History of Romanian

History Of Romanian

The Romanian territory was inhabited in ancient times by the Dacians, an Indo-European people. They were defeated by the Roman Empire in 106 and part of Dacia (Oltenia, Banat and Transylvania) became a Roman province. Because the province was rich in ores, and especially silver and gold, the Romans heavily colonized the province, brought with them the Vulgar Latin as the language of administration and commerce and started a period of intense Romanization, giving birth to the "proto-Romanian" language. But in the 3rd century AD, with pressure from Free Dacians and invasions of migratory populations such as Goths, the Romans were forced to pull out of Dacia in 271 AD, making it the first province to be abandoned. Whether the Romanians are the descendants of these people that abandoned the area and settled south of the Danube or of the people that remained in Dacia is a matter of debate. Ovid Densuşianu, have placed the origin of the Romanian language in Illyria. Other scholars also suggest a relatively uniform Romanization of the entire northern Balkans - Dacia, Illyria and Moesia. (See also Jireček Line, Thraco-Romans, and Classification of Thracian.)