Origin of the Romanians
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Several theories, in great extent mutually exclusive, address the issue of the origin of the Romanians. The Romanian language descends from the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken in the Roman provinces nort
The evolution of the Eastern Romance languages and territories between 6th–16th centuries according to those who accept the continuity theory
Trajan's Column in Rome
First page of the Gesta Hungarorum
Letter of Kaloyan, "tsar of Bulgaria and Vlachia" to Pope Innocent III
Roman Dacia
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Roman Dacia was a province of the Roman Empire from 106 to 271–275 AD. Its territory consisted of what are now the regions of Oltenia, Transylvania and Banat. During Roman rule, it was organized as an
Origin of the Romanians
…mainly descended from the Daco-Romans, a people developing through the cohabitation of the native Dacians and the Roman colonists in the province of Dacia Traiana (primarily in present-day Romania) north of the river Danube. The competing immigrationist theory states that the Romanians' ethnogenesis commenced in…
Trajan receives homage from a Dacian chieftain who betrayed Decebalus
Roman Moesia after 87 AD
Trajan's Trophy at Civitas Tropaensium
Trajan's Column Rome