The History of Romania, I Guess
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✏️Description: Romania is known as one of Europe's most iconic countries. Often the bud of many jokes, many overlook its rich history. In this video we cover Romania's path to modern times as we take a look at the country during prehistory, ancient times, medieval times, renaissance, Ottoman occupation, age of revolutions (18th & 19th century), WWI, WWII, Communist / Socialist period, and pass over briefly its modern history as well. From Burabista, Decebal, Trajan, to Vlad Dracula, Mihai the Great, Mihai Viteazul, and Ceausescu, Groza, and Dej, we encompass everything.
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Tomek Jankowski - "Eastern Europe!"
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Andrei Dumitru - " BETWEEN SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE RIBBENTROP-MOLOTOV PACT ON ROMANIA"
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Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic - "Elena Ceausescu's personality cult and Romanian Television"
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Ronald D. Bachman - "Romania: A Country Study"
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www.unrv.com/provinces/dacia.php
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Read books not toilet paper and after make videos about history! But i see in coments are a lot like you! 0 culture!
Ok to post opinion on MyHeritage here? Okey? Okey.
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It's curious how you managed to get between two opposite views - one that he Romanians created Rome (srsly), and the other that the Romanians only appeared on the 12th century. Also, really nice Juche songs! I love them so much!
- Adûnâi
Romans paid dacians not the opposite.
World War I: *Exists*
Romanians: "We're about to pull what's called a pro gamer move"
chiar da
Haha yeah true winner of WW1 was Romania (geography wise anyway)
@@alexandru5369 ma tu ești roman
Dap
Oddly enough, we are the only country to ever pay ,,War Damage" cause of part in WWII. Which is funny considering that not even Germany had to pay. Finland was also on the same boat as us, with 300+ million dollars to pay to the Soviet Union BUT they refused to pay it.
The most accurate way to describe the Balkns: "But as you know, this is the Balkans and no one can really have nice things"
Romania its not in the Balkans ! only a very small part of it is !
@sorinpopa1442 Bruh! All I said is that he accurately described the Balkans. I didn't say anything about Romania being in the Balkans or not.
@@sorinpopa1442dude. Nobody asked. And even if they would have, we have a part of our country that is in the Balkan Peninsula. Culturally our closest ties are to other Balkan nations, historically we have been part of many Balkan struggles. Even the languages that are the closest related to Romanian are languages found in various Balkan minorities. Romania is a Balkan country the same way we are a Black Sea country.
@@Azwrath25 Exactly, I don't know why some of us have trouble recognizing that even though we are not geographically a part of the Balkan countries, we are very much culturally Balkan.
@@Azwrath25Romania is not a Balkan country
As a Bulgarian, it is in my daily routine to casually flaunt about southern dobrujda to the Romanian crooks outside of my small mud hut in the outskirts of Pleven , as soon as they breach in to steal my wallet (which I have no money because I’m Bulgarian ) I make them pay by casting black magic spells on them that I have learned from my Romani roommates
Bulgar warrior, I went to Генера̀л То̀шево a few times and all I see is gypsies with horse drawn carriages. There is no Bulgarians in Bulgaria, it's all propaganda of Czar Борѝс III.
My fav comment
How did you guys react after the EU decided to recognize Dobrujan pie as Romanian? Not too bad I hope. Eh, you can still enjoy Balcic.
Roommates? How big is that mud hut
@@kavky This only makes me a bigger fan of the Romanian fine cuisine. Pomana porcului is my favorite :)
I am from Bulgaria 🇧🇬 but had always the best look at Romania 🇷🇴 since it was just across the Donube. And even better some time later we finally got a second bridge across the river, so I could finally visit the town I watched for years across the promenade. Greetings to Calafat.❤
i had a lot of fun when visiting Bulgaria a few years ago. welcome to Romania brother o7
i always felt like Bulgarians were my brothers and i never had issues with the conquests that happened between us ... i strongly think that we are united by our customs and our way of life .. long live the kozunak :))))
Hello from Craiova🤝
I am Romanian
My mom was born in Calafat but moved to another city in the center part of Romania after getting married. She always talks about Bulgaria and how close Vidin was to their hearts in the communism era, as it represented some sort of escape from their cruel life.
God bless Romania. Greetings from Serbia. 🇷🇴🇷🇸❤❤
Thank you my Serbian friend ,all the best to you too ❤❤
Our lovely neighbors, hi! God bless Serbia
God bless you, from romainia
Even though i am romanian,we did horrible things în the past for ur country.Im sorry for what my mothern age ancestors did
Funfact: My great-grandpa had a shoemaker shop in Bucharest. It was quite big, so he had many apprentices under his command. One of them was called non other than: Nicolae Ceaușescu. My family has a picture of him with his prentices, and we always point out the young Ceaușescu. My grandpa was probably around 6'4" and in the picture he is just towering over him, it's quite a funny sight. He had that big ol' Székely moustache, and he is in the family's legendary to this day. He died in 1964, just one year before Ceaușescu came into power. Once, when my grandma asked him how good of a workforce was Ceaușescu, and he famously answered: "He is just alright, altough not great for many things." 💀💀💀
(Love Romania 🇷🇴, from Hungary 🇭🇺)
that's fucking hilarious
Can I find this picture online? Sounds very interesting.
@@missmaddy Surely not, it's just an old photo from the 30's, made for "family use'"
@@thegreatsallingerkaiser2545make it public
if your story is real you could make a pretty buck in Bucharest if you pursue that path
I moved from Belgium to Romania with my Romanian girlfriend and the country was a pleasant suprise for me. It is my home from home and I like it that way. It still has a long way to go but they are getting there.
You should have gotten a Belgian girlfriend then, what the fck are you doing here in this "long way to go" country and not staying in your superb and developed country with your "already there" superb Belgian people?
i was gonna say,wow you left a totalitarian fascist slave puppet state and you say ''romania has a long way to go'',and then i realised you said belgium not belarus,i dont know why i confuse those names so often 🤣
Much love to our northern neighbours and brothers. Greetings from 🇧🇬
Hello to our fellow southern part of our (Bulgarian-Valachian) empire :)))
From Transylvania❤
the bromance is real 🇷🇴 🖤 🇧🇬
love you back ❤
Ty
I'm actually planning to Visit Romania soon, I'll flex all this knowledge to my friends.
No dont go románia
@@balazsfarkas6665 dont go to Hungary or you will get scammed because they scam tourists
@@balazsfarkas6665 You are not fooling anyone, Hungarian with german flag.
For faking your heritage, you have no right to opinion.
@@balazsfarkas6665 Hungarian detected, opinion rejected.
Keep crying 12 year old Istavn.
Especially tell your hungarian friends how the Romanian Army marched in Budapest in 1919, liberating it from the communists of Bela Kun... and put an "opinca" on their Parliament roof.
My problem is that I'm negative - I come from Romania. Romanians are a little bit negative in thinking. Everyone knows that. That's normal here.
-Simona Halep
Din păcate foarte adevărat...
With this history, who could blame us? 🙃
Same for Hungarians.
Bravo Simona!
Kudos from Poland, no difference here - just google "polish smile" images.
About Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej :
He died shortly after telling the soviets he want to develop romania without their supervision
Eddit : So think again before saying he was killed by uranium
Also, Uranium is an Alpha radiator, so it cannot kill you, unless you get it inside yourself somehow.
It makes sense that he was assassinated. However it’s not exactly good for your health to have constant exposure to uranium
Polonium was too expensive at the time
@@carron979 You dont get it do you
A few months after he told the soviets to mind their business he died
Eddit : I belive there is a meme / refference i dont recognise
I also heard there was an incident where he and some other Romanian politicians flew out to China, who wanted to shoot them down because of whatever reason. After figuring the Soviets, particularly Stalin, didn't support them during and after the incident, he decided to cut Stalin off and become more independent. A policy which Ceaușescu also later adopted.
I love this vid!
Love Romania from Poland
We love you too kurwa, but you guys love more the Hungaryans 😅❤!
@@frodo1476 we love both of you guys, both of your nations helped Poland a lot in time of need. However we understand your struggle between one another and we try our best to stay neutral in it, cheers brother! :)
cheers polish bro, we're gonna need eachother a lot more in the coming years. Krakow and Warsaw are fucking great, visited a while back!
We love bobr kurwa from Romania. 😅
@@miesny6716 frodo is troll, he tries to ruin our friendship without success.
Romania... a land of many many interesting things. I'd like to visit, as a Canadian.
As a Canadian myself, can confirm
As a Romanian, we welcome you to the "Land of all Possibilities", because anything is possible here if you know the right people, or grease the right pockets :D
@@SkorpionSSs Wahahahahaaha
As a romanian i find my self fascinated by the phrasing of your comment , but happy non the less
@@StevieTheBush I mean no offense. You guys are cool.
România are o cultură fantastică. Arhitectura Bucurestiului este foarte frumoasa si eleganta
Salutări de la un brazilian 🇧🇷 ❤ 🇹🇩
Era pe vremuri. Comuniștii au ruinat arhitectura Bucureștiului.
Multumim! Brazilia e echipa mea favorita la Mondiale! Ronaldinio cel mai mare fotbalist!
Brasil 🦅🦅🦅🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 salutari din Romania, muito brigado amigo, I really like the Brazilian historic cities as a Romanian but unfortunately not a lot of that architecture was preserved due to .. politics
Mama ''Zi mulțumesc''
Copil''mulțumesc''
Mama''așa
bucurest i gunoi
Good video but you misunderstood the Ottoman period. Wallachia and Moldavia were not administered by the Ottomans like the Balkans but rather their rulers were obligated to pay tribute to the Ottomans. The Phanariote period was actually the period when Ottoman influence increased.
It's moldova not maldavia
@@12AB17 English. wallachia? It's Valahia or Tara Romaneasca.
I'm a Bulgarian and I've visited Romania a lot of times. I've been to Bucharest, Brasov, Sibiu, Turda, Cluj and a few other small towns. I really like the country, especially the nature.
You have to go to Oradea and Timișoara too bro
And I thought us Serbiens had it rougf, now I have alot respect for Romenia.
Certainlt rougher after 1990. We had our share in the 1980s
this channel is a true successor to 2balkan4you
Yey Romania! Latin unity! 🇧🇷🇷🇴
The Romanians are one of the most resourceful people on the planet because they went through so much. We contributed to a lot of inventions and discoveries, but nobody credits us. I'm proud to be Romanian, knowing that I can fix or solve anything no matter how difficult the problem may be.
De ce ești tu grețos ? Crezi că alte nații nu sunt mândre de cultura lor ? Dar nu claxonează ca prostii
Da frate! Purtam ia cu mandrie!
fr tho. my grandpa was a mechanic during ceausescu, and he discovered that wire fixes literally anything
🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
Well for the nation paid nearly the least in the EU countries and thus between the poorest ...
I have never seen anyone accusing Poles of being Latins so it never made sense to my why use of Church Slavonic and Cyrillic script would make Romanians Slavs. Their adoption was because the Latin was used by Roman-Catholics, and the other major liturgical language and script, Greek, was used by Byzantines whom the Vlacho-Bulgarians rebelled against.
You should have also mention John of Hunedoara, whose family was Wallachian, and gave Hungary its favorite king. You're welcome.👍
And the problem with Romania in WW1 was that upon joining and declaring war on the Central Powers, the British and French were supposed to launch massive coordinated offense against the Germans and Ottomans we wouldn't be overrun. But the Franco-British offense failed to materialize. So despite initial success in Transylvania and Austrian newspapers decrying this was the end for them, Romania was overrun. Also the Russians became increasingly communist and were more preoccupied with looting whatever they could get their hands on than doing anything helpful. I remember seeing an old wartime newspaper snippet talking about how one Russian soldier had fallen into a wine casket and drowned while his unit were looting a winery.
And the Royal coup against Antonescu happened because Churchill promised Michael Romania would be under the western Allies protection against the Soviet offensive. Churchill however forgot to inform Stalin of this, like how he forgot to inform King Michael that he promised Stalin he'd leave Romania under his sphere of influence at Yalta in exchange for Greece.
One last thing I have to mention is that the open resistance against Ceausescu did not start with Lazlo Tokes. In the mid 80s as the quality of life was declining the factory workers syndicates began openly striking as a form of protest in Cluj and Iasi. The last and largest one was the Brasov Revolt in 1987, which ended being quashed by the army and Security and its leaders were tortured in prison. Tokes' preaching was the straw that broke the camel's back.
You’re taking this video to seriously. You need help , or a hug from Magyar girl at least . Just chill dude . Nu te tura aiurea că nu ești Nicolae Iorga
"Russians became increasingly communist"
The Germans funded the Swiss trained Lenin to create this problem btw
The Germans started WWI by cutting off Potash trade in 1911 because they had the monopoly on it and told Vienna to shoot Franz Ferd to allow them to expand Eastward for their Lebensraum.
Never forget.
@@GigiDuruDuru Nu o sa mint, mi-as da apartamentul din Clooj pentru o unguroaica faina. Nu cred ca se supara nimeni daca adaug niste info.
@@kavky nu te pot contrazice acolo , am avut parte de ceva unguroaice în tinerețe care m-au format ca bărbat și unguri prieteni adevărați din copilărie și pentru o vista întreagă.
The bit about Church Slavonic is likely a joke about how some people claim that Romanian is a Slavic language (and it's true that the language has plenty of Slavic characteristics). It's not that using Slavonic and Cyrillic script makes Romanians Slavs, but that some people use it as an argument towards Romanian=Slavic. It's not like Polish had major Latin influences. Romania on the other hand, did have plenty of Slavic influence.
As far as I know the peace with Domitian was actually pretty good for the dacians, they were nominally vassals but actually RECEIVED tribute, in exchange for being a close ally, protecting the borders, keeping the piece etc. More importantly, the dacians also received engineers, architects etc which helped them build their fortifications, artillery etc.
It wasn't the dacians that were paying, it was the romans, and that's why they were super pissed off about this shameful peace (but Domitian had to do it as he had rebelllions as well as german incurrsions to deal with).
as a romanian, thank you for making this video! however, there is one small correction to be made, that being that vlad tepes did not impale people from a nearby town in order to scare off the turkish invaders. the impaled were turkish soldiers that he had captured. even though he is often portrayed as a cruel bloodthirsty monster, he is actually very well liked by romanians, especially in former Walachia, being known for the value he put on justice.
as a Romanian historian , I can tell you that you got it about 80%. The WW1 part has some pictures that are wrong af.
Also dacian parts
Pai clipul e mai mult caterincă decât realitate istorică
@@Mezam-pd7ijtrue coaie
@@Mezam-pd7ij Totuși e un mod bun de a crea interes pentru România în mințile vestului. Nu este 100% corect într-adevăr, dar este o reprezentare suficient de interesantă și bine intenționată încât sunt sigur că cei care au fost atinși de ea vor căuta și vor descoperi mai multe informații singuri.
@@kevinboros7427in mintile "vestului"? E plin de vecini de-ai nostri in comentarii, din cea mai buna zona a planetei asteia , Europa Central-Estica fosta comunista :)
Omg 38 MINUTES OF CONTENT ABOUT ROMANIA MADE BY YOU, I’m all for it
-13:25 Mihai Viteazul was betrayed.
-18:52 The independece was declared in May 1877 around the start of the war, not after.
-19:24 That's Carol II . In WW1 the kings of Romania were Carol I and later Ferdinand I.
-20:04 That looks like a WW2 map
37:18 that's the fontana dei fiumi, I guess it's Romania but only because it's in Rome
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
And actually yes for the fountain too, I visited Italy some almost 6 years ago
You mean Vitéz Mihály
@@schytoyamnaya9015keke mezaroszjt
33:37 says that the fall in the standard of living occurred during the 80s and also puts an arrow, however in the graph you can see that this fall began in 1990, already with capitalism and the free market
Romania is great! Been twice in Transilvania. Nice people. Good food. Great sites to visit (mines, castles, old towns...). Great roads to drive (Transfaragararavan or however it is called). I plan to go again but this time, by motorcycle so I won't be stuck in traffic congestion, and I'm gonna learn some of the Romanian language before I go a third time. And from Switzerland, it is not close, but it's not that far either... plus you drive through Serbia or Hungary, which are cool countries too.... But from what I saw of east European countries, Romania is my number one so far.
Transfa... what? :))) Transfagarasan😅
Would love to see you here again! I’m romanian but I haven’t ever been to Transfăgărășan myself, but I plan to! ☺️
@@Adrianirl The Transfagarasan is as beautifull as the Swiss Alps roads, but in addition, you can see bears!!!
Trans (through) făgărășean (Făgărași mountains)
Transfăgărășean road
@@celestindimitriu3675 multumesc!
The fact alone that you've taken time to make this video fills my heart with warmth. Thank you.
Romania sounds like a lovely place to visit, someday I hope to do so
Be careful for ur wallet
@@That-Guy-On-CZcams-if9fsthats just a meme kid Romania way safer than Western Europe
Ik im part romanian
Ive been to Romania like 5 times
Please come visit. Your cars are already here
Before starting the video: I'm Hungarian, the popcorn is ready, the comment section will be legendary :P
Yeey same here. Szaftos kommentháborúk ❤😂
bazd meg
Hungary is cool, you should do more politics with Romania and Bulgaria, don't fear being called "Eastern Europe"
@@pasaniucdaniel4112 Romania’s pace of development is fascinating, I agree we need more collab all over the region. Also I’m not really offended nowadays to label Hungary as Eastern Europe. We belong here and there too, although we never got any support from the west. I’m personally very thankful for the peace we have within the region and look forward to keep it up with you all eastern, western, middle european neighbors.
@@Serato17 I agree with you. Romanians are doing good for themselves and it' s really smart what Hungarians are doing ( not counting on West )By the way... Im Serbian😁
Thanks for a good overview of the Romanian history. Pozdrowienia z Polski!
Polska GUROM, z rumunii 🦅🦅🦅🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 holera czy to Freddy Fazbear Kurwa Bóbr
this video was stolen
Shut up
Clearly since every 'original' idea was first thought by a Hungarian, everything is stolen from them
Facts
Of course it’s stolen it’s about Romania
How profound 😂!
I’m a Romanian, Hungarian, Jewish, and a little Gypsy….. think about the internal battles 😂😂😂😂😂
brother ew
Are you a messiah who will unite the tribes as one?
@@hunlepto2239 maybe 😂
Aint black tho ? 😂😂😂😂
@@Aestheticx92 no , but I am homo sapien , so I come from Africa 😂
As a hungarian, I am afraid of reading the comment section
as a hungarian from romania, I'm fucked i guess😂
@@dagiboy7nahh you cool
C'mon, it's far better than expected 😅
@@dagiboy7 E ok, Maghiarii au contribuit enorm la istoria Romaniei, Romanii adevarați cunosc asta și apreciază Ungarii și Ungaria (deși am avut probleme în istorie, cred că suntem ok în prezent)
Based man. Jos pălăria 🤜🏻🤛🏻
Much of love Janos! Unbelievable that a son of Hungary made such an accurate history telling podcast about 🇷🇴 ! You nailed it man, so so accurate! It’s unreal almost! From the button of my heart I would like to thank you and to wish you all the best from Berlin Germany’s capital, like any well educated Romanian I went west 😅, but I still care for my country!
Janos is 1/4 Hungarian, 1/4 Bosnian, 1/8 Jewish, 1/8 Vlach, 1/8 Serb and 1/8 Rusyn.
Thanks for still caring for your (future) country Hungary.
He's not Hungarian.
Hope you said he is Hungarian only for the memes lol
"like any well educated Romanian I went west" 🤣🤣 the majority of the romanians that "go west" are actually uneducated and work low income jobs because they have no specialization. The people that remain in the country are the ones with actual univerisites, studies and a well paid job.
History of every balkan country series coming soon?
Mayhaps
Yugoslav wars part 2@@LivingIronicallyinEurope
@@LivingIronicallyinEurope History of Kosovo gonna be a 2 min video
@@stephanthegreat1348 that'd be a short segment in "history of Serbia" video
@@LivingIronicallyinEurope I think you can do large chunks of a possible Bulgarian episode by using this one as a template :D It's a pretty similar situation in both world wars and after that.
Omg i can find my father with MyHeritage, Thank you
Glad I could help
Nice, just don't consume the milk you father comes with, it might be expired.
I'm an American with Hungarian heritage and I've been binge watching your videos to learn more information and context about history and politics in Europe and it's been a real treat! You've got another subscriber, and thanks for the hard work you put into your videos! 😊🇭🇺🇺🇸
Hungarian heritage = Slavic and Germanic heritage
Same here as an American with Romanian heritage! We should have online chat debates about which country is better in the same way that Greek and Turkish guys living in their apartments in Berlin do.
@@jasonolaru-hagen909 Romanians have a funny saying: "Toată lumea ești un porc!" which can be translated to: "Everyone you are a pig!". 😂
"I aM aMeRiCaN wItH [insert any country here] hErItAgE."
No, you're just American like other Americans. Stop this BS, it's pathetic.
@@nettraveller81 both of my parents were born in Romania and immigrated here a few years before I was born. We visit every year and I speak Romanian fluently. Go fuck yourself.
Proud of you neighbour. Greetings from Hungary.
I have un unpaid parking ticket from 2015 in Budapest.. Are you guys gonna hang me if I return there?
Love Romania from Hungary 🇭🇺♥️🇷🇴
Fura de ok
🇷🇴🤝🇭🇺
Were you high when you wrote this? 😂
Iti furăm femeia,da@@matyashadobas8716
I'm a romanian and I'm Hungarian too
Great video! I'd like to add that Romania's history is much more complex and it's spirit is based on mysticism. One quintessential Romanian balad that represents this spirit is "Miorita". In this tale a shepherd learns from his prophetic sheep that other two shepherds plan to kill him and take his herd. He accepts his fate with stoicism and tells to his sheep in a descriptive way how he wants to be burried, if this is to happen. This is just a simple and short summary. The balad is longer and marvellous, capturing the spiritual and sometimes (not always...we defended our country many times from invaders) fatalistic view of life of the romanians.
Personally, I think that balad is bullshit, because it quitesentially encapsulates nothing of the spirit of the nation. It's not fatalistic and stoic, the spirit is savvy, sneaky, oportunistic and calculating. From the time of the dacians, proto-romanians and then later, romanians always seeked ways to upend the staggering odds against them and find victory and sucess at the oportune moment. It kinda is a disservice that history tries to paint romanians as stoic and brave, when they are enduring, murderously determined and ruthless when oportune. All the great romanian historic moments were like this. Oh sure, stoic and brave are 'nice' qualities to have in a people, this is why everybody wants to be stoic and brave, and not enduring and ruthless. Not me though. Basarab at Posada, Vlad Țepeş and his night attack and impaling reputation, Stephen the Great at Vaslui, Michael the Brave at Calugareni and later the lightning campaign throughout the romanian states are all stuff that someone thought: "hey, you know what, waiting to die because the neighbours are plotting is stupid. Let's make THEM die instead." Doubly electing Cuza, picking the winning side in WWI, scraping out of a impossible situation in WWIII and casting off the shackles of tyrrany in '89, all this is way cooler and pride-inducing than some asinine idea of stoicism and acceptance of fate.
I was searching for a Romanian history video yesterday and couldn’t find any good ones. I ended up just watching your Serbian history video. It seems God saw my struggle.
Are you Romanian ?
@@daniellarkins3849 nope just interested
This video has so many mistakes
@@daniellarkins3849 No I was just interested
@@No.one._.- I would be surprised if it didn’t. It’s hard to cover a nations entire history. It at least might lead people to go and look for sources that don’t have those mistake.
Foarte bun documentarul, ca majoritatea despre Romania... Doua scapari minore: imaginea lui Carol 1 din primul razboi mondial este a lui Carol al 2lea. A doua greseala este ca la intrarea in primul razboi mondial, de partea Antantei, Romaniei i s-a promis Transilvania, nu si Basarabia, care apartinea (aliatului) tarist. Unirea cu Basarabia a fost o oportunitate nesperata la inceputul razboiului.
sunt si alte mici greseli..cel putin asa zic comentariile
dar sincer e cam imposibil ca un strain sa faca un documentar perfect detaliat despre istoria noastra. Ma rog imi place de tipul asta si e bine ca a facut clipul
5:30 János forgot to mention that the settlers left with the army and that romania only became romanised in the 12th century. The territory ceased to support life and thus culture couldn't have survived.
8:20 incorrect, transylvania had no romanian population at the time of the hungarian migration.
8:31 Incorrect again, it wasn't Géza, but Andrew II.
The longer the video goes on the more accurate it becomes. I attribute this to Ceacescu propaganda which is still taught in some romanian schools.
@@Medvelelet I really don t know what they teach you in History classes, it is definitely different to what we learn, and the general historian consensus. The Latin Romanian language is the best proof of our continuous presence in our lands. The fact that you consider this relevant now is...just said
@@alinc3491 It is definitely different to what they teach in romania, we stopped teaching propaganda when the russians left.
The migrationist theory has much more evidence than the daco-romanian one. Luckily more and more romanian historians realisie this after they were silenced and opressed by Ceaușescu.
@@alinc3491 Of course romania's history is relevant under a video of romania's history. No one is denying the latin heritage of romania, but to suggest that a fusion of romans greeks and dacians could have survived for centuries is wrong and impossible in several levels. I hope you see that I am not writing this out of malice.
As an Romanian I love this video
Și eu!
aha
salutari din Cluj
* as a Romanian....
Nice video, but you are wrong with the Fanariots. The Romanian Principalities were always ruled by Orthodox Christian rulers, these were the terms of the capitulations. In fact, if a ruler became Muslim, he could never again be a contender for the throne (a couple of them did this to have their lives spared and then they left to live somewhere else in the empire). So when the Otomans brought the Greeks from Fanar to rule, it was to replace local rulers with a domestic powerbase with outsiders, less inclined to rebel. The principalities were never governed by a pasha, an Ottoman governor. In fact, Muslims were not allowed to own land and to build mosques there.
Thank you! A very good video and a nice funny advertisement to my country!
Awesome video, man! You managed to squeeze at least a tear from me.
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The part about Dacia has some inaccuracies.
1. The Dacians were Thracians, yes. The Getae were a tribe among many. The Dacians split from the Thracians sometime around the early 1st millenium BC. Prior to that there was another split, the Illyrians and the Thracians. In other words Dacians were related, distantly, to modern Albanians.
2. Burebista did unify the Dacian tribes and held expansionist policies however after he died his kingdom dissolved instantly. Decebalus kingdom was hardly an empire.
3. Dacia never paid tribute to Domitian. Domitian paid tribute to Dacia in the form of goods and skilled engineers in exchange for Dacia maintaining the peace on the Danube and protecting Rome from invasions
4. Trajan invaded Dacia in order to rectify the humiliating treaty signed by Domitian and because Rome desperately needed gold not because Decebalus raided the south of the Danube.
Exactly what I thought. Extremely good video anyway.
5:30 János forgot to mention that the settlers left with the army and that romania only became romanised in the 12th century. The territory ceased to support life and thus culture couldn't have survived.
8:20 incorrect, transylvania had no romanian population at the time of the hungarian migration.
8:31 Incorrect again, it wasn't Géza, but Andrew II.
The longer the video goes on the more accurate it becomes. I attribute this to Ceacescu propaganda which is still taught in some romanian schools.
@@Medvelelet No, there is no indication that the Roman settlers left with the Roman army. In fact the settlement of Romans into Dacia likely continued after that thanks to Roman Christians fleeing persecution during Diocletian. We also know that part of Roman Dacia was reconquered by emperor Constantine and resettled.
"transylvania had no romanian population at the time of the hungarian migration" There is no evidence to support that statement, which is rooted in Hungarian revisionism.
@@Medvelelet The settlers most definetly DID NOT leave with the army. Urban life continued for over a century, there were Roman coins minted and there is even an "emperor"
@@kavky It's easy to dismiss the truth when it's less glorious than reality. I understand. Have a good night.
Great video, I really like to learn about our Eastern European history and this video is so detailed.
Greetings from Slovakia!
Your videos made me open towards the Balkans, this August me and my pals are taking a car trip from Warsaw to Bucharest. We can't wait to drive through Transylvania by Transfăgărășan and chill in the capital : )
Prepare for CRAZY drivers! No rules are respected, and god forbid you need police!!
@@BSsex oh yes, we learned that a year ago when we drove to Athens. South of Hungary everyone drives like a maniac
rules may be more like guidelines, but on crosswalks people always have priority, and cars usually stop for people (which is a cool difference to most of other countries I guess, because the police may revoke your driving license otherwise)
You will enjoy the trip, expect great hospitality!
Just be careful on the roads, most Romanians are not good drivers when it comes to common driving manners.
I reccomand you go at Brașov then to Valea Prahovei to Bucharest instead of going on Valea Oltului.
3:20 Actually, the peace concluded by Domitian with Decebalus proclaimed Dacia as a client kingdom and as such, the Romans paid "subsidy" of 8 million sesterces to Dacia and not the other way around.
patapon in a video. Life complete
Finally a video where good parts of Romania are revealed , especially till 15 minute
Definitely a good one, even though it's only the surface of the long and complicated history, we thank you 🇷🇴
instantlly apeared on my feed (keep doing great work Inaosh sorry if i butchered your name)
You’ve put a lot of work and research work in this one, man. It’s a great video!
I'm very sick today and this video is a blessing, thank you LivingIronicallyInEurope
A mostly correct video with some historical inaccuracies. It was a really fun watch :)
great video man, you are one of the few youtubers who I automatically watch every video when I see you upload, so keep up the good work!
As a romanian, I thank you for this video !
One of the best videos about Romania!
I met a few Romania heritage citizens in Australia and they all asked me why Greco heritage Aussies rang bells in the church, they thought it was meant to be priest banging on wood . I thought before I answered and came up with this answer, bells were banned due to islamic and communist rule . They also understood Italian better than anglophone . This montage helped in understanding their trials and tribulations much better for me
Weird because we also rang bells at the church
Indeed it seems that secularism and communism, as living in countries with other dominant denominations, did not let them explain it correctly : they don't ring the bells before Easter. They are "banging the wood" to remind the nails hammered in Jesus ' hands and feet.
Romania ist #dacia #burebista #vlah #doromhete #valeatimocului #tribalia #traci
Still waiting waiting for tv show set in the 15.century Balkans.The period was literally champions league; Mehmet II, Stefan The Great, Vlad The Impaler, Skanderbeg...
Better then Game of Thrones and Vikings
Skanderbeg = Srbian not Analibanian
@@DinaraDivision regardless of ethnicty, he was badass.
@kadirbozkus-ss3sm
He was a lošaguza?
@@kadirbozkus-ss3sm He was Albanian, not Servant. It matters.
I second this. Bring on the Balkan Avengers.
uniornically, good video. you should do a full "history of" series of everyone in the area
din partea romanilor, iti multumim pentru aceasta capodopera, foarte detaliata istoria tarii, much love ♥
Really good video dude, keep it up with the other countries
the uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ceausescule part have touched my heart great suport from ur romanian fan
Ur channel deserves more views
Me as a Romanian part Hungarian watching this video from Italy, I can say that this video is legendary
Im from Romania! And there are soooo many beautiful places to visit❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Ah, Romania... The only country in the neighborhood Serbia never fought a war against...
it's never too late
@@wisequigon😂
I like Serbia, there's a small city on the Romanian border where I often go for eating, and everybody speaks Romanian with an accent there... I understand how Americans and English people feel all over the world :)
@@RaduRadonysVârșeț?
@@paulmedesan9620 Nu, Kladovo, ca prietena mea e din Drobeta si e chiar peste Dunare.. Dar si in Vârșeț am fost de cateva ori, ca eu locuiesc in Arad.
this guy has never failed to make me feel proud about my country, that's why i subscribed!!
dude I adore your channel (videos). Thanks for history, jokes, great presintations
The Romanian history video I looked for a while ago 👌Amazing work!
As a half Romanian, as soon as there is a video about Romania, I'll click it, even though I hardly know any Romanian and the last time I've been there was more than 10 years ago.
Romania will rise again, not by invading but we desperately want to join the developed world, and we almost managed to already
Bro, come back. Romania is cooking right now. European funds, foreign investments, natural resources, hot girls. Da fuq you doing where you are???
I'm half romanian too. I wanna visit asap! 😅
@@defiantrascal6214 tell me more about those European funds, and how our leadership fail missarable to aquire them
@@wisequigon Pai uita-te cate autostrazi, drumuri expres, sosele de centura, poduri si cai ferate sunt in constructie acum. Recomand sa cauti canelele Raducupedrum si marius man.
I'm moving to Romania soon, so I've been binging a lot of your videos lately and this one is so timely. Thank you - I really appreciate the info and the entertaining way you always present it!!
😵💫😵💫😵💫Why u move in Romania?
thank you for this video, it brought a tear to my eye
Thanks man. Great video as always
So THAT's where the Dacia car name comes from 😅 I have been guilty of thinking Romania was more Slavic than it is. This was a very interesting (and as always amusing) video.
Thank you for the presentation westsouthern brother,i am from Timisoara
"this is romania" and starts playing gypsi music with hungarian lyrics
Yep, just like most misconceptions about romanians, it stems from hungarians
Sounds about right
@@NuSuntSerb Adevărat.
Also, Google what country has the largest community of romani population...?
@@annaandrea8320 Dindt know they spoke hungarian XD
love your videos man
You are the only vtuber I like keep making good stuff 🙏
thank you for this, we are taught virtually nothing about this part of europe post ww2 in regular american public schools so this pretty informative to me and im 41.
Such a great video.ofc some details were left out,but very nice editing and story telling skills,glad i watched it,i also needed the video for my history exam💀💀💀
I've wanted to visit the Romania, especially the mountains, but now more so! Greetings from the Netherlands.
Wow, the level of details man!
Great job Janos!
😂😂😂gou to finland ungarian 😂😂
Love your content, as usual, it's such a pleasure listening to you. Of course this is an introduction to Romanian history, a lot of important information was left out like the first Romanian King Carol the 1st and the period of time between Cuza and King Ferdinand, but it's not possible to fully present all events in one video. A big thank you for your effort !
At 19:25 you show not king Carol I, but Carol II, his grand-nephew.
I would have loved something about Queen Mary, she was so influential in our culture!
Queen Marie !
My guy did a documentary on the history of Romania. My hats off to you sir!
Thank you so much for this very informative and funny video made about my country.
PS the city of Vaslui is fully renovated and the facades of the building and the roads are actually great
Nice video ! Congrats on the effort of making this video comic entertaining and very informative video about Romania ! ❤
3:00 you got it wrong brother. The Dacians won the first battles against Rome and Rome paid some gold to the dacians and got even some influence. Later, Trajan stopped paying money to the dacians and started a new war.
Thanks to this video, i no longer any reasons to start a yt channel. For now at least
But in all seriousness, i liked this episode that summarised my country's history. Hope we get a bright and peaceful future that we deserve
Do a video on Dobrudja, the most diverse province of the Balkans.
Dobrujda is Bulgarian 🇧🇬!
@@health019 bait
I mean maybe it was at a time... but now it's Romanian in Romania and Bulgarian in Bulgaria... there are very small Turkish and Tatar minorities left but that's about it. And I do mean very small, only about 20-30000 left of each, at least in Romania.
@@health019 Southern Dobrudja is Bulgarian, Northern Dobrudja is Romanian.
@@health019 Whole of modern day Bulgaria is just a breakaway province of Turkye! 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
Buna ziua! romanian here I want to tell you first of all I love your videos, second of all The battle at Posada was between the Hungarian king Carol Robert of Anjou and Basarab I. The battle took place because the Hungarian king wanted to take control of a strategic point in Wallachia called the Severin Banat. Basarab I refuses to cede the territory and thus the Battle of Posada begins. I think the confusion with the bulgarians is because Hungarians are also called "Maghiarii" in Romania, which sounds a bit similar to "Bulgarii" or Bulgarians in english
Also Stefan cel Mare did not receive the title of Champion of Christ { actually the title from romanian it translates to "the best athlete of Christ", because athlete used to mean warrior, in romania we also have this word "atlet = athlete = warrior" in the Battle of Vaslui. Another voievod called Iancu de Hunedoara or Iancu of Hunedoara receives this title after he participated in the Siege of Belgrade. The Pope of Rome named him this way because without the help of Iancu's army Belgrad would have fallen intothe otoman's control threatening the power of Christianity in Europe
Okay, I watched the video to the end and I want to give you an A for the effort, but you butchered the history of the Romanians so badly. I mean it started to be funny in some parts, and I appreciate you taking the time to make this video and explore our history. However, this video should not be taken as a reliable source of information. Sorry, regardless I enjoyed it. Keep up the good work! Bravo! You got about 70% right tho!
@@dariadragu6995dar clipul asta este mai mult caterincă și nu prezintă realități istorice ale tarii noastre
I'm currently talking with a Romanian Girl, and learning the history of her country is a must for me. Thanks for the vid 😊😊
Edit: I'm also learning Romanian and it's kinda easy for me to understand thanks to the Philippines being Spanish for 3 centuries (we use a lot of Spanish words here) and me learning French by myself
She’s only gonna date you for your wallet
@@health019funny hearing this from a fucking bulgarian how ironic.
@@health019 go back to crimea you stinky retarded
@@health019not for a Filipino wallet 😭
@@health019😐
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