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The Latin Origins
of
Romanian Nation
Project realised by:
Ion Malina
Aursulesei Cosmin
Tulcan Mihaela
Maioru Radu
Latin elements (Architecture and
Paintings)
The House Iulia Felix, Pompei
Latin elements (Ancient Roma music)
Playing a cithara
Latin elements (Roman religion)
Dragomirna Monastery
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Culture and Civilisation
The responsibilities of the central
administration were given to the governor of the
province and to the provincial gathering. One of the
measures that was taken to divide the territory was
splitting it into “ager
publicus”, known as public property and “posessio”,
known as private property, system which is still valid
today. There were also “ager stipendiaris” which
were parts of land that were given to the native
population in exchange for taxes and services. This
form of dividing can be associated with the rental in
our days.
Another form of dividing was into large areas of
interest like cities.
Ten people with juridical and administrative rights
were given the responsibility of the local
administration, or the settings. There were various
types of settings, very similar to the form of
organization that we still have in Romania:
The colonies (coloniae): Sarmizegetusa, Apullum,
Napoca, Drobeta, Romula, Aque, etc.
The cities (“municipii” today): settings with less
rights than colonies, where romans with full rights
were living.
The villages (vicii & pagii)
The Economy
The base of the economy were the ancient
economical activities like agriculture, shepherd,
apiculture or viticulture, activities which are put in
good use in Romania, especially in the high land
(mountains) and villages from the low land (planes).
The mining, one of the greatest industries of
Romania, known for the richness of the
underground, was developed in roman times
because of their interest in silver, gold, iron, copper,
marble, limestone, crude oil and salt. Of course they
needed to develop other activities in order to
process the extracted materials, so construction
industry, smith’s trade, joinery (carpenter), coopery,
pottery, leather goods, weaving mill, tailoring,
shoemaker’s and so on have appeared. It is known
that dacians where masters of these skills.
The greatest improvement in the economy that
Romans brought was the monetary system. They
were the ones to replace barter with trade. The
coins were made of silver and illustrated great
events that happened within the empire.
For example the first coin had the inscription
“DACIA CAPTA” (Dacia was conquered) reminding
the end of the was with the victory of the Roman
Empire, on the other side of the coin there was a
woman standing on a cliff with a dacian curved
sword beside her. Another type of coin had the
inscription “DACIA AUGUST(I) PROVINCIA” proving
the establishment of the province within the
territory of Dacia. From the infrastructural point of
view, Romans built great inventions for the 21st
century in Romania. For example the aqueducts –
the remaining of an aqueduct from roman times
were found in Appulum, nowadays named AlbaIulia. Another example are the amphitheatres were
fights between gladiators and beats occurred for the
entertainment of the citizens. Such buildings could
be found in Tomis – Constanta or Porolossum –
Mirsid, Salaj. Thermae, known as the roman baths,
were found in Sucidava – the territory of the present
Corabia, jud. Olt.
Roman Castra Apullum – Alba-Iulia
Roman Castra Potaissa – the most
important monument of Turda city.
The Latin Origins of the Romanian
People
Prestigious Romanian and foreign linguists, historians and archeologists have highlighted throughout time
dates and documents that place the origin and the character of the Romanian language.
As a result of the wars between the Dacians and the Romans, Dacia was turned into a Roman camp and it
stayed like that for 165 years (106-271). The Romanization of the native people has produced quite fast and
easy over 2600 inscriptions written in Latin and discovered on our land clearly show this fact. Besides the
administrative measures, there are other factors that contributed to the Romanization such as:
The military service in which only young male could have been recruited
Marriages between Roman soldiers and Dacian women, and the babies resulted from their marriages
benefited of Roman privileges.
Christianity was spread in Latin: as a certain fact there are keywords from Christianity that make a solid
base in Romanian language such as: God (din domine deus), Christian ( din christianus), Church (din
basilica), baptism( din baptism), prayer ( don rogationem), priest( din presbiterius), cross( din crucem), sin(
din pecatum), angel( duiangelus).
The influence of farmers, workers, merchants, that came in Dacia before the time when Traian started to
conquer the province, left us some other words that have a translation in Romanian such as: sat=village(
fossatum), a planta=to seed(seminare), grau=wheat( granum), orz=barley( hordeum), legume=vegetables(
legumen), in=linen( linum),aur=gold(aurum), argint=silver(aregentum), sare=salt(salem),
cal=horse(caballus), vaca=cow(vaca), vita=beef( vitea)
We can speak of a period when people could have used both the Latin and the Dacian language. This was
until the final decision of speaking on latin.
The Latin Origins of the Romanian
People
In “Dacia felix” the process of Romanization
continued after the army and the administration of
Rome left in 271 through intensifying the study of
latin especially for rural areas. Our language care
from a colloquial latin also called “latina vulgaris”. This
aspect of latin stays at the beginning of the other
romanic languages such as: Italian, Spanish, French,
Portuguese and others.
The process stopped in the seventh century. The
invasions of migrating populations: goths, gepidae,
huns, slavs; influenced the language and modified the