THE REAL ROMANIAN EARLY HISTORY (I)

THE GREATEST THRACIAN EMPIRE OF OUR ERA

AT THE PRESENT MOMENT, WHEN ALL MODERN NATIONS ARE TENACIOUSLY SEARCHING FOR THEIR "HISTORICAL IDENTITY CERTIFICATES", IT WOULD BE A CRIME FROM OUR PART, ROMANIANS, TO REMAIN INDIFFERENT AT WHAT BELONGS TO US.

If we have ever heard about the Greatest Thraco-Dacian Kings, namely BUREBISTA, DECENEUS and DECEBALUS, as being those who decisively contributed to the Dacian Kingdom's forming and longlasting, while of the Roman Emperor TRAJAN as representing the one who actually sought to destroy the Dacian civilization by conquering about 14 % of its territories, stealing its huge thesaurus and promptly transporting it to Rome, where it was melted afterwards (part of the golden coins moulded from it being offered in reward to those soldiers who had taken part in the robbing or, so-called, "conquering" of the Dacian Land), let us see whatever has happened furthermore to the mighty Thracian (Dacian, or Pelasgian) people themselves.

Around the year 300 A.D., the Great Thracian population, having their Dacian nucleus as a dominating element, accedes one more time to the head of all European nations as well as of... the World's. Emperor Galenius the Elderly, son of Romula (a Dacian woman from the Recidava fortress), by his real name Vacarul Armentarius, after finally getting the Roman Emperor's mantle and scepter from the Senate in Rome, declares himself to be a resolute opponent of the very "Roman" denomination, considering it as unsuitable and, thus, changing the title of the "Roman Empire" with the one of "Dacian Empire" (Fontes II, pages 6-7). A perfectly accurate decision, should we consider the Empire's population majority as being formed mostly from Dacian-Thracians, just like the Army was as well.

The Thracian language is known throughout Ancient history's era as "Coarse Latin", however, actually making the Empire's colloquial speech. Therefore, the Roman writer Lactantius, must be right to complain through his main work, "Romanos Dominarentur" (that is, "Romans Dominated", from Fontes II, same pages 6-7) about the Northern Danubian area's Thracians to have gradually become Roman leaders, while all Galenius the Elderly's "establishment" was having its descent from within Dacians of Northern side of the Danube's background.

And thus, FROM CONQUERED, DACIANS ULTIMATELY WERE TO BECOME THE POLITICAL CONQUERORS, CHANGING EVEN THE OLD "ROMAN EMPIRE" 'S NAME INTO THE "DACIAN EMPIRE". Such has also been the conclusion drawn even by the Dacians' most resolute enemy of their time, that was Lactantius himself in the year 325 A.D. As for the Emperor Galenius the Younger, a son of Emperor Galenius the Elderly's sister, the former quoted would be called, before becoming supreme commander at his turn, on his real Dacian name which was Dara (according to the Transylvanian-Romanian Illuminist Petru Major's "History", page 294). These two great rulers of the extended Dacian Empire were to later erect, at Thessaloniki, an Arch of Triumph in order to honor the apogee of Dacian ascent within the ancient Roman Empire. And still to us, "Dacians", do the Christians owe their Cult's practicing earned freedom. For Galenius the Younger, the Emperor of Dacia already within the year 311 A.D., would soon promulgate a "Law of Tolerance" through which religious liberty was granted to all Christian faithfuls, on condition that they should also pray to God for the Emperor Himself and the State (from "Universal Churches' History", volume I, page 79). With respect to Professor D. Balasa's studies, during the two Emperors Galenius' period, Dacia's Imperial State is being reorganized through several new provinces, each one to be led, or "managed" by an Imperial Court's designated Voyevod ( that is merely a Dacian word, signifying "warrior", "fighter", and perfectly corresponding to the Slavonic term "Kneaz"). Both this ruling notion and State administration type were to last through centuries to come, not only across "our" History but, as well, around other zones where we have been once... and, yet, still exist, like within the (former-) Yugoslavian County of Voyevodina for instance.

Again Mr. Balasa, in another work, "From Queen Hestia to Dacia's Emperors", mentions that, among Romano-Dacians, the very first such Voyevod, unknown until recently, was called Vlachernus (a name of direct descent from the word "Vlach", and "Vlachs" is precisely how the Greeks still call the Macedonian community today...).

As two Dacian Emperors at the top of the Empire seemed not to have been quite enough, Galenius the Younger was to be followed in command by yet another native of Nish, namely Emperor Constantinus "the Great", the one who builds another Arch of Triumph, this time in Rome itself, and on which a large number of bas-relief sculpted Dacian leaders' figures are to be seen ever since. It was him who came up with the idea to renovate and consolidate the legendary Stone Bridge over the Danube River (constructed by his own ancestor at first, who was probably the Greatest Dacian King, Burebista, and NOT by the Roman Emperor Trajan, as it would be later known), carefully adding to this magnificent, strategical complex a brand new four-tower Roman military camp and a Headquarters' building with plenty of rooms. Which brings us to a final, legitimate question: why would someone have had ANY interest to spend large sums of money then, within the ancient time period, in order to rebuild some collapsed bridge, too far away from Rome anyway, across the Danube river, when "THE ROMANS MIGHT HAVE ALREADY WITHDRAWN DEEPLY TO THE SOUTH... SO ALL THESE RICH AND BEAUTIFUL LANDS HAD TO BE NOW DESERTED" (as some contemporary neighboring "historians" like to assert on any occasion)