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)