Rome’s Epic Capture of Dacia - The Grand Finale

[@HistoriaMilitum]

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[@JOHNBANNON-ib3cj]

GOOD VIDEOS !!! better than K & G !!!!

[@davidhughes8357]

I must add once again that this is the best most comprehensive presentation of Trajan's Dacian war that I have had the pleasure of seeing after 50 plus years of study.

[@HistoriaMilitum]

Thank you to everyone who stuck around to the end of our first big series! Let me know what series we should cover next. Im also curious to know your thoughts on Decebalus. Was he a courageous leader who wanted full freedom and only the best for his people? Or was he too proud and careless to exchange the lives of his people for pride and revenge? Perhaps he was pressured by his own people under threat of assassination to not remain a puppet of the Romans…

[@aveekmanna912]

Thnx fr this video.... Waiting fr a long tym fr this.... Can u make such on mithridates of pontus???

[@agrippa5643]

The dacians were regarded as the most noble and brave from the thracians. He fought to the bitter end for Dacia, and history to remember those people as they were described.

[@miguelsanchez3232]

My wife and I enjoyed your series, we were absolutely enthralled. Another interesting topic I’d like to see explored is the third century crisis. We look forward to whatever endeavors you undertake!

[@HistoriaMilitum]

Thank you for the kind comment, I am very glad you enjoyed! I will be posting a poll to decide on the next series, and the 3rd century crisis is a great suggestion!

[@davidhughes8357]

Stuck around? Seriously. This was the the best presentation ever. I have waited over 50 years to see this in its full scope. Well worth the wait!!

[@micahistory]

i am sure nobody could have predicted that dacia would become so romanised that it's the only country bearing their name today

[@catalyst772]

A lot of hordes passed through Dacia after the fall of Rome but none stayed, and the remaining Romans camped it out in the Carpathians.

[@micahistory]

@@catalyst772 yes

[@granddukethedan7029]

Even after being abandoned in the 270s, they maintained the Roman culture. Dacians/Romanians are hardy people, as proven by history!

[@micahistory]

@@granddukethedan7029 yo, haven't seen you in a while. How have you been?

[@granddukethedan7029]

@@micahistory, good, how about you?

[@micron3866]

Finally out. Thank you Historia. Been waiting for a long time.

[@HistoriaMilitum]

You're most welcome!

[@zarzavattzarzavatt9309]

thank you from moldova for telling the ancient history of this part of the world. this is the first video i've seen with this level of details

[@LawrenceMakaniankhondo-cl2yp]

Perhaps Trajan’s war with the parthians next? This was an impressive series thank you. Really enjoyed it.

[@CharlesTheInnocent-s9s]

Nice documentary. But it forgot to tell us what happened to Apolodorus of Damascus who built a bridge over the Danube River. His engineering and military skills made a Trajan victory over the Dacians a certainty. Apolodorus' masterpieces are spread across Rome and have survived antiquity into modern times. He designed Trajan's Column and helped rebuild the Pantheon, (originally constructed by Augustus) after it was extensively damaged by fire. After Trajan's demise and the accession of Hadrian to the throne, Apolodorus was put to death on contrived charges. He had insulted Emperor Hadrian during the reign of Trajan by mocking his mediocre architectural skills and goading him to go draw his pumpkins or gourds and to leave the proper design and drawings to experts. Hadrian, ever so prickly and temperamental, never forgave the jibe and settled scores when he rose to the purple.

[@Paddythelaad]

The Pantheon was constructed by Agrippa, that's why it has his name. Agrippa also had Rome water systems built at the time, as well as being a brilliant general, logistician and admiral. He was Augustu's go to guy for everything military and logistics.

[@atlantic_love]

I despise anyone in history who tore down these beautiful structures, whether they were Roman structures, Greek structures, or whatever.

[@imabitmid]

fact that will upset you: the parthenon of athens was actually destroyed by the venetians, as when they besieged the ottomans in athens, the ottomans thought they wouldn't rain artillery onto the parthenon, so they placed ammunition there, but surprise: the venetians bombarded the parthenon regardless, sooooo yeah...

[@TeutonicEmperor1198]

The fact that were Greek cities outside Rome's jurisdiction at that age and were making negotiations with her, sounds unreal!

[@KaiHung-wv3ul]

Those Greeks got to a lot of places, it's wild. There were still some in the Crimea and as far as Afghanistan.

[@daniell1483]

History is so cool, who needs movies?

[@jonbaxter2254]

Trajan's Column has some beautiful carvings and artwork, in such vivid detail.

[@ThePatrioticTurtle]

I’m starting to become fascinated with Dacia

[@davidcostea9767]

you can watch an old movie about the dacian battles ,here is the name of the movie :dacii 1966 . I think it got subtitles

[@ThePatrioticTurtle]

@ I’ll check it out, I love those old sword and sandal films.

[@davidcostea9767]

@@ThePatrioticTurtle did you watch it ?

[@GustavoMaldonadoFidalgo]

Thanks, I was waiting for this

[@HistoriaMilitum]

Hope you like it!

[@edricdayne3571]

Trajan : People should know when they are conquered. Decabalus : Would you, Trajan? Would I?

[@Ro_Ball]

Thank you very much for your series about the Daco-Roman wars. I have learned much from your videos.

[@faustinoelia965]

Lets go history. Been waiting for it. Finally out 😊😊😊

[@jonbaxter2254]

What an excellent and well-produced mini doc. Love it!

[@matinpedari8973]

This is like a time capsule-capturing a pivotal moment in history 🎉🔥

[@robbabcock_]

Rome in her glory days! Thanks for another great video.

[@rainymai]

This was really epic. Both entertaining and educating. Great to have your channel out there

[@HistoriaMilitum]

Thank you! We will continue similar series in the future.

[@stanciuflorin5328]

To this day, we Romanians still proudly name our children "Decebal"!

[@cretucristian7935]

Decebalus was a good leader and military comander, but had no chance against the full might of the Romans with a great emperor. I don't think it's recorded in history why Decebalus fought to tha last men instead of recognizing the Roman superiority and become a vassal, probably because of pride and ambition, like Mithridates of Pontus. Here, in Romania, we take great pride in Decebalus 😀

[@oboroth51]

As we do in Trajan

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

Taking pride in a foreign leader of a foreign culture that our true ancestors [Romans] fought is totally shameful. Stop claiming that u speak for all Romanians, u only speak for the Dacopaths.

[@Mma-basement-215]

Very cool that's history I didn't know thank you for sharing ✌️🙏😊

[@rotciv1492]

@@InAeternumRomaMater Just as Mexicans can take pride in both the Aztecs and Spanish since they descend from both, you Romanians can take pride in both the Dacians and the Romans, since you also descend from both. Dacia was a mighty kingdom that put up the greatest fight against the Roman Empire at its best and came fairly close to break its northern frontier. There is no harm on acknowledging and enjoying history.

[@InAeternumRomaMater]

@@rotciv1492 Stop coming with that bs which I have argued against 100 times. We have NOTHING from the Dacians, they are an extinct group that have nothing to do with our ethnicity.

[@andrewkhan4561]

Fantastic series! Can't wait to see what you come up with next

[@casualobserver5183]

Outstanding video

[@HistoriaMilitum]

Thank you for watching!

[@codrinchiru7495]

Great documentary, very well researched and edited.👋👍

[@fuoridalsentiero]

Outstanding video! The storytelling is engaging, and the historical information is presented clearly. It’s fascinating to see how these conquests shaped the history of the Roman Empire. Thank you for sharing this important chapter with us! We join your channel! Like1624

[@HistoriaMilitum]

Thank you very much!

[@mikemurphy9960]

Finally! Love the channel

[@Tjalve70]

So this is the reason why Romania, as the only country in eastern Europe, speaks a Romance language.

[@bluewizzard8843]

True.

[@gabrielmolina8880]

Could you please do a video on the Cantabrian-Asturian Wars? It was from 29-19 BC and was one of Augustus’ most notable military campaigns. There are almost no videos on KZbin about the topic.

[@micahistory]

very good video, this certainly is one of the most interesting wars in roman history

[@davidhughes8357]

Thank you! I am very happy now!!!!

[@whambulance8607]

Babe wake up he posted it

[@GarfieldRex]

In the face of these dire circumstances, Decebalus certainly wanted for the Dacians to survive, but seems his ego was a bit too much, as even when realized his former allies went with Rome, he stubbornly chose war instead quitting and fleeing and let the conquest be peaceful. He was thinking more about his survival to be fair. Understandable.

[@kingspore5000]

Next series of episodes: Trajan's Parthian war and Kitos War!

[@4sakenreaper42]

Great video

[@georgecristiancripcia4819]

Very nice video

[@sstewart116]

thank you!

[@jozzieokes3422]

The marcomanic wars would be awesome to cover next?

[@bobofat2545]

Great!

[@VA-0902]

HM another great video about Dacians !!🤺👍🏻

[@HistoriaMilitum]

Thank you, glad you liked it!

[@celiayounger9202]

Yes thank you. I love history and never read about this war or area

[@optimusprinceps9875]

Great finale

[@geodezix]

boy, how many times have i seen a video on dacia?

[@Azzlad]

The Dacian king, a coward to the end. He was a terrible leader and a backstabber too. I wonder, did he ever keep his word, even once?

[@raigarmullerson4838]

Rome was OP af lol

[@grekomcRoma]

i am from Rome and am very interested about Daco roman history!

[@RENATVS_IV]

What a movie! 😅

[@MegaTechGuy]

I think Aurelian would say "One Province too far....", by removing the buffer states Rome accidental made it's defenses weak on all sides & without those buffer states the Roman army had to defend thousands of miles of boarder with no support which was a again the slow downfall of Rome.

[@zulazhar1259]

Thats why he is the Restorer of world.

[@rotciv1492]

Indeed. Taking on Dacia was initially a necessary move, due to both its wealth and natural resources plus its potential as an enemy if it wasn't subjugated. But in Aurelian's times, it was a liability. Basically a sore thumb sprouting north of the actual natural frontier that was the river Danube. It made much more sense to leave it behind and help the able population to resettle in the depopulated Moesia.

[@geordiejones5618]

​@@rotciv1492Diocletian and/or Constantine should have followed suit. Layering the Danube and Rhine with semi-independent kingdoms that are mostly populated by your own former soldiers. That could have given the West more resistance against the Goths and Huns, and could have given the state greater leverage.

[@rotciv1492]

@@geordiejones5618 I don't think it would be even possible to form a single stable buffer kingdom in such times when the constant Barbarian migrations were always pushing tribes and others to the south and west. Not to mention, being an allied of Rome meant that they had the right to ask for Rome's help in case of an invasion. Which meant sending legions to cross the Rhine or the Danube. They did have buffer states though. In Asia and Africa.

[@JOHNBANNON-ib3cj]

WELL DONE VIDEO !! im New here, JB/ CANADA LIKED and Subed.

[@ryanthuranira6036]

Nice

[@mariadespina80]

Roman Emperors of Dacian origin . ---Constantine the Great , the first Christian emperor in history. It was born south of the Danube, in Naissus in Dacia Mediterranea province of which Naissus was the capital ( now, on the serbian territory ), then Moesia Superior. His father, Emperor Constantius Chlorus, was from Naissus. In 325, during the reign of the council of Nicaea, Naissus attested a bishop called "Dacus'. Dacian presence south of the Danube, both before and after the conquest of Dacia, is undeniable. So Constantine was exactly a moeso-Dacian. ----Galerius Maximinus. Galerius Valerius Maximianus was born in the year 250 (245 according to some authors), in the village Romulianum of Dacia Ripensis not far from the city of Sardica (now Sofia). His father was a Thracians and mother Romula , was a Dacian , refugee for some reason, north of the Danube , from Dacia Traiana in the south. According to Lactantius, (250-325 ) Galerius king has said his Dacian origin and was declared an enemy of the Roman name. He proposed to change the name of the Roman Empire in Dacian Empire , moved the capital of the Roman Empire in Salonic. He expressed the attitude of anti-Roman once served as king, treating the Roman citizens cruelly exemplary as conquerors treat the conquered people of DACIA , of the same treatment that victorious Traian applied two centuries before in Dacia. Felix Romuliana (near the Romanian village of Gamzigrad Timoc- Serbia) in ancient Dacia Ripensis , the king Galerius has glorified his mother of Dacian origin and built a palace with her name. You can visit the ruins of the palace included the 2007 World Heritage. ----Regalianus..great-grandson of the king Decebal . ----Aureolus . Byzantine historian Zonaras says about him: "Aureolus was of the Getae country, later called Dacia , the first , pastor .. ----Licinius Roman Imperator , was born in Moesia Superior, in a peasant family from Dacia. ---- Maximinus II Daia -was born on 20 November AD 270 in the Danubian region as the son of a sister of Galerius a Dacian Emperor of Rome .

[@wankawanka3053]

Constantime was described as thracian and he included Naissus in dacia Mediterranea ,it was in miesia originally

[@Billy_Bob_Dan]

very a1 stuff, bravo

[@floareagft1966]

Daca era tradus in limba română era super. 😥😢😥

[@leonardusius1968]

Exceptionally good analysis and presentation. For the first time somebody is actually correlate the succession images on the Trajan column with the possible historic reality. I'm romanian and very accustomed with the official version of the events, which are inaccurate, biased and not logic. Congratulations for your real work. The idiots, mostly historian scholars, didn't even tried to corroborate the real successive events showed on column with the sane logic. Same is true for your older episodes of this subject (remind my old interpelation about your very good supposition of roman army advancing throw the Mures/Maris river)

[@deimosart6986]

NEW VID LESGOOOO

[@matthewct8167]

The Romanization was so successful that to this day the people living there (Romanians) speak a Latin language

[@bluewizzard8843]

Yeah that's a Common tactic. You completely erase any culture from a culture even the language. The english were also pretty sucessful with that. Until today only very small minorities in scotland or Ireland and Wales can actually understand their own language and speak only the language of their conquerers.

[@davidhughes8357]

I belive that the two greatest Roman rulers were Trajan and Basil 2nd.

[@samym1694]

So when can you talk about the "Macedonian Phalanx"? Some sources say the men from 3rd & 4th row protects the whole unit from projectiles by using their Sarissas which doesn't make sense like from a Movie "Alexander" Battle of Gaugamela

[@Mithridates_7]

Iazyges and Roxolani should have fought with Decebalus. I wonder how Julius Caesar would have done if he was the king of Da ua.

[@ChristianLopez-r3b]

There is a lack of dacian identity because blood matters, and it was thinned along the pass of time.

[@NovaRoma-l]

If you think about it aurelian kind of made the eastern Roman empire fall and thus made the Roman empire fall by abandoning dacia

[@kingspore5000]

Finally!

[@SauTunSud2025]

Back in the sixties and seventies the sandals were called "romane" even in northern Moldova.

[@john-j7e7e]

i understand Decebalus was defending his country, but he was treacherous. not sure if i like or dislike him.

[@HistoriaMilitum]

He is a very controversial figure indeed; a freedom-fighting hero to some, and a cunning backstabber to others.

[@davidcostea9767]

the roman historians at the time exxaggerated he was great ans smart ,he only defended the old dacian rules

[@BluffyMoo]

I wonder if Tragan after disposing of his "barbarian cleanly" before moving on in the battle, shouted out to his men, "Roma invicta!?"

[@albertpietrosanu2667]

In Romanian schools we dont teach so well as these video done, many years we have only lyes in history romanian books. After 1990 some ov real events was reveal.

[@timothyortiz2222]

and GoPro was there . . .

[@MuhammedMuhammed-xd7qo]

They sculpted the Dacians to look defiant, strong, and proud because defeating a race of strong people would make Trajan (and the Romans) look stronger in comparison than if they depicted the reality of the war - ethnic extermination of helpless women, children, elderly, and enfeebled people while the strong men were forced to wander the province chasing after decentralized Roman legions. Romanized foreigners coming in to carpet bag Dacians. Corrupt local nobles seizing power for themselves and selling out their own peoples futures forever. All things EXTREMELY relevant to the west today.

[@Akridata]

👋👍👍👍

[@paoloianau]

I born in Romania old Dacia , end I live in Italy, what an irony, end I visited a old villa that had art like gesso replicas the Trojan column with Dacian end Roman wars, what an irony, end now I see this video, wtf

[@arthur-yq4ic]

dacia delenda est

[@HistoriaMilitum]

If Cato was still alive, that very well might have been his quote…

[@justbeable2]

Nice story but with lies as usual how history know to do. Let me tell you how it was, our king Decebal gatered his personal guards for his final fight at Sarmisegetusa, gave them piles of gold wich they bery them in forest and fought bravely to the last man. After they fall Trajan took tons of gold bact to Rome and made a big fest that last for a month.

[@CptZhu]

People should know when they are conquered

[@HistoriaMilitum]

I had this exact quote in mind when writing about the desperate efforts of Decebalus to keep fighting at the end despite there clearly being no hope. Perhaps it truly is hard to accept your demise…

[@CptZhu]

@@HistoriaMilitum more often than not, this seems to be a human trait. Humans are extremely proud and don't easily let go of their way of living to adapt. Perhaps this is where survival of the fittest stems from? Who can kill their ego and adapt?

[@HistoriaMilitum]

@@CptZhu Perhaps :)

[@hollawar1391]

I would like to comment that people here may tend to think as Roman victory kind of inevitable. Due to its superior technology, tactics or great works of architecture, some may say. Because of that, they would be like a force of nature, gods that could not be stopped. And all of this is nothing further from an unjust misrepresentation. These were just normal people, an extraordinary kin, yes, but just human beings. These victories that they achieved were not granted, not for their technology or their likely odds. Their stubburnes, cunning resolution ad hoc, complex logistical challenges overcomed, and relentless and gigantic efforts are the main factors that gave them victory. Not granted odds. What they accomplished may seem so great that it was because they were just superior in some way, and those victories were just expected of them. But we cant forget these were normal humans beings that accomplished everything they did by their own superb working hand, figuring it out along the way, and being very succesful at it, by their own merit.

[@davidcostea9767]

you absolutely butchered the dacian names😂

[@wankawanka3053]

Do you speak dacian to know ?

[@arthur-yq4ic]

when civilization triumph over barbarity thanks to jupiter optimus maximus

[@danielvijulie7123]

First!

[@gandalfstormcrow8439]

Think again. 😜

[@Hillbilly001]

​@@gandalfstormcrow8439His timestamp says "7mins" yours is "5mins"😂 You might want to rethink that one Nob

[@KekelMyShekel]

@@gandalfstormcrow8439 Nope he is first.

[@rursus8354]

I'm on the side of everyone opposed to the Romans. It was a cruel cynical empire that took every chance to enslave and plunder all neighboring paleo-europeans.

[@gandalfstormcrow8439]

Our current administration is making the same idiot mistake with Iran. 🤣

[@HydraVolt12]

Holden Bloodfeast is that you?!?

[@atlantic_love]

Nah.

[@floflo8461]

Dacia was 20% conquered,we are descendants of dacians not romans

[@bluewizzard8843]

Well you don't know from whom you descend lets be straight to the truth.

[@floflo8461]

@@bluewizzard8843 you don’t know history

[@davidcostea9767]

adevarat frate lasa-i sa manance cacat ,ei se iau dupa idioti de istorici romani care erau intocsicati de plumb

[@JOHNBANNON-ib3cj]

Trajian was GAY !!!

[@William-will6]

No! He was OPTIMUS PRINCEPS!!!!

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[@MrLee-cy1pw]

Finally!