History of the Dacians - Ancient Civilizations DOCUMENTARY

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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  4 месяца назад +53

    🎥Check out our series on the Fall of Sparta, Anabasis of Xenophon and Persian Wars on RUclips ruclips.net/channel/UCMmaBzfCCwZ2KqaBJjkj0fwjoin or patreon: www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals

    • @DrKilljoy91AlexMcJoy
      @DrKilljoy91AlexMcJoy 4 месяца назад +1

      hey do you think you could do something about the batavion revolt in the roman empire no one ever talks about it

    • @dudeboydudeboy-zj8kd
      @dudeboydudeboy-zj8kd 4 месяца назад +4

      i hope you cover the roman dacian wars one day

    • @Scorpion51123314512
      @Scorpion51123314512 4 месяца назад +1

      Any idea when first punic war series will be available for followers to watch who are not youtube members?? Hope it's really soon.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  4 месяца назад +2

      @@Scorpion51123314512 don't know

    • @Scorpion51123314512
      @Scorpion51123314512 4 месяца назад +1

      @@KingsandGenerals thanks

  • @WRX3
    @WRX3 4 месяца назад +698

    If you are near Assen in the Netherlands, the Drents Museum currently has a large exposition of gold and silver items from Dacia before the Roman conquest. They are items on loan from various Romanian museums.

    • @globaloptimatarot3676
      @globaloptimatarot3676 4 месяца назад +2

      yessss im dying to go!

    • @Lalw
      @Lalw 4 месяца назад +8

      Thanks for the info, added on my list to visit.

    • @ioncojoaca9811
      @ioncojoaca9811 4 месяца назад +4

      ​@@LalwVizitează pământul sfânt. Sar putea sa vezi lucruri la care nici nu visezi.

    • @NASAE-wt1ec
      @NASAE-wt1ec 3 месяца назад +5

      Strange is that the romanian daci(dacians) and dutch have same pronunciation

    • @strexpills
      @strexpills 2 месяца назад +6

      @@ioncojoaca9811 iesi ma cu israelu de aci,mai bine merg in baicoi

  • @thegreendragoninn8730
    @thegreendragoninn8730 4 месяца назад +1143

    Romania definitely remembers the Dacians considering they've been working on a giant stone monument to Decebalus.

    • @munteanuiulian7427
      @munteanuiulian7427 4 месяца назад +63

      Been there to see it and on the serbian side the Tabula Traiana. To bad they didn't go ahead with building Trajan's monument there.

    • @DevilGamingBF
      @DevilGamingBF 4 месяца назад +47

      What do you mean been working? The monument was done decades ago.

    • @Rynewulf
      @Rynewulf 4 месяца назад +54

      @@ДеянКънчев-ф4вBut Dacia was considered north Thracia, both Greek and Roman historians of the Classical Era and the archaeology bare out the connection.
      Before the Romans and Magyars and Slavs moved in, the Carpathian Basin and Southeast Balkans were a continuum of people.
      Then so many invasions happened that todays Pannonians in Hungary identify with Asian Nomads, Dacians in Romanian identify with Romans and Thracians in Bulgaria identify with Slavs.

    • @slavsenator7600
      @slavsenator7600 4 месяца назад +61

      I think naming a car brand after it, is already a lot of recognition 😅

    • @HellStr82
      @HellStr82 4 месяца назад

      @@ДеянКънчев-ф4в awww poor llittle hungarian :))))))

  • @Milen4u
    @Milen4u 4 месяца назад +75

    Very interesting subject. I am from Bulgaria and 3 years ago a made a big motorcycle trip in Transylvania, then two smaller ones in the west. I visited several museums and historical sites related to the Dacians and have learned a lot of new things. The history of the Balkans is very interlinked and trade, culture, art, religion travelled far further than on could guess, even in these times.

    • @attilamajlath9863
      @attilamajlath9863 День назад

      Transylvania.NOT ROMANIA ...TRANSYLVANIA...THE LAND DE ATTILA ..THE HUN.😮 OK?

    • @DoghieMosie
      @DoghieMosie День назад +1

      ​@attilamajlath9863 can we please stop dwelling on the past of who what and where? You weren't even a conceived thought when the separation happened. And as far as we all remember you weren't just Hun. You were Austro-hun. Same with transylvania. Both of the events occurred in the same time.

    • @DoghieMosie
      @DoghieMosie День назад

      ​@@attilamajlath9863please learn to be more humble and teach the kids the REAL history of what happened because it seems like there is a missconfusion there amongst your nation.

    • @attilamajlath9863
      @attilamajlath9863 День назад

      @@DoghieMosie ok

  • @gaiusmarcus8
    @gaiusmarcus8 4 месяца назад +293

    The reason I like history is that every passing day the subject expands. Everything is new, yet nothing is new.

    • @danielzhang1916
      @danielzhang1916 4 месяца назад +9

      as it should be, if history is boring, then you're learning it the wrong way

    • @onyxstone4618
      @onyxstone4618 4 месяца назад +2

      "Nothing new under the Sun".

    • @TurinTurumba
      @TurinTurumba 4 месяца назад +3

      Agreed, plus It's so endlessly fascinating

    • @andreibarbulescu3276
      @andreibarbulescu3276 4 месяца назад +2

      Every day is the same, nothing special, but why is it when i look not even far back, everything, including me, was so different from now? History is beautiful

    • @fantomas4935
      @fantomas4935 4 месяца назад

      ​@@andreibarbulescu3276nostalgia

  • @adiadutu5342
    @adiadutu5342 4 месяца назад +50

    The dacian stindard was a wolf head made of bronze or brass.The body was of similar to a snake or dragon made of textile material or leather.
    The head was in a pike and when the rider("Draconar") started galloping the body increased it's size because of the air and in the same time the had a shrinking device at the end with a flute which created the sound of a hauling wolf.

  • @Mzah14
    @Mzah14 4 месяца назад +574

    Now i get where the car brand Dacia gets its name from

    • @dand7763
      @dand7763 4 месяца назад +57

      I'm a worker in a car factory from Romania, here we build cars with this name mentioned by you above...a brand name in deed ...well knowm worlwide as i see :)

    • @LordWilliam100
      @LordWilliam100 4 месяца назад +18

      ​@dand7763 got to ride around in a few when I was stationed at Mk. Well made vehicles and can definitely take the daily grind of taxi work lol

    • @jonbaxter2254
      @jonbaxter2254 4 месяца назад +3

      It's been delayed!

    • @TheNeamtu
      @TheNeamtu 4 месяца назад +25

      Also, two type of heavy trucks, named DAC and ROMAN, made by the same factory in Brasov. Naming cars after ancient warriors seem to be a romanian thing :)

    • @Don-Coyote-De-Transylvania
      @Don-Coyote-De-Transylvania 4 месяца назад +7

      @@TheNeamtu Every country does it. American Apache chinock helicopters, french Leclerc tank, british ships etc

  • @Outlaw_Deadman1996
    @Outlaw_Deadman1996 4 месяца назад +393

    You know your civilization is awesome when it has a weapon that scared the hell out of the Romans and force them to change their helmet

    • @faenethlorhalien
      @faenethlorhalien 4 месяца назад +19

      That's hardcore.

    • @gianniszacharopoulos5725
      @gianniszacharopoulos5725 4 месяца назад +25

      And add a metal sleeve on their sword hand

    • @catalincata9043
      @catalincata9043 4 месяца назад +2

      Whats that weapon?

    • @gianniszacharopoulos5725
      @gianniszacharopoulos5725 4 месяца назад

      @@catalincata9043 It's called the falx. It was curved and the inside blade was the sharp one. It was pretty good at dismembering and thanks to its curved shape it could bypass the roman great shield and chop legionary hands. Google it to see what it looked like if you want. Hope that helps 🙂

    • @NvardQueen
      @NvardQueen 4 месяца назад +17

      @@catalincata9043 falx

  • @emmiannon1266
    @emmiannon1266 4 месяца назад +186

    What always fascinates me about the post roman era of the region is how Romanian is still a latin language, after so many different peoples came through and changed surounding areas langages like in hungary, bulgaria, serbia, the romanians kept their latin tongue.

    • @BasedGod66
      @BasedGod66 4 месяца назад +5

      But it's the least understandable romance language 😂

    • @georgesimon2730
      @georgesimon2730 4 месяца назад +81

      @@BasedGod66 Ever listened to a french speaking?

    • @SirAdrian87
      @SirAdrian87 4 месяца назад +62

      Romanian is still a latin language same way Welsh is still a Celtic language, mountains. Romanian survived in the highlands of the Carpathian arch where nomads usually did not venture

    • @xczv00
      @xczv00 4 месяца назад +7

      @@BasedGod66 are u a French?

    • @luciansevastru7087
      @luciansevastru7087 4 месяца назад +35

      Mountains. The core of Dacia was the Carpathian arch, very big, very mountainous area. Whenever things got rough, the locals would take refuge in the mountainous, wooded areas, which to present day cover a very large area, Romania was up to recently one of the most wooded countries in Europe. Most migratory peoples were horse based, , they'd avoid the mountains. Then, when/if they'd settle down, the locals would slowly intermingle with them, trade, and assimilate them slowly over time, while also adopting many of the invader's traits themselves. It also helps that these locals were semi-migratory pastoralists themselves, raising sheep high up in the mountains and always moving based on seasons, a feature also evidenced by their later (middle age) supposed descendants, the Vlachs.

  • @daniel-zh9nj6yn6y
    @daniel-zh9nj6yn6y 4 месяца назад +169

    Publius Ovidius Naso was exiled to Tomis, a coastal area of the Black Sea, located in modern day Romania. There, he wrote 'Epistulae ex Ponto', where he described the locals.

    • @raulpetrascu2696
      @raulpetrascu2696 4 месяца назад +38

      You can see his statue in the modern city, Constanța

    • @daciaromana2396
      @daciaromana2396 4 месяца назад +20

      @@raulpetrascu2696 Yep and we also have the Ovid award which awarded to Romanian writers for best literature. Which is fitting because Ovid was Rome's famous fictional writer. A little too succesful for his own good because that's why Octavian exiled him.

    • @shytall
      @shytall 4 месяца назад +7

      Tomis lives today as well with a different name, we even have a liqueur wine call " Ovidiu's tear"

    • @Ikare7
      @Ikare7 4 месяца назад +2

      This is true 💯👍

    • @maudcls5610
      @maudcls5610 2 месяца назад +2

      I downloaded his writings. They are free thankfully. Thanks for the tip

  • @YooKkang
    @YooKkang 4 месяца назад +76

    Whenever I think about the Dacians is how feared they were at combat, especially their long ass curved swords, which the Romans made a gladiator type arm/sleeve armor just to combat that weapon.

    • @octaviantimisoreanu5810
      @octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 месяца назад +20

      The Manica Segmentata (armguard). The Romans also reinforced their helmets with iron cross guards for extra protection against the Dacian falx. The Romans took many casualties because a hard blow to the head with the tip of the falx could pierce the Roman helmet.

    • @vladtimofte6511
      @vladtimofte6511 4 месяца назад +2

      They have curved swords....curved...swords. Whiterun Guard

    • @ioansabau-d6q
      @ioansabau-d6q 4 месяца назад

      it was not a weapon...it was a agricultural tool!

    • @laurapenciuc6258
      @laurapenciuc6258 4 месяца назад +3

      It took the Romans many years to conquer Dacians. To avoid being paraded in Rome and enslaved, Decebal, the ruler of the Dacians, killed himself. The Roman occupation lasted about 200 hundred years. The Dacians' language disappeared, but there are few words that survived and now used in the Romanian language, which is of Latin descendence. Because of the invading tribes, warring with Empires like the Ottomans, Slavic and Slavonic countries, Romanian language is what is now.

    • @octaviantimisoreanu5810
      @octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 месяца назад +2

      @@laurapenciuc6258 Indeed. But it wasn’t an “occupation” it was a settlement. Dacia was settled with Romans and heavily Romanized.

  • @Varangoi
    @Varangoi 4 месяца назад +92

    I'm starting my history bachelor. Thank's to K&G in sparking my interest!

  • @yossarian7617
    @yossarian7617 4 месяца назад +85

    Under Decebal, Dacia represented an existential threat to Rome. Although Rome "officially" said it won the first Dacian war, they somehow ended up paying up monthly taxes to Dacia. A second all or nothing war was seemingly inevitable but Trajan and Decebal came to an agreement: Trajan was to adopt Decebal's youngest son and raise him as his official heir. A Dacian on the throne of the Roman Empire was something that appeased both the hostile Dacians as well as the Roman people which had great respect for Dacians due to their reputation as warriors. (One of the greatest gladiatorial schools right next to the Colosseum was entirely dedicated to Dacian culture). However the child passed away after a freak accident while playing with a sword. Emperor Trajan invaded Dacia with the entire might of the Roman army. It was the biggest and most costly war campaign in the history of Rome because defeat in this instance was tantamount to the extinction of the Empire. Trajan won, "colonized" Dacia with 40 000 romans while also "transferring" >400 000 Dacians to Rome. Two centuries later Dacians were running the Empire with most of the elite being descendants of these Dacians that Trajan brought. Emperor Galerius (half-Dacian on his mother's side) even proposed to change the name of the Roman Empire to the Dacian Empire. This sparked great tensions between the two ethnic factions within Rome which eventually culminated in the split of the Empire, with Emperor Constantine (half-Dacian on his father's side) laying down the foundation of the Byzantine Roman Empire which lasted for another 1000 years.
    Roman religion never managed to enter Dacia. Herodotus describes an outward hostility towards the Roman gods, with Dacian rituals revolving around blaspheming the Pantheon and challenging Zeus to a fight plus calling him a coward for not showing up. Dacians were one of the first people to be Christianized around 70 AD by St. Andrew. The Romans even reported the presence of Christian symbolism (crosses, icons) in Sarmisegetuza, around 100 AD.
    One thing to note is that throughout the history of the Dacian people, they have always had a hostility towards the Roman Empire. Sometimes this hostility was unexplainable. One example of this is when Emperor Constantine came to the aide of the Dacians because they were engaged in a war with germanic invaders. The Dacians promptly turned their swords against Constantine's army as well and they were forced to retreat. Emperor Constantine after being rejected by what he considered to be his true homeland, decided to cope by giving himself the lofty title of Dacicus Maximus. This title (for some reason) was then adopted by all the later Emperors up until the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th Century.

    • @talwal1400
      @talwal1400 4 месяца назад

      Awesome trivia!

    • @alucard347
      @alucard347 3 месяца назад +2

      Do you have sources for that?
      It seems a bit too good to be true.

    • @yossarian7617
      @yossarian7617 3 месяца назад +15

      @@alucard347 It's Wikipedia-tier knowledge but it is scattered all over the place. I just placed everything into one coherent narrative. If you google each of my statements you will find some article mentioning it.
      The most difficult aspect to understand was why was ancient Rome so in love with the Dacians. Keep in mind that most of what we know about Dacians come from the Romans themselves. Though enemies of the Empire, the Dacians were portrayed absurdly positively: noble, honest, well-spoken, great warriors, fearless, and cunning. There's also the fact that Dacians and Romans were related, one nation branching from the other but whether or not they understood this at the time is speculative.
      I think this mystery is solved by the fact that one of the biggest gladiatorial schools in Rome was dedicated exclusively to Dacians. The gladiatorial games was such an important part of ancient Rome that it almost bankrupted the empire several times. So it comes to reason why Romans had such a positive view of Dacians when they were so used to seeing them perform in the arena so often.

    • @alucard347
      @alucard347 3 месяца назад +1

      @@yossarian7617 hmm... interesting. I'll need to read up on that, as dacian history is really not my forte.
      thank you for the information!
      have a good day!

    • @alexandrudascaleanu5429
      @alexandrudascaleanu5429 3 месяца назад

      ​@@yossarian7617 I always thought that the Dacians wore actually a branch from the Thracians , that split up and formed a new empire.

  • @Alex9999960
    @Alex9999960 4 месяца назад +147

    As a Romanian, I thank you for this video. We are proud of this part of our history having references to it in our national anthem and our own car brand is called Dacia which is quite popular in many European and Asian countries (though it may be exported under the Renault brand in some places)

    • @octaviantimisoreanu5810
      @octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 месяца назад +9

      Our national anthem does not reference Dacia at all. Although we do reference our Roman ancestry, "un sange de Roman, un nume de Traian". A Roman blood and a name of Trajan. So maybe if you meant Roman Dacia.

    • @Shadow.24772
      @Shadow.24772 4 месяца назад +6

      Dacia is no longer a "romanian" brand. It's been bought by Renault for quite a few years now. even under the hood, the engine is the typical Renault engine. Hell, since Russia hates Romania so much, Dacia cars are sold there under the Renault badge. even if the entire body is exactly a Dacia. Like Renault Duster or Sandero xD

    • @octaviantimisoreanu5810
      @octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 месяца назад +14

      @@Shadow.24772 If it says Dacia on it. It's Romanian. End of story.

    • @Alexander99602
      @Alexander99602 4 месяца назад +3

      ​@@Shadow.24772 Trust me, no Romania will give a shit and say "Dacia is Romanian. Cry about it."

    • @razvyi47
      @razvyi47 4 месяца назад +5

      @@Alexander99602 you are so wrong

  • @eafstudios6436
    @eafstudios6436 4 месяца назад +283

    Would love to see a video on the origins of the Romanians and modern Romania, given that Dacia was in modern-day Romania and that the Romanian language is a geographical outlier due to being a Romance language and descended from Latin. The Roman presence there clearly left a much more lasting effect than in other areas.

    • @ElBandito
      @ElBandito 4 месяца назад +27

      Half the Romanians think they are descended from the glorious Dacian lineage, while the other half extoll their Roman ancestry.

    • @Arlechinu
      @Arlechinu 4 месяца назад +99

      @@ElBanditorather they think of themselves as both Dacian and Roman, never heard anyone claiming just one of the two 😅

    • @goosequillian
      @goosequillian 4 месяца назад +33

      Romanians being direct descendants of Dacians sounds just as absurd as Hungarians being Turkic or Englishmen springing from the Brythonic peoples. Only uneducated and misinformed people can carve such claims. As this channel has correctly pointed out, Dacians have way too many question marks regarding their origins regardless of how doggedly you invent your own armchair-detective claims.

    • @OVIDIUS.P
      @OVIDIUS.P 4 месяца назад +53

      We consider both as ancestors but my DNA test made the picture clearer. Even after 1900 years from roman conquest I still have 54% from the south of Italy(roman) 16% Tharcian, 11%German, 10% Hungarian and about 9% slavic. Quite a mix but mainly roman, no wonder that even to this day in our own language we call ourselfs Roman.

    • @rarescevei8268
      @rarescevei8268 4 месяца назад +79

      ​@@goosequillianActually, no. There is no other feasible answer, as claiming romanians are not descended from the dacians means that the dacian populace suddenly vanished into thin air, as there were no major migrations out of Dacia that could have lead to them disappearing.
      This conclusion is reached because any other answers are not logical.
      There is also the fact that many Dacian traditions and traditional outfits are large parts of romanian culture, and have been for hundreds of years.

  • @TaTuZZa001
    @TaTuZZa001 4 месяца назад +62

    You have some inconsistencies around the dacian wars period. As far as I am aware the dacians managed to get tribute out of the romans not the other way around as well as craftsmen. With Trajan the were forced to destroy forts etc

    • @alexandrupatru2892
      @alexandrupatru2892 4 месяца назад +5

      Yup.

    • @Hardistul
      @Hardistul 4 месяца назад +15

      Probably the main reason Trajan decided to attack Dacia is because of the shameful tribute that Rome was paying since Domitian. As well as the raids on Roman forts south of the Danube

    • @raulpetrascu2696
      @raulpetrascu2696 12 дней назад

      Domitian's hasty peace treaty reminds me of the Cuban crisis, both sides claimed victory but the truth was embarrassing for one. Decebalus being given a diadem does that mean the Romans officially recognise his royal status and power or that he's now a client king? Is the 8 million sesterces a year merely the supplying of a new vassal (likely tried to be spun as such), or was it tribute to the Dacians for maintaining peace? In any case the Dacians came off better evidenced by their further expansion and consolidation (and not acting like a vassal) while in Rome the treaty was perceived as humiliating and the sums of money being given were resented by Trajan. So while the final skirmish in Domitian's war was won by the Romans it really seems like a political victory for Dacia and might even be worse given the bias of our sources and motivation for Domitian to claim a victory. In any case at the time a treaty like that with an enemy was underheard of for Rome, not since before they were a superpower

    • @the_twowheel_turtle934
      @the_twowheel_turtle934 5 дней назад

      @@raulpetrascu2696Domitian’s peace was a strategically sound move and probably meant to be temporary anyway. The “shame” has been greatly exaggerated by Trajanic propaganda and senatorial haters of Domitian. Also client-kingdoms acting as buffer states were hardly “unheard” off in the Roman world, damn even in this poorly researched documentary they said that Octavian wanted to marry his daughter with one of Dacia’s many leaders at the moment

  • @Kapanol97
    @Kapanol97 4 месяца назад +131

    The Thracian Culture and Ethnic Identity:
    The Thracian culture emerged during the early Bronze Age, around 3500 BC, and from it developed various regional groups, including the Getae, the Dacians, and others. These groups were consistently considered Thracian by ancient historians such as Dio Cassius, Trogus Pompeius, Appian, Strabo, Herodotus, and Pliny the Elder, who noted that the Dacians and Getae spoke the same Thracian language.
    Indo-Europeanization and Cultural Development:
    By the beginning of the Bronze Age, the region had completed its Indo-Europeanization. The inhabitants, initially proto-Thracians, evolved into distinct groups such as the Danubian-Carpathian Geto-Dacians and the Thracians of the eastern Balkan Peninsula by the Iron Age.
    Getae and Dacians: A Unified Identity:
    Strabo, an ancient Greek geographer, and other classical authors argued that the Daci and the Getae were essentially the same people, distinguished mainly by their geographic locations. The Daci lived in the western region towards the Pannonian plain (Transylvania), while the Getae were situated further east towards the Black Sea coast (Scythia Minor). Strabo's view, widely supported by other sources, suggests that the distinction between Dacians and Getae is largely artificial, with both groups speaking the same language and sharing a common Thracian heritage.
    Strabo's accounts, along with other ancient sources, have led some modern historians to consider that if the Thracian ethnic group were to be divided, one of these divisions should be the "Daco-Getae." Linguist Ivan Duridanov identified a "Dacian linguistic area" in Dacia, Scythia Minor, Lower Moesia, and Upper Moesia. Romanian scholars, such as historian Constantin C. Giurescu, have often gone further, claiming that the Getae and Dacians were identical. Archaeologist Mircea Babeș even spoke of a "veritable ethno-cultural unity" between the two groups. Similarly, Glanville Price pointed out that Strabo's account shows the Getae and Dacians were one and the same people.
    Early Mentions and Historical Accounts:
    Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian, described the Getae as "the noblest as well as the most just of all the Thracian tribes." He highlighted their belief in the immortality of the soul and their practice of considering death merely a change of country. This early mention of the Getae establishes their Thracian roots and their cultural and religious beliefs.
    Roman Accounts and Terminology:
    In his Roman History (circa 200 AD), Cassius Dio noted the interchangeable use of the terms Dacians and Getae. He clarified that the Dacians, as referred to by the Romans, were the same people whom the Greeks called Getae. Dio pointed out that the Dacians lived on both sides of the Lower Danube, with those south of the river known as Moesians and those north as Dacians. He emphasized that these groups were essentially Thracians of Dacian race.
    The Bulgarian historian Alexander Fol considered that the Getae became known as "Dacians" in Greek and Latin texts by writers such as Caesar, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder, as Roman observers adopted the name of the Dacian tribe to refer to all the unconquered inhabitants north of the Danube. Edward Bunbury similarly believed that while the Getae were originally known to the Greeks on the Euxine, the name Dacians was used by the Romans to refer to the western tribes adjoining the Pannonians.
    Classical and Poetic References:
    The Dacians were variously referred to as Getae or Daci in ancient texts. Herodotus was the first to use the term Getae. Julius Caesar, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder also referred to these people, often interchangeably, as Dacians or Getae. Latin poets like Vergil, Lucian, Horace, and Juvenal used both terms in their works, reflecting interchangeability in naming. Modern historians prefer the term Geto-Dacians to encompass both groups. Scholars such as James Minahan, Catherine B. Avery, David Sandler Berkowitz, and Philip Matyszak support the view that the Greeks called these people Getae, while the Romans called them Daci.
    Linguistic and Cultural Identity:
    The Dacians and Getae spoke the Dacian language, which is debatedly related to the Thracian language, potentially as a subgroup. Many scholars, drawing from Strabo's accounts, agree that the Getae and Dacians were the same people. Modern historians and writers, such as James Minahan, Catherine B. Avery, David Sandler Berkowitz, and Philip Matyszak, have supported this view. Notable scholars, including the Bulgarian historian Alexander Fol and the British historian Edward Bunbury, have also supported the perspective that the terms "Dacians" and "Getae" referred to the same people at different stages of their history. As a result, the concept of a "Geto-Dacian" culture has become prevalent in modern scholarship.
    Conclusion:
    The Getae and Dacians are best understood as closely related, if not identical, Thracian tribes. Ancient sources consistently treated them as such, and modern scholarship supports this unified identity, often using the term Geto-Dacians to describe their shared culture and language.

    • @alinaanto
      @alinaanto 4 месяца назад +7

      Great essay, thank you!

    • @lost_porkchop
      @lost_porkchop 4 месяца назад +13

      Thank you, Wikipedia

    • @Kapanol97
      @Kapanol97 4 месяца назад +8

      @@lost_porkchop It was a bit of ChatGPT and Wikipedia work yeah XD but overall I say it's informative and true regarding all the ancient and modern sources that share the same point of view

    • @SorinVertigo-dn8rj
      @SorinVertigo-dn8rj 4 месяца назад

      Oho mistar kapanool the getae dacians ssnd tracians was scityans sarmat iranic and. Masagetae and dacians cekto germans. Tribe stop bulsit rumenians vlachs are ilirians migrant 1200 in dacia in kumans khazar kiocak empireavars huns stock

    • @SorinVertigo-dn8rj
      @SorinVertigo-dn8rj 4 месяца назад

      ​@@Kapanol97kapanool you eat bulsit Dobrogea was called scitya minor and Bulgaria scityans tribe getae dacians was celto austriac

  • @almighty5839
    @almighty5839 4 месяца назад +20

    I’ve always wanted a video on Dacia it’s such a fascinating kingdom we don’t really know much on

  • @sygmarvexarion7891
    @sygmarvexarion7891 4 месяца назад +23

    The Romans had to change their gear because the Falx swords' curved tip allowed the Dacians to reach around the edge of the Roman shields and hit the soldier in the head and the arm.

    • @the_twowheel_turtle934
      @the_twowheel_turtle934 5 дней назад

      They didn’t “have” to, damn half of the war was fought without a sizable number of these modifications were present.

  • @LurkerAnonymous
    @LurkerAnonymous 4 месяца назад +20

    The Dacians didn't disappear from historical record though. You can still find references until they become Romanians.

    • @microbus432
      @microbus432 10 дней назад

      Would you give an example? The only reason is that the Romans do say that they killed all Dacians. Also there's no archaeological finds that the Dacians survived.

    • @G_Blatt
      @G_Blatt 2 дня назад

      @@microbus432 DNA is proof... Also, Romans could not have killed all the Dacians. Instead, they married the Dacian women.

  • @romanslavinsky803
    @romanslavinsky803 4 месяца назад +64

    Great video! I'm honored to be somewhat related to both Romans and Dacians, as I'm Romanian myself. The only correction from my side - it's "Sarmizegetusa", not "Sarmizetegusa" :D

  • @GustavoMaldonadoFidalgo
    @GustavoMaldonadoFidalgo 4 месяца назад +29

    I have always been intrigued by the history of the Dacians

  • @thehistoryguy4277
    @thehistoryguy4277 4 месяца назад +45

    Would love to see a video of Trajan and his wars in Dacia and Parthia!!

  • @ToniSerban-bt7mk
    @ToniSerban-bt7mk 4 месяца назад +43

    I'm Romanian. But, I wish my country was named Dacia and we would be refered to as Dacians. We still have so many words that we use even nowadays from the Dacian language.
    My grandpa was so proud that his mother's last name was Trache which is a Tracian name. I took a DNA test and it confirmed we are from the region of Dacia. I wish he would still be alive to share that with him. But, just like our old believes I know he is up there with all my ancestors, and I'll join them once my journey here is over. Long live the Dacians!

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 4 месяца назад +5

      To be fair,the specific dialect of the country is daco-romanian, as opposed to a- istro- and megleno- -romanian.

    • @mariussantamarian9766
      @mariussantamarian9766 4 месяца назад +5

      Ai cateva cuvinte ,nu "so many "....

    • @ToniSerban-bt7mk
      @ToniSerban-bt7mk 4 месяца назад +8

      @@mariussantamarian9766 A da? Peste 300 de cuvinte dintr-o limbă străveche ți se par câteva?

    • @dienamychd7611
      @dienamychd7611 4 месяца назад +8

      @@ToniSerban-bt7mk pai da...limba romana contine 120 000 de cuvinte. 300 nu este mult de loc..

    • @ToniSerban-bt7mk
      @ToniSerban-bt7mk 4 месяца назад +8

      @@dienamychd7611 mențin idea că pentru o civilizație care a existat pe aceste tărâmuri dinaintea oricărei alte civilizații...300 de cuvinte străvechi sunt destule, chiar și din 120000. Acum agree to disagree. Commentul meu nu se focusa atât pe numărul de cuvinte. Dar fiecare se focusează pe ce vrea.

  • @pescuitsiaventura9498
    @pescuitsiaventura9498 4 месяца назад +13

    Wow, I was Waiting for this video for 4 years since I started watching your RUclips channel

  • @ionutcocan7662
    @ionutcocan7662 4 месяца назад +32

    Never clicked so fast on a video! Thank you so much for this fascinating video 🙏🏻 it makes us, Romanians, so proud of our history.

    • @mariussantamarian9766
      @mariussantamarian9766 4 месяца назад

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Rumalf101
      @Rumalf101 4 месяца назад

      What victory?😂
      You lost everything, even your language

  • @TyLarson
    @TyLarson 4 месяца назад +24

    The roman helmets were modified to be more resistant to dacian weapons as they were quite effective at puncturing the top of the helmets.

  • @AAAA-lt9hq
    @AAAA-lt9hq 4 месяца назад +23

    It is interesting that the Romans, Byzantines, and Ottomans all had difficulty controlling the region north of the Danube. Making the area a vassal state was the best most hegemonic powers could accomplish.

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  4 месяца назад +9

      @Constantin_de_România that is not correct

    • @AAAA-lt9hq
      @AAAA-lt9hq 4 месяца назад +3

      @Constantin_de_România Plenty of communist countries were not members of the USSR but were allies of the Warsaw Pact.
      The USSR was able to crush rebellions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. But they did not have such control in all areas of communist Cold War Europe.
      Yugoslavia and Albania probably were the most independent countries from the USSR during the Cold War. Tito in Yugoslavia prided himself on being something of a non-aligned player in the Cold War.
      This was a role much like Franco and Salazar in Spain and Portugal during WWII. They were fascists but were not drawn into Hitler's war.

    • @AAAA-lt9hq
      @AAAA-lt9hq 4 месяца назад +1

      @Constantin_de_România Additionally Romania was criticized for its totalitarian child-rearing policies during the Cold War in order to boost the population.
      Nicolae Ceausescu's policies led to the institutionalization of over 100,000 children in state-run orphanages by the end of his rule in 1989. Childless people were taxed and oppressed. Conditions in the orphanages were terrible. Many children born from that time are still looking for their parents and are having difficulty reintegrating into society.

    • @BLACKHOLE-SUN
      @BLACKHOLE-SUN 4 месяца назад

      ​@KingsandGenerals True! He can say that (I'm a Romanian) we opposed the invasion of czechoslovakia and other dirty stuff made by Kremlin but we were not the only country outside of CCP but in communist block

    • @anewmindsetforeveryone
      @anewmindsetforeveryone 4 месяца назад

      @@AAAA-lt9hqyou mean what US tries now? To ban abortion ?

  • @BlueLineofthesky
    @BlueLineofthesky 4 месяца назад +39

    Dacia is still in Romania. Dacia never disappeared. Just adapted to the new eve. Romania is Dacia and it will remain so for the future. The Balkans do not forget the old cultures. Romania is surrounded by the Slav population but The Slavs did not destroy the older natives of this region. They mingle with them and integrate them. This is why The East or Europe is sooo different in culture, religion, and traditions to the rest of Europe. Great video! Thank you! This mega statue of Decebalus is still guarding the land, so people will never forget their roots!

    • @vasarelly37
      @vasarelly37 3 месяца назад +2

      Only the Dacians has disappeared. After the Avars came, the Pechenegs, the Cumans and lately the Vlach shepherds from the Balcan peninsula.

    • @BlueLineofthesky
      @BlueLineofthesky 3 месяца назад +13

      @@vasarelly37 This is Hungarian theory. Only Hungarians claim this. Every other scholar in Europe thinks otherwise. No population disappeared from history like that. Remember that at that time, Dacia was 80% forest. All invaders remained on those lands for a short time because it wasn't easy to settle. Nomads are not used to live in towns. Except for some Slavic tribes and some Pecheneg, nobody remained in Dacia. They all went to rich places like Italy. The reason why some Vlachs live in the Balkans is that some natives retreated with the Roman army and settled In Moesia, Ilyria, and Greece. This was in short numbers. The eastern Roman scholars and later the Byzantines, stated the same. In the entire history of Europe, no population disappeared as you claim. They mingle with others but they stay in their lands. For the people at that time, the world was really small. Most of them never move from their village radius except for battles or commercial reasons. The families stay. The Hungarian so-called theory is supported only by Hungarian historians. And that is politically biased. Nobody else.

    • @BlueLineofthesky
      @BlueLineofthesky 14 дней назад

      @mfactory33_builds just read more. You will be surprised :):):)

    • @Stelear
      @Stelear 4 дня назад

      ​@@vasarelly37 Magyarorszag propaganda 😂😂 and why we still have words Dacian origins and the traditional clothes are similar with dacians in the columns,Danube to Transnistria it's long way only sheeperd populate this land 😂😂

  • @WoodsLesnik
    @WoodsLesnik 4 месяца назад +94

    Criminally underrated civilization.

    • @plc20100
      @plc20100 4 месяца назад +4

      Compared with ?

    • @IvanKarAmazoV421
      @IvanKarAmazoV421 4 месяца назад +11

      @@plc20100 basically any other ancient civilization and even unorganised tribes.

    • @plc20100
      @plc20100 4 месяца назад +7

      @@IvanKarAmazoV421 Really ? How civilised is yours ? :D A bastard from Siberia... :D

    • @IvanKarAmazoV421
      @IvanKarAmazoV421 4 месяца назад

      @@plc20100 you don't know who that is, you don't talk to me

    • @laurapenciuc6258
      @laurapenciuc6258 4 месяца назад +3

      , yes. They kicked the asses of all those who wanted to trasspass their territories. Too bad they were unable to stop the Roman Empire, but they held them back for many years.

  • @Mikeztarp
    @Mikeztarp 3 месяца назад

    I appreciate your mentioning the doubts and debates. Many documentary filmmakers act like they know everything for sure.

  • @tudorm6838
    @tudorm6838 4 месяца назад +31

    It is not well to say that they could have originated from the Caspian Sea region or from Anatolia. As in many European regions, the main genetic pools for this area were three: the ancient Europeans, Anatolian farmers, and Indo-Europeans. In this area, they contributed in roughly equal parts, with a slight prevalence for the ancient Europeans. Even before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans, cultures like Cucuteni had flourishing settlements of many thousands of people. The Indo-Europeans brought with them the language and generated the Bronze Age civilization in the area. We then have the Basarabi culture, which is the first homogeneous culture on this territory, a sort of proto-Getae. We then have the Scytho-Iranian invasions, with the first form of the Iron Age, which also brought a new ruling class, but the Scythians mostly remained on the eastern border. This certainly formed the Getae tribes. We then have Celtic influence in Transylvania, which crystallizes the transformation into the Dacian civilization. The first great kingdom of Burebista is "Geto-Dacian," Burebista probably being from south of the Carpathians, but moving his power base towards the Orăștie Mountains.

  • @immortaljanus
    @immortaljanus 4 месяца назад +28

    Perfect timing. Currently, I'm on vacation in Bucharest, went to visit the museum yesterday. 😁

  • @InhalingWeasel
    @InhalingWeasel 4 месяца назад +53

    I see our northern cousins, I upvote.

  • @infolover_68
    @infolover_68 4 месяца назад +7

    Decebalus even got weapons and military instructors from the disgraced Domitian. When Emperor Trajan launched his first campaign agains the Dacians, he found this unexpected issue and was forced to develop new armor and siege engines to conquer the tough veteran barbarians.

    • @MrTNA2005
      @MrTNA2005 4 месяца назад +1

      there were no barbarians

  • @mikemodugno5879
    @mikemodugno5879 4 месяца назад +7

    Awesome topic. I hope you will cover even into the migration period--Avars, Lombards, Ostrogoths, Alans, Franks, Burgundians, Bavarians, etc.

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 4 месяца назад +19

    Love these chaps. Romans thought they were just a tribe likie any other, but they checked the Romans for a while and had incredible cities, culture, art and warfare.

    • @UlmoLOTR
      @UlmoLOTR 4 месяца назад +4

      Culture? They didn't even have writing. And Sarmizegetusa was the only settlement that you could have call a city. Besides the sacred precinct it was just a big village. As for art, for it to be incredible pretty jewels are not enough.

    • @jonsnow7092
      @jonsnow7092 4 месяца назад +8

      ​@@UlmoLOTR you're confusing culture and civilization. besides, just because we don't have known clear sources of Dacian or Thracian writings, it does not mean that they did not exist, especially since most common writings done in the area, if existed (likely did), would've been on perishable materials like animal hides, tree bark and so on.
      if by art you refer to written literature or poetry, maybe you're right but Dacians were amazing artisans as they had a pretty insane metallurgy for that time, including using complicated lamination processes just in order to forge some Macedonian coins. they also had extensive plumbing systems with pipes made of lead as well as ceramics.
      you should document yourself more about Dacians.

    • @UlmoLOTR
      @UlmoLOTR 4 месяца назад +1

      @@jonsnow7092 I read plenty about the Dacians.
      I wander how you believe it is logical to say that they wrote on hides and bark since they had plenty of stone, metal or even wax, like the Romans had.
      And the water pipes were built by the Romans when Dacia was a vasal state or after the conquest.

    • @Alin-ro6jb
      @Alin-ro6jb 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@UlmoLOTRYou are wrong, the Dacians were advanced, why are you lying?

    • @UlmoLOTR
      @UlmoLOTR 4 месяца назад +1

      @@Alin-ro6jb Advanced by what standard?

  • @moldovanfieldmarshal6313
    @moldovanfieldmarshal6313 4 месяца назад +6

    I've been waiting for this moment a long time!

    • @fortificationenjoyer1919
      @fortificationenjoyer1919 4 месяца назад

      Same

    • @latakicsi2183
      @latakicsi2183 3 месяца назад

      so dacia province have existed for 160 years only...and it was 2000years ago,
      then check your dnas how much dacian genes you got...close to zero even cumins had more lasting effect

  • @VladNerd
    @VladNerd 2 месяца назад +1

    As a Romanian, I really love and appreciate your documentary, thanks for this!
    I do however have to say that 5 minutes in I started laughing because your voice sounds like a South Park Canadian narrator and I couldn't unhear it after that. 😄

  • @Wodan87
    @Wodan87 4 месяца назад +3

    Finally a video about our ancestors, the Dacians. Many thanks Kings and Generals! :)

    • @vasarelly37
      @vasarelly37 3 месяца назад

      And you are a Romanian, I suppose?! The Dacians are not the ancestors of modern Romanians. The Vlach shepherds from the Balcan peninsula (Illyria) are.

    • @EduardMicu
      @EduardMicu День назад

      That's just a ridiculous theory backed by absolutely nothing apart from bitterness​@@vasarelly37

  • @mariowalthen7738
    @mariowalthen7738 4 месяца назад +43

    The withdrawal of Aurelian is given too much importance. Dacia was part of Rome until much later since Constantine the Great built a bridge over Danube and also multiple fortifications as far as 200 km north of Danube. Constantine took the title Gothicus Maximus and named the region of today south Romania as Gothia. Rome loses control of territory north of Danube at the time of Justinian (early sixth century).

    • @dargaard3339
      @dargaard3339 4 месяца назад +5

      For real? The entire Dacia was under Roman occupation? Not just 33% of Dacia? Maybe read more history. And Aurelianian withdrawal happened because of multiple revolts. It didn't just happened because the Roman Empire got bored. And those revolts were led by the free Dacians.

    • @octaviantimisoreanu5810
      @octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 месяца назад +1

      @@dargaard3339 untrue. More like 66% of Dacia was Roman, the other 33% was Gothic (Germanic) and some remaining free Dacian tribes. The Dacians never revolted against the Roman colonists because most of them were women. If you’re talking about the free Dacians who fought alongside the goths against the Romans, well they were not under Roman rule to begin with. The Roman presence in Dacia had a profound impact on the people living there today. We Romanians speak a latin language and continue calling ourselves Romans to this day.

  • @vitorpereira9515
    @vitorpereira9515 4 месяца назад +20

    I would love to see an episode about the Avars. Their connection to the Rouran Khaganate is fascinating. It's a shame that most of these nomadic civilizations don't leave written archives behind.

    • @BarlasofIndus
      @BarlasofIndus 4 месяца назад +4

      You mean the pseudo Avars(Mongoloids) of Avar Khanate? Because there are a Caucasian people also called avars

    • @PaloclegenyIYI
      @PaloclegenyIYI 4 месяца назад

      Ofcourse. But the caucasian Avars cannot be the descendants of the Rourans.
      Btw the Palóc people might be the descendants of the Pannonian Avars.​@@BarlasofIndus

  • @KapitainZino
    @KapitainZino 4 месяца назад +3

    Another great video! Keep up the good work!

  • @joaobarrosleal
    @joaobarrosleal 4 месяца назад +9

    Fascinating!
    This is the sort of think I was referring to in the Punic War video when suggesting a video or series about the Carthaginians

  • @KHK001
    @KHK001 4 месяца назад +3

    Another amazing video KnG! as always.

  • @AtrioxDark7777
    @AtrioxDark7777 4 месяца назад +1

    I have been waiting fir this video for years. Glad I kept asking for it in the comments .

  • @raduraducu2668
    @raduraducu2668 4 месяца назад +15

    The carpi used to live in the Carpatian mountains givin them their name.

    • @zuraorokamono204
      @zuraorokamono204 4 месяца назад +3

      That's not necessarily the case. From what we know the Carpi originate from East of the mountains in modern Moldova. They were probably called Carpi because they lived beyond the mountains from a Roman point of view.

    • @CocoSon-we2rg
      @CocoSon-we2rg 4 месяца назад +5

      @@zuraorokamono204 And Costobocs were Free Dacians.

  • @aforrosaline4141
    @aforrosaline4141 3 месяца назад

    Another fantastic ancient history documentary! This channel is a goldmine for history buffs.

  • @tomdijkstra4196
    @tomdijkstra4196 4 месяца назад +3

    Asked for it, got it, happy ! Great video !

  • @veronicaroach3667
    @veronicaroach3667 4 месяца назад +2

    Thank you - so much to learn, there is no end to the stories from history !

  • @carlosfilho3402
    @carlosfilho3402 4 месяца назад +9

    It's interesting that in Romania the people called Romania are called Romana. It would be interesting to talk about the origins of Romania and the limit of the Latin world. The Romanian language is very similar to Portuguese

    • @octaviantimisoreanu5810
      @octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 месяца назад +11

      We call our country Romania because we're the only Latin people that continued to call ourselves Romans. The Romanian people came into being after the Roman conquest and settlement of Dacia.

    • @georgemarcu3729
      @georgemarcu3729 4 месяца назад +1

      Actually the Romanian language has much more in common with french then portuguese, but all latin based languages really sound similar

    • @danielblitzke3909
      @danielblitzke3909 4 месяца назад

      No, Romanian language has nothing to do with portuguese

    • @octaviantimisoreanu5810
      @octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 месяца назад +4

      @@danielblitzke3909 lol. Seek some basic education about languages before commenting. Thank you.

    • @fasggasgasdf
      @fasggasgasdf 10 дней назад

      They came from the Punjab region in India and wanted to make themselves look more european so they adopted the name "Romana"

  • @cristinakasselas555
    @cristinakasselas555 4 месяца назад +1

    A very much needed episode !

  • @Kaiyanwang82
    @Kaiyanwang82 4 месяца назад +3

    Very appreciated. Thanks!

  • @mikeblackist
    @mikeblackist 4 месяца назад +2

    Thank you for making a video about my ancestors. ❤️😎👍🏼

    • @vasarelly37
      @vasarelly37 3 месяца назад

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @vasarelly37
      @vasarelly37 3 месяца назад

      He is talking about the Dacians and not about your ancestors, the Vlach shepherds from the Balcan peninsula.

    • @mikeblackist
      @mikeblackist 3 месяца назад +1

      @@vasarelly37 Well, I was born In Romania, and my Grandparents were both from “Sarmisegetuta.” the capital of old Dacia…. Still stands to this day.😎✌️

  • @goreacraft
    @goreacraft 4 месяца назад +3

    Amazing documentary, thank you

  • @majeedmohammed8813
    @majeedmohammed8813 4 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for letting me watch this. It's nice. You got +1 subscriber

  • @daciaromana2396
    @daciaromana2396 4 месяца назад +6

    Awesome video! Thanks,Kings and Generals!

  • @Aninkovsky
    @Aninkovsky 4 месяца назад +2

    Glad to see your video art getting better and better ❤

  • @ronjohnson6916
    @ronjohnson6916 4 месяца назад +5

    Cool. What I knew about the Dacians was basically, foil for various ambitious Romans.

  • @AndrewLikkle
    @AndrewLikkle 4 месяца назад

    As a Romanian, thank you for your hard work, great video! One thing to mention though, the Dacian capital is spelled Sarmisegetuza and therefore pronunced differently, hope this helps!

  • @beachboy0505
    @beachboy0505 4 месяца назад +3

    Excellent video 📹
    Real people with history

  • @samorpeterenpretene9184
    @samorpeterenpretene9184 7 дней назад

    The Dacian pointing with his middle finger @ 18:17 is impressively accurate

  • @Stargazer86m
    @Stargazer86m 4 месяца назад +14

    Correction: Not Sarmizetegusa, but Sarmizegetusa. Pronounced Sar-mi-ze-dje-too-za. It apparently meant "place of Sarmatians and Getae", as can be seen in the name even today.

    • @aiziszizis2536
      @aiziszizis2536 2 месяца назад

      "Pronounced Sar-mi-ze-dje-too-za"
      Actually, it is pronounced Sar - mi - se - dje - too - za.

  • @ImOldGreggg
    @ImOldGreggg 8 дней назад

    I went to high school with a kid from Romania named Mihai. I had no idea the historical context of the name until I came across your channel.

  • @ggeorgiankis
    @ggeorgiankis 4 месяца назад +9

    Now wonder why Constantine gate from Rome has 4 dacians standing and the Trajan collum is all about the Dacian wars.

    • @Lalw
      @Lalw 4 месяца назад +2

      Because Dacian are awesome, and someone needed to mark into history their greatness, since Dacians didn't bothered to leave us some written historical heritage.

    • @octaviantimisoreanu5810
      @octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 месяца назад +2

      @@Lalw We Romanians have more to do with Romans than with Dacians. The reason there are statues of Dacians on the arch of Constantine is to commemorate his partial reconquest of Dacia in his campaign against the Goths. Those statues weren’t sculpted in Constantine’s time but were actually taken from Trajan’s forum and placed atop the arch.

    • @Lalw
      @Lalw 4 месяца назад

      @@octaviantimisoreanu5810 or Romans with us, however genetically we are more related with our Slavic neighbours as per some studies.
      Anyways, history is a story shaped by people with rich fantasy and political interest, and if you think 160 years is long enough to become more roman, and our Dacian mothers to teach us Latin instead of native language, when the troops during age of empires where a mix of nations, then all hopes are lost of us, and no long until we will declare ourselves of other origins which we deem cool because we like to be copies, not part of an original DNA makeup.
      Surely each one can be of which originins want to be, under our apparent freedom.
      Informative, people should search writings from Sulina port during or right after ottoman occupation of 400 years, it's an interesting mix of Romanian (predominant) , French and Turkish, and let's not forget about the multicultural background in the area, where etnic Lipovans, Hahols, Turks, Tatars, Greeks etc still speak their community languages, under so many wind of political changes, and hundreds of years.
      Last but not least, the knowledge of foreign languages should be used wisely to read books wrriten by European historians, researchers and etimologists etc which will reveal different point of views, some far different than what we are taught or wrriten in romanian.

    • @Lalw
      @Lalw 4 месяца назад

      @@octaviantimisoreanu5810 thank you for sharing your point of view.
      I do know enough languages and have quite a handful of books written by people which base their work on actual research to form my own opinion about my heritage.
      You're free to be more roman if it pleases you, however I'm more Get.

    • @octaviantimisoreanu5810
      @octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 месяца назад

      @@Lalw Well you're free to identify as non-binary space pirate if you like, but in objective reality, Romanians are Roman, irrespective of whatever your feelings are on the matter. Thank you.

  • @RobertMihalache
    @RobertMihalache 4 месяца назад +1

    Finally a great video about legendary Dacians ❤

    • @latakicsi2183
      @latakicsi2183 3 месяца назад

      so dacia province have existed for 160 years only...and it was 2000years ago,
      then check your dnas how much dacian genes you got...close to zero even cumins had more lasting effect

  • @aztec8765
    @aztec8765 4 месяца назад +9

    thank you K&G for another good video ❤

  • @AvPLX
    @AvPLX 4 месяца назад

    This video was very informative, some facts are not right but 95% it’s there.
    Lovely, thank you!❤

  • @apoorvappychoudhary392
    @apoorvappychoudhary392 4 месяца назад +6

    please do an episode on the Massagetae people.

  • @davidtaflan941
    @davidtaflan941 4 месяца назад +2

    Romanian Dacian here. Great video on my ancestors.

    • @octaviantimisoreanu5810
      @octaviantimisoreanu5810 4 месяца назад

      I'm Romanian and our ancestors are Roman first and Dacian second, if at all.

    • @CocoSon-we2rg
      @CocoSon-we2rg 4 месяца назад +2

      @@octaviantimisoreanu5810 maybe genetically, but as ancient Geto-Dacian.

    • @KangrenaQQ
      @KangrenaQQ 4 месяца назад

      romanian dacian ☠ ce va mai place sa inventati termeni

    • @MarcusKuann
      @MarcusKuann 4 месяца назад +2

      @@octaviantimisoreanu5810 What? Dacians were here long before Romans invaded these lands.

    • @cooldude05940
      @cooldude05940 2 месяца назад

      So youre a pagan who worships a bunch of made up gods? Ok 👍

  • @L2Xenta
    @L2Xenta 4 месяца назад +5

    ❤ that you gave Dacians the well deserved attention.
    We dont know for sure how much Dacian blood🩸we have in our veins today, or how much of our DNA. But Dacians are 100% the spiritual ancestors of Romanians. As you say... Dacians were more than 1 tribe themselves and were in contact with several cultures. Until ... they united. Not a very difficult DNA task for us then.

    • @latakicsi2183
      @latakicsi2183 3 месяца назад

      so dacia province have existed for 160 years only...and it was 2000years ago,
      then check your dnas how much dacian genes you got...close to zero even cumins had more lasting effect

    • @cornelpopescu8348
      @cornelpopescu8348 Месяц назад

      ADN-UL romanilor : 67% greco-latin , 33% slav, baltic , maghiar , asiatic ,german.

  • @nicovinocumine
    @nicovinocumine 4 месяца назад +1

    I never clicked a video so fast in my life!!! ❤

  • @Odinsson9
    @Odinsson9 4 месяца назад +5

    At 7:55 Burebista's equipment is inspired from my father's reenactment gear, our historical reenactment asociation Geto-Dacii din Moldova. Your art is very beautiful as always and the information is easy to digest!!!Cheers from Romania 🇷🇴🇲🇩

  • @peterthesneakybastar
    @peterthesneakybastar 4 месяца назад +4

    Awesome. I cannot wait for Minoans

  • @Strabun117
    @Strabun117 8 дней назад

    Thank you for listening to my feedback request for this video

  • @paulursu7901
    @paulursu7901 4 месяца назад +70

    Hungary was 8000 miles away digging their way to Europe 😂

    • @_JOJ_
      @_JOJ_ 4 месяца назад +29

      Back then Hungary wasn't even a fart.
      They simply didn't exist.

    • @deluxecapprian983
      @deluxecapprian983 4 месяца назад +17

      @@_JOJ_ when i listen to Iran language vs Hungary language the audio is the same omg.But they still think are from Transylvania region haha .

    • @relhithrrdn
      @relhithrrdn 4 месяца назад +5

      @@deluxecapprian983 Dacians have nothing to do with romanians... Learn history kid... Thats like saying the Avars or the Huns were Hungarian, when infact they werent.

    • @violaskin
      @violaskin 4 месяца назад +18

      @@relhithrrdn you contradict yourself: history, tradition , language and not least of all common sense show that Dacians are the ancestors of the Romanian folk.

    • @violaskin
      @violaskin 4 месяца назад +17

      @@relhithrrdn instead of spreading lies and misinformation maybe you should say thanks to romanians for freeing you of bolsheviks - learn history August 1919. You're welcome, kid.

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for another excellent video! I'm looking forward to the next overview in this series. I quite enjoy these videos on the less-covered peoples of history.
    God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

  • @That-Belgian-Guy
    @That-Belgian-Guy 4 месяца назад +2

    Back with another banger eh?

  • @lxlx3458
    @lxlx3458 3 месяца назад

    Thank you for sharing with us!

  • @thecostyro74
    @thecostyro74 4 месяца назад +9

    It seems that the geti tribes were more numerous than is generally known. Apart from the Romanian area, there were also the Tyrageti in the north of the Black Sea or the mysterious Massageti with Queen Tomiris in the area of ​​the Caspian Sea up to the Tarim Basin in western China.

    • @SirAdrian87
      @SirAdrian87 4 месяца назад

      The Tyragetae and Messagetae were not related to the Getae at all. They were Sarmatians. The Greeks had this annoying habit of naming newly encountered tribes after known ones, which is why in Greek sources almost all steppe nomads are known as Scythians even though they were not.

    • @thecostyro74
      @thecostyro74 4 месяца назад +1

      @@SirAdrian87 I only know the story that their name given by the Greeks literally means the Getae from the river Tyras and the Great Getae, which does not quite match the Scythian version. In addition, I think you know the discoveries of blonde mummies in western China. The Scythians don't think they were blond.

  • @cipriantodoran1674
    @cipriantodoran1674 4 месяца назад

    Thx for this video!

  • @roihanfadhil2879
    @roihanfadhil2879 4 месяца назад +18

    So, what's the next? Minoans? Mycaneans?

    • @peterthesneakybastar
      @peterthesneakybastar 4 месяца назад +4

      They’re already done Mycenaean, but I would love to see them expand on them

  • @Uzair_Of_Babylon465
    @Uzair_Of_Babylon465 4 месяца назад +2

    Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

  • @Superator69
    @Superator69 4 месяца назад +4

    Romania has a giant carving of Decebalus on the side of a mountain overlooking the Danube river on the border with Serbia. It's like Romania's Mount Rushmore 😂

  • @carlosfilho3402
    @carlosfilho3402 4 месяца назад +1

    A Spectacular Video.

  • @geodageo
    @geodageo 4 месяца назад +6

    it's strange how in just 165 years of roman occupation it left such an mark on the region, especially on the language. Comparing with other provinces like Britain, witch was longer under roman rule (aprox 450 years) and the language spoken today has nothing to do with latin.

    • @CocoSon-we2rg
      @CocoSon-we2rg 4 месяца назад +3

      The same argument is brought by a Romanian nationalist current called dacopatie. Part of it claims that the Thracian-Daco-Getians would have spoken a language sister to Latin or a compatible one. Moreover, the Spanish researcher Carmen Huertas has a theory of the same kind on the Spanish side.

    • @SirAdrian87
      @SirAdrian87 4 месяца назад +3

      Dacia had a lot of gold. And I do mean a lot. It was very heavily settled by people from all corners of the empire, people whose only common language was Latin. Just to give you an example within 40 years the province had multiple colonia, which was the highest status a roman provincial city could attain. There were also 3 full legion stationed in the area at all times with veterans being given land in Dacia.
      Britain on the other hand was a backwater province at the edge of the empire. It was the poorest province in the empire and while it had useful resources there was nothing that would want to make someone from roman Greece or Egypt want to go there.
      Moreover Dacia was also helped by terrain. The relatively tall plateau of the Carpathian arch allowed the romanised population to survive the migration period as wooded mountain areas are generally of little interest to nomads, whereas in Britain the relatively flat relief allowed the Romano-Brittish were subsumed by the invading Saxons in short order.

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 4 месяца назад +3

      It makes more sense if you consider trade over the river was easier than over the channel,the number of roman settlers, the people who conquered the teritorries after and their culrural and population power, etc.

    • @leestamm3187
      @leestamm3187 4 месяца назад +2

      Though it's not technically a "Latin" language, English includes a great many words of Latin origin.

    • @CipiRipi-in7df
      @CipiRipi-in7df 4 месяца назад

      It is strange that during Pompey the Great, Romans were still campaigning in Hispania (and were awarded triumphs for that), while 160 years later, Hispania was giving first Roman Emperor. Imagine what a mark Romans left on Hispania. And this isn't strange to you, ain't it?

  • @anthonybird546
    @anthonybird546 4 месяца назад +2

    Definitely running to the comments for this one

  • @alexandruboldurescu7664
    @alexandruboldurescu7664 4 месяца назад +7

    În the România historia Brooks the roman Dacian war în 86-88 was a victory for the dacians and they held all their territory north of the Danube.

    • @MihaiArdelean-m1m
      @MihaiArdelean-m1m 3 месяца назад

      In Romanian history books, civilization started in Dacia )

    • @vasarelly37
      @vasarelly37 3 месяца назад

      ​@@MihaiArdelean-m1mYeah and some of the dacopats believe that even Jesus was a daco-romanian.

  • @rayden120
    @rayden120 4 месяца назад +1

    I love that you are talking about all the Total War Roman 2 factions

  • @AKMCars
    @AKMCars 4 месяца назад +6

    Finally someone love history and not being ignorant about Dacians.

  • @Iraqi_baathist2009
    @Iraqi_baathist2009 4 месяца назад +2

    Amazingly done as always but why dont you do videos on Chaldeans and amorites too ?

  • @mgabriel225
    @mgabriel225 4 месяца назад +3

    at 10:10 you portrayed the first war as a roman victory which all historians disagree it actually was 100% a dacian victory in wich the roman were obligated to pay immense sums of money and skilled labours and engineers in return the dacians will just pretend to be a cliante state. this peace was made like this because the general that conducted the invasion was absolutely terrified that the emperor will punish him if he finds out he failed so basically they gave all the dacians requests in return for them to pretend to be a client state

    • @Razzaq585
      @Razzaq585 3 месяца назад

      This whole video is misinformation.

  • @oneshotme
    @oneshotme 4 месяца назад

    I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

  • @faenethlorhalien
    @faenethlorhalien 4 месяца назад +3

    I find the lack of mention of the legendary Dacia Sandero worrying.

    • @cucurucu753
      @cucurucu753 4 месяца назад

      Excellent joke! 😂

  • @krednevalga1686
    @krednevalga1686 4 месяца назад +1

    yeaa yeaa keep em coming!!

  • @raduraducu2668
    @raduraducu2668 4 месяца назад +17

    Dacians : Exists
    Latins : Ever heard of asimilation and colonialism.

    • @rarescevei8268
      @rarescevei8268 4 месяца назад +1

      I mean, Dacia attacked first

    • @BarlasofIndus
      @BarlasofIndus 4 месяца назад +1

      Not too bad

    • @hammer3721
      @hammer3721 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@rarescevei8268Last province conquered, first to be abandoned.
      And let's not behave as if the Romans wouldn't have attacked anyways. They had so many 'pre-emptive wars,' it is actually comical.

    • @marcbartuschka6372
      @marcbartuschka6372 4 месяца назад +1

      @@hammer3721 Not really. Trajan conquered a huge part of Parthia right after his Dacian Wars but that lasted not very long. And it is not so that Dacia was conquered so late or given up so "soon" (if you want to call so many years soon, that is) because the people there were such brave warriors. They seem to be not bad in battle but nothing extraordinary either, as Decebalus could have confirmed if they had not cut his head of after he killed himself as a man on the run.
      It might have much more to do with geography and the general situation.

    • @hammer3721
      @hammer3721 4 месяца назад +2

      @@marcbartuschka6372 Bozgor.

  • @9_9876
    @9_9876 4 месяца назад +8

    Trăiască România 💙💛❤️

  • @Rekonstructio
    @Rekonstructio 4 месяца назад +1

    Some say that the Dacian’s language disappeared, but latin got many words from it, and now latin is the base of many European languages. Some even argue that Latin comes from what was spoken in Dacia / Tracia region…

  • @odilbekb-sarkaev1052
    @odilbekb-sarkaev1052 4 месяца назад +3

    Dah(ae)ia or Dacia!?! Any connections. Massa+Getae.

    • @ares1634
      @ares1634 4 месяца назад

      Yes. In early Bronze age were Proto Getae people originated around south Caucasus. Massa Getae means big large Getae and they moved east to Amu Darya, which separated Massa Getae from related Dahae, then same Dahe, Daos, Daoi, Dochi- Wolf people lived in south Caucaus, north of Gati - Gatai - Getaru from the Zagros mts. Tyssa (small) Getae lived in north Caucasus on mid Volga. from which derived by mid Bronze age the Proto Thracians, at north of Black sea.
      Proto Thracian culture between 2400 BC - 1800 BC spread from middle Volga to west Ukraine today and Pannonia.
      Proto Getae people separated from Anatolian language carriers and Proto Italic - Celtic populations somewhere in north Caucasus and together were the Indo European branch that spread west as Indo European language carriers Yamnaya people. Mostly R1b L23 and some J2b.
      In time all these Getae people came into mix with different populations and contributed to the formation of different ethnic groups. Some were Iranized, some were Turkified, some became part of Mitani, some were the Pelaic Hatti in north west Anatolia, others became Thracians, then Thracian Scythian mix formed Cimmerians or Phrygians in a Baltic mix. The Balkans and Carpathian Proto Thracian populations Indo Europeanized the Proto Europeans from the region and the Neolithic farmers migrated through the Balkans from Anatolia and contributed to the formation of other ethnic groups like the Illyrians.

  • @VA-0902
    @VA-0902 4 месяца назад

    K&G top notch documentary guys!