Hey, sorry all! Meant to say Roman Empire* and not Holy Roman Empire. Ah, how one word can make an entirely different meaning! That was a huge fail by me, and somehow I didn’t even notice during editing. Sorry again!!
Sorry, but the entire video made me cringe. 1. Saving their pennies to buy tropical fruits. No, no and no. It was never about price but about availability. You had to have connections. One December day I queued for 3 hours to buy 1 kg of oranges. 2. Roman empire is different from Holy Roman Empire, the latter being a medieval Germanic empire. Our ancestors called themselves roman citizens, roman. 3. You visited the History Museum and did not go to see the gold! The Pietroasele thesaurus and the jewellery of the Royal family, including the Iron crown of King Carol I. 4. They were within the Soviet sphere of influences not because of their politicians or whatever. This is a long subject but it is disrespectful to dismiss that period as something any Romanian desired.
@@mihaelac2472 My perception is that in the winter time (around Christmas) you were able to find oranges and bananas easily. And in a way, bananas and oranges mean Christams for me, the smell of Christmas.
@@cosmincasuta486 Cosmin, did you have to stand in a queue at the market to get them and were they rationed (was there a limit on how many each person could get)? Thanks.
@@cosmincasuta486 in the late 80s, like maybe 1988-1989 things were scarce. I do remember tradition was we has oranges and bananas for Christmas, but I also remember the queues I had to stand in line. But my point was that it was not about being to expensive, but being hard to buy.
Wow, guys, genuninely impressed on how fast you understood and can correctly explain many aspects of Romania's history! Happy to have you here to explore! P.S. the "Haiducesc" is da bomb! 😉
I have just one objection about "The Holly Roman Empire" thing. Romania (actually Dacia at that time) was not conquered by "The Holly Roman Empire", but by the "Roman Empire". The "Holly Roman Empire" is another thing altogether from another period and another time (it dates to the medieval era while "The Roman Empire" dates to antiquity) and "The Holly Roman Empire" was actually "roman" just in name.
If you were to ask a Romanian history expert what does it mean to be Romanian or what they have to be proud of, it would be that we are still here. We, the modern people, can't imagine what it must have felt for our ancestors to be surrounded by 3 empires and living under subjugation. We are one of the oldest people in Europe and we have to make that more well known. We are survivors.
After the death of the Dacian king Decebalus in 106 AC , defeated by the Romans, the great Dacia was divided between his descendants, brother, etc. The Romans conquered only 1/3 of the great Dacia. And so Dacia, divided into provinces with their own rulers, functioned for centuries. The first to rebuild the great Dacia was the voivode Mihai Viteazul in 1600. Then the great country was divided again. One nation divides into three provinces. Being a single nation thousands of years old, we finally united in 1918. Named Romania from the capital of the Roman Empire. however, due to international political influences, much of the Romanian native population exists outside the current borders. around Romania. Minorities in other countries..
The ancestors of the Romanians did not live under subjugation as you mistakenly write. Maybe you are from Transylvania but the Romanians from the other two principalities fought and were not subdued. No, Romanians are not just survivors. They are survivors through battle.
The original Trajan's Column is found in Italy's capital Rome for those interested and it pays tribute to the bravery of the Dacian warriors who managed to defeat the Romans during Emperor Domitian's reign. When Trajan came to power one of his goals was to beat and invade Dacia, which after a few attempts he finally has done succesfully. The Dacian king (Decebalus) took his own life and the people of Dacia were then considered Romanus which meant citizens of Rome. And Romania is the modern equivalent of that. Interesting fact Romania is only 103 years old country and Romania is formed of 3 principalities a bit like the United Kingdom. 3 principalities that spoke the same language united under one name Romania.
Hi Celestin! You said: fun fact - Romania is a 103 old country . I say not fun at all but tragically sad . Due to the geographic position and all the historical facts the country was for a short time United by Michael the Great - Mihai Viteazul : Prince of Wallachian - Prince of Moldova - Governor of Transilvania! In 1599! Sadly this end too soon due to treason and greater interest of this beautiful country to be ripped apart! Transilvania under Hungarian occupation ( later Austro- Hungarian occupation) - Wallachian territory being at war for hundreds of years with the Ottoman Empire; Moldova also fighting wars with Ottoman Empire, with the Tatars , with the Kings of Poland and Hungary !So many hundred years of war and paying tribute to our enemies, so many territories stolen from the Romanian people etc . Hundreds of years of suffering and yet under God and our Mother Orthodox Church- our beautiful language , amazing traditions we have been One Country no matter what happened! Man made borders ! God has no borders!
@@cameliaenache4575 Mihai actually was the third to unite the Danubian principalities. The first one was an Italian called Basta 50 years before and the second one was king Sigismund Bathory who Mihai was a vassal of. Start learning your country's real history and stop regurgitating stupid nationalist propaganda!
@@cameliaenache4575 The Orthodox church are a gang of thieves. The first Diocese in what is today Moldova was roman Catholic (Episcopia Cumaniei). The first document ever printed in Romanian was a protestant text (Catehismul lutheran de la Sibiu 1544). Most of Transylvania historically was roman Catholic. During communism, the orthodox thugs, with the help of the government, stole the churches of the Catholics and protestants in Transylvania. Without the Catholic church we wouldn't have our language today and would be still writing in Cyrillic. The Orthodox church never acted in the interest of our nation, only in the interest of Constantinople and Moscow.
Few things: Romania entered the war fighting for the axis in the hope of recovering romanian territories (Bassarabia and Northern Bukovina) occupied by the soviets one year before (1940). The communist party was imposed on the government by riged elections, following the fact that Romania remained occupied by soviets troups after the war (up until 1958). There had been romanian armed resistance in the mountains against the regime until the 60s (one such opponent, Ion Gavrila Ogoranu was captured in 76). Both joining the axis or communism weren't an actual choice for Romania.
If my History teacher were to be like Steve who could explain so well, l wouldn't have had dropped the subject when l was in Upper Secondary school. I studied Geography instead. Well, Steve, you are an amazing History teacher. I really love your explanation. Well done Steve !! Nice tour around the Palace of Parliament and the National Museum. Special thanks to Mike for your precious help. Bravos to all. Interesting historical vlog 👍👍
The ancient name of Romania was DACIA. A great ancient kingdom. We had wars with the Romans who wanted Dacia's gold. The story of the Daco-Roman wars is carved on Trajan's Column in Rome .On the Column you can see our Dacian ancestors in heavy battles with the Romans. Emperor Trajan conquered in 106 AC only a part of the Dacian kingdom. the gold part. With the plundered gold from Dacia, the Romans built the forum in Rome and others. 165 tons of gold and 330 tons of war booty embankments. Information from Criton, the personal doctor of Emperor Trajan and who accompanied him in the war in Dacia. Romanians are a Latin people, more Latin than the Romans-Italians , they are much younger than the Dacians. 2012 paleogenetics studies conducted in Germany on the population throughout Romania showed that we have the genes of the prehistoric populations that lived here, from 7000-5000 - 2000 years ago and therefore the Dacians and Getae, meaning we have a historical continuity on this territory..Today's name of Romania comes from Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire..
@Chaw CY, you said rightly ! My same thought on Steve too. History was real boring to me at school. I never did well on that subject. I was better in Geography .Steve is a good narrator.
Well, Romania joined the "bad guys" because of secret deal between Germany and USSR. As a result, Bulgaria, Hungary and USSR took over massive territories and started to massacre Romanians(Ip, Trezea, Fântâna Albă). Romania liberated Moldova în 1941, but Hitler needed Romanian oil, so there were promisses to give back northern Transylvania(occupied by Hungary) in exchange for continuation of the war. In 1944, Antonescu was arrested and taken to USSR, (later to be trialed and executed) and Romania joined the allies. After the war, Romania bacame a communist state being under occupation by our soviet "allies" who forged the 1946 elections in favor of their beloved party . Then, the Red Holocaust begun...
If you are in Romania You must visit Brașov. MUST DO IT. and if you're coming here let me know..I'll show you around. Here are the Dracula's castle, Cantacuzino Castle, Peleș Castel. In few words the most beautiful touristic attention are here
yes, The Palace of Parliament (or The Palace of the People) is the no.1 biggest and heaviest civilian building in the world ,many says that Pentagon from USA is no.1 , but that is not a civilian building, it's a MILITARY building
Hi Ivana and Steve 👋 wow it’s historical storyt time by Steve 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thanks for such informative stories with regards to Romania’s background and history. I really appreciate whenever you brought us to the museum, there’s so much to see and gain knowledge 👍🏻 WowWow the column is really huge 👍🏻 how awesome if I could witness these monument sculptures and read the message that were carved on those walls must be really interesting 👍🏻😅 thanks 🙏🏻 guys and also to your friend for taking us around , stay safe 👍🏻🥰😘
Hope you are enjoying your staying here! :) You have a lot of cool thing to discover here, and I know that the romanians will try to make you feel the best! :)
The romans built, indeed, a wooden bridge for the first war with dacians, but Traian, the roman emperor, built a stone bridge over the river Danube where now Romania and Serbia are neightbours. On this stone bridge, that was considered one of the biggest achievements at that time (just imagine to build it without stopping...the Danube), Traian led his armies into the kingdom of Decebal. The story is long and very interesting to learn, so take a look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia
Sorry for what happened with dodo as you know bro all five fingers are not equal we Pakistanis love to welcome our guests one's again sorry for bad ending in Pakistan long love Pakistan long live Romania🇵🇰🇦🇩
Ah, it could happen anywhere. It was rough for them, even Michael didn’t want to talk about it in the vlog. It’s all good they will keep travelling and hopefully we can give them a boost in the coming weeks!!!
Steve i am so impressed about your ability to comprehend so fast and so correct all the informations about Romanian culture and hystory. In the future i wish for you to become a bussines man in Romania and taking care about Canadians tourist or bussines men who want to visit our country. think about it. can be a good oportunity
it's not that people couldn't afford bananas or tropical fruits, they weren't available. There was a lot of exportation of goods but no import of any kind. If it grew in your grandfather's garden you had access to it, otherwise you'd wait about 4 hrs in line to buy them around December.
Hi guys... I have spent all my Saturday to watch your videos about Romania, I really liked your perspective of understanding Romanian Culture. You guys are great, and seem to be genuine in exploring things about the country. I am originally from Romania but I am living now in UK. I am actually a history and philosophy teacher and writer on historical facts. Usually I do not comment on others vlogs and videos as everyone has their own opinion and commenting will actually denaturise your first impression. But at this particular video I am commenting now you have made a huge historical error saying that Holly Roman Empire conquered Dacians, the predecessors of Romanians, which is 1200 years history far other empire. It is about, and I believe, by mistake, you thought at The Roman Empire, which through the emperor Trajan conquered Dacians in 2 separate attempts. I do not want to point the finger, but you people must know the real historical fact. good job you are doing, I like your way of presenting country`s cultures.
@@JetLagWarriors Not to worry Man. I am also sorry, When I saw after posting that others commented on the video on the same issue, I felts that I shouldn't have done it.
My friends, Genin shaorma on Calea Floreasca street ! Best falafel rolls and shaormas.. please try and enjoy the rest of your trip ! thx for the positivity, you guys are great
Some pages of Romanian history Steven the Great - Battle of Vaslui 1475: th-cam.com/video/CKFhubbLQd0/w-d-xo.html Story of Vlad the Impaler th-cam.com/video/MY82EpsvbQ8/w-d-xo.html Vlad the Impaler - Battle of Targoviste 1462 Part 1: th-cam.com/video/NA34EZACkWY/w-d-xo.html Part 2: th-cam.com/video/9RoBspQiOiE/w-d-xo.html Michael the Brave 1595-1601 th-cam.com/video/AVZNTJ7RL80/w-d-xo.html
Great video as always! It's not that bananas were expensive, you just couldn't find them, just as you wouldn't find oranges, lemons, coffee, meat, eggs and many other things. I remember in the '80s how a neighbor of ours was knocking on the door desperately from time to time to inform my grandma' there were eggs or something else for sale at the market across our building. By the time we got there, there was huge line. And we were living in the center of Bucharest. Imagine how things were elsewhere. The quantities you could buy were also limited, so that it would be enough for everyone waiting in line.
@@JetLagWarriors please if you ever come back to this subject, be sure to document it well. There are thousands of people online who say it wasn't really that bad and there are also so many pictures with the state of the country in those days. Everything was clean, lots of places got electricity, huge dams were built, people from the countryside were obliged to go to school and so on. It's a very complex subject, and if you don't analyse it, and you only make an opinion based on the comments of those for whom a full belly was the most important thing... You won't understand it properly.
@@fetitadepeterra5319 they stopped the electricity to save it for the big industry day and night. Letting the people to die on the operation table, without oxygen and the kids to die in the incubator if they did not have generators. They had to boil the syringes and needles like in the war time. They infected with HIV children because they could not test the blood of transfusion.
@@fetitadepeterra5319 No need to offend anyone with that "full belly" tantrum. We were on the subject of what you could or couldn't find at the market. We all agree there were some things that were done right, like the nuclear power plant that we are using even to this day. But some good things don't erase the majority of bad things, having no human rights, not being able to go abroad and so on and so forth.
@@marcfaur I would dare to say that I am seeing this "Ceausescu did it" like an insult to the Romanians. Ceausescu didn't do anything. The Romanian nation did what they did.
man, I love learning about my own country's history through the eyes of foreigners, especially when they're so impressed with, and sensitive about our values. I am from Craiova, which is arguably the heart of the territory that has been conquered by Romans (just a FYI, nothing more). But I'm honestly impressed by how moved you are by our history because, yes, it's a sad history for us. Every big empire or superpower has tried - at some point - to conquer us and we had to pay with a lot of riches and blood our stay on these lands. The Romans have tried enslaving us, the Ottomans have tried, the Austro-Hungarians have tried, and in the last century the USSR (ex-Russia) have tried. Every God damn empire and superpower have wanted our lands and riches, that - sometimes - I honestly can't explain how we are still here after having sent to death millions upon millions of Romanians. And yes, Dacia (our shitty car brand) is named after Romania's former name, which is.... well... Dacia :) ... Anyway, I'm glad that you have been so impressed with our history, and I wish more people like you visit us. I don't like the arrogant type, but humble people like you are always welcome here
The Romans come from Romania/Dacia. Romania comes from Râmi, the people who live near the rivers. This is a historical fact. So don't confuse Rome with being those who build Romania. Even the Latin language comes from old Romanian.
Palatul Parlamentului was built because there were unused construction materials that did not find markets outside ... was meant to be a permanent exposition of "made in Romania" stuff, from construction materials to carpets to glassware
@JetLag Warriors ; great video and content! At 3:55 and few seconds before you mention “Holy Roman Empire”. You mean to say “Roman Empire” instead. The Holy Roman Empire was a political entity in modern Germany/France which came to being in the Middle Ages. =) Thanks for great content !
You can still see Trajan's Column in the Trajan Forum, in Rome, Italy. At some point Trajan's statue on top of the column was replaced by a statue of Saint Peter.
That was an interesting bit about the connection between The Roman Empire and Romania. So I guess maybe there is some truth to the tongue-in-cheek saying When in Rome do as the Romanians do huh 😀 “We are nice people”...spoken like a true Canadian when you said that Steve.
The ancient name of Romania was DACIA. A great ancient kingdom. We had wars with the Romans who wanted Dacia's gold. The story of the Daco-Roman wars is carved on the Trajan's Column in Rome .On the Column you can see our Dacian ancestors in heavy battles with the Romans. Emperor Trajan conquered in 106 AC only a part of the Dacian kingdom. the gold part. With the plundered gold from Dacia, the Romans built the forum in Rome and others. 165 tons of gold and 330 tons of war booty embankments. Romanians are a Latin people, more Latin than the Romans-Italians , they are much younger than the Dacians. 2012 paleogenetics studies conducted in Germany on the population throughout Romania showed that we have the genes of prehistoric populations that lived here, from 7000-5000 - 2000 years ago and therefore the Dacians and Getae, meaning we have a historical continuity on this territory. Today's name of Romania comes from Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire.
Dear JetLag Warriors, If you like history then here is the true story: 1. The parliament palace was built according to the plans of the 23-year-old architect Anca Petrescu whose project won the organized competition. The construction is made exclusively with Romanian materials processed in Romanian factories (which no longer exists). 2. Ceausescu was not a dictator. This is the official version that suits those who assassinated him and those who took advantage of the murder. 3. Ceausescu publicly criticized the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and its satellite countries. On this occasion, the USSR tried to enter Romania as well, but their tanks were destroyed instantly. The Russians apologized, saying they had gone the wrong way ;-). Ceausescu defused many conflicts between Israel and Palestine, being the only negotiator accepted by the two sides. He also brought his good offices to the leadership of North Vietnam so that the United States military could withdraw with honor and thus saved the lives of tens of thousands of American soldiers. 4. The state of scarcity in Romania at that time was artificial because Romania was internationally isolated politically and economically. 4.1. Ceausescu had an anti-Soviet policy. The country was not a satellite of the Soviet Union as were all the other states beyond the Iron Curtain. 4.2. Ceausescu wanted to found an international bank together with all the politically non-aligned states, which would finance the states without any political interference. This bank wanted to be parallel to banks such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, etc. This is the real reason why he was assassinated.
Is that the building with the extensive tunnels in the basement, where the Top Gear people were racing cars, a few years after the Communist government fell? Or was that another palace? This is an example of grandiose Soviet-era architecture - apparently it really took off in the USSR under Stalin, in the 1950s.
that's the place, it is the 4-rth building in the world as size and it is the heavies building the world, a lot of Romanians died in the process of bulding, and more that the canal of Danube at the construction of a similar importance for the communist partied the Iron Gates.
About the fact that Ceaușescu was able to build the palace "and the people were ok with it": I think you don't know what kind of communism Romania had. You may be thinking of a soft, slightly democratic communism. It was not like that. After WW2, a part of the Red Army stayed in Romania and established a hard communism similar to the one in Russia. Opponents were arrested or even shot. Later, even if things calmed down a bit, people still couldn't oppose what was being dictated by the regime. That is why the fall of communism was violent, because the people were tired of such a dictatorship. But it is also true that the revolution was "helped" from outside, by the powers of the world, who had a deal that communist countries must give up communism.
Încearcă azi sa te opui unei decizii de sus, ia vezi, îți merge? Poți schimba ceva? Faptul ca ai youtube și frigiderul plin nu înseamnă că azi ai libertate... Sau ma rog..dacă pentru tine la asta se rezumă... Atunci da, ești liber
The Government nowadays wastes even more money than Ceausescu did back then. You have to realize that this palace did not cost that much in actual money: the labour was basically free - they used the army, political prisoners, and many people had to do this kind of ‘patriotic’ work as part of the duties in the institution they were in (school, uni etc). Furthermore, the raw materials were also free or very cheap: Romania is a rich country and they mostly used local stuff - even the marble is local. Now, don’t get me wrong, I know nothing is really free, everything has a cost one way or the other, plus I don’t want to glorify it in any way. Also, again, the real estate was free, because they basically just took it from the rightful owners, they demolished an entire neighborhood for this. Many people glorify communism but it is not a fair comparison: a construction today costs infinitely more than back then because everything has to be covered in cash, as it is normal: labour, land, materials and so on. So yeah, it is not a waste of money in the way money is wasted now in the free, capitalist society with a ‘democratic’ Government, where they just install 3 lines of kerbs near the road or ‘improve’ the safety at rail crossings by just installing a road sign above the crossing without actually repairing the road, installing lights etc (this is the most recent stuff the actual ‘non corrupt progressive’ Government did), but it was definitely a waste of energy and a demonstration of stupidness by this ‘great leader’ - other communist states invested more in things that were actually useful to people, since they anyway had all these low costs associated with that kind of regime. Bulgarians for example, if you visit, their regular roads are much more complex than ours, with most intersections having overpasses, most city entrances having wide roads etc, and here I am talking only about stuff built pre-1989. In Romania, the dictator focused on this useless palace and the canals (2, Danube-Black Sea was done and Bucharest-Danube was never finished and still creates a ton of problems even 30 years after it being abandoned) - both ate a lot of man hours for not much in return. A solid railroad would move more goods than the measly naval traffic the canal has. And it would have been cheaper, so they could have used the workforce to build other things, like a solid road network. Let’s be realistic, the canal for example, that would be economically unjustifiable to build nowadays. It brings too few economic benefits compared to its cost. Same thing goes with this stupid palace, but not only that, at least the canal can bring some economic value, now that we inherited it anyway, while this building houses a bunch of shitheads that do nothing useful really and it all just eats an enormous amount of electricity and maintenance for nothing good in return, actually.
Just a thought regarding Romania joining on the side of Axis. I believe we joined mostly because of Russian agression. How were we supposed to join the Allies when Russia (a part of the allies) had territorial claims over Romania?
It looks like people in other Soviet-bloc countries were more fortunate with bananas. A German chef I know in Kuala Lumpur grew up near the Czech border in East Germany before German re-unification. He said every now and again the arrival of a load of bananas would be announced by the state. Whereupon the East German citizenry would all go and form a queue, to be given one hand of bananas for each family. (Something my mother used to say, "I'm so old I don't buy green bananas" 😄)
In Romania the bananas, oranges and tangerines were available in the markets only around Christams (even we lived in a comunist state, the Christmas was celebrated with Father Forsty instead Father Christmas). For me this is the smell of Christmas, and I have the perception (of a child of course) that everybody could have tham in that period of the year!
I'm surprised that Latin survived to the extent that it did in Romania. As others have said here, the Romans only got hold of a part of Dacia for a limited period, not the whole of what are now the Romanian lands, where Romanian is now spoken. Other similar forms of (Balkan) Latin, in Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Croatia etc., have either disappeared or are very limited. Why not in Romania?
Because Romans thought about Dacian people they've met and fought are like their cousins. They could understand a bit between each other (Latin vs rough old thracian). Which translates Dacian people were one the last Thracian people out there (Thacia , as teritory was all the way from greece, rome, up to Carpathians) Why out of all the cultures they conquered (Roman empire ) only the Dacians (Decebal) was sculptured on Traian's column on Rome? They had the biggest respect for them because they fought well and also they got gold from there to save taxes for everyone for 1 full year inside all Roman Empire. My understanding for your question from my personal studies as I putted this question myself as well. Romanian here
Todays Greece is far more remnant of the Roman empire than Romania. Romania used the Cyrillic alphabet till mid 19th century. Romania still has marticor which is a tradition that exists only in Bulgaria and Romania. Nowhere else in the world. Today's Greece IS the remnant of the Roman empire. They survived 976 years more than the Western Roman empire. But they got Hellenized and started using Greek language relatively early. When they got liberated from the Ottomans in 1821 they couldn't have revived the Byzanthian empire as the Turks still held Constantinople (as they do as of today) so they decided to call themselves Greeks and the country Greece. There is no way Latin alphabet to exist in Greece as an official alphabet. We can discuss other Balkan countries as well, but it would be a long post. Albania and Croatia use Latin, although it was a gargantuan effort by the Catholic church to convince Croats not to use Glagolitic alphabet, which they have used and loved for centuries. They still celebrate this alphabet, although they don't use it.
it was not about saving pennies to buy bannanas or oranges, we had money, these were the fruits that were nowhere to be found in Romania at that time, those who afforded these fruits and other commodities from import were people connected to certain levels of power
It is not true! I do not think that Ceusescu was eating bananas in June! We imported the fruits only during the Christmas time and than, i remember in the markets and grocerys a lot of fruits during that time. Yes you can not find tham all time of the year, but than, nobody have it!
@@cosmincasuta486 Ceausescu was enjoying a stylish palace and all the comfort that comes with it, so obviously he was not eating plain things like a commoner, after 1989 we saw on tv that one of his palaces had a greenhouse where oranges were grown, clearly Ceausescu's family was enjoying these type of fruits whenever they wanted, and yes these fruits were imported in Romania only during winter feasts for commoners to have it, is not fair to mention the Christmas because the communists were not religious at all. I remember when these fruits were in the shops (alimentara) to be sold, and the shop vendors were selling only 2kg to each person, everyone had money to buy 10 or 20kg but they restricted it to give the chance to most of the people to buy a 2kg bananas or oranges, but most of the times lots of people didn't get this chance because of the gigantlike queues, imagine sitting at a queue for hours and at some point they tell you that all the amount was sold out, a horrible thing to see others eating bananas or oranges and not be able to have it, though we had the money to buy it. And those from Securitate and the high level officials from the Communist Party and important people connected to certain levels of power had special shops with commodities that the commoners were deprived. I remember that at that time there was an anecdote sounding like this :"how is Romania seen from space?is seen as a monster with two heads and lots and lots of tails", tail in Romanian language is the corespondent for queue, so those tails were signyfing the queues in front of the shops, and the heads were signyfying the Ceausescu couple.
@@TanerG77 That was the PUBLIC BOTANICAL GARDEN! Still the orange tree is there! Not a Ceausesc's green house! Also this sories with the securitate and the oarty guys had special magasines is right but except that they can purchse some chinese chocolate and some Pepsi and Cico, the rest is bull shit. They can buy oranges strictlly when the oranges were in the common shop (nobody import oranges special for them). And the rows were created buy the people who wanted to purchase more that they need. This with the bananas and oranges is still a lie. I remember very well in the "childrens town" opened during Chirstmas a lot, an d I mean a lot of little shiops with exotic fruits and the row was not so big....
@@cosmincasuta486 I am rarely mistaken when it comes to information like this, the palace is called Palatul de la Olănești and this palace has a greenhouse, and I saw with my own eyes on tv the greenhouse with its orange trees, so what public botanical garden are you talking about? At least you are fair to recognize that the guys from Securitate and high officials from the Communist Party had their own stores from where they could buy commodities that we were deprived, isn't this privilege? And do not try to display a different reality about the queues, there were people in line waiting to buy these fruits after haven't eating these fruits for an entire year, you said for yourself that these fruits were imported only once in winter, and the people were allowed to buy only 2kg, no more, so you are saying that they were buying more than they needed? 2kg is more than they needed? And by the way in English they call it stores not magasines, a magazine is a publication that is published periodically, improve your English so others can understand what you are saying.
About the famous romanian car Dacia...wich you found all around Europe ....very popular....actually was Ceausescu made the deal with the french. Company Renault ...in the sixty......and even today is a french -romanian corporation
@@ILoveWoWandRock Dacia was never Romanian. From the very beginning was a Renault. Ceausescu only bought the right to produce in Romania foreign products which were branded as Romanian. That is all. Perhaps it was a big mistake to simply sell it back to Renault, the question is if the Romanians were able to do something else.
Steve, you guys are great man. But if I may, the Holy Roman Empire you references was neither holy nor roman and not even an empire, and it also did not exist in 100 AD. :) The Holy Roman Empire (of the German Nation) was mostly a confederation of territories mostly situated in present day Germany, Austria, Czechia and Poland, united in personal union under an elected emperor. It was called that way because it retained sovereignty over Rome, but it was something that mostly had to do with the prestige associated with being a "Roman" Emperor, as well as lording over the papal seat. As a consequence of ruling over Rome, the catholic church considered it the successor of the Roman Empire, although the argument as of why it would be is very much of a stretch, especially if you consider that it was for a long time contemporary with Byzantium, or the Eastern Roman Empire. As for Dacia, which is mostly present day Romania, it was conquered by the Roman Empire in 106 AD by the legions of emperor Trajan. The failed invasion of Dacia that you mentioned wasn't in 100 BC, but in 87 AD, just 19 years before the conquest of Dacia by the Romans, when Domitian was emperor of Rome. Either way, keep up the cool vlogs and enjoy your time in Romania!
Let me tell you something no one is telling you about Ceausescu, he was the one that managed to make romania the only country in the world that didn't have an extern debt . And that's a fact, and he was killed for that.
Guys, you've already visited more things than me over there and already know more things than an average Romanian 😂 hope the trip lived up to the expectations 😁 I feel somehow sorry as there are loads of great places/towns/restaurants to visit, but at least you covered the main attractions
Hi dear...love your very briefly romanian history exposure...1...for the ''Holly Roman'''' is ok...( refers to the German Christians Empire...)...2...Romania became''comuniste'' because of 3 people...american president Roosevelt...PM UK..Churchill..and the CCCP..Stalin....they decided in 45..at Weimar..which country will get the USA+UK..and wich countries. will take The Soviets...also they split Germany and Berlin.....by the ''this is mine...this is yours''...No comuniste parties were in Romania or others countries
The "Holy Roman Empire" was over a thousand years later. You're thinking "Roman Empire".. As for when the Roman's tried to conquer ... it wasn't "100 BC" the first time and "100 AD" when it succeeded. It was more like 5-10 years from the first failure to the final success. You should have learned this while at that display of Traian's Column. I've visited that display, and know that it clearly explains the dates. Okay, I see that you figured out "Holy" was wrong ;-)
Its a shame the National History Museum has had in the last 10 yrs or even more just the Treasury, the Trajan Column Replica area and a temporary exhibition here and there. When I visited it last time, 20 yrs ago, it had covered absolutely each century or ruler or period of history starting with the prehistory, so a true national museum. Now, because of a judicial problem, it covers just a few periods of the countrys huge history. :( Anyway, for what it could and should have been, try the National Military Museum which also covers all the historical periods but from military point of view and also a still good museum :D
Steve, forgive me, but Trajan was emperor of Rome, the really real pagan original Roman empire, who got hold of bits of Romania. The Holy Roman Empire came centuries later and were basically a big bunch of Germans. Yeah, and they got hold of bits of Romania too.
@@JetLagWarriorsNot at all, Steve. It's easy to get confused when the original really real Roman emperors were considered divine. They were hardly pure and holy, but
The thing of being proud about Romania is that we speak our mind? Absolutely no! We are proud about our beautiful traditions and history, that we never gave up on anything and we tried to do our best about everything and everywhere! We are proud of our culture in every domain, for example in writing, music, art, etc!
You got the facts a bit wrong: the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Empire were two different things. The roman Empire conquered Dacia, today Romania. The Holy Roman Empire was a bunch of provinces and small states, basically Germany, Czech Republic, some parts of Polandand existed around 1000 to 1600, and, as hystorians say, was not roman and not holy at all, and they never conquered Romania!
Hey, question about the current situation there in Romania if I may. How are the current COVID conditions/restrictions for travelers from outside the EU going as tourist? Tried to find official info but all seems confusing overall.
Another correction...Romanians don't feel like being Dacians, or more connected to Dacians than Romans. I'd say it's more like the other way around. Back then it was no Romania. Romanian identity formed much later. Even the Romanian anthem says: It's now or never to the world we readily proclaim In our veins throbs Roman blood And in our hearts for ever we glorify a name Resounding of battle, the name of gallant Trajan.
Hiiii I’m going to Romania in 2 weeks and it’s so hard getting info on what do I need in order to enter the country I have a covid vaccine card with Johnson n Johnson can anyone help
Speaking freely your mind ... I disagree with this one. French are the best I believe and also germans. Complaining about being romanian I believe is more characteristic but so are also other nations :) On the personal level I believe one of the best/worst qualities is to take things easy and enjoy the moment and mostly friends, family. On the national levele the most proud thing (in my opinion) is the fact is we are are still a big country, speaking a common latin language after centuries of being surounded by Otoman empire, Russian empire and Austrohungarian empire. North, east, sout slavic languages, west hungarian language which is ... let's say different :)
The problem at the time was not the lack of money, we had money, plenty of money but nothing to buy with it. You couldn't find bananas anywhere, not that you couldn't afford to buy them.
Its not about money during Ceusescu. The people had plenty of money. The problem is that they didn't import tropical fruits. So no matter how much money you had, you wouldn't find them physically in the communist state-owned stores. There was a shortage of even local foods as he was exporting more food than he had to and very little was kept for the Romanians. He did the same with electricity. Few hours a day, the electricity was shut down as he was exporting it. Everything to export and very little for the Romanian people. However despite these big mistakes that he made, he also made some great things. Ceausescu was not an absolute evil nor was he an absolute good. He was somewhere in between.
We romanians are more like the latin descendants of the roman colonists and veterans of the Dacia Province and other provinces in the Balkans, like Moesia and Dardania.
The Dacians were not barbarians. On the contrary, they were more civilized than the Greeks. What paganism can we be talking about in the year 100 AD!? The Dacians were the only people who did not admit slavery, they had extensive knowledge for that time: medicine, surgery - including trepenation, construction science - murus dacicus, art - Dacian bracelets and a lot of artifacts in gold, silver, bronze, ornamentation, paintings, etc., astronomy, physics, mathematics, own calendar calculated almost as accurately as today, their own writing, the own legislative code - Belagine laws, the science of negotiation and war (they lost the war because the Danube had not frozen enough and the betrayal of the Germanic peoples of the Southwest), their own weapons - falx dacorum (a sword more effective than the Japanese katana) and above all the monotheistic Zalmoxian religion similar to the Christian religion. The Roman Empire conquered 14% of Dacia. After this there were 141 wars fought in 165 years by the free Dacians until the withdrawal of the Roman empire. The Dacians already spoke a proto-Latin language. The ancient historian Cassius Dio writes that the Roman- Dacian wars were fratricidal wars and before the military campaign against Dacia the Roman Emperor said: "I return to the homeland of my ancestors". Later, the Goths (the migrant people of Goths lived for 100 years in Dacia, taking over elements of the Dacian religion - Zalmoxism which are found later in the Viking religion) along with the Dacians caused the fall of Rome and the entire western Roman Empire.
Herodot scrie ca aici la nord de dunare in Malva(ulterior Romula Malva) s-a facut prima paine pe care el o vazuse. La test(cuptor din lut ingropat in pamant)
Romanians joined on Germany's side because Hitler promised he would keep our borders, if we went with the Allies we risked losing Transylvania. It was a though choice to make by a young king
It wasn’t conquered by the Holy Roman Empire…but by the Roman Empire.Holy Roman Empire come much much later in the late 10th century and it’s first ruller was Otto I.When part of Dacia was conquered there was only one Roman Empire.Later it got devided into Eastern Roman Empire(called by modern hostorians Byzantine Empire) and Western Roman Empire conquered by the Goths around 453.Later an francish ruller called Charlemagne took over and recreated the Eastern Roman Empire(kind of).What is today known as Holy Roman Empire later became Holy Roman Empire of German Nation and it was just a small part of the former Western Roman Empire…including only Austria,Germany,France and some other small neighbouring countries..:-)…But enough with the history hahaha
Romanians have the money to buy oranges today and they can find them everywhere, but they mostly taste like cardboard and are covered in wax, what an improvement 🤣
I am sorry to say, but I think many of the things that are said about the communism era, in general and Ceausescu in particular, are not completely true. Althuogh we would not eat bananas every day, there were no people to starve to death, as happened after the revolution. Many of the important constructions in Romania are from that period. After so many years from the revolution, none of those who came to power managed to build more than a poor highway....
The Romanians owned only 15% of Dacia: a few gold and salt mines! There they built forts and that's it! They never fully conquered Dacia!By the way ... Emperor Trajan was DAC!As for ww2, things are like this: Romania just wanted to regain the territories stolen by the Russians: Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, that's all!I'm proud to be romanian! We are sincere, fair and hospitable!
Mai bine ne explici cum ai descoperit paradisul alcohol lui din Romania tinand cont ca la tine - n tară bautura - I " cenzurata" adica se vinde numa'n locuri " designated" Eh!
Hey, sorry all! Meant to say Roman Empire* and not Holy Roman Empire. Ah, how one word can make an entirely different meaning! That was a huge fail by me, and somehow I didn’t even notice during editing. Sorry again!!
I was about to comment about that.. 😁
Sorry, but the entire video made me cringe. 1. Saving their pennies to buy tropical fruits. No, no and no. It was never about price but about availability. You had to have connections. One December day I queued for 3 hours to buy 1 kg of oranges. 2. Roman empire is different from Holy Roman Empire, the latter being a medieval Germanic empire. Our ancestors called themselves roman citizens, roman. 3. You visited the History Museum and did not go to see the gold! The Pietroasele thesaurus and the jewellery of the Royal family, including the Iron crown of King Carol I. 4. They were within the Soviet sphere of influences not because of their politicians or whatever. This is a long subject but it is disrespectful to dismiss that period as something any Romanian desired.
@@mihaelac2472 My perception is that in the winter time (around Christmas) you were able to find oranges and bananas easily. And in a way, bananas and oranges mean Christams for me, the smell of Christmas.
@@cosmincasuta486 Cosmin, did you have to stand in a queue at the market to get them and were they rationed (was there a limit on how many each person could get)? Thanks.
@@cosmincasuta486 in the late 80s, like maybe 1988-1989 things were scarce. I do remember tradition was we has oranges and bananas for Christmas, but I also remember the queues I had to stand in line. But my point was that it was not about being to expensive, but being hard to buy.
Wow, guys, genuninely impressed on how fast you understood and can correctly explain many aspects of Romania's history! Happy to have you here to explore!
P.S. the "Haiducesc" is da bomb! 😉
Hey thanks buddy! Let’s go out for a beer soon 👍
🥳 It's so nice of you to take them around and explore together!
I have just one objection about "The Holly Roman Empire" thing. Romania (actually Dacia at that time) was not conquered by "The Holly Roman Empire", but by the "Roman Empire". The "Holly Roman Empire" is another thing altogether from another period and another time (it dates to the medieval era while "The Roman Empire" dates to antiquity) and "The Holly Roman Empire" was actually "roman" just in name.
The Wholly German Empire, more likely.
If you were to ask a Romanian history expert what does it mean to be Romanian or what they have to be proud of, it would be that we are still here. We, the modern people, can't imagine what it must have felt for our ancestors to be surrounded by 3 empires and living under subjugation.
We are one of the oldest people in Europe and we have to make that more well known. We are survivors.
Love this!❤️🇹🇩
After the death of the Dacian king Decebalus in 106 AC , defeated by the Romans, the great Dacia was divided between his descendants, brother, etc. The Romans conquered only 1/3 of the great Dacia. And so Dacia, divided into provinces with their own rulers, functioned for centuries. The first to rebuild the great Dacia was the voivode Mihai Viteazul in 1600. Then the great country was divided again. One nation divides into three provinces. Being a single nation thousands of years old, we finally united in 1918. Named Romania from the capital of the Roman Empire. however, due to international political influences, much of the Romanian native population exists outside the current borders. around Romania. Minorities in other countries..
The ancestors of the Romanians did not live under subjugation as you mistakenly write. Maybe you are from Transylvania but the Romanians from the other two principalities fought and were not subdued. No, Romanians are not just survivors. They are survivors through battle.
@@boicerdiegio1709 Not true. The Ottoman empire rings a bell? URSS after the 2nd World War?
@@asdifsodkfs where are they now?
The original Trajan's Column is found in Italy's capital Rome for those interested and it pays tribute to the bravery of the Dacian warriors who managed to defeat the Romans during Emperor Domitian's reign.
When Trajan came to power one of his goals was to beat and invade Dacia, which after a few attempts he finally has done succesfully. The Dacian king (Decebalus) took his own life and the people of Dacia were then considered Romanus which meant citizens of Rome. And Romania is the modern equivalent of that.
Interesting fact Romania is only 103 years old country and Romania is formed of 3 principalities a bit like the United Kingdom. 3 principalities that spoke the same language united under one name Romania.
Thanks for sharing this!
Hi Celestin!
You said: fun fact - Romania is a 103 old country . I say not fun at all but tragically sad . Due to the geographic position and all the historical facts the country was for a short time United by Michael the Great - Mihai Viteazul : Prince of Wallachian - Prince of Moldova - Governor of Transilvania! In 1599! Sadly this end too soon due to treason and greater interest of this beautiful country to be ripped apart! Transilvania under Hungarian occupation ( later Austro- Hungarian occupation) - Wallachian territory being at war for hundreds of years with the Ottoman Empire; Moldova also fighting wars with Ottoman Empire, with the Tatars , with the Kings of Poland and Hungary !So many hundred years of war and paying tribute to our enemies, so many territories stolen from the Romanian people etc . Hundreds of years of suffering and yet under God and our Mother Orthodox Church- our beautiful language , amazing traditions we have been One Country no matter what happened! Man made borders ! God has no borders!
The people of Dacia were not roman citizens. The colonizing legionaire veterans were.
@@cameliaenache4575 Mihai actually was the third to unite the Danubian principalities.
The first one was an Italian called Basta 50 years before and the second one was king Sigismund Bathory who Mihai was a vassal of.
Start learning your country's real history and stop regurgitating stupid nationalist propaganda!
@@cameliaenache4575 The Orthodox church are a gang of thieves.
The first Diocese in what is today Moldova was roman Catholic (Episcopia Cumaniei). The first document ever printed in Romanian was a protestant text (Catehismul lutheran de la Sibiu 1544).
Most of Transylvania historically was roman Catholic.
During communism, the orthodox thugs, with the help of the government, stole the churches of the Catholics and protestants in Transylvania.
Without the Catholic church we wouldn't have our language today and would be still writing in Cyrillic.
The Orthodox church never acted in the interest of our nation, only in the interest of Constantinople and Moscow.
Just loved Mike's personal reason to be proud of being Romanian! I can't wait to visit there!
We think you will love Romania! It's a great place for travel... very underrated
Thanks for this wonderful video n your day exploration in Romania. D Romanian Palace of Parliament is incredibly amazing.
Surprised they didn't steal everything yet.
Few things:
Romania entered the war fighting for the axis in the hope of recovering romanian territories (Bassarabia and Northern Bukovina) occupied by the soviets one year before (1940).
The communist party was imposed on the government by riged elections, following the fact that Romania remained occupied by soviets troups after the war (up until 1958).
There had been romanian armed resistance in the mountains against the regime until the 60s (one such opponent, Ion Gavrila Ogoranu was captured in 76).
Both joining the axis or communism weren't an actual choice for Romania.
If my History teacher were to be like Steve who could explain so well, l wouldn't have had dropped the subject when l was in Upper Secondary school. I studied Geography instead. Well, Steve, you are an amazing History teacher. I really love your explanation. Well done Steve !!
Nice tour around the Palace of Parliament and the National Museum. Special thanks to Mike for your precious help. Bravos to all. Interesting historical vlog 👍👍
The ancient name of Romania was DACIA. A great ancient kingdom. We had wars with the Romans who wanted Dacia's gold. The story of the Daco-Roman wars is carved on Trajan's Column in Rome .On the Column you can see our Dacian ancestors in heavy battles with the Romans. Emperor Trajan conquered in 106 AC only a part of the Dacian kingdom. the gold part. With the plundered gold from Dacia, the Romans built the forum in Rome and others. 165 tons of gold and 330 tons of war booty embankments. Information from Criton, the personal doctor of Emperor Trajan and who accompanied him in the war in Dacia. Romanians are a Latin people, more Latin than the Romans-Italians , they are much younger than the Dacians. 2012 paleogenetics studies conducted in Germany on the population throughout Romania showed that we have the genes of the prehistoric populations that lived here, from 7000-5000 - 2000 years ago and therefore the Dacians and Getae, meaning we have a historical continuity on this territory..Today's name of Romania comes from Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire..
@@mariadespina80 interesting History.. thanks for the explanation.
@Chaw CY, you said rightly ! My same thought on Steve too. History was real boring to me at school. I never did well on that subject. I was better in Geography .Steve is a good narrator.
@@preciousstone6878 great that you too agree Steve is a good narrator. If he were to be our History teacher, we would have scored A+ for History.
Well, Romania joined the "bad guys" because of secret deal between Germany and USSR. As a result, Bulgaria, Hungary and USSR took over massive territories and started to massacre Romanians(Ip, Trezea, Fântâna Albă). Romania liberated Moldova în 1941, but Hitler needed Romanian oil, so there were promisses to give back northern Transylvania(occupied by Hungary) in exchange for continuation of the war. In 1944, Antonescu was arrested and taken to USSR, (later to be trialed and executed) and Romania joined the allies. After the war, Romania bacame a communist state being under occupation by our soviet "allies" who forged the 1946 elections in favor of their beloved party . Then, the Red Holocaust begun...
I think you mean the Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire was the western Roman Empire, with its first emperor being Charlemagne in 800 AD.
Who was it who said of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, "it wasn't Roman and it wasn't holy!" ?
Yes, sorry! Total fail by me. I pinned a comment up top to let everyone know. Duhhhh sorry
@@gerardfernon3339 Voltaire? Dostoieveski’s point of view was interesting as well.
@@JetLagWarriors no worries! Good erratum!
@@lexington5877 I think it was Voltaire. I think he also said it wasn't an empire also.
If you are in Romania You must visit Brașov. MUST DO IT. and if you're coming here let me know..I'll show you around. Here are the Dracula's castle, Cantacuzino Castle, Peleș Castel. In few words the most beautiful touristic attention are here
will do👍
yes, The Palace of Parliament (or The Palace of the People) is the no.1 biggest and heaviest civilian building in the world ,many says that Pentagon from USA is no.1 , but that is not a civilian building, it's a MILITARY building
Well, in my opinion a Parliament building is closer to a military building than to a civilian one.
Hi Ivana and Steve 👋 wow it’s historical storyt time by Steve 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thanks for such informative stories with regards to Romania’s background and history. I really appreciate whenever you brought us to the museum, there’s so much to see and gain knowledge 👍🏻 WowWow the column is really huge 👍🏻 how awesome if I could witness these monument sculptures and read the message that were carved on those walls must be really interesting 👍🏻😅 thanks 🙏🏻 guys and also to your friend for taking us around , stay safe 👍🏻🥰😘
As always, nice architecture.....full of history and as always , Museum , old relics.... this is right up Steve's alley. Stay safe, happy exploring.
Hope you are enjoying your staying here! :)
You have a lot of cool thing to discover here, and I know that the romanians will try to make you feel the best! :)
Romania comes from the latin Romanus wich means citizen of Rome
Love your vlogs, keep them coming!!
Woo! TH-cam vlogs every Tues, Thurs, Sat and Sunday! Mon, Wed, Fri we post on facebook
about the name of that street food: ''haiducesc'' Haiduc it was kind of romanian Robin Hood ...
I love Romania it's a quite place goodluck to Jetlag Warriors and Dodo Explorer nice to see sir Michael in jetlag warriors vlog 👍
The romans built, indeed, a wooden bridge for the first war with dacians, but Traian, the roman emperor, built a stone bridge over the river Danube where now Romania and Serbia are neightbours. On this stone bridge, that was considered one of the biggest achievements at that time (just imagine to build it without stopping...the Danube), Traian led his armies into the kingdom of Decebal. The story is long and very interesting to learn, so take a look here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia
Thank you Steve for the brief but concise narration. Love the architecture!
Glad to see Michael with Steve, I am a regular follower of Dodo Explperes! It is pronounced Dachia!
Nice 👍 vlog Jetlag Warriors in Romania bot of you Dodo and you already visit Malaysia its nice to bot of you from 🇲🇾
I hope you have some time to visit National Village Museum and The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant.
I think we will go today
Sorry for what happened with dodo as you know bro all five fingers are not equal we Pakistanis love to welcome our guests one's again sorry for bad ending in Pakistan long love Pakistan long live Romania🇵🇰🇦🇩
Ah, it could happen anywhere. It was rough for them, even Michael didn’t want to talk about it in the vlog. It’s all good they will keep travelling and hopefully we can give them a boost in the coming weeks!!!
What the hell did you guys do this time in Pakistan?
Last time I’ve organized a stadium concert in Karachi, didn’t go so well…
What are the relationships between the Talibans and Pakistan?
Steve i am so impressed about your ability to comprehend so fast and so correct all the informations about Romanian culture and hystory. In the future i wish for you to become a bussines man in Romania and taking care about Canadians tourist or bussines men who want to visit our country. think about it. can be a good oportunity
Fuck no. He only needs to promote his channel on TH-cam
it's not that people couldn't afford bananas or tropical fruits, they weren't available. There was a lot of exportation of goods but no import of any kind. If it grew in your grandfather's garden you had access to it, otherwise you'd wait about 4 hrs in line to buy them around December.
Hi guys... I have spent all my Saturday to watch your videos about Romania, I really liked your perspective of understanding Romanian Culture. You guys are great, and seem to be genuine in exploring things about the country. I am originally from Romania but I am living now in UK. I am actually a history and philosophy teacher and writer on historical facts. Usually I do not comment on others vlogs and videos as everyone has their own opinion and commenting will actually denaturise your first impression. But at this particular video I am commenting now you have made a huge historical error saying that Holly Roman Empire conquered Dacians, the predecessors of Romanians, which is 1200 years history far other empire. It is about, and I believe, by mistake, you thought at The Roman Empire, which through the emperor Trajan conquered Dacians in 2 separate attempts. I do not want to point the finger, but you people must know the real historical fact.
good job you are doing, I like your way of presenting country`s cultures.
Yep I made that mistake regarding the Holy Roman Empire! Duh! Fail by me. Sorry about that but glad you are enjoying our videos :)
@@JetLagWarriors Not to worry Man. I am also sorry, When I saw after posting that others commented on the video on the same issue, I felts that I shouldn't have done it.
My friends, Genin shaorma on Calea Floreasca street ! Best falafel rolls and shaormas.. please try and enjoy the rest of your trip ! thx for the positivity, you guys are great
You are welcome 😊
Awesome! Gogo DodoExplorers 🥰
I learned a lot from this video.
Some pages of Romanian history
Steven the Great - Battle of Vaslui 1475:
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Story of Vlad the Impaler
th-cam.com/video/MY82EpsvbQ8/w-d-xo.html
Vlad the Impaler - Battle of Targoviste 1462
Part 1: th-cam.com/video/NA34EZACkWY/w-d-xo.html
Part 2: th-cam.com/video/9RoBspQiOiE/w-d-xo.html
Michael the Brave 1595-1601
th-cam.com/video/AVZNTJ7RL80/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for this! Will check the Steven The Great page soon
Great video as always! It's not that bananas were expensive, you just couldn't find them, just as you wouldn't find oranges, lemons, coffee, meat, eggs and many other things. I remember in the '80s how a neighbor of ours was knocking on the door desperately from time to time to inform my grandma' there were eggs or something else for sale at the market across our building. By the time we got there, there was huge line. And we were living in the center of Bucharest. Imagine how things were elsewhere. The quantities you could buy were also limited, so that it would be enough for everyone waiting in line.
Thanks for sharing this!
@@JetLagWarriors please if you ever come back to this subject, be sure to document it well. There are thousands of people online who say it wasn't really that bad and there are also so many pictures with the state of the country in those days. Everything was clean, lots of places got electricity, huge dams were built, people from the countryside were obliged to go to school and so on. It's a very complex subject, and if you don't analyse it, and you only make an opinion based on the comments of those for whom a full belly was the most important thing... You won't understand it properly.
@@fetitadepeterra5319 they stopped the electricity to save it for the big industry day and night. Letting the people to die on the operation table, without oxygen and the kids to die in the incubator if they did not have generators. They had to boil the syringes and needles like in the war time. They infected with HIV children because they could not test the blood of transfusion.
@@fetitadepeterra5319 No need to offend anyone with that "full belly" tantrum. We were on the subject of what you could or couldn't find at the market. We all agree there were some things that were done right, like the nuclear power plant that we are using even to this day. But some good things don't erase the majority of bad things, having no human rights, not being able to go abroad and so on and so forth.
@@marcfaur I would dare to say that I am seeing this "Ceausescu did it" like an insult to the Romanians. Ceausescu didn't do anything. The Romanian nation did what they did.
man, I love learning about my own country's history through the eyes of foreigners, especially when they're so impressed with, and sensitive about our values. I am from Craiova, which is arguably the heart of the territory that has been conquered by Romans (just a FYI, nothing more). But I'm honestly impressed by how moved you are by our history because, yes, it's a sad history for us. Every big empire or superpower has tried - at some point - to conquer us and we had to pay with a lot of riches and blood our stay on these lands. The Romans have tried enslaving us, the Ottomans have tried, the Austro-Hungarians have tried, and in the last century the USSR (ex-Russia) have tried. Every God damn empire and superpower have wanted our lands and riches, that - sometimes - I honestly can't explain how we are still here after having sent to death millions upon millions of Romanians.
And yes, Dacia (our shitty car brand) is named after Romania's former name, which is.... well... Dacia :) ... Anyway, I'm glad that you have been so impressed with our history, and I wish more people like you visit us. I don't like the arrogant type, but humble people like you are always welcome here
3:24 actually it was the Roman Empire, The Holy Roman Empire was after the colapse of the Roman Empire in the Vlll-lX century
Yeah total fail on my part. Sorry duh
The Romans come from Romania/Dacia. Romania comes from Râmi, the people who live near the rivers. This is a historical fact. So don't confuse Rome with being those who build Romania. Even the Latin language comes from old Romanian.
This is true but not oficiall. maybe in few years the lingvistics approve that but hard because vatican.
Palatul Parlamentului was built because there were unused construction materials that did not find markets outside ... was meant to be a permanent exposition of "made in Romania" stuff, from construction materials to carpets to glassware
Love you Mike and sorry again for what happened to you in Pakistan... Love and respect from Pakistan
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@JetLag Warriors ; great video and content! At 3:55 and few seconds before you mention “Holy Roman Empire”. You mean to say “Roman Empire” instead. The Holy Roman Empire was a political entity in modern Germany/France which came to being in the Middle Ages. =) Thanks for great content !
I don’t know of you wrote on purpose “Steven the Great”, but correctly translated is “Stephan/Stephen the Great” :)))
Anyway… good quality videos :)
You can still see Trajan's Column in the Trajan Forum, in Rome, Italy. At some point Trajan's statue on top of the column was replaced by a statue of Saint Peter.
That was an interesting bit about the connection between The Roman Empire and Romania.
So I guess maybe there is some truth to the tongue-in-cheek saying When in Rome do as the Romanians do huh 😀
“We are nice people”...spoken like a true Canadian when you said that Steve.
and it is the only Latin spoken country in the east Europe surround it by Slavs, Hungarians,Turks and some Germanic tribes.
The ancient name of Romania was DACIA. A great ancient kingdom. We had wars with the Romans who wanted Dacia's gold. The story of the Daco-Roman wars is carved on the Trajan's Column in Rome .On the Column you can see our Dacian ancestors in heavy battles with the Romans. Emperor Trajan conquered in 106 AC only a part of the Dacian kingdom. the gold part. With the plundered gold from Dacia, the Romans built the forum in Rome and others. 165 tons of gold and 330 tons of war booty embankments. Romanians are a Latin people, more Latin than the Romans-Italians , they are much younger than the Dacians. 2012 paleogenetics studies conducted in Germany on the population throughout Romania showed that we have the genes of prehistoric populations that lived here, from 7000-5000 - 2000 years ago and therefore the Dacians and Getae, meaning we have a historical continuity on this territory. Today's name of Romania comes from Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire.
Thanks for the look at the Palace of Parliament. I'm not sure I like the exterior, it's too big. The interior looked appealing, however.
The interior was incredible. Our tour guide said we saw around 7% of the building
Somewhere there is the marble stolen by Ceausescu from the Timisoara City Opera house.
Dear JetLag Warriors, If you like history then here is the true story: 1. The parliament palace was built according to the plans of the 23-year-old architect Anca Petrescu whose project won the organized competition. The construction is made exclusively with Romanian materials processed in Romanian factories (which no longer exists). 2. Ceausescu was not a dictator. This is the official version that suits those who assassinated him and those who took advantage of the murder. 3. Ceausescu publicly criticized the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and its satellite countries. On this occasion, the USSR tried to enter Romania as well, but their tanks were destroyed instantly. The Russians apologized, saying they had gone the wrong way ;-). Ceausescu defused many conflicts between Israel and Palestine, being the only negotiator accepted by the two sides. He also brought his good offices to the leadership of North Vietnam so that the United States military could withdraw with honor and thus saved the lives of tens of thousands of American soldiers. 4. The state of scarcity in Romania at that time was artificial because Romania was internationally isolated politically and economically. 4.1. Ceausescu had an anti-Soviet policy. The country was not a satellite of the Soviet Union as were all the other states beyond the Iron Curtain. 4.2. Ceausescu wanted to found an international bank together with all the politically non-aligned states, which would finance the states without any political interference. This bank wanted to be parallel to banks such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, etc. This is the real reason why he was assassinated.
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Is that the building with the extensive tunnels in the basement, where the Top Gear people were racing cars, a few years after the Communist government fell? Or was that another palace? This is an example of grandiose Soviet-era architecture - apparently it really took off in the USSR under Stalin, in the 1950s.
that's the place, it is the 4-rth building in the world as size and it is the heavies building the world, a lot of Romanians died in the process of bulding, and more that the canal of Danube at the construction of a similar importance for the communist partied the Iron Gates.
About the fact that Ceaușescu was able to build the palace "and the people were ok with it":
I think you don't know what kind of communism Romania had. You may be thinking of a soft, slightly democratic communism. It was not like that.
After WW2, a part of the Red Army stayed in Romania and established a hard communism similar to the one in Russia. Opponents were arrested or even shot. Later, even if things calmed down a bit, people still couldn't oppose what was being dictated by the regime.
That is why the fall of communism was violent, because the people were tired of such a dictatorship.
But it is also true that the revolution was "helped" from outside, by the powers of the world, who had a deal that communist countries must give up communism.
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The Government nowadays wastes even more money than Ceausescu did back then. You have to realize that this palace did not cost that much in actual money: the labour was basically free - they used the army, political prisoners, and many people had to do this kind of ‘patriotic’ work as part of the duties in the institution they were in (school, uni etc). Furthermore, the raw materials were also free or very cheap: Romania is a rich country and they mostly used local stuff - even the marble is local. Now, don’t get me wrong, I know nothing is really free, everything has a cost one way or the other, plus I don’t want to glorify it in any way. Also, again, the real estate was free, because they basically just took it from the rightful owners, they demolished an entire neighborhood for this. Many people glorify communism but it is not a fair comparison: a construction today costs infinitely more than back then because everything has to be covered in cash, as it is normal: labour, land, materials and so on. So yeah, it is not a waste of money in the way money is wasted now in the free, capitalist society with a ‘democratic’ Government, where they just install 3 lines of kerbs near the road or ‘improve’ the safety at rail crossings by just installing a road sign above the crossing without actually repairing the road, installing lights etc (this is the most recent stuff the actual ‘non corrupt progressive’ Government did), but it was definitely a waste of energy and a demonstration of stupidness by this ‘great leader’ - other communist states invested more in things that were actually useful to people, since they anyway had all these low costs associated with that kind of regime. Bulgarians for example, if you visit, their regular roads are much more complex than ours, with most intersections having overpasses, most city entrances having wide roads etc, and here I am talking only about stuff built pre-1989. In Romania, the dictator focused on this useless palace and the canals (2, Danube-Black Sea was done and Bucharest-Danube was never finished and still creates a ton of problems even 30 years after it being abandoned) - both ate a lot of man hours for not much in return. A solid railroad would move more goods than the measly naval traffic the canal has. And it would have been cheaper, so they could have used the workforce to build other things, like a solid road network. Let’s be realistic, the canal for example, that would be economically unjustifiable to build nowadays. It brings too few economic benefits compared to its cost. Same thing goes with this stupid palace, but not only that, at least the canal can bring some economic value, now that we inherited it anyway, while this building houses a bunch of shitheads that do nothing useful really and it all just eats an enormous amount of electricity and maintenance for nothing good in return, actually.
Just a thought regarding Romania joining on the side of Axis. I believe we joined mostly because of Russian agression. How were we supposed to join the Allies when Russia (a part of the allies) had territorial claims over Romania?
Barbarians doesn't mean savages, it means men who wore beards. Barba means beard.
It looks like people in other Soviet-bloc countries were more fortunate with bananas.
A German chef I know in Kuala Lumpur grew up near the Czech border in East Germany before German re-unification.
He said every now and again the arrival of a load of bananas would be announced by the state. Whereupon the East German citizenry would all go and form a queue, to be given one hand of bananas for each family.
(Something my mother used to say, "I'm so old I don't buy green bananas" 😄)
In Romania the bananas, oranges and tangerines were available in the markets only around Christams (even we lived in a comunist state, the Christmas was celebrated with Father Forsty instead Father Christmas). For me this is the smell of Christmas, and I have the perception (of a child of course) that everybody could have tham in that period of the year!
I'm surprised that Latin survived to the extent that it did in Romania.
As others have said here, the Romans only got hold of a part of Dacia for a limited period, not the whole of what are now the Romanian lands, where Romanian is now spoken.
Other similar forms of (Balkan) Latin, in Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Croatia etc., have either disappeared or are very limited.
Why not in Romania?
Because Romans thought about Dacian people they've met and fought are like their cousins. They could understand a bit between each other (Latin vs rough old thracian). Which translates Dacian people were one the last Thracian people out there (Thacia , as teritory was all the way from greece, rome, up to Carpathians) Why out of all the cultures they conquered (Roman empire ) only the Dacians (Decebal) was sculptured on Traian's column on Rome? They had the biggest respect for them because they fought well and also they got gold from there to save taxes for everyone for 1 full year inside all Roman Empire. My understanding for your question from my personal studies as I putted this question myself as well. Romanian here
I would say because of the Byzantine Empire
@@j33beyond93 Thracia are in Bulgaria. Dacia in Romania and they have same blood and language.
Todays Greece is far more remnant of the Roman empire than Romania. Romania used the Cyrillic alphabet till mid 19th century. Romania still has marticor which is a tradition that exists only in Bulgaria and Romania. Nowhere else in the world. Today's Greece IS the remnant of the Roman empire. They survived 976 years more than the Western Roman empire. But they got Hellenized and started using Greek language relatively early. When they got liberated from the Ottomans in 1821 they couldn't have revived the Byzanthian empire as the Turks still held Constantinople (as they do as of today) so they decided to call themselves Greeks and the country Greece. There is no way Latin alphabet to exist in Greece as an official alphabet.
We can discuss other Balkan countries as well, but it would be a long post. Albania and Croatia use Latin, although it was a gargantuan effort by the Catholic church to convince Croats not to use Glagolitic alphabet, which they have used and loved for centuries. They still celebrate this alphabet, although they don't use it.
it was not about saving pennies to buy bannanas or oranges, we had money, these were the fruits that were nowhere to be found in Romania at that time, those who afforded these fruits and other commodities from import were people connected to certain levels of power
ah good to know, thanks!
It is not true! I do not think that Ceusescu was eating bananas in June! We imported the fruits only during the Christmas time and than, i remember in the markets and grocerys a lot of fruits during that time. Yes you can not find tham all time of the year, but than, nobody have it!
@@cosmincasuta486 Ceausescu was enjoying a stylish palace and all the comfort that comes with it, so obviously he was not eating plain things like a commoner, after 1989 we saw on tv that one of his palaces had a greenhouse where oranges were grown, clearly Ceausescu's family was enjoying these type of fruits whenever they wanted, and yes these fruits were imported in Romania only during winter feasts for commoners to have it, is not fair to mention the Christmas because the communists were not religious at all. I remember when these fruits were in the shops (alimentara) to be sold, and the shop vendors were selling only 2kg to each person, everyone had money to buy 10 or 20kg but they restricted it to give the chance to most of the people to buy a 2kg bananas or oranges, but most of the times lots of people didn't get this chance because of the gigantlike queues, imagine sitting at a queue for hours and at some point they tell you that all the amount was sold out, a horrible thing to see others eating bananas or oranges and not be able to have it, though we had the money to buy it. And those from Securitate and the high level officials from the Communist Party and important people connected to certain levels of power had special shops with commodities that the commoners were deprived. I remember that at that time there was an anecdote sounding like this :"how is Romania seen from space?is seen as a monster with two heads and lots and lots of tails", tail in Romanian language is the corespondent for queue, so those tails were signyfing the queues in front of the shops, and the heads were signyfying the Ceausescu couple.
@@TanerG77 That was the PUBLIC BOTANICAL GARDEN! Still the orange tree is there! Not a Ceausesc's green house! Also this sories with the securitate and the oarty guys had special magasines is right but except that they can purchse some chinese chocolate and some Pepsi and Cico, the rest is bull shit. They can buy oranges strictlly when the oranges were in the common shop (nobody import oranges special for them). And the rows were created buy the people who wanted to purchase more that they need. This with the bananas and oranges is still a lie. I remember very well in the "childrens town" opened during Chirstmas a lot, an d I mean a lot of little shiops with exotic fruits and the row was not so big....
@@cosmincasuta486 I am rarely mistaken when it comes to information like this, the palace is called Palatul de la Olănești and this palace has a greenhouse, and I saw with my own eyes on tv the greenhouse with its orange trees, so what public botanical garden are you talking about? At least you are fair to recognize that the guys from Securitate and high officials from the Communist Party had their own stores from where they could buy commodities that we were deprived, isn't this privilege? And do not try to display a different reality about the queues, there were people in line waiting to buy these fruits after haven't eating these fruits for an entire year, you said for yourself that these fruits were imported only once in winter, and the people were allowed to buy only 2kg, no more, so you are saying that they were buying more than they needed? 2kg is more than they needed? And by the way in English they call it stores not magasines, a magazine is a publication that is published periodically, improve your English so others can understand what you are saying.
About the famous romanian car Dacia...wich you found all around Europe ....very popular....actually was Ceausescu made the deal with the french. Company Renault ...in the sixty......and even today is a french -romanian corporation
What car was created by the Romanians?
@@eedragonr6293 Dacia. Now it's under Renault.
@@ILoveWoWandRock Dacia was never Romanian. From the very beginning was a Renault. Ceausescu only bought the right to produce in Romania foreign products which were branded as Romanian. That is all. Perhaps it was a big mistake to simply sell it back to Renault, the question is if the Romanians were able to do something else.
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Steve, you guys are great man. But if I may, the Holy Roman Empire you references was neither holy nor roman and not even an empire, and it also did not exist in 100 AD. :) The Holy Roman Empire (of the German Nation) was mostly a confederation of territories mostly situated in present day Germany, Austria, Czechia and Poland, united in personal union under an elected emperor. It was called that way because it retained sovereignty over Rome, but it was something that mostly had to do with the prestige associated with being a "Roman" Emperor, as well as lording over the papal seat. As a consequence of ruling over Rome, the catholic church considered it the successor of the Roman Empire, although the argument as of why it would be is very much of a stretch, especially if you consider that it was for a long time contemporary with Byzantium, or the Eastern Roman Empire.
As for Dacia, which is mostly present day Romania, it was conquered by the Roman Empire in 106 AD by the legions of emperor Trajan. The failed invasion of Dacia that you mentioned wasn't in 100 BC, but in 87 AD, just 19 years before the conquest of Dacia by the Romans, when Domitian was emperor of Rome.
Either way, keep up the cool vlogs and enjoy your time in Romania!
Let me tell you something no one is telling you about Ceausescu, he was the one that managed to make romania the only country in the world that didn't have an extern debt . And that's a fact, and he was killed for that.
It's not like bananas or oranges were expensive.
The problem was that u couldn't find them in shops.
I suppose that made Romania a "no banana republic".
it wasn't just bananas..there were shortages on huge lines on everything...
Guys, you've already visited more things than me over there and already know more things than an average Romanian 😂 hope the trip lived up to the expectations 😁 I feel somehow sorry as there are loads of great places/towns/restaurants to visit, but at least you covered the main attractions
Me being romanian,didnt even know much of them
Hi dear...love your very briefly romanian history exposure...1...for the ''Holly Roman'''' is ok...( refers to the German Christians Empire...)...2...Romania became''comuniste'' because of 3 people...american president Roosevelt...PM UK..Churchill..and the CCCP..Stalin....they decided in 45..at Weimar..which country will get the USA+UK..and wich countries. will take The Soviets...also they split Germany and Berlin.....by the ''this is mine...this is yours''...No comuniste parties were in Romania or others countries
The Holy Roman Empire is a medieval era country... you mean The Roman Empire
Yes, sorry, duh! My fault
hy, I just want to say that the wars between the Dacians and the Romans were fratricidal wars, Trajan was a real Dacian. :) thank you
The "Holy Roman Empire" was over a thousand years later. You're thinking "Roman Empire".. As for when the Roman's tried to conquer ... it wasn't "100 BC" the first time and "100 AD" when it succeeded. It was more like 5-10 years from the first failure to the final success. You should have learned this while at that display of Traian's Column. I've visited that display, and know that it clearly explains the dates.
Okay, I see that you figured out "Holy" was wrong ;-)
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Its a shame the National History Museum has had in the last 10 yrs or even more just the Treasury, the Trajan Column Replica area and a temporary exhibition here and there. When I visited it last time, 20 yrs ago, it had covered absolutely each century or ruler or period of history starting with the prehistory, so a true national museum. Now, because of a judicial problem, it covers just a few periods of the countrys huge history. :( Anyway, for what it could and should have been, try the National Military Museum which also covers all the historical periods but from military point of view and also a still good museum :D
Steve, forgive me, but Trajan was emperor of Rome, the really real pagan original Roman empire, who got hold of bits of Romania.
The Holy Roman Empire came centuries later and were basically a big bunch of Germans. Yeah, and they got hold of bits of Romania too.
Yes DUH! Huge fail by me. Not sure why I said Holy… also I didn’t even notice it during editing. Ugh sorry
@@JetLagWarriorsNot at all, Steve. It's easy to get confused when the original really real Roman emperors were considered divine. They were hardly pure and holy, but
The thing of being proud about Romania is that we speak our mind? Absolutely no! We are proud about our beautiful traditions and history, that we never gave up on anything and we tried to do our best about everything and everywhere! We are proud of our culture in every domain, for example in writing, music, art, etc!
You got the facts a bit wrong: the Holy Roman Empire and the Roman Empire were two different things. The roman Empire conquered Dacia, today Romania.
The Holy Roman Empire was a bunch of provinces and small states, basically Germany, Czech Republic, some parts of Polandand existed around 1000 to 1600, and, as hystorians say, was not roman and not holy at all, and they never conquered Romania!
Hey, question about the current situation there in Romania if I may. How are the current COVID conditions/restrictions for travelers from outside the EU going as tourist? Tried to find official info but all seems confusing overall.
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Another correction...Romanians don't feel like being Dacians, or more connected to Dacians than Romans. I'd say it's more like the other way around. Back then it was no Romania. Romanian identity formed much later. Even the Romanian anthem says:
It's now or never to the world we readily proclaim
In our veins throbs Roman blood
And in our hearts for ever we glorify a name
Resounding of battle, the name of gallant Trajan.
Is this the anthem that Ceausescu banned?
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The Roman Empire not the HOLY Roman Empire, two very different things
Yeah I screwed that up. Fail. Meant Roman Empire
So from Dacia 101...to Romania 1941 directly.
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It was not about the money, they had money but not access to anything imported. Also all the products the country was produced where exported
Speaking freely your mind ... I disagree with this one. French are the best I believe and also germans. Complaining about being romanian I believe is more characteristic but so are also other nations :) On the personal level I believe one of the best/worst qualities is to take things easy and enjoy the moment and mostly friends, family. On the national levele the most proud thing (in my opinion) is the fact is we are are still a big country, speaking a common latin language after centuries of being surounded by Otoman empire, Russian empire and Austrohungarian empire. North, east, sout slavic languages, west hungarian language which is ... let's say different :)
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The problem at the time was not the lack of money, we had money, plenty of money but nothing to buy with it. You couldn't find bananas anywhere, not that you couldn't afford to buy them.
@JetLang Warriors, A neighborhood was demolished, to make way for that ugly building...
Its not about money during Ceusescu. The people had plenty of money. The problem is that they didn't import tropical fruits. So no matter how much money you had, you wouldn't find them physically in the communist state-owned stores. There was a shortage of even local foods as he was exporting more food than he had to and very little was kept for the Romanians. He did the same with electricity. Few hours a day, the electricity was shut down as he was exporting it. Everything to export and very little for the Romanian people. However despite these big mistakes that he made, he also made some great things. Ceausescu was not an absolute evil nor was he an absolute good. He was somewhere in between.
We romanians are more like the latin descendants of the roman colonists and veterans of the Dacia Province and other provinces in the Balkans, like Moesia and Dardania.
so that's how they got the name
Yep!
The Dacians were not barbarians. On the contrary, they were more civilized than the Greeks. What paganism can we be talking about in the year 100 AD!? The Dacians were the only people who did not admit slavery, they had extensive knowledge for that time: medicine, surgery - including trepenation, construction science - murus dacicus, art - Dacian bracelets and a lot of artifacts in gold, silver, bronze, ornamentation, paintings, etc., astronomy, physics, mathematics, own calendar calculated almost as accurately as today, their own writing, the own legislative code - Belagine laws, the science of negotiation and war (they lost the war because the Danube had not frozen enough and the betrayal of the Germanic peoples of the Southwest), their own weapons - falx dacorum (a sword more effective than the Japanese katana) and above all the monotheistic Zalmoxian religion similar to the Christian religion. The Roman Empire conquered 14% of Dacia. After this there were 141 wars fought in 165 years by the free Dacians until the withdrawal of the Roman empire. The Dacians already spoke a proto-Latin language. The ancient historian Cassius Dio writes that the Roman- Dacian wars were fratricidal wars and before the military campaign against Dacia the Roman Emperor said: "I return to the homeland of my ancestors". Later, the Goths (the migrant people of Goths lived for 100 years in Dacia, taking over elements of the Dacian religion - Zalmoxism which are found later in the Viking religion) along with the Dacians caused the fall of Rome and the entire western Roman Empire.
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NOT Holy Roman Empire... That was another empire in another period!
Romanians joined on Germany's side because Hitler promised he would keep our borders, if we went with the Allies we risked losing Transylvania. It was a though choice to make by a young king
It wasn’t conquered by the Holy Roman Empire…but by the Roman Empire.Holy Roman Empire come much much later in the late 10th century and it’s first ruller was Otto I.When part of Dacia was conquered there was only one Roman Empire.Later it got devided into Eastern Roman Empire(called by modern hostorians Byzantine Empire) and Western Roman Empire conquered by the Goths around 453.Later an francish ruller called Charlemagne took over and recreated the Eastern Roman Empire(kind of).What is today known as Holy Roman Empire later became Holy Roman Empire of German Nation and it was just a small part of the former Western Roman Empire…including only Austria,Germany,France and some other small neighbouring countries..:-)…But enough with the history hahaha
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Romanian had the money to buy banana and oranges ; but you couldn't find them.
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I am sorry to say, but I think many of the things that are said about the communism era, in general and Ceausescu in particular, are not completely true. Althuogh we would not eat bananas every day, there were no people to starve to death, as happened after the revolution. Many of the important constructions in Romania are from that period. After so many years from the revolution, none of those who came to power managed to build more than a poor highway....
The Romanians owned only 15% of Dacia: a few gold and salt mines! There they built forts and that's it! They never fully conquered Dacia!By the way ... Emperor Trajan was DAC!As for ww2, things are like this: Romania just wanted to regain the territories stolen by the Russians: Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, that's all!I'm proud to be romanian! We are sincere, fair and hospitable!
Hi! Are you sure you wanted to write "The Romanians owned only 15% of Dacia"? I suppose you wanted to say The Romans, not the Romanians...
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