Are Romanians the Last Real Descendants of the Roman Empire in the Balkans?

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  • čas přidán 24. 09. 2017
  • Many historians apposite that the modern Romanians (and Moldovans) are the last remaining descendants of the Romans in the Balkan Peninsula and Eastern Europe, and today we're going to look at the origin and history of the Romanian people and their relation to other Italic-peoples in the Balkan peninsula today.
    Be sure to let me know your thoughts on Romanian and Moldovan history, and the prospects of a Romania-Moldovia unification. No offense is meant by stating that Moldova is the poorest country in Europe, I have many Moldovan/Romanian friends and they told me about the hardships they had to endure.
    Thanks for watching!
    Sources:
    linguistics.byu.edu/classes/Li...
    www.nytimes.com/1995/06/17/opi...
    www.istro-romanian.net/
    www.imninalu.net/myths-Vlach.htm

Komentáře • 10K

  • @Dymi4i
    @Dymi4i Před 5 lety +2183

    the official language in Republic of Moldova is Romanian language ! There is no such a language as Moldovian !!!! it was invented by USSR to divide the territory AND THE PEOPLE that they occupied !!! Trust me i'm Moldovian and know it from inside !

    • @costelc4077
      @costelc4077 Před 5 lety +202

      Chiar nu inteleg de ce unii oameni ii spun limba moldovenească. E o prostie!

    • @LEDZENDER
      @LEDZENDER Před 4 lety +22

      Wallachian, Влашки језик

    • @louanarose
      @louanarose Před 4 lety +4

      Elvir preach 👌🏻

    • @catalannationalist9847
      @catalannationalist9847 Před 4 lety +26

      And why don't you just unite?

    • @AlexAlex-xs3di
      @AlexAlex-xs3di Před 4 lety +113

      @@catalannationalist9847 Because Russian don't agree

  • @alejandrotabilo1988
    @alejandrotabilo1988 Před 6 lety +2394

    I am a Spanish speaker, I used to play football with Romanians and I was surprised that I could understand almost 85% of what they were talking about. Later I didn't have a problem in conversing with them. They were very friendly and nice.

    • @younotting7411
      @younotting7411 Před 6 lety +60

      spanish people have romanian dna

    • @spyro563
      @spyro563 Před 6 lety +138

      The two Roman Legions that 'conquered' Dacia were formed from men that came the Iberic Peninsula, not to mention tha the Emperor Traian akso came from there being adopted by a Roman general.

    • @autnocens
      @autnocens Před 6 lety +101

      I believe Catalan is closer to Romanian language than Castilian, both in pronunciation and topic of words in the sentence.

    • @gogolometro235
      @gogolometro235 Před 6 lety +121

      latin languages. as a romanian i can understand almost 80-90% of what an italian is saying

    • @autnocens
      @autnocens Před 6 lety +64

      I wouldn't venture to 80% but if the Italian speaks slower and correctly and uses simpler, shorter sentences there should be no problem in understanding him.

  • @hugosoareslemos1638
    @hugosoareslemos1638 Před 3 lety +400

    Love to Romania from Brazil! Latin brothers 🇧🇷🤝🇷🇴

    • @quintilianuscassiustiberiu4191
      @quintilianuscassiustiberiu4191 Před 3 lety +9

      Roma Aeterna My Brother

    • @noaholivercedillo2451
      @noaholivercedillo2451 Před 3 lety +10

      All Latin is my family no matter what we Latin people must stick together !

    • @fauna594
      @fauna594 Před 3 lety +18

      lmao since when brazil became latin ?? You speak portuguese that doesnt mean ur latin. Your ancestors are mayans and aztecs. Shame on you turning ur back on ur true ancestors.

    • @noaholivercedillo2451
      @noaholivercedillo2451 Před 3 lety +15

      @@fauna594 yes the Portuguese are Latin obviously we’re talking about Portuguese people not Mayan Aztec or any Indian here shame on you for not knowing shit about one of the greatest empires in history

    • @noaholivercedillo2451
      @noaholivercedillo2451 Před 3 lety +24

      @@fauna594 in Brazil there’s many people of different ethnic mixtures you can be Indian so that means your not Latin or you can be of Latin European decent learn your history it can do you good

  • @TheJohnSnake
    @TheJohnSnake Před 3 lety +265

    As a Brazilian, I'm thrilled that I can read Romanian stuff! Hope I can visit the country someday!

    • @TheJohnSnake
      @TheJohnSnake Před 3 lety +7

      @LN Someday I hope to visit eastern Europe and Romania surely will be in the schedule!

    • @akril4995
      @akril4995 Před rokem +3

      Fii binevenit!

  • @celloting01
    @celloting01 Před 4 lety +462

    When Pavarotti performed in Bucharest in the 90s, he spoke in Italian and the crowds understood everything he said and sang. And were laughing to his jokes too. How cool is that?!

    • @newstartyt3700
      @newstartyt3700 Před 3 lety +29

      that just shows how truly similar the romance languages are to each other.the only real difference is just slight modifications.

    • @echoes5476
      @echoes5476 Před 3 lety +19

      @Rubens Toledo yo también, no puedo entender mucho el rumano hablado pero escrito parece italiano y entiendo el 80%

    • @ragael1024
      @ragael1024 Před 3 lety +14

      Even casually, a romanian can understand about 66% of a spoken italian, and around 75% of a written italian. That says smth

    • @ManticoreRO
      @ManticoreRO Před 3 lety +5

      @@echoes5476 Me too, I cannot understand much if what the romanians write but I understand italian 80%.
      In romanian: "Nici eu, nu pot (no puedo) intelege mult din ce e scris in romana (escrito = ce e scris) dar inteleg intaliana 80%"
      Curious if I am right (Romanian here) in my english translation of your words.

    • @dangrancan2940
      @dangrancan2940 Před 3 lety +14

      same when Toto Cutogno came to Brasov , he sang italian aswell as a romanian song , made jokes on the stage

  • @DavidDayTravels
    @DavidDayTravels Před 3 lety +481

    My second language is Portuguese, and I was pleasantly surprised with how much Romanian I could understand when I visited a few years ago. I certainly couldn’t understand everything, but many times I was able to get the idea. And Romanian people are so friendly and helpful. Can’t wait to go back!

    • @kennybeginner4087
      @kennybeginner4087 Před 2 lety +24

      Greetings cousin. Romanian language is 79.8% Latin

    • @vonVince
      @vonVince Před 2 lety +3

      Cool story, bro.

    • @ghanvedsingh8946
      @ghanvedsingh8946 Před rokem +4

      If you are a Portuguese then you must know the Greek too because Portuguese people migrated from Greece only in the span of it's entire history

    • @Victor10576
      @Victor10576 Před rokem +2

      ​@@ghanvedsingh8946a bit maybe.
      Malaca is merda over here.
      We still migth have traces of it but since so much has happen since then, we have been influenced from alot more cultures

    • @Burntwaffle9699
      @Burntwaffle9699 Před rokem

      Same with me as being Romanian and having Brazilian friends.

  • @imperatorsclavinarum4194
    @imperatorsclavinarum4194 Před 4 lety +833

    Big hugs for our Romanian brothers and sisters from Serbia!

    • @gengiskhan7127
      @gengiskhan7127 Před 4 lety +48

      An hug for you.... For me Serbia îs the True friend of romania

    • @adnanaginghina9493
      @adnanaginghina9493 Před 4 lety +12

      Kisses

    • @Mikithemenace
      @Mikithemenace Před 4 lety +29

      As an Aromanian from Serbia, I approve this message )))

    • @mathhewqwerty2635
      @mathhewqwerty2635 Před 4 lety +10

      Thank you good neighbor

    • @panichidaniel5044
      @panichidaniel5044 Před 4 lety +38

      A lot of love for our Serbian cousins from România, we have an old saying "only the black sea and Serbja never attack us". Like myself, personally my grandfather was Serbian and my father always reminded me that, fucking proud of that 😍💖😇😇😇

  • @zoazede2098
    @zoazede2098 Před 4 lety +418

    Love to Romania from Argentina 🇦🇷👍😎👍
    One of my favorite European countries* amazing history and traditions! Saludos*

    • @scoutfan911
      @scoutfan911 Před 4 lety +11

      Greetings from Romania

    • @MarchizAlex
      @MarchizAlex Před 3 lety +5

      Larga Vida Argentina

    • @europaeuropa2178
      @europaeuropa2178 Před 3 lety +1

      Hola. Como estas en facebook?

    • @zoazede2098
      @zoazede2098 Před 3 lety +2

      @@europaeuropa2178 el mismo nombre* XD así largo y todo*

    • @europaeuropa2178
      @europaeuropa2178 Před 3 lety +1

      @@zoazede2098 Hola. Si pero me perace que hay 2 personas con este nombre . Si no tiene foto de perfil ya te lo envie la invitacion de amistad

  • @Crick1952
    @Crick1952 Před 6 lety +1290

    Romanians are incredibly friendly and hospitable. I often work at the truck stops here in the Netherlands and the Romanian drivers are incredibly nice, share their food and love to talk.
    A great people with a unique history.

    • @adamrozsa6368
      @adamrozsa6368 Před 6 lety +13

      i went to ERDÉLY last sumer and once i was in a restaurant where the waiter was a romanian he just pretended i am not there. i went out after sayin kurva anyádat. i went to another wich had romanian waiters again, and the same hapened! yea tehy are realy friendly

    • @lonewolf1300
      @lonewolf1300 Před 6 lety +19

      Stigmatum How i see you visited transilvania not romania ;)))

    • @pararazzo
      @pararazzo Před 6 lety +53

      Laszlo, what do you mean by they "not have even the elemental Human Rights"? Do not just throw out big words. I agree Hungarians in Romania are not satisfied with their rights, but on the other hand:
      They have several political parties, one of which was part of several governments. They've actually been part of the government for approx. 16 years (out of 27 since the revolution from 1989) and for another 4 their MPs offered support in parlament to the government (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Alliance_of_Hungarians_in_Romania + a more clear table: ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniunea_Democrat%C4%83_Maghiar%C4%83_din_Rom%C3%A2nia))
      They have state funded and private schools and universities. Moreover, given the fact that some of them do not even speak Romanian is proof to the fact that they can live pretty well without even knowing the official language of the country. They are helped by the fact that all public authorities (courts of law included) are bound to provide translators. So if you are part of a historic ethnic grup you can live in Romania without even speaking the Romanian language. They are not satisfied with this, they would rather have the oficial acts concluded in their own language, ignoring the fact that not all public clerks know Hungarian and knowledge of a foreign language may not be a condition to work in public administration.
      In terms of local autonomy, all towns and villages approve their own budges and may use a rather high percentage of the taxes they collect for their own projects. So, to sum up, they have schools at all levels and of all types, they have their own budgets, they receive as much money as any other town, they are free to travel and works anywhere in Romania and in the EU. They may even complain to European Court of Human Rights. Are you aware of any decision of ECHR against Romania establishing that ethnic minorities human rights are not observed?
      If only, their leaders would had more diplomacy they could gain so much more.

    • @laszloanycase4460
      @laszloanycase4460 Před 6 lety +4

      Please, give an example of a country in Europe where a political party is banned.
      State funded university for hungarians? Please give an example. Oh, you mean Bolyai in Kolozsvár (architects were Ignác Alpár, Károly Meixner, Károly Reményik). That was established following the XIXth act of 1872. october 14 codified by the royal hungarian parlamient and financed it. Where were the romanians? They appeared only when it had been renamed to a romanian doctor named Babes..Of course all the professors, officers in civil service had to attest on bigromania after 1920.. If they did not they had to leave THEIR HOMELAND. You know, in the 20's there was saying about Hungary is a land of 2m beggars.. These 2m beggars were all refugees from formerly Northern, Eastern, Southern Hungary...highly educated personals, officers, aristocrats, peasants.
      But of course it is the past blabla.. In the paradise of human rights (you think this is romania), please give me an example where a pure hungarian-controlled university or college exists.. 2017. 06. 01. Marosvásárhely (Tirgu Mures) mayor ordered to remove the street signs (with two languages: one romanian the other hungarian) placed by human rights activists. etc,etc,etc
      My question is: Szeklerland where hungarians/szeklers are about 80% among local populations should talk romanian? Even they are not romanians? Why? So in the past the Kingdom of Hungary should have forced the the romanians (moți) in Middle Transsyilvania to speak hungarian? Even they did not paid any taxes because they lived in the high mountains contrary to the hungarians who lived in the valleys..

    • @perun3706
      @perun3706 Před 6 lety +25

      magyars are recorded in some korean chronicle for their raiding and pillaging in the northern parts of what was back then Korea
      on the other side of the continent, dacians defeated romans multiple times
      im sure there is an explanation for this :D :D :D :D

  • @vernover888
    @vernover888 Před 6 lety +280

    Hello to Romania from Georgia, i like your country :)

    • @andrei5961
      @andrei5961 Před 5 lety +4

      Ortodoks brother

    • @victoriaalbastra6325
      @victoriaalbastra6325 Před 4 lety +6

      Hello brother. I want to visit your country someday. It was the first Christian country in the world.

    • @andreimihaesi
      @andreimihaesi Před 4 lety

      Brothers from across the sea!

    • @craigmackssj3680
      @craigmackssj3680 Před 4 lety

      i was born there but group up in Savannah back when camouflage was alive 912

    • @cspresimir
      @cspresimir Před 4 lety +1

      Greetings from across the pond!

  • @oxanagutu
    @oxanagutu Před 5 lety +431

    I’m from Moldova, and Romanian was written in Cyrillic only while it was a part of Soviet Union... and since it collapsed we started to write using Latin alphabet

    • @anutanastase5687
      @anutanastase5687 Před 4 lety +14

      Alfabetul chirilic a fost inventat de doi calugari greci probabil (CHIRIL si Metodiu), la ordinul Vaticanului, pentru a slaviza Balkanii si controla slavii prin religie. Slavio nu aveau nici alfabet, nici religie, nici paleo cultura. Pentru a fi confirmati drept lideri, tarii din balkani, (care vorbeau o limba romanica atunci, si multi din descendentii lor si astazi), erau obligati sa-si slavizeze populatia.

    • @MrTiliceahorea
      @MrTiliceahorea Před 4 lety

      @Val Coteanu Care e scopul acestui comentariu? Cu ce nu ești de acord?

    • @nicknem174
      @nicknem174 Před 4 lety +19

      Lies, romanian written history started in cyrilic, even in the Hungarian kingdom they used the cirilic until the 19th century.

    • @gcrecords1731
      @gcrecords1731 Před 4 lety +2

      @@nicknem174 yee they are liars they are valaho traco albanians ,dacians was scitians turkhis iranians mix gotics

    • @timi1655
      @timi1655 Před 3 lety

      @@nicknem174 we didn't
      czcams.com/video/OVI3ii0D2R4/video.html

  • @MrKlipstar
    @MrKlipstar Před rokem +78

    Roménia e Portugal. Amigos Latinos !👪
    Portuguese peoples support Romania!
    🚛🚍🚲🛩🛰🛳⚓🏗🚪

    • @victorrenanleitao5438
      @victorrenanleitao5438 Před rokem +4

      Somos todos latinos. Unidos pelo latim!

    • @paolorossi9180
      @paolorossi9180 Před rokem +4

      @@victorrenanleitao5438 non soltanto per la lingua.Portogallo,Italia,Spagna,Francia,Romania,abbiamo in comune la storia latina,romana

    • @MoisePicard-no9by
      @MoisePicard-no9by Před 11 měsíci

      🇫🇷

  • @KilapnF
    @KilapnF Před 5 lety +722

    I am Chilean and I love Romania. I wish that more Romanians had arrived in Latin America, perhaps in a particular area, so we would have had an area of ​​each great Latin language (Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian)

    • @costinsapera2219
      @costinsapera2219 Před 5 lety +55

      u are too nice, maybe u should come to romania :D so we can have more chileans here :P

    • @KilapnF
      @KilapnF Před 5 lety +40

      @@costinsapera2219 It would be a dream to be able to go to Romania!

    • @MG-ei1eg
      @MG-ei1eg Před 5 lety +23

      @@KilapnF Seras bienvenido,a mi pais!Saludos,desde Rumania!

    • @KilapnF
      @KilapnF Před 5 lety +11

      @@MG-ei1eg Gracias! sería genial si alguno de ustedes me da info de redes sociales que ocupen los rumanos, como algun canal de youtube, página de facebook u otro. Saludos :)

    • @KilapnF
      @KilapnF Před 5 lety +22

      It would have been interesting. By the way, the South American countries are far from being completely Hispanic or Portuguese, in fact the concepts 'Hispanic' or 'Latin' are a bit annoying, a large part of our culture and race comes from the native peoples, there is also an important branch African and millions of descendants of Asians, we are as diverse as US.

  • @blotski
    @blotski Před 6 lety +916

    A Romanian friend I work with took me and another guy from work to stay with some of his friends in Bucharest and then some family in Constanța. I was completely bowled over with the people and how warm-hearted and generous they were. I have travelled a lot and they were certainly some of the kindest people I ever met. I have started to learn Romanian now (am început să învăț limba română!!) and we're going back next May to visit Cluj. Can't wait. Abia aștept!
    By the way, no doubt somebody has already mentioned it but I'll do it again. The official language of Moldova is now called Romanian and it certainly is NOT written in the Cyrillic alphabet anymore. Your info on that is out of date.

    • @tommyjohn3525
      @tommyjohn3525 Před 6 lety +15

      BazaB. You have alot to see. You should go to Sinaia, Brașov, Timișoara, Craiova, Transfăgărășan, Cheile Bicazului, Cascada Bigăr etc.

    • @andreiyy
      @andreiyy Před 6 lety +9

      @BazaB Prietene, if I'm still here in May, I'll be happy to show you around Cluj. You picked a great city to see and a great month to visit it in.

    • @ionutbunoiu1489
      @ionutbunoiu1489 Před 6 lety +1

      Where are you come from?

    • @RSQClau
      @RSQClau Před 6 lety +6

      Wow, you are such a kind person :)

    • @serbanradu3845
      @serbanradu3845 Před 6 lety +7

      WOW nice work learning romanian....keep it up!

  • @andoniianus5197
    @andoniianus5197 Před 4 lety +161

    there IS NO “moldovan” language. we both speak the same romanian, and as a moldovan myself, i can say that with confidence
    and btw we live pretty good and our economy is good too

    • @andrewwbreack249
      @andrewwbreack249 Před 3 lety +18

      Cu economia ai dat-o-n sânge frate 🤣

    • @andreiroblox3240
      @andreiroblox3240 Před 2 lety +3

      @@andrewwbreack249 moldova sa se uneasca cu tara mama pentru a avea o economie europeana

    • @wallachianknight557
      @wallachianknight557 Před 2 lety +1

      moldovans are bassicaly romanian but they have some diffrences like they have more russian words and have a diffrent accent

    • @spoodthang2146
      @spoodthang2146 Před 2 lety

      It’s probably a little different living circumstances right now lol

    • @poofoh6889
      @poofoh6889 Před 2 lety

      Language moldo-vlahã

  • @Andrea92_91
    @Andrea92_91 Před 3 lety +243

    I was adopted from Romania and just now started learning about my heritage. I can’t wait to learn more about my country’s history and culture.

    • @alexxela8
      @alexxela8 Před 3 lety +15

      That's amazing! I was born/live in Romania and recently got more interested into the history of Romania about a month+ ago, if you wanna speak with someone about it lmk.

    • @sticlavoda5632
      @sticlavoda5632 Před 3 lety +3

      Want me to give some examples of entertaining videos and documentaries to watch?

    • @Andrea92_91
      @Andrea92_91 Před 3 lety +1

      @@sticlavoda5632 Yes, please and thank you :)

    • @Andrea92_91
      @Andrea92_91 Před 3 lety +1

      @@alexxela8 Please! I would love that :)

    • @alexxela8
      @alexxela8 Před 3 lety

      @@Andrea92_91 Sure, works on CZcams also, but do you use Discord/Reddit by any chance? Also, no need to answer if you don't feel like it, but out of curiosity, in what country do you live?

  • @RomanOf-lo7zn
    @RomanOf-lo7zn Před 6 lety +956

    SPQR! Greetings to my eastern brothers. Roma Eterna 🇷🇴🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹🇬🇷

    • @marcelcostache2504
      @marcelcostache2504 Před 5 lety +96

      ROMA INVICTA ET AETERNA!

    • @ccdd5074
      @ccdd5074 Před 5 lety +33

      ALLA CITTÀ DI CLVJ, ROMA MADRE. Hello from Cluj-Napoca.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Wolf_Statue,_Cluj-Napoca

    • @MlokLik
      @MlokLik Před 5 lety +45

      so this is where i can find the edgy 12 year olds

    • @-crimean_khagan-110
      @-crimean_khagan-110 Před 5 lety +4

      @@ccdd5074 hy neighbour;)!!!

    • @armandovaiandando6472
      @armandovaiandando6472 Před 5 lety +12

      When that Greek is not a Romance language right?

  • @Knowledgia
    @Knowledgia Před 6 lety +938

    As a Romanian . I love your video ! Good job!

    • @Masaman
      @Masaman  Před 6 lety +99

      Thank you! I actually have a lot of Romanian/Moldovan friends here in Dallas, really great people.

    • @beefstain9596
      @beefstain9596 Před 6 lety +16

      Why would Moldovans not want to be a part of Romania? That makes no sense?

    • @Knowledgia
      @Knowledgia Před 6 lety +80

      Please don't say "Moldovan" . They are Romanians, as I live in Dobruja (a Romanian Province), I can be called "Dobrujan" , but I am ROMANIAN. As Moldavians are Romanians too . :)

    • @Knowledgia
      @Knowledgia Před 6 lety +70

      Well, I tell you. that part of Moldavia was annexed by Russian Empire in 1812. And the other part with Wallachia formed Romania. The GREAT ROMANIA was established in 1918 when Transylvania and the other part of Moldova (Today's Rep of Moldova) united with Romania. After WW2 we lost Moldova to Russians again. They deported a lot of Romanians, trying to call them "Moldovans" to be different from us, they imposed a different alphabet , and they influenced their minds. Some of them who read and learn, know that they are Romanians and are our brothers. But other half of them are indoctrinated , even if we are speaking the same language :)) . They think they are not part of this country. So yeah ..

    • @tudormardare66
      @tudormardare66 Před 6 lety +13

      +Beefstain One reason : Russia.
      Some people fear a Russian permanent annexation of Transnistria, but this has already happened however.
      Others are totally brainwashed by Russian state media.

  • @motorheadanthrax
    @motorheadanthrax Před rokem +35

    I have spent lots of time in romania as my girlfriend studied in cluj napoca and i visited often. Lovely place and nice people! Greetings from Greece!

  • @MixalisD11_8
    @MixalisD11_8 Před 4 lety +578

    I love this country so much! Beautiful country, beautiful language, nice Anthem, interesting history! Greetings from Greece!

    • @saint-simon1134
      @saint-simon1134 Před 4 lety +20

      Μιχάλης Δελώτης i am romanian with italiano-grek AND. I Think italians, greks and romanians are more related than we think

    • @andreimihaesi
      @andreimihaesi Před 4 lety +17

      Much of the history, culture and of course our religion is due to the Greeks! Always Balkan Orthodox brothers xx

    • @octaviantimisoreanu5810
      @octaviantimisoreanu5810 Před 4 lety +21

      Thanks for giving the world civilization, Greece! We love you too

    • @serenityteachings
      @serenityteachings Před 3 lety +15

      Nice islands. Romania likes Greece

    • @alexb9969
      @alexb9969 Před 3 lety +10

      I love greek culture and history and am a big fan of the Ancient Greek dialects xd

  • @spineshivers
    @spineshivers Před 6 lety +747

    Romanian here. You made a mistake. Moldovans don't use the Cyrillic alphabet. They use the same Latin one. The only real difference is that they don't have the letter â. Just î. Same sound, different letters. Don't ask why, it's complicated. The only ones that still write Romanian in Cyrillic are the ones from Transnistria, a small Eastern part of Moldova. Again, don't ask why. Complicated.

    • @yarpen26
      @yarpen26 Před 6 lety +5

      Actually, Moldova (or let's just say Bessarabia) has plenty of reasons to consider itself separate from the rest of Romania. It was administered by the Russian Empire from 1812 until 1919, when it was ceded to Romania, which lost it again first in 1940 and then in 1944.

    • @Curtis5511
      @Curtis5511 Před 6 lety +74

      Greșești, băiete.Folosim același alfabet ca și voi, tot cu î din a scriem. Și încă ceva, ai observat că americanul cam o ia prin păpușoi pe alocuri. Cică doar un procent mic de români din RM, doresc unirea. Realitatea însă e alta. Suntem mult mai mulți decât cred unii.

    • @danbrown6224
      @danbrown6224 Před 6 lety +3

      BUT Y THO

    • @spineshivers
      @spineshivers Před 6 lety +2

      Johnny, mai exact ce ai înţeles din ce-am scris?

    • @vlad-andreicavescu2324
      @vlad-andreicavescu2324 Před 6 lety +6

      Respect de pe partea de sud a Prutului!

  • @albionjerasi9213
    @albionjerasi9213 Před 5 lety +219

    I am from Albania and almost all of my ancestors have Vlach origins and spoke Vlach language. It is a 100% Latin .

    • @timsaliu2619
      @timsaliu2619 Před 5 lety +7

      albion jerasi nuk asht e vertet. Not all your ancestors Albion . maybe your family has vlach origins but the rest of us are of Illyrian dissent

    • @albionjerasi9213
      @albionjerasi9213 Před 5 lety +14

      @@timsaliu2619 I think that many vlachs have assimilated into other populations as well. This is true. I have Vlach roots but I feel more Albanian because I have assimilated

    • @cassiusquintilianustiberiu6889
    • @andreivlad3518
      @andreivlad3518 Před 4 lety

      You know the leanguege?

    • @saint-simon1134
      @saint-simon1134 Před 4 lety +10

      albion jerasi u are Aromanian. illirians, dacians and greek they were somehow related anyway

  • @ruru_bckwrds8737
    @ruru_bckwrds8737 Před 4 lety +303

    Romania is one of the most interesting countries I have visited. I really want to visit all the Balkanian countries area. There's definitely something misterious in that area.

    • @ragael1024
      @ragael1024 Před 3 lety +9

      A lot of history and peoples happened here. The balkans are truly unique in that aspect.

    • @vranceanknight4212
      @vranceanknight4212 Před 3 lety +5

      If you want to see mysterious in Romania come to the Bucegi Mountains it's the most mysterious region of Romania and a lot of strange things happened there.

    • @ruru_bckwrds8737
      @ruru_bckwrds8737 Před 3 lety +1

      @@vranceanknight4212 Cool mate. I will do. As I have seen it's located close to Brasov. Brilliant.

    • @vranceanknight4212
      @vranceanknight4212 Před 3 lety +3

      @@ruru_bckwrds8737 I've been there during the day, saw nothing strange. But my dad came before when he was in his 20s during the day and he for s split second saw something weird and he says it changed his life. It's also rumored that it is the Dacian's sacred Mountain (Kogaionon) due to the strange rock formations called 'Babele' and one of the Romanian sphynxes (Bucegi and Ciucas and Macin, with Bucegi and Ciucas close by each other and Macin in northern Dobrodja in Tulcea county).

    • @vranceanknight4212
      @vranceanknight4212 Před 3 lety

      @@ruru_bckwrds8737 Other mysterious places you might want to see are: Padurea Hoia Baciu (the haunted forest near Cluj, Poenari Castle (the real castle of Vlad Tepes/The Impaler north of Curtea de Arges and West of Campulung, it's said to be haunted by the ghost of his wife), Ramnicu Sarat and Focsani (due to them being connected through underground tunnels which were rumored to reach form Suceava to Tirgoviste), Memorial to the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance in Sighetu Marmaritei. Some very interesting Monasteries are Voronet (the only church for a long time/ or still is to depict the fall of Constantinopole on an icon, and it's one of those Painted Monasteries) and Dealu Monastery (in which you can find the Head of Michael the Brave, the first person to unite the three principalities under his direct rule (Stephen Bathory did this through making him and the ruler of Moldavia his vassals).

  • @victoriaalbastra6325
    @victoriaalbastra6325 Před 4 lety +278

    There is no moldavian language. They speak Romanian, and some the language of the oppressors Russian.

    • @alexandramaria9866
      @alexandramaria9866 Před 4 lety +39

      Mustafa Alam Yes. Moldova is a very rich region so Russians wanted it for themselves so they stole it from Romania twice in the last hundred years. Even right now the Russians have troops in Moldova and constantly boycott the elections so the region will continue to be pro Russia

    • @Indimenticabil
      @Indimenticabil Před 4 lety +21

      @ - LOL, bulgarians was a mongol nomad tribe from Asia. Romanian has 77% latin words common with italian.

    • @blackpaint9093
      @blackpaint9093 Před 4 lety +2

      That's funny, this comes from the one that stole Transylvania to the country that owned it for 1000 years

    • @marceghel4669
      @marceghel4669 Před 4 lety +15

      @@blackpaint9093 Stole? Well we fought for it.

    • @blackpaint9093
      @blackpaint9093 Před 4 lety +3

      @@marceghel4669 Since when joining the war 1 day before the armistice is called fighting? This is called being cowards

  • @marucunucuagadisan6572
    @marucunucuagadisan6572 Před 5 lety +166

    I am Romanian from Serbia, i study in Romania for 4 years now, i meet Romanian from Moldova nice people big respect for tem :)

  • @thomass1891
    @thomass1891 Před 6 lety +131

    Romanians are a simple folk with simple customs there is no lying or deceit in them . There are many Romanians here in Germany.

    • @benois666
      @benois666 Před 6 lety +20

      Thomas Schmidt Thank you for your kind words.....who meets us and speaks to us.....they will see that we are not gypsies....

    • @MG-ei1eg
      @MG-ei1eg Před 5 lety +17

      @NuvYou We are not all the same!

    • @stefanitaalexandru8132
      @stefanitaalexandru8132 Před 5 lety +25

      @NuvYou there are people like her everywhere on this planet ,it is called spoiled or golddigger ,which one did you get?

    • @PrinceVega
      @PrinceVega Před 5 lety +19

      @NuvYou , I feel your pain, good sir. But women are like that all over the globe.

    • @amario2tommaso93
      @amario2tommaso93 Před 5 lety +7

      The few should not shame the many...
      The many should not justify the few either...
      But the whether few or many, when their acts of greatness reaches such epic scales as that of Romanian history, i would say most fairly deserve the pride and honor for what they have shown to this world so far.
      I think Romanian culture and history and very importantly, language, are some of the most underappreciated treasures of this Planet and deserve more attention.
      Trying to learn Romanian little by little already. :)

  • @masterjunky863
    @masterjunky863 Před 3 lety +202

    Love to romanians from Italy 🇮🇹🇷🇴

    • @Tsar_Gory
      @Tsar_Gory Před 2 lety +12

      Salutare frate din mare familie a Imperuilui Roman ;)

  • @giuvannicammora2821
    @giuvannicammora2821 Před 2 lety +83

    Yes. They are latins.
    I Say It as italian

    • @tonymontana9754
      @tonymontana9754 Před 2 lety +4

      They are slavic and dacians. Greetings from Barcelona.

    • @tonymontana9754
      @tonymontana9754 Před 2 lety

      @Sperm Worm i don't care about your propaganda, gopnik. Rackija!!!

    • @Denis-ed3cm
      @Denis-ed3cm Před 2 lety +1

      @@tonymontana9754 we have nothing to do with latins. Just our language is latin. Our culture and everything about us is balkan/slavic.

    • @cllaudiusd521
      @cllaudiusd521 Před 2 lety +13

      @@Denis-ed3cm Nonsense , exaggeration. Balkan also means Greek, Albanian, Turkish, not only Slavic. Do you think that the Portuguese or the French have more in common with Italians than language? Do you think that Germanic speaking countries are all genetically identical and they all have the same culture ?! Be sure that there are differences between all peoples, not only between Romanians and other Latins.

    • @GhostSal
      @GhostSal Před 2 lety

      Genetically speaking Southern Italians and most Spaniards are the most closely related. Also being the most closely related to the ancient Romans. With some genetics shared also with Portugal and Southern France. Romina has less genetic similarities with us but does still have a little.

  • @decem_sagittae
    @decem_sagittae Před 6 lety +66

    Wallachia and Moldavia weren't incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, they were vassals retaining their autonomy in exchange for an annual tribute.

    • @mishacol
      @mishacol Před 6 lety +1

      And also accepting rulers appointed by Ottomans, having no foreign affairs and so on.

    • @stefanionutalexandru6916
      @stefanionutalexandru6916 Před 2 lety +8

      @@mishacol a small price to pay for avoiding all the massacres and genocides that happened on the rest of the continent, and also kept our elites indigeoneos aristocracy. So no glory, but also not much blood spilled . A fair deal in my view

    • @decem_sagittae
      @decem_sagittae Před rokem

      @@mishacol that was only for a century.

    • @akril4995
      @akril4995 Před rokem +1

      Bine completat.Multumesc.👍🍺

  • @arthegor
    @arthegor Před 6 lety +360

    Moldavian language does not exist. It is only a Russian propaganda. As an Moldavian from the Romanian part that's stupid to say. Actually there is no difference the Chirilic alphabet was used before the latin one was invented in the 19th century because in the evolution by Alexandru Ioan Cuza's reform the one who realised the small union of Tara Romaneasca ( Wallachia ) and Moldova placed a series of reforms in which modernized and help place the country on its feet later to be exiled by the great powers and corrupt politicians. If you listen Moldavian or Romanian from Moldova the only difference is the accent it's like bringing together one from Texas and 1 from New Jersey or New york you'll see a differnce in the accent but it's still Romanian. Also the Chirilic alphabet is in the past Moldova is using the latin / if they speak or write in slavic they speak Russian or write russian due to being forced to do so.

    • @autnocens
      @autnocens Před 6 lety +16

      Yea, but it is hard to prove the obvious. One who speaks Romanian notices immediately there's no difference between Romanian and "Moldovan" language, not even a mildly dialectal one.
      By the way, this is another infuriating topic for Hungarians and others who promote division of Romania and between Romanians, the Romanian language manifests a formidable unity regardless the region. This stems from an obvious strong and permanent relation between Romanian population groups across history which proves continuity as a single ethnic group. Of course, while some standardization comes with the modern era, the small local differences are so minor compared with other romance languages that it is clear there was no top down interference. This is not the case with French or Italian, even if those countries had a greater literacy rate and centuries of literary prowess.

    • @mishacol
      @mishacol Před 6 lety +3

      Of course I don't know the difference between english accents of northern America, but I witnessed how last pro-Romanian rally in Chisinau gathered up to 4000 people only.
      With no Russian propaganda by the way. Only high-grade western media.

    • @autnocens
      @autnocens Před 6 lety +15

      Well, at least you acknowledge Americans speak English, it's a start.
      So... these aren't "pro-Romanian" rallies, there's no competition with your Russia, Rep. of Moldova is Romanian land. The only uncertainty is about how long it will take before it is reincorporated into Romanian state. A state which is not perfect, not by far, but it's the Romanian nation's state and it doesn't make sense to have two of them in the long run. Politics and economy matter but ultimately common nationhood and culture will trump, he, he, every other criteria. Even if it pisses some greatly.

    • @mishacol
      @mishacol Před 6 lety +4

      I am not Romanian speaking, so I cannot impose my opinion to Moldovans how they should call their language, they can call it whatever they want. Even though I have my solid view on that.
      I also have no objection against unification, but only if there will be democratic expression of will of all ethnic minorities. The only thing which is embarassing me is that unionism is anchored on extreme rusophobia. This makes the idea unacceptable at least for a half of the population of MD.

    • @autnocens
      @autnocens Před 6 lety +17

      Not at all. The language is called as it is. English is English in Australia, Canada, South Africa, United States and so on. Even in Great Britain, go figure! French is French all over the world. Spanish likewise. Of course, you can, if you want, distinguish between Australian English and Oxford English, but this doesn't change the fact you refer to the same language and that is English. Furthermore, even with languages where strong dialects are present, the language name remains the same. Inventing then imposing, as it was the case in Rep. Moldova, as a political diktat, a "new" language (in order to invent a "new" nation) has nothing to do with linguistics or free will, it's simply rape. Even more grotesque so as the language spoken in Rep. Moldova is identically the same, no dialectal differences, with the language spoken by the Romanians in other Romanian provinces. Nobody forbids someone to identify himself by his region/province or city or even neighbourhood, but this doesn't change a bit the reality, identity, common and scientific acceptance of the language he speaks. And, all in all, this discussion turns into absurdity. If you don't accept, when the sun is up in the sky, to call the day a day it's your problem.
      Minorities have the right to exist and express themselves but don't have the right to carve up the territory of the country the ethnic majority resides. Even less so after that territory was occupied by force by a foreign power who forced massive displacement of the native population and colonization with foreigners.
      There's no Russianphobia, at least not more than Romanianphobia from the Russian side. "Russian speaking" minority - here the Ukrainian ethnic minority is thrown in when it suits the Russian imperialism - exists and counts less than a third of the population and it's naturally decreasing since some of them were simply bureaucrats with no ties to the region and once the empire was gone and they got old their numbers began to dwindle. There's no half, not even a third, including the Ukrainians, based on ethnicity.
      As for how spread is the desire for political reintegration to Romania (there is going to be no union/federation in the sense of, for example, a Belgium) that's a different topic. First, let me clarify for possible "third party" readers: the territory called today Rep. of Moldova was taken by the Russian empire in 1812 from then principality of Moldova, vassal state to the Ottoman empire. It comprises, roughly, the land between the Prut and Nistru river (Dniestr in the Russian variant). Short cutting history, it reverted to the (then) kingdom of Romania [state formed starting with 1859 through unification of 2 principalities inhabited by Romanians - Moldova and Wallachia

  • @avruvimtu2204
    @avruvimtu2204 Před 4 lety +262

    Aromanian here !!!😉👋 Dacians brothers

  • @albinajeta8882
    @albinajeta8882 Před 4 lety +253

    Some people think that romania is a gypsy nation lol.
    That's so wrong.

    • @brawlwithalexandru3523
      @brawlwithalexandru3523 Před 4 lety +13

      Eventually we have gypsies here..

    • @GoldieDawn
      @GoldieDawn Před 4 lety +15

      @@brawlwithalexandru3523 He's referring to Romani gypsies. x

    • @mike.mentzer_enjoyer
      @mike.mentzer_enjoyer Před 4 lety +40

      Yea i know, 3% of our population are gypsies but Gypsies are an ethnic group of traditionally itinerant people who originated in northern India but live in modern times worldwide, principally in Europe, but mostly Romania, so gypsies are Indians!

    • @toroseduto4042
      @toroseduto4042 Před 4 lety +3

      You are, copper lovers

    • @mihneavoinic8411
      @mihneavoinic8411 Před 4 lety +7

      @@toroseduto4042 no u

  • @victorlebedev9883
    @victorlebedev9883 Před 6 lety +89

    Moldovians use the latin alphabet not the cyrilic one, the main distinction between Romanian romanian and Moldovian romanian is that we in Moldova borrowed more russian words in day to day conversations, but the official romanian taught in schools and used in television and media is pretty much the same as in Romania, except some regional terms

  • @qoriiismaris7462
    @qoriiismaris7462 Před 6 lety +404

    I'm African but I respect Romanians I had good mate's from Romania real tough fellas.
    Sad that people think Romanians are Gypsies when they're clearly not.

    • @jamesdinkelmann8704
      @jamesdinkelmann8704 Před 6 lety +79

      Adam Abdullahi romanians are a different people altogether than the gypsies which originally came from India centuries ago.

    • @KingDayDayDay00
      @KingDayDayDay00 Před 6 lety +11

      Adam Abdullahi yeah those are Roma

    • @noideaforaname7797
      @noideaforaname7797 Před 6 lety +9

      Adam Abdullahi which country are you from?

    • @Kanemarkss
      @Kanemarkss Před 6 lety +38

      Adam Abdullahi gypsies and Romanians look completely different

    • @alex-sv8ru
      @alex-sv8ru Před 6 lety

      Adam Abdullahi We Wuz Kangz N Shiiieeeeeet.......

  • @deleteduser1877
    @deleteduser1877 Před 4 lety +179

    Love Romania from Georgia 😎👍🏻🇬🇪

    • @dearomania8289
      @dearomania8289 Před 4 lety +6

      *Love Georgia from Romania!*
      ❤❤❤ *Bless you!*

    • @cspresimir
      @cspresimir Před 4 lety

      We don't love you back :) because you started to beat the crap out of us in rugby! :D :D :D
      Well, we kinda suck at that sport right now, so greetings and love to our neighnors across the little pond (Black Sea)

    • @deleteduser1877
      @deleteduser1877 Před 4 lety +3

      @@cspresimir then you should ask russians they lost against us in every sport there is LOL

    • @dianapan6447
      @dianapan6447 Před 3 lety

      @@deleteduser1877 :))))

    • @wallachianknight557
      @wallachianknight557 Před 3 lety

      Love Georgia from romania
      But no offence i hate stalin which was Georgian

  • @michelleleehoward2301
    @michelleleehoward2301 Před 4 lety +201

    Romania makes me think of true resistance 😆

    • @nachogoatcheese1761
      @nachogoatcheese1761 Před 4 lety +1

      They make me think of American Confederates.

    • @nachogoatcheese1761
      @nachogoatcheese1761 Před 4 lety +1

      @Deplorable Texan if it were still the 1800s, yes, but it's 2020 and y'all trying to make it the 1800s again. Tbh, I don't trust either of them. To quote the late George Carlin, they say they two different parties, but they go to all the same parties.

    • @nachogoatcheese1761
      @nachogoatcheese1761 Před 4 lety

      @Deplorable Texan communism didn't exist in the 1800, and it wasn't Republicans that did away with segregation. Literally no one in mainstream politics is trying to make America communist, just trying to keep you plague-bearing Euro-expats from killing each other and the rest of us with you.

    • @nachogoatcheese1761
      @nachogoatcheese1761 Před 4 lety

      @Deplorable Texan he abolished slavery, and you should go read his full statement before saying he abolished *racism*. I also don't watch TV at all. I read. A lot. You've got the capacity to understand the world around you the equivalent of a potato left out in the sun too long.

    • @nachogoatcheese1761
      @nachogoatcheese1761 Před 4 lety

      @Deplorable Texan reading tells you more about the world than incredibly slanted 3 to 5 minute clips on the news that do nothing but confirm your biases and satiate your ADHD.

  • @user-hl7bw8yw7n
    @user-hl7bw8yw7n Před 5 lety +208

    As a Bulgarian living just south of the Romanian border (in the town of Rousse, in case anyone is wondering) you guys are very cool, but please do not drive so recklessly here. Heck, it's a narrow road near the centre, not a goddamn motorway.

    • @zalmoxis2111
      @zalmoxis2111 Před 5 lety +12

      Happy Bar and Grill is to blame, brother

    • @85percentcocoa
      @85percentcocoa Před 5 lety +33

      I feel you brother! Respect from Romania, one of the lands of stupid car drivers.

    • @MrTiliceahorea
      @MrTiliceahorea Před 4 lety +8

      Thank you! In an ocean of patriotic comments, be they correct or wrong, yours was a fountain of freshwater.

    • @celloting01
      @celloting01 Před 4 lety +5

      @@zalmoxis2111 Hahaha, that's so true. When I was in Romania (90s), I was shocked to see how reckless and fast the drivers were, criss-crossing lanes at will. And worst of all, they didn't have 'roundabouts'! and there were 'boom and crash' everyday when there would crash into each other like mad, but for them it was normal. No stress! Hahaha.

    • @craezee247
      @craezee247 Před 4 lety +5

      MOsKOn no we won't! we never wanted to occupy anyone neither will we ever try to do it! we respect all of our neighbors and the quarrels of the past are in the past! wars and occupation are barbaric especially in the 21th century when humanity is looking toward the stars. Both romanians and bulgarians are better than that and we live like brothers now because we are humans, we are sentient beings and we have higher hopes and aspirations than cracking heads!

  • @aserta
    @aserta Před 6 lety +328

    Been to both Romania, and Moldova, they most certainly don't write in Cyrillic. So...haven't a clue what you're on about fella.

    • @xenia7530
      @xenia7530 Před 5 lety +34

      aserta I’m Russian and I’ve been to Moldova and almost everyone there knows both Romanian and Russian- they’re fluent in both.

    • @apexturn3725
      @apexturn3725 Před 5 lety +25

      Romania did use Cyrillic script in the past but a little over 100 years ago along with Latin script but later stopped using it.

    • @jcflea
      @jcflea Před 5 lety +24

      Moldova won the right to use the Romanian/Moldovan language using the latin alphabet on 31 August 1989 and this was the first step towards independance from the Soviet Union. Any Romanian you see there written with Cyrillic is from the Soviet period and is not something produced in the last 25 years.

    • @vladimanea3155
      @vladimanea3155 Před 5 lety +13

      Xenia Because Russia wants to make out of Moldova a puppet state, unfortunately.I do not have a problem against the russian people, there are bad and good people everywhere around the world.It's just that I can't get over history, because they took away our lands that we fought and spilled blood for:Zones like Buceag and North Bucovina.Just ignore me tough, no hate...have a good day!

    • @kdk856
      @kdk856 Před 5 lety

      aserta moldova has 2 official languages, russian and romanian. thats what he meant

  • @catalintican5530
    @catalintican5530 Před 4 lety +67

    Moldova has also been writing in latin alphabet since the 90's. Moldova is Romania split spart by the Russians.

    • @bramantyoprahoro7284
      @bramantyoprahoro7284 Před 3 lety +6

      Not Russia, but Stalin.

    • @nicolaeadrian7882
      @nicolaeadrian7882 Před 2 lety +1

      @@bramantyoprahoro7284 STALIN SURE BUT ALSO PUTIN INVADED THE REGION AND STILL KEEPS TROOPS WITCH ARE IN TRASNISTRIA ... PUTIN IS WORST THAN STALIN

    • @bramantyoprahoro7284
      @bramantyoprahoro7284 Před 2 lety +1

      @@nicolaeadrian7882 Exactly.

  • @stonefireice6058
    @stonefireice6058 Před 3 lety +49

    Many years ago in college, just before graduation, my brother’s Moldovan friend walked me home for the last time, before his departure to Moldova. While we were still talking, he wrote on the wall:” Te iubesc”. I asked him for translation. He smiled and said good buy. I never saw that gorgeous man again. He was gone, before I managed to translate what he wrote. 😢 But I’ve remembered that phrase through all my life.

  • @emperoratlant6416
    @emperoratlant6416 Před 6 lety +614

    Respect and love to Romanians from Serbia

    • @M13razvan
      @M13razvan Před 6 lety +13

      Emperor Atlant fuck serbia

    • @mister_grizzlee5105
      @mister_grizzlee5105 Před 6 lety +5

      Y are so angry?

    • @unnimeni4331
      @unnimeni4331 Před 6 lety +55

      Greetings to Ortodox brother from Romania !!! Hope our old relations will renew soon !!

    • @gustavodemira7416
      @gustavodemira7416 Před 6 lety +39

      razvann hamza Butthurt bitch detected.

    • @gustavodemira7416
      @gustavodemira7416 Před 6 lety +43

      FirstEastern Perspective Yeah I doubted someone called Razvan Hamza was Romanian.
      Like my friend Mihai told me, "Romania has only two good neighbors; Serbia and the Black Sea"
      Cheers, have a wonderful week!

  • @gabe3527
    @gabe3527 Před 5 lety +312

    Romania, Poland and Finland are three of my most favorite countries in Europe.

    • @3dwardcullen69
      @3dwardcullen69 Před 5 lety +2

      Why?

    • @gabe3527
      @gabe3527 Před 5 lety +62

      The Libertine, Because they actually protect their borders from immigrants unlike most of Western Europe.

    • @alexboss9940
      @alexboss9940 Před 5 lety +22

      @@gabe3527 lol,în România nobody care about imigrants,and they don't care about us,they just come... and leave

    • @ai-no3ib
      @ai-no3ib Před 5 lety +13

      Romanians are leaving the country so why would immigrants wants to stay here, why would immigrants leave a poor country to settle in another poor country?!

    • @alexboss9940
      @alexboss9940 Před 5 lety +10

      @@ai-no3ib we are not poor,we are a very stupid people,they vote Corupt politicians and they don't care about simple people,in 2017 A very corupt politician was tried to legalize corruption,but in Bucharest 500.000 people was protesting and This Corrupt politician was out

  • @lonelygemino3256
    @lonelygemino3256 Před 3 lety +49

    I definitely need to visit our eastern romance brothers and sisters one day

  • @gioq4702
    @gioq4702 Před 4 lety +34

    as a Roman I think that Romanian is very fascinating... it sounds so old like old Latin

  • @daveharrison84
    @daveharrison84 Před 6 lety +43

    Moldova-Romania is the most likely country merger to happen anywhere in the world. I'm not saying it's likely, but it's more likely than any other combination of countries merging.

    • @romanvssvmromania
      @romanvssvmromania Před 6 lety +2

      Moldovan politicians are too corrupt to let Rep. of Moldova slide from their mafiot tentacles.
      If the union will happen, it will be with russian agreement, they have soldiers deployed in Transnistria and an even greater army in Crimea ready for action if something happens without their knowledge.
      The first union between Wallachia and Moldova that formed Small Romania was under a moldovan leader (A.I.Cuza), with different elections in both countries being won by the same man. It was a bold act from two small and corrupt regions - two bad things can create a good thing after all :)

    • @cllaudiusd521
      @cllaudiusd521 Před 2 lety

      Correct.

    • @xerxen100
      @xerxen100 Před rokem

      @@romanvssvmromania " two bad things can create a good thing after all " after all romania isnt a good thing, still corrupt, and finally, its just a terrorist state.

  • @Dinu.Dragutsan
    @Dinu.Dragutsan Před 6 lety +198

    The alphabet we use in Moldova is latin!!! I dont know who provided you with information for this video but there is a lot of bullshit here.
    Lot of maps and events are completely wrong.
    To make it clear Romania and Moldova are populated by one nation: Romanians! In Moldova we speak Romanian and we are indeed proud of our heritage! Yes there are some communist bastards but they dont matter! We are not sure about a political unification but spiritually we have never been devided.... even after 60 years of comunist ocupation. The ones who forgot their history are not the best Romanians ...for us they are like mexicans for Trump more exactly.
    Salutari din Basarabia tuturor Dacilor!

    • @solomonarbc
      @solomonarbc Před 6 lety +6

      Exactly, I have been looking through the comments and saw a great deal of Romanians congratulating Masaman for ~Great Work, when he did such POOR video. And the maps ...

    • @danelirimescu6832
      @danelirimescu6832 Před 6 lety +2

      It used to be not anymore . Now 40 % of them are russians . Many of them they don't even speak romanian language .

    • @Dinu.Dragutsan
      @Dinu.Dragutsan Před 6 lety +10

      Danel Irimescu
      20% are russians! Don't misinform the people around here.
      Ps: the ones that speak russian only are russians that came here at the beginning of the XX th century and the are not of Romanian heritage

    • @Dinu.Dragutsan
      @Dinu.Dragutsan Před 6 lety +4

      solomonarbc every nation has intelligent and stupid people. The ones that said that this video is great are that kind of romanians that never ever opened a history book. You cant expect anything from them.

    • @danelirimescu6832
      @danelirimescu6832 Před 6 lety

      I am interested in the present not in the past . I don't care when they arrived in Bassarabia but i know that today approx 40 % either they don't or don't want to speak romanian language it's the same thing .Back in the 90's they were coming in bucharest for many reasons and they woul eventually speak mainly russian language .

  • @LoveforMadagascar
    @LoveforMadagascar Před rokem +14

    Nowadays Romanian territory was never part of the Ottoman Empire cause it was never declared an Ottoman pashalac. Yes they payed a tribute to the sultan but Romanian territory was a barrier for the ottomans at the gates of Europe. That’s why Europe was able to develop cause the Romanians were holding the ottomans at the Gates of Europe

  • @gioannicamorra3902
    @gioannicamorra3902 Před rokem +30

    As sicilian in Romania, i say :
    Yes . They are latins like us .

    • @Plata-ori-plumbu
      @Plata-ori-plumbu Před rokem +4

      Pay attention to the Romanian language. Sicilian is our closest lingo relative!

    • @gioannicamorra3902
      @gioannicamorra3902 Před rokem +6

      @@Plata-ori-plumbu + dna my heritage 😉 greek and south italian 😉 i know

    • @paulofassman5657
      @paulofassman5657 Před rokem

      Except you're greek haha

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  • @dorinpopa6962
    @dorinpopa6962 Před 6 lety +52

    I am from Moldova and the Cyrillic alphabet is NOT used! It is used in Transnistria. Moldovan used to be written in Cyrillic during the Soviet era but in 1990 the alphabet got switched. Basically only people that grew in the USSR call the language Moldovan. In school curriculum it is called Romanian.

    • @romanvssvmromania
      @romanvssvmromania Před 6 lety +3

      US history books are from the 80's, and the information in american history courses is not updated.

    • @scpmr
      @scpmr Před 6 lety +2

      Actually the Romanian language was written in Cyrillic like 200 years ago

    • @dorinpopa6962
      @dorinpopa6962 Před 5 lety +5

      @@scpmr yes, it was using a Cyrillic script but not the same. The script used during USSR was far closer to Russian and changes to grammar were promoted to make Romanian and Moldovan different. In general the changes tried to make of the vernacular language a new form of literary Romanian

    • @cerebrummaximus3762
      @cerebrummaximus3762 Před rokem

      @@scpmr Thanks to Bulgaria!
      Love from Bulgaria to Romania!
      🇷🇴❤🇧🇬

    • @IonutPopa-fs8gw
      @IonutPopa-fs8gw Před rokem

      Mai taci ma lampa auzi ca moldoveneste si voi mai aveti limba :))

  • @romanianpatriot777
    @romanianpatriot777 Před 6 lety +166

    Yeahhhh NO, there are no moldovans they are Romanians and they need to unite with Patria Mamă 🇷🇴💪

    • @dorinpopa6962
      @dorinpopa6962 Před 5 lety +9

      Need to implies a kind of forcing. You know, let the choice to the people of Moldova. I'm not against the idea, but it has to be a choice made by the public in Moldova without pressure from outside.

    • @autnocens
      @autnocens Před 5 lety +5

      @@dorinpopa6962 Need is not have to. Actually Moldova might need to reintegrate into the Romanian state, it looks, at least, a safer place to be inside NATO than at the edge of a no man's land.

    • @claudiaologounicolaou3208
      @claudiaologounicolaou3208 Před 4 lety

      ❤️❤️❤️

    • @MrTiliceahorea
      @MrTiliceahorea Před 4 lety

      I don't see that they do. I am slowly getting to the point where I don't feel like we should unite with Moldova. Why all the fuss? We prostrate ourselves before them and they spit in our faces, time and time again.

    • @nouaranouara9939
      @nouaranouara9939 Před 3 lety +3

      Ce nu ați înțeles voi, este faptul că Moldova nu vrea să se unească cu România . Ei sunt pro ruși până în măduva oaselor.

  • @gegabit-
    @gegabit- Před 4 lety +71

    I am Albanian and i live in Italy and here are a lot of Romenian. I love Romenian girls especially.

    • @lukasluca7922
      @lukasluca7922 Před 4 lety +14

      I love albanian girls too..we cant change. Brother..👏

    • @megiada784
      @megiada784 Před 3 lety +1

      Birichino hahaha non ti piacciono le italiane

    • @allexpch
      @allexpch Před 3 lety +1

      We also love Albanian girls!

  • @Michael_the_Drunkard
    @Michael_the_Drunkard Před rokem +17

    10:45 the Byzantine Empire is the Eastern Roman Empire. Greeks and Romanians carry the legacy of the Roman East.

  • @alosh2761
    @alosh2761 Před 6 lety +240

    As arab guy I respect Romanian people. One of most good people i have met.

    • @liviuvelichi6847
      @liviuvelichi6847 Před 6 lety +15

      Thanks mate

    • @hiddenuser5466
      @hiddenuser5466 Před 6 lety +5

      Thanks friend

    • @Groaznic
      @Groaznic Před 6 lety +3

      Cheers mate!

    • @NessieAndrew
      @NessieAndrew Před 6 lety +2

      Thank you.

    • @thomasscream4179
      @thomasscream4179 Před 6 lety +8

      His religion is hardly relevant. You called him an "Arabic(Its just *Arab btw. Arabic refers to their language) sub-human", despite his niceties. Whatever you may think of Islam, this guy is clearly nice. If you aren't able to separate an individual from what you assume to be his religion(He didn't say he was muslim), then you may consider yourself an unintelligent, impulsive animal of a person, unsuited for civilization, certainly more so than most muslims.

  • @aftastosk6016
    @aftastosk6016 Před 6 lety +239

    Aromanians didnt migrate from romania they were present in the same places in bulgaria, skopje and serbia long before slavs arrived.

    • @iulianzagan779
      @iulianzagan779 Před 5 lety +2

      Vlad The Impaler , as a romanian I believe aromanians are very closely related to us, actually, both of our qins are related. Unfortunately, the history was not too generous with you guys and now, you are living in countries ruled by people who came later.
      I feel sorry for you and I hope you will find the strengh to maintain your identity in the today's reality. Unfortunately, Romania was and is still a poor country and did not help you with your struggle, but, with EU help, Romania will develop and will be able to support you in the future, but of course, within the current international conventions and without offending our neighbours and partners from Europe.
      Asa sa ne ajute Dumnezeu!

    • @elykoss
      @elykoss Před 5 lety +25

      True! I am Vlach from Skopje. And from the group known as Gramostain( from a region in Greece) but yeah slavs came later. We are descendants from the Roman Empire people. Those who inhabited and moved in the Balkans and stayed there. And started integrating with the greeks macedonians serbians bulgarians ect. Also Vlachs are people who didn't actually had mixed marriages. They only married from it's own kind. Me as well im 100% vlach from both side as far as i know from my grandparents till maybe 8 generations

    • @teamhelp2266
      @teamhelp2266 Před 5 lety +2

      @@elykoss Hahah, and you spoke the same language, and had same alphabet as those Slavs, until Vatican created modern Romania with latin alphabet, but Slavs came later? Give me a break please...

    • @elykoss
      @elykoss Před 5 lety +24

      @@teamhelp2266 actually your conclusion is stupid. Look if you are born in middle East you will definetly integrate and officially use the arabic language/alphabet in china the chinese in israel Hebrew ect. That has nothing to so with your ethnic language and alphabet. Yes i can speak and write macedonian/( Cyrillic)/ slavic because i was born and grew up here.. but we vlachs are also using the vlach language and alphabet with each other which is latin and has nothing to do with slavic Cyrillic letters 🙋🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @silvanobertolini5089
      @silvanobertolini5089 Před 4 lety +7

      Aromanians ( Romanized Thracians ) original people from Bulgaria migrated due Bulgarian invasion

  • @Mjolnirnephilim
    @Mjolnirnephilim Před 5 lety +39

    I ve been working here for a month and people here are Very welcoming. I am Chilean and I think, coming from a latín country also, that we are Very Very similar. You can even get the idea of what they Say in romanian from spanish

  • @mihaicipriandragos5459
    @mihaicipriandragos5459 Před 3 lety +11

    As a romanian i consider spanish,french,italian,etc people as my brothers

  • @Mika-rl6gt
    @Mika-rl6gt Před 6 lety +73

    >mentions slavic speakers
    >shows a picture of albanians

    • @Cris-hd1wb
      @Cris-hd1wb Před 5 lety +2

      Haha so dumb 😂😂😂

    • @skenderdokovic
      @skenderdokovic Před 4 lety

      Mika literally the ones who don’t speak Slavic

    • @rensareus9914
      @rensareus9914 Před 4 lety +2

      Albanians had to be called also Roman people, like Romanians, but Albanian is not Slavic and not Roman language both, it is hardly influenced by Roman, but original.

    • @Pejannator
      @Pejannator Před 4 lety +5

      @@rensareus9914 Albanian is actually heavily influenced by Latin.

    • @shqipemalesore2620
      @shqipemalesore2620 Před 2 lety

      @@Pejannator In fact he said that the Albanian language is hardly influenced by Latin,but the language is isolated among Indo-European languages,with its own Paleobalkanic language.

  • @marijacvetkovic1965
    @marijacvetkovic1965 Před 6 lety +16

    Greetings from Serbia. History of the Balkans is a very complex issue. There are many facts that are still hidden and have yet to be reveled and understood. And it appears that we, the Balkan people, are all connected, maybe even more than we want to be.

  • @fabianofonda6758
    @fabianofonda6758 Před 4 lety +36

    Stefan Cel Mare prince of whole Moldavia, great hero of Europe.

  • @chriskarapis3186
    @chriskarapis3186 Před 2 lety +20

    Love romania from Greece and Italy!

  • @veliborb
    @veliborb Před 6 lety +148

    Deep respect for Romanians, regards from Montenegro!

  • @sabcia91
    @sabcia91 Před 6 lety +538

    Greetings from Poland my Romanian brothers!

  • @AlbanianGladiator
    @AlbanianGladiator Před 4 lety +53

    Love romania from albania 🇷🇴❤️🇦🇱

    • @Ccc.9125
      @Ccc.9125 Před rokem +1

      I'm half Albanian and half Portuguese my father who is Albanian is from the region called Tropoje the area is known for its massive chestnuts forests and the river Valbone, as well a rich folk culture 💖 and my mother is from city Aveiro 💚.

    • @Ccc.9125
      @Ccc.9125 Před rokem +1

      But mostly I am proud of my Albanian side oh yeah 😎.

    • @Bswatch
      @Bswatch Před rokem

      i made an Albanian friend after he Found out i'm a Romanian in a wierd situation.
      Long story short ......(more long then the short one)
      He was a street corner dealer.
      Our firs day was a shit show .wanted to buy5g. but the weed he give was way of around 3,5g
      So i was contradict with him about the waight and all the situation started to get tentioned somehow.
      I got angy I became a little verbally aggressive and said I wanted my money back
      He decide to give me other bag witch was a real deal
      after that litte verbal fight by time we become really good friends.
      in our free time we hang out alot togeder
      I miss you Arbi!

  • @RogerOnTheRight
    @RogerOnTheRight Před rokem +26

    I love Romania. Great people-- hardworking, smart, fun. Great place to visit.

    • @gaborszadai1992
      @gaborszadai1992 Před rokem

      General Bandholtz’s daily contact with the Romanian military and diplomatic personnel for these six months gave him a unique learning experience. He made no
      secret about his conclusions. On November 11, 1919, he wrote in his Diary: “It is
      simply impossible to conceive such national depravity as those miserable “Latins” of Southeast Europe are displaying”.
      Having spent six months in Hungary, General Bandholtz [was America’s representative to the
      Inter-Allied Supreme Command’s Military Mission in Hungary at the end of World War I] was impressed by the
      Hungarians. Before his departure he concluded in his Diary:
      “Personally I came here rather inclined to condone or extenuate much of the Roumanian procedure, but their outrageous conduct in violation of all international law, decency, and humane considerations, has made me become an
      advocate of the Hungarian cause. Turning over portions of Hungary with its civilized and refined population will be like turning over Texas and California to the Mexicans. The great Powers of the Allies should hang their heads in shame for what they allowed to take place in this country after an armistice. It would be just as sensible to insist also that Switzerland, on account of her mixed French, German, and Italian population, be subdivided into three
      states, as to insist upon the illogical ethnographic subdivision and distribution of the territory and people of old Hungary. It is simply another case of the application of long-range theory as against actual conditions.
      The Hungarians certainly have many defects, at least from an American point of view, but they are so far superior to any of their neighbors that it is a crime against civilization to continue with the proposed dismemberment of this country.”🇭🇺✌🏻...
      Ezt Harry Hill Bandholtz amerikai tábornok mondta, aki a Magyarországra küldött Szövetséges Katonai Misszió tagja volt.
      "Miközben valamennyien örülünk, hogy hazafelé indulunk, mégis némileg sajnáljuk, hogy el kell hagynunk Magyarországot. Jómagam úgy jöttem ide, hogy nagy részben elnézem és nem tulajdonítok különösebb jelentőséget a román eljárásmódnak, de fölháborító magatartásuk révén, amely sértette a nemzetközi jogot, a tisztességet és minden emberiességi megfontolást, a magyar ügy támogatójává váltam. Átadni Magyarország területének egyes részeit, a civilizált és kifinomult lakosságot alkotó emberekkel, olyan dolog, mintha Texast és Kaliforniát adnánk át a mexikóiaknak. Szégyelljék magukat a Szövetséges Nagyhatalmak mindazért, amit a fegyverszünet után ebben az országban megengedtek...
      A magyaroknak bizonyosan sok hiányosságuk van, legalábbis amerikai szemszögből nézve, de annyira fölötte állnak bármelyik szomszédjuknak, hogy a civilizáció elleni bűntett volna az ország tervezett felosztásának megvalósítása."...

  • @Jean.Philippe.
    @Jean.Philippe. Před 5 lety +52

    Saludos desde México a los hermanos Rumanos y Moldavos.

    • @notyourdaddude1957
      @notyourdaddude1957 Před 3 lety +6

      Thanks, i salute you too latin brother, i understood everything you said :D

    • @_UwU_92
      @_UwU_92 Před 10 měsíci

      ❤❤❤

  • @Knowledgia
    @Knowledgia Před 6 lety +424

    4:53 . Nope! Romania was bigger and united in after 1918. Not in the WW2 :)

    • @Masaman
      @Masaman  Před 6 lety +73

      I messed up the editing on that one. I was trying to say it was united and later on Romania lost Northern Transylvania to Hungary during WWII, but gained Transnistria governorate from Ukraine. It got cut off during the editing (you can sort of hear how choppy the sentence sounds)

    • @Knowledgia
      @Knowledgia Před 6 lety +30

      It's alright, I know sometimes how difficult is to say the correct thing when you edit, trying to be to not mess up any information. I have got some dislikes on my history videos too :)). But there is no problem Masaman, awesome video, thank you for speaking about my beautiful country :)

    • @sorinbalanescu6819
      @sorinbalanescu6819 Před 6 lety +1

      Correct, but the map of WWII is correct and shows the status of 1941-1942.

    • @ducoo6212
      @ducoo6212 Před 6 lety +2

      boris goralski so true, nationalism is in some countries a real disaster and an occurring problem for other countries

    • @Hav0ck23
      @Hav0ck23 Před 6 lety +1

      No the problem is the Romanian dudes ended up fucking Hungarian chicks, everything ending up into a clusterfuck.

  • @apmikalogran
    @apmikalogran Před 3 lety +17

    Respect to Romanians from greece

  • @elifdurmus8243
    @elifdurmus8243 Před 3 lety +57

    As a geography and linguistics nerd, I've been wondering how Romania all the way in Eastern Europe has a Latin language. Thanks for the video!

    • @IFARTED09
      @IFARTED09 Před 2 lety +3

      We got many words from slavic languages, turkish and some greek but over 60% of our language has latin roots.

    • @claudiu8426
      @claudiu8426 Před 2 lety +11

      @@IFARTED09 Over 75% is Latin not 60%. Educate yourself!

    • @xerxen100
      @xerxen100 Před rokem +2

      Romanian language was relatinized in the 19 century. Before that they use cirillic alphabet, and speak a greco-slavic language with minor latin influence.

    • @xerxen100
      @xerxen100 Před rokem

      @@m.dewylde5287 The german and slave grammar almost same as latin grammar.

    • @supercelllover7695
      @supercelllover7695 Před rokem

      @@claudiu8426 how over 75% is not over 60%

  • @groupi4200
    @groupi4200 Před 6 lety +178

    Vive la Roumanie!
    As an adult, as soon as I heard Romanians speak, heard them sing*, laugh, be passionate in general, I felt some type of automatic affinity to Romanians. They are very latin indeed. The current world view regarding them, and many other countries or people is very inaccurate. Even when a person is informed on all things Romanian, they still follow some mainstream subconscious inaccurate view about them. They are so undervalued and underestimated and MISS-BRANDED. If I had to quickly explain to someone what they are MORE "like" I would just say Italian. Which would be better then the typical "oh, I thought more like Russian or Eastern Europe". BUT They have their complete own identity apart from Italians, maybe one day that will be know throughout the western world. From a French person. Vive la Roumanie! PS. Thank U to jiberjaber who made video! This is def part of the solution.

    • @gabrieldascalu8301
      @gabrieldascalu8301 Před 5 lety +18

      Thank you! Viva la France!

    • @seneccasyracuse4168
      @seneccasyracuse4168 Před 5 lety +7

      You nailed it! Thank you so much

    • @lordfrost3752
      @lordfrost3752 Před 5 lety +7

      Vive la France ! 🇹🇩❤🇫🇷

    • @andreiwayneandrewbrucewayn3421
      @andreiwayneandrewbrucewayn3421 Před 5 lety +5

      Yeah,that's true! The term Romanian means inhabitant of Rome (Italy's capital and the Roman Empire) so it's true.The Romanians and the Italians are blood brothers. LATINS.

    • @andreiwayneandrewbrucewayn3421
      @andreiwayneandrewbrucewayn3421 Před 5 lety +1

      @Janos Musatic Learn English then post a comment here.I'm a Romanian born Czech,I was born in the most beautiful city at the Black Sea,Constanta,in the South East part of Central Europe,I've been studying English since I was only 3.

  • @Simi822
    @Simi822 Před 6 lety +92

    well Moldova already did a law when they changed the official language name to Romanian and they are using Latin script, the Cyrillic is used for Moldovan in the breakaway country of Transnistria.

    • @antoniocarbone2398
      @antoniocarbone2398 Před 6 lety +2

      Simi822 i read somewhere they tried to do the same in Russia.

    • @alex_gaimar
      @alex_gaimar Před 6 lety +1

      There were projects in early USSR years to switch all of its languages to the Latin script uncluding Russian. Some of them were implemented for quite a while. But then they were all standardized in the Cyrillic script. Same happened to Mongolian, by the way.
      Tatars, though, tried to change to Latin in 90s and early 2000s. The federal government wasn't happy. Tatars made a step back and mow they might use both scrpits while Cyrillic remains as the main script.

    • @yarpen26
      @yarpen26 Před 6 lety +5

      Yeah, Mason probably read some outdated info or just confused this Moldova with Transnistria. The official name for the language used in Moldova is now Romanian (much like it is German for Austria rather than "Austrian") and it's been continuously written in the Latin script ever since the 1990s. Save for, of course, Transnistria which speaks mostly Russian anyway.

    • @kostam.1113
      @kostam.1113 Před 6 lety +3

      Transninstria should become autonomous region of Ukraine while the rest of Moldova should be annexed by Romania, problem solved.

    • @Curtis5511
      @Curtis5511 Před 6 lety +6

      Please abstain from using the term ”annexation” as it implies ”being taken by force”. Whereas we are longing for a ”re-unification”. That is the 3rd and last one.

  • @bradlygamez4549
    @bradlygamez4549 Před 3 lety +42

    Romania is my favorite Balkan nation, I wish they still controlled Moldova but I know after the Soviet Union annexed it it become its own culture, and I know Moldova has been independent in the past as well

    • @ionelghiorghita688
      @ionelghiorghita688 Před 2 lety +1

      Moldova waa independent including the romanian part of it in the times when România was divided in the three parts : moldova, Valahia (tara romaneasca) and Transilvania.

  • @Daven4995
    @Daven4995 Před 4 lety +45

    0:35 Why did you use the Albanians when you said "slavic speakers"?
    Albanian is not a slavic language.

    • @mihaelatoader309
      @mihaelatoader309 Před 4 lety

      But what is then Albanian? I hád no ideea that u are also latin?

    • @Daven4995
      @Daven4995 Před 4 lety +13

      Mihaela Toader Albanian is not connected to any language.

    • @justperpetuallybothered3474
      @justperpetuallybothered3474 Před 4 lety +10

      @@mihaelatoader309 Albanian is in its own language branch

    • @andreivlad3518
      @andreivlad3518 Před 4 lety +8

      Romanians and Albanians has a lot simimilar words.

    • @Daven4995
      @Daven4995 Před 4 lety +3

      Andrei Vlad That doesnt mean you have to put Albanians as slavs.Its like putting a black woman as the queen of England.

  • @srfrg9707
    @srfrg9707 Před 6 lety +418

    Long live Romania from Greece.

  • @mr.dr.genius2169
    @mr.dr.genius2169 Před 6 lety +238

    I am realy suprised that the romanians survived the south slavic migration,and didn't integrated with them like the bulgarians did

    • @user-py5gc5dn7t
      @user-py5gc5dn7t Před 6 lety +33

      Nobody important Bulgarians kinda were slavs to begin with. Our DNA is 45%thracian, 40% slavic and 15% bulgar, greek, cuman and e.t.c.
      I think you meaned bulgars who are of iranian/indo-european origin who merged with the thracians and the slavs to create the bulgarian nation.

    • @eduardoreyes441
      @eduardoreyes441 Před 6 lety +18

      The reason being the Mountains.

    • @JcDizon
      @JcDizon Před 6 lety +28

      Weren't the original Bulgars a Turkic group? From what I've read, they originally founded the Bulgarian nation but got dominated and absorbed by the more dominant Slavs so the their nation became Slavic

    • @user-py5gc5dn7t
      @user-py5gc5dn7t Před 6 lety +29

      Jc Dizon That's some old communist propaganda which was made because of Soviet political interests of the time. Modern researches show that bulgars had more things incommon Iranians and indo-european.
      PS Some turks will of course say otherwise and claim that we are there long forgotten brothers and other strange things.

    • @svsvs3906
      @svsvs3906 Před 6 lety +8

      Боян Михов
      i love my slavic brothers including bulgarians but original bulgarians have been a mongoloid population that assimilated in slavic-native mix populations you have 30 % of slavic blood

  • @MARCEL-pz5su
    @MARCEL-pz5su Před rokem +12

    Lived in Spain and loved it! I was pleasantly surprised how fast i could learn Spanish. Amazing culture!

  • @makavellys
    @makavellys Před rokem +6

    *The term Daco-Roman describes the Romanized culture of Dacia under the rule of the Roman Empire. So the ancestors of Romanians and Moldovans are from Roman Empire! SPQR*

  • @nirad8026
    @nirad8026 Před 6 lety +112

    *>says slavs are dominant peoples of balkans*
    *>proceeds to show photo of albanians*

    • @amario2tommaso93
      @amario2tommaso93 Před 5 lety

      Lol.

    • @nosferatuoddz7974
      @nosferatuoddz7974 Před 5 lety +3

      *>Proceeds to be a smartass*

    • @denisnedelcu9034
      @denisnedelcu9034 Před 5 lety +3

      @@nosferatuoddz7974 r/woosh

    • @nosferatuoddz7974
      @nosferatuoddz7974 Před 5 lety +11

      @@denisnedelcu9034 What was the joke? Lmao, this "r/woosh" thing is becoming overused that it is starting to lose it's actual meaning. Try again next time bud.

    • @denisnedelcu9034
      @denisnedelcu9034 Před 5 lety +3

      @@nosferatuoddz7974 actually i wanted to say r/iamverysmart but nvm.

  • @nurqe12
    @nurqe12 Před 5 lety +74

    Love Romanians ❤️

  • @DutchBulldog
    @DutchBulldog Před 3 lety +35

    Great history! For those who are based in Europe, you probably remember O-Zone. This Moldovan band had a huge summer hit in 2004 called ‘Dragostea din tei’ (which is written in Romanian). The video clip of that song was unforgettable (the band members were dancing on top of a flying airplane). 😂

  • @Corvusstorage
    @Corvusstorage Před rokem +16

    As an Moldovian, for the first time in my life I heard that our language is written in Cyrillic "at least somewhere." I can say with confidence that all Romanian inscriptions were in the Latin alphabet

    • @n.aioli3950
      @n.aioli3950 Před 8 měsíci

      They used to be written in Cyrillic Script trust me. they changed to the latin alphabet later on. Old books for example Orthodox texts were in Romanian but were written in Cyrillic Script

  • @itsmidtrib1569
    @itsmidtrib1569 Před 6 lety +28

    Read a buncha comments and I came to the conclusion that my citizenship is in heaven! May the Lord bless all Romanians ❤️

    • @dking5790
      @dking5790 Před 10 měsíci

      Philippians 3:20-21 "20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body." Blessings in Jesus, Amen!

  • @mcdougallfarmandnursery5937

    I was born in Romania and when I came here no one knew where Romania was which is very sad considering it’s amazing history. Yes Romanians are very hospitable, talented and hard working people.

  • @karentaliadoros1398
    @karentaliadoros1398 Před 3 lety +9

    I was able to practice my beginners Italian on my Romanian friend and, when listening carefully, I could understand what she was saying!!

  • @Alex-mv3ht
    @Alex-mv3ht Před rokem +5

    I'm surprised you didn't mention the Dalmatian language, another romance language in the region that was different from Romanian and died out fairly recently.

  • @cherrygloombae
    @cherrygloombae Před 6 lety +113

    The things that connect romania and Moldova:
    -limba
    -Carlas dreams
    -O-zone
    -Mo&Foca

  • @alexandrukiriac8299
    @alexandrukiriac8299 Před 6 lety +39

    5:52 the official language of Moldova is Romanian. Not because I say so, it's super official. Look it up

    • @bartoszszczepaniak169
      @bartoszszczepaniak169 Před 4 lety

      @Adrian Mardari Moldovan is artificial name of Romanian in Moldova.

    • @bartoszszczepaniak169
      @bartoszszczepaniak169 Před 4 lety

      @Adrian Mardari www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_language&ved=2ahUKEwjr3qXv_eLqAhVIpYsKHTqlD2wQFjADegQIARAC&usg=AOvVaw3Arg49GmouDZqXF5z3ZBP4

    • @bartoszszczepaniak169
      @bartoszszczepaniak169 Před 4 lety

      @Adrian Mardari Did you even read the article? If you did not want Wikipedia here's proof from Britannica: www.britannica.com/topic/Romanian-language#ref1008695

    • @alexandrukiriac8299
      @alexandrukiriac8299 Před 4 lety +1

      @Adrian Mardari No. Were you dropped on the head? The official language is Romanian. Fact. Other languages are spoken, yes. I know you're a soviet fan and a great admirer of Stalin, but that does not change the reality that ROMANIAN AND ONLY ROMANIAN is the OFFICIAL language of Moldova.

    • @alexandrukiriac8299
      @alexandrukiriac8299 Před 4 lety +1

      @Adrian Mardari you're a joke. Earlier you said the languages in moldova are Romanian and Russian. Now you say you speak Moldavian 🤣 . Even so, confused as you are, the only official language of Moldova is ROMANIAN. Moldavian and Romanian are IDENTICAL. They are the same language regardless. I don't understand why you get so worked up.

  • @CesarLopez-mb2ug
    @CesarLopez-mb2ug Před 2 lety +11

    Saludos hermanos rumanos!!!! Desde Honduras Centroamérica.

  • @bloodmoonrising6772
    @bloodmoonrising6772 Před 2 lety +11

    Since the Ukraine invasion I have been trying to learn as much about nearby countries as possible. Thank you for this. Very informative.

  • @ASorin-mi6su
    @ASorin-mi6su Před 6 lety +24

    Here's a beautiful description of the Vlachs, the Romanians' ancestors, from Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlachs ):
    - "the perfect Balkan citizens" because they are "able to preserve their culture without resorting to war or politics, violence or dishonesty" ("The Vlachs" book, by Tom Winnifrith - thank you !)

  • @christianwestling2019
    @christianwestling2019 Před 6 lety +21

    I've read that the reason Romania got so romanized was because of the dacian tribes constantly rebelled against Rome, so when they defeated them the third or fourth time, they gave alot of land to roman veterans to settle.
    Thus making Romania far more roman than other provinces.

    • @thelazy0ne
      @thelazy0ne Před 2 lety +7

      Dacian ladies just couldn't resist the handsomeness of all those handsome and brave Romans... Happens today too 😂

    • @amirciulica
      @amirciulica Před 2 lety +7

      @@thelazy0ne is rather the other way around…I always ask my Italian friends…”Hey do you know what Italians do when they go to Romania?”…they get married …

    • @xerxen100
      @xerxen100 Před rokem

      The romans simply exterminated the Dacion, none of them survived under roman control :)

    • @stephaniemoran1027
      @stephaniemoran1027 Před rokem

      The issue of land settlement for Rome's legionary veterans was a highly contentious one. I think it's what caused the triumvirate to be formed allowing Julius Caesar to rise to prominence as a military commander. Pompey became loathed by other politicians who opposed his plans to settle his veterans in Campania. Julius Caesar approved of Pompey's plans and did all he could to get the necessary legislation passed in the senate. It was the cause of violent opposition prompting Pompey to form his own street gangs who clashed violently with Pompey's enemies! The political chaos during this era of Rome's history makes for fascinating reading.

  • @dougiemm
    @dougiemm Před 4 lety +8

    Britain WAS the Military Training ground for Rome, therefore it is fairly safe to say that at least 1 quarter of Britain are Romans.

    • @alexandruandrei9001
      @alexandruandrei9001 Před 3 lety +1

      Mostly in Scotland it was legions of dacian warriors. Look for the special sword they had, only dacian warriors ..

  • @desiderious1
    @desiderious1 Před rokem +1

    Very interesting and educational video.
    Keep up the great work.

  • @gryffin638
    @gryffin638 Před 6 lety +328

    So Moldova would be Romania’s West Virginia?

  • @brianstangu1128
    @brianstangu1128 Před 6 lety +32

    Great video! Just a few things to add1. The official language of Moldova in the constitution of Moldova clearly states that the official language is Romanian not Moldovan2. Romanian language in Moldova is written exclusively in Latin and was introduced in 1990 after the fall of communism 3. There are regional dialects with smalll words and different accents in Romanian spoken in historical regions in Romania like Wallachia, Transylvania, Moldavia and the Country Moldova but we can understand each other more or less fluently4. Many ethnic Romanians in Moldova were deported and assimilated by the Russians when they invaded Moldova

    • @alxperju
      @alxperju Před 11 měsíci

      Most romanians dont understand me on i speak tbh only if theyre from a region closer to moldova or moldovan family/friends

  • @jeremyday9056
    @jeremyday9056 Před 5 lety +1

    I love your videos. Keep them coming!

  • @genobadea2738
    @genobadea2738 Před rokem +7

    Great job, wonderfully and exquisitely explained. As a person of Aromanian and Romanian decent, I can clearly say you did an amazing job, and thank you for the video. I can now use it, to explain to my son what his ancestry is all about. Living in America, we don't get too much exposure to European history in such great detail.

  • @user-js5rb3ir1z
    @user-js5rb3ir1z Před 6 lety +155

    I Like Romanian peole .Very awasome people.beautiful people

    • @ASorin-mi6su
      @ASorin-mi6su Před 6 lety +15

      Unfortunately we have some shitty abject leaders, puppets of foreign interests, who have robbed and destroyed this country and turned our people into a heard. We are far from what we were before, but thanks for your kind words.

    • @amario2tommaso93
      @amario2tommaso93 Před 5 lety +7

      @@ASorin-mi6su Those kind of leaders are leading the world for centuries not even decades, so no worries, that gives you no less of a right to be proud of such an amazing culture and history as yours. :)

    • @MaryMary-qk7ti
      @MaryMary-qk7ti Před 5 lety +3

      Thanks!

    • @abbahshdbcj
      @abbahshdbcj Před 5 lety +2

      Thank you, Mr Tsarov! Спасибо!

    • @mcdougallfarmandnursery5937
      @mcdougallfarmandnursery5937 Před 5 lety

      Александр Царов Thank You :)

  • @bigozimak
    @bigozimak Před 6 lety +216

    Vlad (Tepec) the Impaler, one of histories greatest badasses. He was one crazy mean dude, the dark Prince of Vallachia, yet I think he was cool. Greetings to Romania from Macedonia.

    • @lexivlad
      @lexivlad Před 6 lety +4

      Vlad Ţepeş the best

    • @babbonatale6342
      @babbonatale6342 Před 6 lety +27

      Yeah, today modern society sees him as cruel, but it's thanks to him on the east and France on the west that Europe isn't under turkish-ottoman rules.

    • @lonewolf1300
      @lonewolf1300 Před 6 lety +3

      Babbo Natale yes couse the polens and hungarians dont give a shit right ?
      But europe was defended from a vasal of turks..

    • @babbonatale6342
      @babbonatale6342 Před 6 lety +15

      Balazs Katona it was an imposed vassalry so yeah, I didn't specify that, but that Romania did much more than the west thinks, credit is obviously due also to Bulgary, Serbia, Poland etc.

    • @babbonatale6342
      @babbonatale6342 Před 6 lety +10

      Also yes Hungarians didn't give a shit 😛 they where actually very cruel to their minorities with imposed governacy(conquered lands).

  • @romeocostan7031
    @romeocostan7031 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Dude! Moldova left the cyrilic alphabet more than 30 years ago...

  • @alexandru59139
    @alexandru59139 Před 3 lety +7

    Based on my observations, I did see that Romanians from the south (myself included) learn Spanish more easier, while the ones from the historical region of Moldova find Italian easier to learn.

    • @PapaBear6t8
      @PapaBear6t8 Před rokem

      ... and those from the west and north learn hungarian a lot faster! 😂🤣