Daco-Roman
{{Short description|Romanized culture of Dacia under the Roman Empire}}
{{distinguish|Romanian language#Dialects{{!}}Daco-Romanian}}
{{See also|Roman Dacia}}
The term Daco-Roman describes the Romanized culture of Dacia under the rule of the Roman Empire.
Etymology
The Daco-Roman mixing theory, as an origin for the Romanian people, was formulated by the earliest Romanian scholars, beginning with Dosoftei from Moldavia, in the 17th century,{{cite book|author=Jonathan Eagles|title=Stephen the Great and Balkan Nationalism: Moldova and Eastern European History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmkBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9|date=25 October 2013|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-0-85772-314-7|pages=9–}} followed in the early 1700s in Transylvania, through the Romanian Uniate clergy{{cite book|author=Mark Biondich|title=The Balkans: Revolution, War, and Political Violence Since 1878|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gt8SDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA32|date=17 February 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-929905-8|pages=32–}} and in Wallachia, by the historian Constantin Cantacuzino in his Istoria Țării Rumânești dintru început ("History of Wallachia from the beginning"), and continued to amplify during the 19th and 20th centuries.{{cite book|author=Lucian Boia|title=History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RM6MRPWXxQYC&pg=PA85|year=2001|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=978-963-9116-97-9|pages=85–}}
Famous individuals
- Regalianus was a Roman usurper and became himself emperor for a brief period of time.
- Aureolus was a Roman military commander and would-be usurper against Gallienus.
- Galerius, Roman emperor from 305 to 311, though half Thracian from his fathers part.
- Ulpia Severina ({{fl.}} 3rd century), the wife of the Emperor Aurelian whose nomen Ulpius was widespread in all the provinces along the Danube may have been from Dacia.{{cite book |last= Watson |first= Alaric |title= Aurelian and the Third Century |publisher= Routledge |year= 1999 |location= London|isbn= 0-415-07248-4}}
- Sponsianus, a possible usurping Roman emperor in Dacia known only through coin evidence.
See also
Notes
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References
- {{cite book
|last = Boia
|first = Lucian
|author-link = Lucian Boia
|title = History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=RM6MRPWXxQYC
|year = 2001b
|publisher = Central European University Press
|isbn = 978-963-9116-97-9
}}
- {{cite book
|last = Cihac
|first = Alexandru
|title = Dictionnaire d'étymologie daco-romane: éléments latins comparés avec les autres langues romanes
|url = https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedty04cihagoog
|publisher = Ludolphe St-Goar
|location = Frankfurt
|year = 1870
|language = fr
|isbn = 978-0-559-38812-5
}}
- {{cite book
|last = Elton
|first = Hugh
|title = Warfare in Roman Europe, AD 350-425
|year = 1996
|publisher = Oxford University Press
|isbn = 978-0-19-815241-5
}}
- {{cite book
|last = MacKendrick
|first = Paul Lachlan
|author-link = Paul MacKendrick
|title = The Dacian Stones Speak
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Lwt5Li_q2asC
|publisher = The University of North Carolina Press
|year = 2000
|isbn = 978-0-8078-4939-2
}}
Further reading
- {{in lang|en}} Kelley L. Ross [http://www.friesian.com/decdenc2.htm The Vlach Connection and Further Reflections on Roman History]
Category:Culture of ancient Rome