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Statue of Emperor Trajan

Statuia lui Traian
Statue of Emperor Trajan
Statuia lui Traian
RO HD Deva Piata Unirii (5)
Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Settlement:
Address:
Piața Unirii
Historical Hungarian county:
Hunyad
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.8816952446, 22.9006119774
Google map:

History

Erected after 1989. The Romanians themselves cannot decide whether they are the descendants of the conquered Dacians or of 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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