How Rome Won Romania: Trajan and Decebalus in Dacia | A Tale from the Roman Empire

Roman Emperor Trajan Battles King Decebalus in Dacia, 101-106 AD Decebalus, king of the Dacians, gains power in the lands of eastern Europe now called Romania, and draws the attention of the Roman Empire commanded by the dynamic emperor Trajan. The two hard-fought Dacian Wars ensue, as Trajan and Decebalus engage in a battle of weapons and wits. A new imperial province will emerge from Dacia's conquest, sowing the seeds of a modern nation whose name bears witness to its Roman past.
Very special thanks to Alba Wolf, who contributed this story for the channel!
A story from the Roman Empire, adapted from Cassius Dio's Roman History (Book 68), featuring: Trajan, emperor of Rome, and Decebalus, king of the Dacians
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[@a.p1675]

Didn't Dacian gold keep Rome running for a long time? Battle of Teutoburg 3 legions. World famouse. Many movies done about that. Rome had 14.000 -22.000. When Trajan attacked Dacia he had about 150.000 warriors with him. There were 3 Dacian wars. Rome even had to pay tribute to Dacia. 0 movies about this. Very sad.

[@AlexAlex-km9db]

The Dacian Draco, the falx, Murus Dacicus, the Sarmatian allies on horses, the continuous raids by the free Dacians, the alliance with the goths and the invasion of Italy. So many unique elements compared to the old generic barbarian movies, truly a missed opportunity to make a series.

[@ivdragoslav]

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[@andreeas.2362]

“ Columna”

[@user-ru7ql4vp2m]

No,Trajan has17 legions with him,that,s means after 500.000 soldiers,not 150.000.,only în batlle of Adamclisi,lost 375.000 roman death.Roman clash with Dacian Empire founded by Buierebista.More of rest of roman Army was injured. Rome ocupied,soil,Dacian, built-in,castre.From 87-106 romans fight with terrible enemy,dacians😮😮😮

[@mimisor66]

@@AlexAlex-km9db if and when they will make a movie, the history will be so distorted that we will desire no movie was made!

[@krakini89]

Fantastic!! My favorite yet!

[@israelroman8397]

Awesome video, thanks

[@lindajustacrochetsister4659]

So enjoyed this one beautiful reading as always ❤

[@constantinmihailpopescu1340]

Many thanks with gratitude !

[@mdstanton1813]

Perfect for bedtime. Really loving your stor

[@sherraleewoods3668]

Thankyou. Very insightful for a newcomer. very absorbable.

[@yeseniah7373]

Great narration! Love your videos!

[@Gaibreel]

I feel bad for the dacians. I feel they could have risen to be an even greater empire. Amazing story telling with such detail! Wow even the music was perfection. Unbelievable video man!

[@Gaibreel]

@@Archonsx I just read into it. Omg... Dacia had multiple attempts to really overthrow rome. I need a time machine and tell burebista he's going to be assassinated 😮‍💨 change history a bit 😆

[@dand7763]

now they gave the name of a car ,well known in Europe - Dacia , a legacy name from the past interesting is that in romanian citizens today ADN blood is 32% thracian (Daco-Getae tree) origins , and only 4% roman (italic) ADN , our language is indeed latin (85%) today , but the blood...is not! ... currently in the romanian language are still present 140 words by dacian origins (some are still in use in our voccabulary!!!) Brad = (xmas tree) , Branza = (cheese) , Copil = (Kid), Viezure = (Badger) Amurg = (sunset) , Baiat =(boy) etc (look the list of dacian words ,more of them are obsolete , not in use anymore in currently romanian language) A: abeş, Abrud, abur, acăţa, adămană, ademeni, adia, aghiuţă, aidoma, ală, alac, aldea, ameţi, amurg, anina, aprig, argea, Argeş, arunca, azugă. B: baci, baier, baligă, baltă, bară, Barbă-cot, barză, bască, batal, băga, băiat, bălan, balaur, beregată, boare, bordei, bortă, brad, brânduşă, brânză, brâu, brusture, bucur, buiestru, bunget, burghiu, burlan, burtă, burtucă, burtuş, butuc, butură, buză. C: caier, caţă, căciulă, căpuşă, căpută, cătun, cioară, cioban, cioc, ciocîrlie, ciomag, cârlan, cârlig, codru, copac, copil, creţ, cruţa, cujbă, culbec, curma, curpăn, cursă, custură, D: darari, daş, dărâma, deh, deretica, descăţa, descurca, dezbăra, desghina, dezgauc, doină, don, dop, droaie, dulău. F: fărîmă. G: gard, gata, gălbează, genune, ghes, ghiară, ghimpe, ghiob, ghionoaie, ghiont, ghiuj, gîde, gîdel, gordin, gorun, grapă, gresie, groapă, grui, grumaz, grunz, gudura, guşă. H: hojma. I: iazmă, iele. Î: încurca, înghina, îngurzi, înseila, întrema. J: jilţ. L: leagăn, lepăda, lespede, leşina. M: mal, maldac, mazăre, măceş, mădări, măgură, mălai, mămăligă, mărcat, mătură, melc, mehadia, mieru, mire, mistreţ, mişca, mânz, morman, mosoc, moş, moţ, mugure, munună, murg, muşat. N: năpârcă, năsărâmbă, niţel, noian.

[@Gaibreel]

@dand7763 very facinating

[@earlycat170]

Great channel name!

[@toaderbogdandan9833]

Check out Arch of Constantine in Rome, how many other occupied nations have an Arch like that?

[@yaboyed5779]

Could you cover Gallienus

[@WineDarkSea]

Thanks for the suggestion, duly noted! From around that same time, you might like the story of Zenobia and Aurelian on the channel, if you haven’t checked it out yet.

[@yaboyed5779]

@@WineDarkSea nice, i will

[@queenbgael2608]

I share a birthday with Trajan. 😊

[@nestingherit7012]

Decebal ( Dece10+ball/ strong in Sanskrit)= as strong as ten

[@AbelDimitriev]

Dekébalos or Daekébalos, sometimes Diurpaneus, was the original name, and yes, it is also similar to the Sanskrit language, like all European languages, because we are all part of the great Indo-European linguistic family.

[@nestingherit7012]

@@AbelDimitriev Dacian word ,balaur'( dragon') as well

[@UlpianHeritor]

@@AbelDimitrievexactly right. Sanskrit is just as similar to English as it is Romanian.

[@henkstersmacro-world]

👍👍👍

[@UlpianHeritor]

Thank you. I am Romanian, and we consider Trajan as one of our founding fathers.

[@octaviantimisoreanu5810]

@@michaeltom5465imnul Romaniei: Sa dami dovezi la lume ca in aste maini mai curge, un sange de Roman, un sange de Roman! Si ca in a noastre piepturi pastram cu fala un nume, triumfator in lupte, un nume de Traian, UN NUME DE TRAIAN!! Sa-ti intre bine in cap aceste cuvinte, daca chiar esti Roman.

[@cezarp.3467]

my guy doesnt know his own history

[@UlpianHeritor]

@@cezarp.3467 Lol. I don't know my own history? Look at what our national anthem says about Trajan then talk, my guy.

[@Gaibreel]

I'm half romanian idk this history makes me sad. I wish Dacia could have grown and not been squashed by rome

[@UlpianHeritor]

@@Gaibreel Then you should study your history better. A true Romanian loves his Roman as well as Dacian ancestry. There is no Romania without ancient Rome. We were Roman citizens, and this is why we call ourselves Romanian.

[@florinlepadatu5648]

true however, not entirely accurate, is still interesting that 200 years after, Rome had Dacian or Thracian origin emperors who took all sorts of actions to revenge Decebalus like wasting huge amounts of money on questionable projects like building grandiose marble latrines on inappropriate locations, symbolic places for Rome oh and not any marble, Trajan column one ;) to even change the name of roman empire into Dacian like Galerius for example witch almost did it around 302-305 only a lucky twist of events prevent this from actually happen :)

[@prutjuly5325]

the true story is ..Dacians was have the spy inside ...for that Trajan win the war ,,sorry for the brave Dacian soldier and the people

[@dusanivamivamdusan412]

They are divided to this day , story of all est Europe

[@mz.behavin...7171]

*#NewSubscriber* 🇨🇦

[@Ge0rGi.]

💙💛❤️

[@applepie9462]

Decebal?Um he was suicide.

[@paulcovrig6603]

Notice: Romans conquered only 25 procent of the lands ho whas ocupated by dacians(getae),that why whas many free dacians like carpii,costoboci,that why whas many revolts and incursions of free dacians in the land ocupated by romans,and that why romans keep that land ocupated just 165 years. You do not say in this documentary the size of armys,romans have a much biger army:dacians whas 50000 ,and romas whas 13-14 legions +auxiliar trups like alae ,cohorte,and the army whas 150000.

[@ionelghiorghita688]

The dacians are also presented as the aggressor, nothing about the fact that all the Balkan area was settled by the same romanians/Thracians/Dacians and in fact the romanians were the aggressor.

[@dandondera2618]

​@@ionelghiorghita688 Pai treceau Dunarea si jefuiau provinciile sud-dunarene. Erau agresori.

[@Donkeypapuas]

Minciunile lui Neapulăion Săvescu. Bă deșteptule, teritoriile de la sud de Dunăre erau tot dacice. Ele singure reprezintă o treime din teritoriile locuite de daci. La nord de Dunăre tovarășii istorici au stabilit o harta extrem de ciudată care arată doar jumătate din Transilvania și doar Oltenia ca fiind romane. Plus bullshitul cum că de la actuala Budapesta până dincoace de Tisa hălăduiau liberi niște barbari (ce convenabil pt istoriografia maghiară!). Doar că se bat cap în cap cu descoperirile arheologice, care arată cel puțin zona din partea Galaților ca fiind sub influența romană. Din fericire hărțile altora arată aprospe tot teritoriul actualri Românii ca fiind sub autoritatea Romei. De fapt Roma se întindea inclusiv până în Crimeea actuală unde se găsea un regat TRACIC. În plus uită dom' Săvescu de triburile dacice care au fost ALIATE Romei!

[@octaviantimisoreanu5810]

That's Dacopathic propaganda.

[@paulcovrig6603]

@@octaviantimisoreanu5810 what is dacopatic propaganda???give arguments on what you say.

[@violetspider_]

Rome didn't win Romania. Romania won Rome hence the name now. 😱😅

[@wankawanka3053]

then why does romania speak a romance language and not dacian?

[@BuddhaOwl]

@@wankawanka3053 Just to make you wonder.Or as we like to say in Romania " De pula sa ma treci strada".

[@cristianm7097]

​@@wankawanka3053 There are theories that the Latin language originates from Dacian.

[@RA28xx91]

​@@wankawanka3053it's the other way around my friend😂 some say Latin origin is from dacia...and regardless of that romanian language is the closest to Latin out of all the romance languages...like this video mentions ...they made Rome pay tribute lol...its something people prefer not to acknowledge 😅 romania today is made of more than just Romans...that's just a bit of history

[@UlpianHeritor]

Lol no

[@chriscruciat2469]

Naming a crappy car like Dacia Sandero after a brave people like the Dacians is a travesty 🤣

[@gioprox5207]

The guy who was responsible for the shitty car brand having the name "dacia" was later shot on the 25th December 1989

[@gabibarbulescu5620]

Dacia is the name of the Factory , there are cars in Romania that Dacia make in 1969 and they are still on the street , Dacia sandero was produced by Renault after they buy Dacia

[@sticlavoda5632]

It's named after the region, the Dacians being ancestors to the Romanians occupied the same region, Dacia. Therefore the car is named after the region of the peoples. Problem?

[@ivdragoslav]

It's, in a way, similar to what sovietics did to mighty germans: let them build Trabant when they were capable of BMW...

[@chriscruciat2469]

@@ivdragoslav 🤣

[@cristiann4991]

rome won romania ??? maybe Dacia...

[@Mychelo]

Iti dai seama ca acest titlul e un joc de cuvinte (Rome, Romania daca intelegi asemanarea) si e facut sa atraga publicul, oricum termenul România provine de la român, care constituie un derivat fonetic al latinescului romanus si de aici jocul de cuvinte😂😂😂

[@attilatasciko4817]

How to do a 3-4 minutes facts into 15 minutes ‽ here is the proof !

[@emilbalasa6435]

Rome never won Romania, more then 14% of the teritory, back then DACIA, more then that today Romania are spoken the original Geto_Trako_Dacian Lenguage. Ps, Trajan's parenthood come out of Dacia etc, is better learn properly haw history went about.

[@MuhammadAliGoat00]

Rome didn't won shit my friend. The romans only conquered 12% of Dacia, they could NEVER defeat the free dacians (barbarians) in the mountains. Stop this bullshit. Only 12%, that's all that the mighty romans could conquer.

[@nervgear2254]

Spoiler Alert: Romania didn't exist back then - romanian 😩

[@benyovszkyistvan408]

There is no archegenetic, archeological, linguistic or cultural connection between the Dacians and the Romanians. There is only false Romanian propaganda.

[@adriangrama5139]

It is a very big connection, in the same place where the Dacians lived, Romanians now live. Happy?

[@benyovszkyistvan408]

@@adriangrama5139 It must be proven genetically, archaeologically, and linguistically. It's an impossible undertaking, but we've been eagerly waiting for it for at least 150 years. So far, nothing has happened, only the lying Romanian propaganda can be heard. :)

[@raulpetrascu2696]

​@@benyovszkyistvan408you have a better alternative? Oh wait there is even worse evidence for the alternate theories that all originate from even clearer propaganda. I guess Romanians simply don't exist, they're a figment of your imagination

[@wankawanka3053]

​@@adriangrama5139 does this make the turks in turkey greeks hittites ?

[@Plata-ori-plumbu]

Sadly, what 95% of Hungarians keep alive today is the "history" their school system 'teaches' them on Romanians: 19th century Austro-Hungarian land grabbing propaganda- alive and well, even over a century later...

[@mihailnikoloff2554]

Romania is a new country and nation created in 1859. They have no historical continuity with ancient Dacia. This is modern nationalist propaganda.

[@dorinarevici7348]

Get some history lessons first ;)

[@mihailnikoloff2554]

@@dorinarevici7348 you are the one who need history lesson

[@simionescugeorgeta9139]

Unfortunately, our southern brothers, the Thracians got brainwashed by some mongol Khans and started speaking some slavic language.

[@mihailnikoloff2554]

@@simionescugeorgeta9139 Bulgarians established empires, cultures, alphabets in Eastern Europe. Be proud of your ancestors. You are the assimilated latinized northern brothers.

[@Gaibreel]

That's like saying italians aren't related to ancient romans because italy didn't become a unified country until 1848 😂 Italians are decendants of their ancient people just as romanians are or anyone else in other countries. Obviously not everyone since migration is a thing but some are.

[@arseniuarsn6841]

they won nothing