I drank the cleanest and coldest water of my life from a mountain spring around Borsec, Transylvania. I also had the best sleep and appetite there due to the extremely fresh air. Spending there 10 days was priceless and felt like the only therapy that one needs from the pressure of work and city life. That summer I decided to avoid the sea, and take some real rest. Transylvania was the best decision - no stress, a truly relaxing vacation, a medicine for body and mind. I can't wait to go back to the area. Stunning, beautiful Romania.
shhhhh, don't tell anyone, keep it a secret, if too many people know it will be overcrowded and the magic will be gone. the last bastion of proper wild nature in EU.
iată ce scrie AI despre români: Migrația valahilor (români în sensul de astăzi) în Transilvania a fost un proces complex din punct de vedere istoric, care s-a desfășurat de-a lungul mai multor secole. Începuturile imigrației românești în Transilvania pot fi urmărite încă din Evul Mediu, în special în jurul secolului al XII-lea. Principalele fapte și evenimente istorice: Origine medievală: Românii s-au stabilit în Transilvania în secolele al XII-lea și al XIII-lea, când teritoriile Regatului Ungariei erau caracterizate de zone nelocuite, împădurite. Populația românească provenea din Carpații Meridionali și s-a așezat treptat în munți și văi. Statut etnic și social: La început, românii se ocupau cu precădere în păstorit și agricultură. Aveau un statut special în societatea transilvăneană și trăiau adesea în comunități autonome. Schimbări demografice: În secolele al XIII-lea și al XIV-lea, ca urmare a invaziilor mongole și a altor evenimente istorice, numărul românilor din Transilvania a crescut. Păstoritul montan și protecția frontierei au contribuit și ele la creșterea comunităților românești. Evul Mediu Târziu și Epoca Modernă: Românii sosiți în valuri noi s-au așezat adesea sub protecția Regatului Ungariei, în special în zonele de graniță. În timpul subjugării turcești, prezența românilor în Transilvania a continuat să crească, ceea ce a dus la o schimbare a proporțiilor demografice.
This documentary is flawed, I’ve watched 7 minutes and I’m already annoyed about the misleading information. Cluj-Napoca as it was named Klausenburg was NOT founded by the germans, Cluj previously known just as Napoca was has been a settlement for more then 2000 years, they found remains of roman buildings in the city.
I don’t understand this documentary. What are you trying to show? Except for the part with the Merry Cemetery, what are you actually showing? That Transylvania is lost in time and backward? 'In this male-dominated blabla.' You could have talked about the beautiful landscape like the mountains, the hospitality, the fact that in Transylvania, at least in the bigger cities, they are modernizing fast, making huge leaps. You are showing horses and carriages on the road to make people believe that's the whole country. Please...
Well, this is a German broadcast show and you know how they are. All European culture belongs to Germans somehow. They are still busy trying to rewrite history and exterminate native cultures.
Basically what the documentary is showing is that Transylvania is represented by Maramures (which is a completely different region that was never part of Transylvania ), by the culture of Rroma people, by long lost germans who are trying to revive old traditions, and of course by Klausenburg a city founded by germans. This is utter nonsense. What about the Romanian history behind all the cities, the Hungarian heritage, and what about the Ancient Roman settlers that founded many cities in Transylvania, cities like Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg). I am amazed by the amount of nonsense. 😂
because they want to portray romania as some sort of multi cultural dystopia when in the reality romanians and hungarians don't even get along with cigans and they hate us
Maramures is part of Transylvania lmao, I’m from Transylvania with family in Maramures, cluj and bistrita… we have the same culture and history… Transilvania as a region also includes Maramures, Crisana and Banat, they don’t have individual identities, they were regions of the Transylvanian principality just like Oltenia and Muntenia are regions of wallachia.
Romania is so nice. I was there last may by chance and was so pleasantly surprised. People in Bucharest were really welcoming and warm. I’m definitely coming back this year to explore more.
@@sticlavoda5632 Of course they are allowed to show the life of minorities. However, I was expecting @DW Documentary to make a professional and well-documented documentary about a region of Romania, Transylvania. A lot of people who see these documentaries online don't know much about Romania, maybe they are not even from Europe, so it makes sense that good-quality documentary explains as an introduction that this is a region of Romania where different minorities live. In the same time, the documentary mentions nothing about the big cities or the highly educated people that live there. The documentary starts by stating the fact that it is a male-dominated society, as if the Romanian society is from the 19th century. I am sorry to state, but the quality of the documentary is of very low quality.
@@mihaelaconstantin9672 I agree, as a Romanian also, but the interest in Romania is particularly for its archaisms and traditional way of life. This is an Orientalist outlook onto our culture, but it makes sense why they would show it. They were actively looking for portraying such a culture. The documentary talks about Cluj, shows it, and discusses the German minorities with a high respect for them, considering that the Germans themselves made this documentary. It also speaks of how those very Germans would have an interest to return to Romania on account of it's culture.
"The largest ethnic minority in the country, the Roma....." false! The Roma is not the largest ethnic minority in Romania! - here is the percentage: Ethnic groups Romanian 89.3%, Hungarian 6%, Romani 3.4%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.1%, other 0.9% (2021 est.)
@@bitterblue8115Lets be real we are all gypsies, Romanian = Romani same name so that means same people, so everyone gypsy, smartest westerner, the largest ethnic minority are Hungarians, over 1 million, don’t be ignorant.
We love our heritage and we want to keep it that way, to preserve it. Thank you for this wonderful film, it is incredible. Love and hugs from Transylvania, Romania, to all of our friends.
"on the roads there are almost as many carts as there are cars". Also starts video talking about Romanians but then they show Roma people. Stereotypes activated. The same as if I made a documentary about Germany and say Germany is a country full of great people and proceed to show Turkish people 🤣
@@superstrongrIt does depend on the region, in some parts of Transylvania especially places with more Roma there will be more carts and horses, but certainly never as many as cars...
Fun fact: Sapanta, where the happy cemetery is, is on the border with Ukraine, it's like a km away from the border. So me, because I live in Bucharest (the capital of Romania and by far the largest city) have to drive 9.5 hours to get there, so it's faster for me to get to a beach in Greece then it is to get to Sapanta:))
@@gabor247 of course, it does not matter. what matters is to have a diverse community that live in peace. A strong nation is the one who protect its minorities!
@Milothebritishcat I agree, that would be ideal! Unfortunately the percentage of the minorities are descending in Romania, so there is no real protection. Let's don't make the same mistakes as with the german minority! (They basically disappeared)
It’s my dream to visit Transylvania. I’m not giving up on it. I live for videos that can show me behind the tourist traps. So beautiful and the people are hardworking and delightful
Cluj-Napoca the name Napoca is mentioned by Ptelomeu (Napuca). The first appearance of the city dates in 107-108 . In that time romania was called Dacia .
The documentary is made by Germans, so a little slip of history is understandable, I think it was intentional to state that the Germans founded Cluj. It was founded more than 1500 years before 13th century, but DW didn't care to check and ignored history altogether.
There is, certainly dacians are not equal to romanians but the dacians are the ancestors of nowadays romanians. If you choose to believe in the "albanian vlach sheperd" theory then so be it but don't spew it on here.@@yellowscreen8591
There is absolutely no connection between roman Napoca/ dacian Napuca and the medieval town of Cluj founded and developed by saxon colonists besides the placement (Napuca wasn't even on the same place with the roman and medieval towns). The roman ruins are unbothered since the IVth century which means that there cannot be the case of continuous living . When Cluj was founded, only the base of the roman city walls were above the ground. Napoca is a predecessor at best but not the same with the actual city of Cluj. And the actual name is the result of a fatasy revival designed by the communists in the 70's not an organic toponymical evolution.
Sorry to tell you but appart from the cemetery most of it is false. False historical information, showing the 3 to 5 percent as the population and stating that is the majority. As a Romanian it hurts to watch.
@@DWDocumentarymaybe next time you won't include so many things that aren't true. I won't comment more, since the whole comments section and mostly top comments make it clear
1. Besides the reference about roma people for a few seconds right in the beginning, creating confusion in people's minds about who's roma(gypsy) and who's the rest; 2. In 42 minutes, they've could mention Hungarian ethnic people.
@@bitterblue8115 The confluence of the Kama and Volga rivers is not really in Asia, but what would you expect from a roma. You guys were late nomadic sheperds from the Balkans, not really Dacian of you.
The stories picked up for the documentary are fine. But there is no mention of the Seklers and rest of Hungarians at all, which is quite weird you could not find any stories for them (I only can just hope it was not intentional) . The only thing I can think of is that you would make a second part of the documentary to make up for that. As it is now I can't grade this better then C+.
This was so emotional for me to watch. Each story has been beautiful ❤️ thank for everyone for making it and the people themselves:) Wishing everyone good health and a long and happy life 😊
There are many flaws in this video. Transilvania is also industrialised and with mostly educated people. We shall never be slaves in our own lands, never again.
Yeah but no one cares about industry, people are interested in nature, industry is everywhere on the planet no one wants to vist some industrial area like what is wrong with you?
Asta e propaganda Putinusta ca am fost sclavi … In adevăr , țăranii transilvăneni erau bogați și civilizați . Imperiul austro-ungar a dezvoltat provincia . Marea sclavie a început când Transilvania s-a unit cu otomana oltenie și banii transilvănenilor s-au devalorizat la jumătate
it does mean youth but in the old days it also meant Virgin...feciori and fecioare...clean and pure waiting for the blessing of family and church to become one...something that is a rare occurrence nowadays
While the presented people, heritage and regions are beautiful and respect for that this is just barely scratching the surface of the wonders of Transilvania. Either this should've been a multiple episode documentary or should've been better organized. (No disrespect for the people presented in the documentary, wish them all the best) Just should've been deeper.
Second comment for this, the village cross maker/poet saying that he has faith in his son in law who will make his cross one day got me…I don’t think we have this in our new world and it’s the beauty in life we so badly need nowadays. Good people
Another wonderful documentary about ( Transylvania) in the middle of Romania 🇷🇴 .. this thrilled watching 👀 🤩 documentary was shared by an excellent ( DW) channel.
@@dragos550 it's hard to behave like a civilised man isn't it? Also tell me you're not from Transylvania without telling me you're not from Transylvania.
The Gilau market was like most markets a traditionally ROMANIAN and for anyone, not just a Roma Gypsy horse market. Imagine that the Romanian majority also used those traditionally ROMANIAN horses in the mountains nearby and sold them in regulated markets, for hundreds of years. The Romanians traded Romanian breed horses or cattle in that market long before came Pufi and Costel, representing a 3-4% Gypsy minority.
Sadly, however much heartwarming and charming the little film is, it's not representative as a documentary. The Hungarian minority is the biggest in the country and yet it's not mentioned but once in a faraway historical context. Would have loved to see a Hungarian village or one of the many cities featured.
The poem that will be written on Demetrius Pope's cross: You see, all these poems in the cemetery were written by me, Demetrius. Every word, every letter of these poems cost me effort and deep thought. I loved my work, and now it was time to rest.
So proud to be Romanian , based in very west of Romania , last year I visited almost every place presented here ,including the famous cemetery,everything feels like you back in time at least two long generations 😊
The english translations of the crosses don't really show the beauty of them. They are written like a poetry, and much funnier in romanian. It's a clear psyhchological difference between "ardate focul" and "burn in hell".
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We won't have that here.. if we have we're pretty crazy if strangers disrespect our religion and country, it is quite the same here in the Balkans to act and defend what's ours@@SpamMouse
which religion? the orthodox one? the catholics? saxonnes evangelicals? judaism? neoprotestants? atheists? we don't have a religion, we have many. With or without islam it would be the exact same.@@lorebringers
@@SpamMousetransilvania was part of ottoman empire after the battle of Mohaci, the church of Biertan and manny other still have the Moon crescent 🌙 engraved on them to show that they pay the sultan. People still lived there fine with muslim overlords
Nice that they mention the German and the roma minorities. However, I do not understand how they could leave out mentioning the Hungarian 'minority' of Transylvania, which is actually more, than prominent in the region... Very misleading.. Based on this video, I question the credibility of DW...
És gondolod, hogy ez véletlen volt...? Ahogy eltüntették/eltüntetik a magyarokat Erdélyből, Moldvából, ugyanúgy meg sem említik őket egy Erdélyről szóló "dokumentumfilmben". Vagyis egy román fasiszta propaganda filmben... Mivelhogy nagyon zavarná nagyon érzékeny és nagyon fasiszta nagyromániás román érzelmeiket!
6:35 Misinformation! The history of Cluj begins with the population of the territory of the modern city by Dacian and Celt tribes, who supposedly gave the area the name of Napoca, and its conquest by the Roman Empire. Promoted to the rank of a colony, the Roman fort Napoca is for a time the capital of the Dacia Porolissensis province. After the Roman retreat and centuries of invasions by migratory peoples, Cluj was repopulated with invading Saxon colonists in the 13th century
"invading Saxon colonists" lol, cringe comment. They were just Saxon colonists, full stop. They colonised an empty land and made the marvellous arhitecture that all admire today. Not the Romanian ugly blocks
I exepcted you to do at least the bare minimum when it comes to research, Cluj is attested sice Roman times, I am a history lover and I am trully dissapointed 😢
Absolutely loved this well done. They people are so down to earth and care about their country and traditions and have respect, seems like life is hard but so worth it.God bless these people. ❤❤❤😢
A male dominated culture in ROMANIA, and then you proceed with an interview with a guy that says that he's roma? Roma and romanians are not ethnically the same thing, get it through your damn heads. Never have I also heard this male dominated culture bullshit in Romania my entire life. I'm romanian and we're not some fucking nomadic tribe with horse traditions (not even all roma have these sort of traditions, it depends on region, some have been lost), but we're a fully established civilization that has been here for THOUSANDS OF YEARS, our culture consists of so many myths and legends involving women spirits and making the woman sacred at times, especially paired with the heavy orthodox christian influence that sees The Holy Marry as mother to us all as christians, so indeed we are not a male dominated culture by no means! Where do all these blunders come from???
A documentary which starts with a basically FLAWED information, is not good. Cluj-Napoca had some Saxon population but has nothing to do with them. It is Kolozsvar and predominantly founded and built by Hungarians. Everything you see today of the historic city and historic significance is Hungarian. You can find Roman heritage underground like in any other old European town… There are other cities far away which were founded by Germans because the Hungarian king brought them in to work the fields after the mongols decimated Eastern Europe in the 12-15 th century….
First seconds into the show and I already hear, "Male dominated region"?! Where did you get that impression? And the first Romanian interviewed is a Roma? This goes to show you that the West thinks Romanians are Roma people. I would expect this from an ignorant foreigner, but not from DW... A few lessons for DW: * Roma people only make about 3% of Romania's population. * Roma people are all over Europe, not only in Romania. * Roma is not to be confused with Romanian. Although they may sound the same, they are not the same people.
I think its Disrespect to the people of Transylvania, to Start the whole documentary with the Gypsies (Roma) It is definitely NOT the First thing you should mention.. It's like if you want to Present Germany, and you start with the Drug Addicts on the Streets... Cmon this is the best you can do ?
0:16 "a male dominated culture" 😂 Germans trying to portray Romanians as retrogrades. As always , a great sense of humour. How's those VWs of yours ? Are you guys still trying to scam the emissions test ?
this is the perfect example of " when you read a book, you understand it through the eyes and ideeas of the author" with the diference book-video. just explore, this country is very safe and surely beautiful.
I been to Bran castle with my family including my uncles. We know that Vlad Țepeş or Vlad III never was in that castle built by his grandfather. Vlad was a wonderful perhaps the best ruler of Wallachia! We have wonderful traditions to be proud of for sure!
@@vishalgaharwar582 the story of what? the only thing is that romanians and hungarians don't get along with tigani, they just throw a lot of stuff in this "documentary" and called it a day, because the germans have wet dreams about multiculturalism and will want every country to end up a dystopia like theirs
Disclaimer: the documentary focuses on a small bit of the rural / traditional Ardeal (including Transilvania). It has some small misses, like saying that Maramureș is part of Transilvania, wrong, and showing a few minutes later the map of Transilvania, with Maramureș not included, correct. But there is a big blunder, please make your research - you are supposed to keep a standard, about Cluj Napoca being founded by German settlers in the Middle Ages. There are visible ruins from the Dacian - Roman era (the city was named then Napoca), excavated and covered with a thick glass in the city centre, for everyone who is interested to see - just saying... Leaving aside the blunder, nice documentary.
Maramures is definitely part of Transilvania… there is Transilvania proper and the region of Transilvania which includes Maramures, Banat and Crisana too. And yes, we have Roman ruins in cluj underground but the city we know today was built by Germans.
@@Qwerty1637i The political entity of Principality of Transilvania is gone for hundreds of years, so no, Transilvania doesn't include today more than the historical region of Transilvania. The documentary was done this year, not hundreds of years ago. For the other part, with variations (sometimes big ones) on it's population, surface, etc, that settlement had a continuity from it's founding, Before Christ. The German population settled there by the Hungarian crown changed, expanded, improved, developed - or any other synonyms - the existing settlement, without question. But they didn't found that settlement, it was already there, with a continuous existence for more than 1000 years at the time they got there.
@@podinamarius no it’s it gone, it always existed also under Austria as a crown etc… again all those are part of Transylvania too, I have family in Maramures and Bihor too, all of them are ardeleni, there ie no distinction between us… just like Oltenia and Muntenia are wallachia. Why you always try to change our history and identity in Transylvania? Crisana, Maramures and Banat are just sub-regions of Transylvania not separated entities!! And no, Cluj didn’t have a continuity, I’m from cluj, the city was literally non existent before the Saxons… it was not inhabited by nobody since there wasn’t a settlement anymore after the romans.
@@Qwerty1637i Without repeating myself, they are different regions regardless of personal anecdotes of self-identity. It is about historical rigor, not about some kind of agenda. And this is coming from a Maramures person.
@@user-uy5to1mf7b no, you don’t understand that there is Transylvania proper ( most of the time called Siebenbürgen) and Transylvania the region. All western Romania is part of the region of Transylvania, maramures included just like Oltenia and Muntenia are part of Wallachia or Bucovina is part of Moldova.
The translations of the poems on the crosses is horrible. The one regarding the young man that died in a car accident is not even close to what was written on the cross.
I drank the cleanest and coldest water of my life from a mountain spring around Borsec, Transylvania. I also had the best sleep and appetite there due to the extremely fresh air. Spending there 10 days was priceless and felt like the only therapy that one needs from the pressure of work and city life. That summer I decided to avoid the sea, and take some real rest. Transylvania was the best decision - no stress, a truly relaxing vacation, a medicine for body and mind. I can't wait to go back to the area. Stunning, beautiful Romania.
all of Transylvania was built by Hungarians and Germans
@@zoltan6451 🤣🤣🤣
Where are you from, if I may ask?
shhhhh, don't tell anyone, keep it a secret, if too many people know it will be overcrowded and the magic will be gone. the last bastion of proper wild nature in EU.
@@fabiss23 well, tell that to the influencers 😄 this is just a harmless comment celebrating the beauty of Transylvania and I stand by it.
Romania should be happy to have so much beautiful nature.
With Much love from Albania to Romania.
Greetings to our Illyrian cousins !
Good Health and Happiness for the people of Albania !!!
@@astralxing988 Thanks so much
Love and respect to our cousins 🇷🇴 🇦🇱
thank you. also love albania
We love our Albaniens cousins!❤️🙏
I am moldavian who lives in Moldova region, province of Romania) and i am so proud by having such a beautiful country.
iată ce scrie AI despre români: Migrația valahilor (români în sensul de astăzi) în Transilvania a fost un proces complex din punct de vedere istoric, care s-a desfășurat de-a lungul mai multor secole. Începuturile imigrației românești în Transilvania pot fi urmărite încă din Evul Mediu, în special în jurul secolului al XII-lea.
Principalele fapte și evenimente istorice:
Origine medievală: Românii s-au stabilit în Transilvania în secolele al XII-lea și al XIII-lea, când teritoriile Regatului Ungariei erau caracterizate de zone nelocuite, împădurite. Populația românească provenea din Carpații Meridionali și s-a așezat treptat în munți și văi.
Statut etnic și social: La început, românii se ocupau cu precădere în păstorit și agricultură. Aveau un statut special în societatea transilvăneană și trăiau adesea în comunități autonome.
Schimbări demografice: În secolele al XIII-lea și al XIV-lea, ca urmare a invaziilor mongole și a altor evenimente istorice, numărul românilor din Transilvania a crescut. Păstoritul montan și protecția frontierei au contribuit și ele la creșterea comunităților românești.
Evul Mediu Târziu și Epoca Modernă: Românii sosiți în valuri noi s-au așezat adesea sub protecția Regatului Ungariei, în special în zonele de graniță. În timpul subjugării turcești, prezența românilor în Transilvania a continuat să crească, ceea ce a dus la o schimbare a proporțiilor demografice.
This documentary is flawed, I’ve watched 7 minutes and I’m already annoyed about the misleading information. Cluj-Napoca as it was named Klausenburg was NOT founded by the germans, Cluj previously known just as Napoca was has been a settlement for more then 2000 years, they found remains of roman buildings in the city.
I don’t understand this documentary. What are you trying to show? Except for the part with the Merry Cemetery, what are you actually showing? That Transylvania is lost in time and backward? 'In this male-dominated blabla.' You could have talked about the beautiful landscape like the mountains, the hospitality, the fact that in Transylvania, at least in the bigger cities, they are modernizing fast, making huge leaps. You are showing horses and carriages on the road to make people believe that's the whole country. Please...
Well, this is a German broadcast show and you know how they are. All European culture belongs to Germans somehow. They are still busy trying to rewrite history and exterminate native cultures.
@@ionrus1355 why so mad girl
It's KOLOZSVÀRnot klausenburg lol
We still have Roman maps wich have Cluj and Turda (Potaisa) …. They are at least 2200 years old.
Basically what the documentary is showing is that Transylvania is represented by Maramures (which is a completely different region that was never part of Transylvania ), by the culture of Rroma people, by long lost germans who are trying to revive old traditions, and of course by Klausenburg a city founded by germans. This is utter nonsense. What about the Romanian history behind all the cities, the Hungarian heritage, and what about the Ancient Roman settlers that founded many cities in Transylvania, cities like Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg). I am amazed by the amount of nonsense. 😂
because they want to portray romania as some sort of multi cultural dystopia when in the reality romanians and hungarians don't even get along with cigans and they hate us
You have right Maramureș was part only to region bucharest-ploiesti yes.....😂😂😂😂😜🤪😜🤪
I never expected DW to be so openly misleading and to spread this kind of propaganda. They put so much false information.
@@Nina.In.Narnia Why not, it's an official propaganda tool
Maramures is part of Transylvania lmao, I’m from Transylvania with family in Maramures, cluj and bistrita… we have the same culture and history… Transilvania as a region also includes Maramures, Crisana and Banat, they don’t have individual identities, they were regions of the Transylvanian principality just like Oltenia and Muntenia are regions of wallachia.
Romania is so nice. I was there last may by chance and was so pleasantly surprised. People in Bucharest were really welcoming and warm. I’m definitely coming back this year to explore more.
all of Transylvania was built by Hungarians and Germans
I am romanian desgusting go to the africans brothers son ha ha hahaha.
We welcome you back . Maybe you choose to settle in Romania/transilvania.
"People in Bucharest were really welcoming and warm" Say what?! C'mon stop it!
you open the documentary with a Roma person, about Transilvania in Romania.
way to go
I was thinking exactly the same! the documentary is very biased
@@mihaelaconstantin9672 Are they not allowed to show the life of ethnic minorities in a multi-ethnic region?
@@sticlavoda5632 Of course they are allowed to show the life of minorities. However, I was expecting @DW Documentary to make a professional and well-documented documentary about a region of Romania, Transylvania. A lot of people who see these documentaries online don't know much about Romania, maybe they are not even from Europe, so it makes sense that good-quality documentary explains as an introduction that this is a region of Romania where different minorities live. In the same time, the documentary mentions nothing about the big cities or the highly educated people that live there. The documentary starts by stating the fact that it is a male-dominated society, as if the Romanian society is from the 19th century. I am sorry to state, but the quality of the documentary is of very low quality.
@@mihaelaconstantin9672 I agree, as a Romanian also, but the interest in Romania is particularly for its archaisms and traditional way of life. This is an Orientalist outlook onto our culture, but it makes sense why they would show it. They were actively looking for portraying such a culture.
The documentary talks about Cluj, shows it, and discusses the German minorities with a high respect for them, considering that the Germans themselves made this documentary. It also speaks of how those very Germans would have an interest to return to Romania on account of it's culture.
@@mihaelaconstantin9672now regarding the female centric economy they may look like Shaw's Mrs Warren 's Proffesion
"The largest ethnic minority in the country, the Roma....." false! The Roma is not the largest ethnic minority in Romania! - here is the percentage: Ethnic groups Romanian 89.3%, Hungarian 6%, Romani 3.4%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.1%, other 0.9% (2021 est.)
Thanks DW for showing us the (other) people the Germans killed
DW = German propaganda and disinformation
Let's be real... gypsies/roma are way over 10% even if many declare themselves romanian or hungarian in the census
@@bitterblue8115Lets be real we are all gypsies, Romanian = Romani same name so that means same people, so everyone gypsy, smartest westerner, the largest ethnic minority are Hungarians, over 1 million, don’t be ignorant.
@@cosmindvd Sure... and the Austrians = Australians same name so that means same people.
Love from California! My Great Grandparents were from Transylvania.
all of Transylvania was built by Hungarians and Germans
always great to have hungarian grandparents
@@barsnack7999 For real what's your problem , tell me your context
@@hubris04 who are you
@@barsnack7999 I asked you a Question , what's the context of your comment
Thanks for promoting Romania. The country it's absolutely amazing. I wish you all the best
We love our heritage and we want to keep it that way, to preserve it. Thank you for this wonderful film, it is incredible. Love and hugs from Transylvania, Romania, to all of our friends.
Just unbelievable how DW can comprise so many mistakes in one short so called documentary. @DW ???? Is this journalism nowadays?
German Propaganda
THANK YOU!
"on the roads there are almost as many carts as there are cars". Also starts video talking about Romanians but then they show Roma people. Stereotypes activated.
The same as if I made a documentary about Germany and say Germany is a country full of great people and proceed to show Turkish people 🤣
good argument
Also last time I was in Romania I would go for days without seeing a horse……
@@superstrongrIt does depend on the region, in some parts of Transylvania especially places with more Roma there will be more carts and horses, but certainly never as many as cars...
@@sssssneaker There is a 4-5% Roma community in Transylvania, so would that be telling about the life of a 78% Romanian majority?
I should be more interested in a documentary about who, why and how were killed the Romanians there in the WWII?
Fun fact: Sapanta, where the happy cemetery is, is on the border with Ukraine, it's like a km away from the border. So me, because I live in Bucharest (the capital of Romania and by far the largest city) have to drive 9.5 hours to get there, so it's faster for me to get to a beach in Greece then it is to get to Sapanta:))
The place where I was born and raised! The most beautiful place on earth!
Romanians, Germans and Hungarians living all together. We are proud of our community!
😘😘🤗
In Germany and Hungary to be more balanced
How many Germans are still there? Hardly any
@@gabor247 of course, it does not matter. what matters is to have a diverse community that live in peace. A strong nation is the one who protect its minorities!
@Milothebritishcat I agree, that would be ideal! Unfortunately the percentage of the minorities are descending in Romania, so there is no real protection. Let's don't make the same mistakes as with the german minority! (They basically disappeared)
It’s my dream to visit Transylvania. I’m not giving up on it. I live for videos that can show me behind the tourist traps. So beautiful and the people are hardworking and delightful
Watching from Australia. This was all so interesting about the culture of the region. So many different types of crafts still being used. Thank you
Is just german propaganda
On what roads are there as many horses as cars? This is ridiculous. Which small villages are these?
Is this a communist speech?
They surely know better your country than yourself
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
I love my country and I hope to go back soon someday 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
❤
0:15 " A male-dominated culture that nevertheless has its softer sides" That sounded very awkward to me as a romanian! 😑
I would say only thing male dominated is alcoholism... but some women in my village can easily outdrink their husbands 🤣
Oh man,I burst out laughing here,far away from Romania, 😂
I admire the guy living in the mountains and rearing sheep and making charcoal. It's hard work but he has freedom and fresh air 😊
Freedom and fresh air is serenity at its peak
all of Transylvania was built by Hungarians and Germans
Cluj-Napoca the name Napoca is mentioned by Ptelomeu (Napuca). The first appearance of the city dates in 107-108 . In that time romania was called Dacia .
The documentary is made by Germans, so a little slip of history is understandable, I think it was intentional to state that the Germans founded Cluj. It was founded more than 1500 years before 13th century, but DW didn't care to check and ignored history altogether.
@@repertoirecanvasno is not "understandable" 🙈
There is no connection between romanians and dacians. Also Kolozsvár was built and designed by Hungarians and Germans.
There is, certainly dacians are not equal to romanians but the dacians are the ancestors of nowadays romanians. If you choose to believe in the "albanian vlach sheperd" theory then so be it but don't spew it on here.@@yellowscreen8591
There is absolutely no connection between roman Napoca/ dacian Napuca and the medieval town of Cluj founded and developed by saxon colonists besides the placement (Napuca wasn't even on the same place with the roman and medieval towns). The roman ruins are unbothered since the IVth century which means that there cannot be the case of continuous living . When Cluj was founded, only the base of the roman city walls were above the ground. Napoca is a predecessor at best but not the same with the actual city of Cluj. And the actual name is the result of a fatasy revival designed by the communists in the 70's not an organic toponymical evolution.
Such wonderful culture and value they hold! I wish I could visit Romania soon. Creative director and producer. Thank you
all of Transylvania was built by Hungarians and Germans
I speak Romanian... whoever translated the poems did a very poor job... left out all the charm in the adaptation.
what an amazing beautiful documentary of this fascinating area of the world! Thank you so much DW!
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Sorry to tell you but appart from the cemetery most of it is false. False historical information, showing the 3 to 5 percent as the population and stating that is the majority. As a Romanian it hurts to watch.
@@DWDocumentarymaybe next time you won't include so many things that aren't true. I won't comment more, since the whole comments section and mostly top comments make it clear
@@ipa_games_official Indeed. This was a very poor documentary. It's as if DW wants to promote some stereotypes. Shame.
Beautiful country of Romania .
We did a road trip through transylvania, visiting brasov, sibiu and shigisoara
Absolutely loved it ❤️
all of Transylvania was built by Hungarians and Germans
We welcome you back ! 😘
What a stunning place, it's so green.
1. Besides the reference about roma people for a few seconds right in the beginning, creating confusion in people's minds about who's roma(gypsy) and who's the rest;
2. In 42 minutes, they've could mention Hungarian ethnic people.
Impossible to skip them in the comments
Why would they mention the occupiers??
@@bitterblue8115Occupied? Vlachs were settled down by Hungarians
@@adamhaid8612 I know you come from Asia but pls learn European history. Thanks!
@@bitterblue8115 The confluence of the Kama and Volga rivers is not really in Asia, but what would you expect from a roma. You guys were late nomadic sheperds from the Balkans, not really Dacian of you.
Bravo. Really really enjoyed this documentary DW! Thank you and I love the new voice overs 🎉
Thanks for watching and for your constructive feedback! :-)
@@DWDocumentaryGerman propaganda 🤡
It's not a documentary, it's second-hand German propaganda
The stories picked up for the documentary are fine. But there is no mention of the Seklers and rest of Hungarians at all, which is quite weird you could not find any stories for them (I only can just hope it was not intentional) . The only thing I can think of is that you would make a second part of the documentary to make up for that. As it is now I can't grade this better then C+.
My thoughts exactly
Why would they mention hungarians in a documentary about Romania?
I feel like a documentary about Transylvania should also include Szeklers
Transylvania is romanian land, so no. Go to hungary and talk about whatever you like!
@@ai-no3ibyou guys stole it, you know it’s true but you don’t like hearing the truth 😅
@@sherekhan90 You’re the one who came from Asia, while we always lived in the Carpathian basin. Even wikipedia says so🤣🤣🤣cope
@@sherekhan90 wikipedia disagrees with you. 🤣🤣🤣🤣all historical documents and artifacts disagree with you
@@ai-no3ib I’m Dutch but never mind…
Traiasca Romania Mare si Unita !🇷🇴🇲🇩🇷🇴
Unită cu cine?🤔
@@alex_b007 Cu celelalte principate, este evident.
This was so emotional for me to watch. Each story has been beautiful ❤️ thank for everyone for making it and the people themselves:)
Wishing everyone good health and a long and happy life 😊
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all of Transylvania was built by Hungarians and Germans@@DWDocumentary
@@zoltan6451troll much?
@@dariusmirza5998no by killing the Romanians he means
Russian or Hungayran troll?
There are many flaws in this video. Transilvania is also industrialised and with mostly educated people.
We shall never be slaves in our own lands, never again.
Yeah but no one cares about industry, people are interested in nature, industry is everywhere on the planet no one wants to vist some industrial area like what is wrong with you?
Asta e propaganda Putinusta ca am fost sclavi … In adevăr , țăranii transilvăneni erau bogați și civilizați . Imperiul austro-ungar a dezvoltat provincia . Marea sclavie a început când Transilvania s-a unit cu otomana oltenie și banii transilvănenilor s-au devalorizat la jumătate
@@ferdinand8994you are wrong : there are UNESCO industrial sites in Germany too
4:56 fecior means youth not virgin. Narrator did him dirty bruh
Well fecioara means virgin, while fecior also means young man. It's meaning is of unmarried yet.
it does mean youth but in the old days it also meant Virgin...feciori and fecioare...clean and pure waiting for the blessing of family and church to become one...something that is a rare occurrence nowadays
unmarried and pure/clean@@Sofia-0001
While the presented people, heritage and regions are beautiful and respect for that this is just barely scratching the surface of the wonders of Transilvania. Either this should've been a multiple episode documentary or should've been better organized. (No disrespect for the people presented in the documentary, wish them all the best) Just should've been deeper.
We don't have vampires in our culture. And a documentary about Transilvania begins with gypsies, lovely...
Second comment for this, the village cross maker/poet saying that he has faith in his son in law who will make his cross one day got me…I don’t think we have this in our new world and it’s the beauty in life we so badly need nowadays. Good people
I lived here for the last 350 years and haven't seen any vampires.
Another wonderful documentary about ( Transylvania) in the middle of Romania 🇷🇴 .. this thrilled watching 👀 🤩 documentary was shared by an excellent ( DW) channel.
all of Transylvania was built by Hungarians and Germans
"Male-dominated culture" in the first minute
Never change, DW
They are pushing an agenda and their skewed view, not trying to inform.
Come to Szeklerland too.
Mongolia is not in Europe
@@dragos550 it's hard to behave like a civilised man isn't it?
Also tell me you're not from Transylvania without telling me you're not from Transylvania.
@@dragos550Exact!
@@dragos550Yep but Albania(your ancient home land) is there.
The Gilau market was like most markets a traditionally ROMANIAN and for anyone, not just a Roma Gypsy horse market. Imagine that the Romanian majority also used those traditionally ROMANIAN horses in the mountains nearby and sold them in regulated markets, for hundreds of years. The Romanians traded Romanian breed horses or cattle in that market long before came Pufi and Costel, representing a 3-4% Gypsy minority.
I thought they were trading used cars these days
they trade used cars as well, basically they bring them from Germany or Italy and sell them there@@eedragonr
I am so proud of being Transylvanian. 💙❤💛
1. its called Romanian 2. you messed up the coloring order.
Albastru,Galben,Rosu 🇷🇴
@@DacianRider Sorry my guy, Blue, Red, Yellow are the colours of the Transylvanian flag.
@@Alexandru0687 Sorry my guy, Blue, Red, Yellow are the colours of the Transylvanian flag.
@@DacianRiderAre you all right? 😂
Sadly, however much heartwarming and charming the little film is, it's not representative as a documentary. The Hungarian minority is the biggest in the country and yet it's not mentioned but once in a faraway historical context. Would have loved to see a Hungarian village or one of the many cities featured.
Egy napon Erdèly újra miènk lesz
@@bigfreaky4248 nu'i așa..?😉...
@@bigfreaky4248 gyerekeket kell vállalni.
Why should the be mentioned in a documentary about Romania?
@@bigfreaky4248🤣🤣it was never yours. Ardeal belongs to Romania forever.
I am from Cluj-Napoca and seeing this video makes me love my homeland and Transylvania 🇷🇴
Peace ,freedom , education , wealth and health to people all over
The most perfect timing, thank you.
Great people,love how they live,keep it up,and may god bless you all.
The poem that will be written on Demetrius Pope's cross: You see, all these poems in the cemetery were written by me, Demetrius. Every word, every letter of these poems cost me effort and deep thought. I loved my work, and now it was time to rest.
So proud to be Romanian , based in very west of Romania , last year I visited almost every place presented here ,including the famous cemetery,everything feels like you back in time at least two long generations 😊
Stunning!
my beautiful glorious Romania ! thank you DW !
The english translations of the crosses don't really show the beauty of them. They are written like a poetry, and much funnier in romanian. It's a clear psyhchological difference between "ardate focul" and "burn in hell".
I am moving to Brașov, Transilvania this year 👍👍👍
Inima României este si superbă Bucovina, Maramureșul, Dobrogea, țară noastră superbă este inima românilor!❤❤❤
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I like this documentary!
It's nice to see a multi-ethnic country get alongside each other. Ethnic Germans, Roma, Hungarians, and Romanians. So cool
And it will remain peaceful as long as they do not suffer Islamic invasions.
all of Transylvania was built by Hungarians and Germans
We won't have that here.. if we have we're pretty crazy if strangers disrespect our religion and country, it is quite the same here in the Balkans to act and defend what's ours@@SpamMouse
which religion? the orthodox one? the catholics? saxonnes evangelicals? judaism? neoprotestants? atheists? we don't have a religion, we have many. With or without islam it would be the exact same.@@lorebringers
@@SpamMousetransilvania was part of ottoman empire after the battle of Mohaci, the church of Biertan and manny other still have the Moon crescent 🌙 engraved on them to show that they pay the sultan. People still lived there fine with muslim overlords
România mea frumoasă ❤
Love it😊👍🙏
Nice that they mention the German and the roma minorities. However, I do not understand how they could leave out mentioning the Hungarian 'minority' of Transylvania, which is actually more, than prominent in the region... Very misleading.. Based on this video, I question the credibility of DW...
Totally agree. This documentary was seemingly based on a poor research. It makes me doubt the previous documentaries as well.
És gondolod, hogy ez véletlen volt...? Ahogy eltüntették/eltüntetik a magyarokat Erdélyből, Moldvából, ugyanúgy meg sem említik őket egy Erdélyről szóló "dokumentumfilmben". Vagyis egy román fasiszta propaganda filmben... Mivelhogy nagyon zavarná nagyon érzékeny és nagyon fasiszta nagyromániás román érzelmeiket!
Love this place❤❤❤❤
6:35 Misinformation! The history of Cluj begins with the population of the territory of the modern city by Dacian and Celt tribes, who supposedly gave the area the name of Napoca, and its conquest by the Roman Empire.
Promoted to the rank of a colony, the Roman fort Napoca is for a time the capital of the Dacia Porolissensis province. After the Roman retreat and centuries of invasions by migratory peoples, Cluj was repopulated with invading Saxon colonists in the 13th century
The multicultural city of Raoul Sorban
"invading Saxon colonists" lol, cringe comment. They were just Saxon colonists, full stop. They colonised an empty land and made the marvellous arhitecture that all admire today. Not the Romanian ugly blocks
You mean communist architecture and that's not specific justo to Romania@@spottdro55el18
@@spottdro55el18 So the Romanians should also look for free places in Germany and colonize them, right?
@@dragos550Absolutely
Nice place for a holiday 👍🏴
thank you scotland God bless Scotland brothers.
Transilvania.. și primul interviu arătat a fost cu un "Roma" frumoasa alegere ca un fel de uite de aici vin ...
DW e un post globalist.
I really hope all the best for Romania 🇷🇴🇷🇴 especially in this beautiful region of Trasylvania coming from the Philippines. ❤😊
I visited Romania last year. The mountains there were beautiful.
I'm from Transylvania ❤
I exepcted you to do at least the bare minimum when it comes to research, Cluj is attested sice Roman times, I am a history lover and I am trully dissapointed 😢
Known as a Castrum of Napoca and beside Turda a major salt extraction center throughout time.
Was in Hermannstadt/Sibiu last week. Beautiful city; and you know what you don’t find in Romania? Wokery, had a wonderful time.
Half of this is fiction.This should not be labeled as a documentary. Transylvania has nothing to do with vampires and vampire hunters.
I never knew what a beautiful and fully rich coloured country Rome/ Transylvania was it's like a fairytale 😊
Thank You DW for posting this. Nice to see places I walked around and played at as a kid : )
Absolutely loved this well done. They people are so down to earth and care about their country and traditions and have respect, seems like life is hard but so worth it.God bless these people. ❤❤❤😢
all of Transylvania was built by Hungarians and Germans
Love from Portland Oregon l was born in Transilvania and proud
"Male dominated culture" - is this the FIRST thing we use to describe culture? Male or female dominated? Weird but ok...
EU imposed propaganda agenda
A male dominated culture in ROMANIA, and then you proceed with an interview with a guy that says that he's roma? Roma and romanians are not ethnically the same thing, get it through your damn heads. Never have I also heard this male dominated culture bullshit in Romania my entire life. I'm romanian and we're not some fucking nomadic tribe with horse traditions (not even all roma have these sort of traditions, it depends on region, some have been lost), but we're a fully established civilization that has been here for THOUSANDS OF YEARS, our culture consists of so many myths and legends involving women spirits and making the woman sacred at times, especially paired with the heavy orthodox christian influence that sees The Holy Marry as mother to us all as christians, so indeed we are not a male dominated culture by no means! Where do all these blunders come from???
If DW don't put their "" favorite"" European citizens..Roma/ Gypse..they can not produce a documentary ...absolute ridiculous this DW
Really? What is wrong with you?! Exactly?! What is your problem...
@@lxlx3458can we see some German Roma?
A documentary which starts with a basically FLAWED information, is not good. Cluj-Napoca had some Saxon population but has nothing to do with them. It is Kolozsvar and predominantly founded and built by Hungarians. Everything you see today of the historic city and historic significance is Hungarian. You can find Roman heritage underground like in any other old European town…
There are other cities far away which were founded by Germans because the Hungarian king brought them in to work the fields after the mongols decimated Eastern Europe in the 12-15 th century….
I wonder what music is playing in the background... It's awesome! Please, guys, let me know what bands these are)
First seconds into the show and I already hear, "Male dominated region"?! Where did you get that impression? And the first Romanian interviewed is a Roma? This goes to show you that the West thinks Romanians are Roma people. I would expect this from an ignorant foreigner, but not from DW...
A few lessons for DW:
* Roma people only make about 3% of Romania's population.
* Roma people are all over Europe, not only in Romania.
* Roma is not to be confused with Romanian. Although they may sound the same, they are not the same people.
DW este un post care, la fe ca și multe altele, este aservit mafiei globaliste. La ce te așteptai?
I think its Disrespect to the people of Transylvania, to Start the whole documentary with the Gypsies (Roma)
It is definitely NOT the First thing you should mention..
It's like if you want to Present Germany, and you start with the Drug Addicts on the Streets... Cmon this is the best you can do ?
0:16 "a male dominated culture" 😂
Germans trying to portray Romanians as retrogrades. As always , a great sense of humour.
How's those VWs of yours ? Are you guys still trying to scam the emissions test ?
I wouldn’t say all Germans think that way, but the german mainstream media, definitely. Horribly left leaning, woke to the core.
Thank you for sharing with us!
Thank you for watching!
For sharing fascist Romanian propaganda...?
@@DWDocumentary Shame on you...
As a north Transylvanian Romanian I think we are really something and are proud of it.
Just common thiefs
@@ZolttZolttt Most probably you looked in the mirror and got scared of that nasty creature.
@@Sofia-0001 every morning I suffer from small heart Attack 🙆♂️😂
@@ZolttZolttt Yes because all bad comes from the heart, even the attack.
@@Sofia-0001😯🤯
România, my country ❤
Partz.
@@valevisa8429 Flush the toilet after yourself 🚾
@@omi685 After myself ? Am inteles domnu sef de closete.
I realized how hard it will be for the student to make the teacher's cross .... but I'm sure it will be wonderful !
Not as hard as to pay the French to give whole Transylvania to Romanians in the treaty of Trianon
Perhaps try not to send to prison someone with Alsatian blood for saving your victims
@@zoltan6451 Do you know that song, Cry me a river? Good!
this is the perfect example of " when you read a book, you understand it through the eyes and ideeas of the author" with the diference book-video.
just explore, this country is very safe and surely beautiful.
I been to Bran castle with my family including my uncles. We know that Vlad Țepeş or Vlad III never was in that castle built by his grandfather. Vlad was a wonderful perhaps the best ruler of Wallachia! We have wonderful traditions to be proud of for sure!
He actually visited Bran a few times .
❤ my country!
all of Transylvania was built by Hungarians and Germans
Long live Great Romania ! 🇷🇴🇲🇩🇷🇴
Long live the Geto-Dacians long live Romanian nation
Thanks for the video
A lot of misleading information..
yes, this documentary is bias
they are trying to portray romania as some sort of multi cultural distopia when we don't even get along with gypisies
@@1999bishopthey show a fair and say is tradition
Then what's the real story??
@@vishalgaharwar582 the story of what? the only thing is that romanians and hungarians don't get along with tigani, they just throw a lot of stuff in this "documentary" and called it a day, because the germans have wet dreams about multiculturalism and will want every country to end up a dystopia like theirs
thank you for promoting our country’s beauties!
Disclaimer: the documentary focuses on a small bit of the rural / traditional Ardeal (including Transilvania).
It has some small misses, like saying that Maramureș is part of Transilvania, wrong, and showing a few minutes later the map of Transilvania, with Maramureș not included, correct.
But there is a big blunder, please make your research - you are supposed to keep a standard, about Cluj Napoca being founded by German settlers in the Middle Ages. There are visible ruins from the Dacian - Roman era (the city was named then Napoca), excavated and covered with a thick glass in the city centre, for everyone who is interested to see - just saying...
Leaving aside the blunder, nice documentary.
Maramures is definitely part of Transilvania… there is Transilvania proper and the region of Transilvania which includes Maramures, Banat and Crisana too. And yes, we have Roman ruins in cluj underground but the city we know today was built by Germans.
@@Qwerty1637i The political entity of Principality of Transilvania is gone for hundreds of years, so no, Transilvania doesn't include today more than the historical region of Transilvania. The documentary was done this year, not hundreds of years ago.
For the other part, with variations (sometimes big ones) on it's population, surface, etc, that settlement had a continuity from it's founding, Before Christ. The German population settled there by the Hungarian crown changed, expanded, improved, developed - or any other synonyms - the existing settlement, without question. But they didn't found that settlement, it was already there, with a continuous existence for more than 1000 years at the time they got there.
@@podinamarius no it’s it gone, it always existed also under Austria as a crown etc… again all those are part of Transylvania too, I have family in Maramures and Bihor too, all of them are ardeleni, there ie no distinction between us… just like Oltenia and Muntenia are wallachia. Why you always try to change our history and identity in Transylvania? Crisana, Maramures and Banat are just sub-regions of Transylvania not separated entities!! And no, Cluj didn’t have a continuity, I’m from cluj, the city was literally non existent before the Saxons… it was not inhabited by nobody since there wasn’t a settlement anymore after the romans.
@@Qwerty1637i Without repeating myself, they are different regions regardless of personal anecdotes of self-identity. It is about historical rigor, not about some kind of agenda. And this is coming from a Maramures person.
@@user-uy5to1mf7b no, you don’t understand that there is Transylvania proper ( most of the time called Siebenbürgen) and Transylvania the region. All western Romania is part of the region of Transylvania, maramures included just like Oltenia and Muntenia are part of Wallachia or Bucovina is part of Moldova.
The translations of the poems on the crosses is horrible. The one regarding the young man that died in a car accident is not even close to what was written on the cross.
Great documentary. Very informative.
That's what documentaries should be about. Read the comments that Romanians and Hungarians in the region. Things are really out of proportions...
Nice images and stuff, but, to be honest, this was poorly researched.
Such amazing traditions! Thank You for this documentary.
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
@@DWDocumentaryThe next DW "documentary": Germans invented water and they saved the world from gypsies and male domination?
The negociation from 39:41 is hilarius. "That's daylight robbery/ We're not in Germany" Rofl.