written: Decebalus per Scorillo, which translates to: Decebal, the son of Scorillo. And yes, Duras was Diurpaneu's uncle.
SAR-MI-SE-GE-TU-SA!
Rome actually had around 70,000 soldiers to the Dacians 40,000 in the first war (101) the Romans had about 40,000 porters who didn't actually fight. In the second war (105) Rome had 80,000 and 70,000 porters while Dacia had about 60,000. Usually when Rome fought barbarians they were outnumbered since they were stretched thin but the Dacian war was an exception.
Thanks for this, but 10 minutes? The entire Dacian campaign was a major headache to the Romans, having to muster legions from throughout the region several times and come up with new feats of engineering to move the armies in place. Not to mention the enormous wealth the conclusion of the wars generated to Trajan and Rome for centuries after.
If that's the criteria for a longer video, then all major Roman wars would get a longer video.
Dacians (known to Romans) and Getae (known to Greeks) were already speaking Latin when were conquered by the Romans. It is a known fact, hidden by the current academic people. They spoke a vulgar Latin (very old Latin). They were also known as the most brave and fair from all Thracians. And btw, the main goal of Trajan war campaign against Dacia was gold. The Dacians were very rich and Dacia was full of resources. The Romans were kind of broke at that point, the Roman empire was falling and they needed gold and goods (livestock, slaves, wood, iron, silver and so on) very fast. After this successful war campaign by Trajan, Rome had flourished. They took around 165 tons of gold and 330 tons of silver. One other fact hidden. Allies of Decebal were bribed by the Roman empire and they have been promised lands and titles to sell Decebal. They were told if they don't obey and they lose, all their families were to be exterminated. That is why they defected and left Decebal to fight Trajan alone. If this wouldn't have happened, maybe no roman emperor could have ever conquered Dacia.
The Dacians had a very claver plan of hiding its fortune (gold and silver). They hide it under a river. But after their defeat, it was Bicilis that told the Romans where the gold was hidden. He was a traitor.
Dio Cassius said at that time, that after Dacians defeat, the Roman people had been exempt for paying taxes for 1 year and the Colosseum games have been again restarted for 123 days in a row for the entertainment of the people. He also noted that the cereal quantity that was taken from Dacia was well over the total quantity it was imported into Rome from all other places. Trajan had begun building new roads and buildings with Dacians gold. So the main reason for this war was money and fear. They were afraid Dacia may become too rich and powerful and could threatened Rome. It is written in history that many Roman emperors tried with no success to conquer Dacia until Trajan. As a matter of fact, Rome had paid tribute to Dacia under Domitian rule.
This is not a "known fact" it is a bs Dacopathic propaganda. Dacians certainly did not speak Latin before the Romans conquered Dacia. Latin was introduced in the Roman province of Dacia by the Romans themselves. Stop eating shit.
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Propaganda my ass, it's called thinking. and not believing the BS stories from schools. They lie for a reason.
Explain this: peoples and territories conquered by the Romans for much longer than the occupation of Dacia, like Illyricum and Dalmatia (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia) or Macedonia or many other examples like Panonia region (Hungary), none of them speak any Latin or have any Latin words in their language. They are all Slavic based languages. One other point you are missing: Dacia was never 100% conquered by the Romans. Only east of Dacia and Sarmisegetuza region (the capital) were. Roxolani region and the rest were never under Roman ruling. But Tracia was, it was fully occupied and was ruled by the Romans much longer than was Dacia. Tracia is Bulgaria today. And yet, the Bulgarians speak... bulgarian, a Slavic language. So, you should think before you speak. The facts speak for themselves.
Take a look at this video (it is a timeline video, very useful) and see how long was Roman occupation in various regions and tell me if they managed to change the language, or at least influence it, in regions where they have stayed longer than Dacia. /watch?v=w5zYpWcz1-E
patricke absolutely non of the known Dacian words are even close to Latin. None of the City names are close to Latin. None of the personal names are close to Latin. Suffixes such as -dava (city) has nothing to do with Latin.
"It is a known fact, hidden by the current academic people" - FALSE. Proven false.
Fake 🤥
More materials about Dacians and Tracian family of peoples please
After the Dacian conquest, less then 25% of its original population remained. And they mixed up into the Roman colonists. That's why Romania is still a Latin speaking country.
No. Because they changed their Slavic words on Latin from France. And Italian in the 18 century. Romanian language artificial language that's why.!
It's not sure if less than 25% of its original population remained. Yes, according to Roman sources hundreds of thousands of Dacians were captured. But Roman sources were also propaganda. Say that 50,000 Dacians were captured, the Romans would write 500,000. The Emperor had to impress the people as best as he could. Making mistakes as an Emperor could lead to terrible consequences (most Roman Emperors were killed by their own people). Secondly, only the western part of Dacia was occupied (probably because that's where all the gold was). I do not think that the Romans killed off all the Free Dacians in the eastern parts of Dacia. And who knows, maybe the Romanian area was not the only area inhabited by Dacians. My own theory is that Dacians/Getae lived north of Romania aswell, perhaps as far as Denmark, and to the east as far as nowadays Turkmenistan, back then the homeplace of the Massagetae and the Dahae (called Dasa/Dasha in Sanskrit). The Danes were later called "Dacos" by the Romans.
@@GM-os6fo fuck off with that bulgarian propaganda
Dacia was never occupied by the Roman empire, they came after Dacia gold, because the roman empire in an economic crisis
2. The Hispanic emperor Trajan is recognising in one of his letters that the Hispanic people were cousins, because he said something like now i have to fight against the people of my ancestors, recognising also that the dacians were the ancestors of Romans also
3. Zalmoxis, the God of dacians is the first man who teach matts to greak people, the first who teach medicine to Egyptian people, he theach them how to pull out the whole brain of dead persons through the nose and how to preserve the body, so from this we can easily came to the conclusion that the dacians were the largest people and also the anciest of the Europe and in the world
4. The Dacian people were blonde with blue or green eyes, than we should look at the northern people, Sweden, Norwegian, etc..
5. The Dacians as the ancestors of Romans do not speak Latin and they not used within the dacians territory, they speak Dacian, Latin is used only when they must treat with Romans
6. In the Bucegi mountain it have been found stones with the human foot and hand in it, which is a proof that the dacians were using the recipe of melting stone, because it can been seen clearly the hand and the foot size of a recent born, a young man and an old.
7. Its impossible to think that the Romans could have had relations with the dacians women, because ofter the capital Sarmizegetusa fall the Romans troupes that remain had to fight with the other tribes like free dacians as the charpiens and costoboci so its imposible to imagine a marital relationship between the victims and their killers
8. The foot and the hand print in the stone found in the Bucegi mountain has an antique established age as 15 thousand years that means that the dacians were even oldest than the Chinese people
@@nikneg2735 And also because the numerous incursions of Dacians across the Danube pillaging Roman settlements.
I'm surprised you covered this.
there is a Turulbird fan here who actually believes there can be no permanent living outside walled cities, and that the Wiki holds the ultimate truth... quite sad, that is. Maybe it was the wolves who drove out anybody trying to live upon this land, until some smallish tribe came in from the Urals and BANG, here came civilization ! then some bloody shepherds flocked here from the south and multiplied like rabbits. utterly obvious.
@Lone Gunman20 Vlachs, meaning strangers according to the Goths?
thank you for not using Total War clips like every other channel... i really hate it
The Romans had the numerical advantage. Decebalus should have fought a retreating style battle and drew the 200k Roman force into a gorilla type scorch earth and harassing supply lines. IDK
he was betrayed
102 and 105 wars were prepared by the empire since its king was cezar.they needed roman born mountain warriors from spain and galia to be able to take on the dacians.they had to wait for a loial generation to be born before they could do that.took them around 130 years.the most gold they ever took from anywhere.romania
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Sarmizegetusa was lost because of a dacian traitor who informed romans where the buried water pipes are. That summer was very hot and without water, dacians were forced to try to escape, some of them preferred to jump from the walls instead of dying from thirst .
E nostim faptul ca noi am ramas cu numele de Romania, dupa Roma, si ca Italia se numeste asa dupa un trib care se numea Vitalia datorita faptului ca cresteau vite(cautati surse ca nu va mint).
Proud of my heritage
I feel like the Celtic and Dacian commenters should go to a bar and get some drinks. They'd make good drinking buddies.
Trevor given that celts and Dacians always fought each other I don’t know about that