Statue of Decebal
Statuia lui Decebal
Statue of Decebal
Statuia lui Decebal
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Historical Hungarian county:
Hunyad
GPS coordinates:
45.8784676532, 22.9025417375
History
The Romanians themselves can't decide whether they are the descendants of the conquered Dacians or the conquering Romans, so they have erected statues to both Decebal and Emperor Trajan in Déva, just to be sure. Nothing of the Dacian language and culture has survived after little more than a century and a half of Roman rule. The Romanians claim that some of their words are derived from the Dacians, but in fact they are of unknown origin, as nothing of the Dacian language has survived. The province of Dacia, founded by the Romans, also ceased to exist around 270 AD, when the Romans moved its population, largely made up of the military and settlers who had arrived after their conquest, south of the Danube to Moesia to escape the invasion of Germanic tribes. There is no archeological or documental proof of their continued existance in present day Transylvania afterwards.
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