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The Dark Ages in Romania refer to the period starting with the withdrawal of the Roman administration and ending roughly in the 11th century - with the last phase of the Age of Migrations. Coat of arms of Romania This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... This article provides only a brief outline of each period of the History of Romania; details are presented in separate articles (see the links in the box and below). ... Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, named by the ancient Greeks Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa, on the east by the Tyras or Nistru, now... // The Province The Roman province of Dacia was limited to the modern Romanian regions of Transylvania, the Banat and Oltenia, and temporally, Muntenia and southern Moldova. ... // Context The Dark Ages in Romania ended around the 11th century, following the period in which the Romanian lands had been part of the First Bulgarian Empire (802-1018) and the settling of the Magyar tribes into Europe (896) who led by Arpad, settled in Pannonia. ... During the period of Austro-Hungarian rule in Transylvania and Ottoman suzerainty over Wallachia and Moldavia, most Romanians were in the situation of being second-class citizens (or even non-citizens) in their own country. ... From 1859 to 1877, Romania evolved from a personal union of two vassal principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) under a single prince to a full-fledged independent kingdom with a Hohenzollern monarchy. ... After a brief period of nominal neutrality, Romania joined the Axis Powers in June 1941, under the government of Ion Antonescu. ... The Soviets pressed for inclusion of Romanias heretofore negligible Communist Party in the post-war government, while non-communist political leaders were steadily eliminated from political life. ... 1989 marked the Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. ... // The Province The Roman province of Dacia was limited to the modern Romanian regions of Transylvania, the Banat and Oltenia, and temporally, Muntenia and southern Moldova. ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ... The German term Völkerwanderung (lit. ...

Faced by successive invasions of Goths and Carpi, the Roman administration withdrew from Dacia, abandoning the last of their positions north of the Danube during the reign of Aurelian (270-275). Invasion of the Goths: a late 19th century painting by O. Fritsche portrays the Goths as cavalrymen. ... Carpi may refer to: Carpi, a large town of Modena province in Italy the Carpi, an ancient Dacian tribe This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, named by the ancient Greeks Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa, on the east by the Tyras or Nistru, now... Lucius Domitius Aurelianus (September 9, 214–275), known in English as Aurelian, Roman Emperor (270–275), was the second of several highly successful soldier-emperors who helped the Roman Empire regain its power during the latter part of the third century and the beginning of the fourth. ...

Part of the territory of what is today Romania was part of Attila's Empire of 450. After the disintegration of Attila's Empire, different parts of modern Romania were under successive control of the Gepids, Avars, Bulgars and Pechenegs. For other uses, see Attila (disambiguation). ... The Gepids (Latin Gepidae) were a Germanic tribe most famous in history for defeating the Huns after the death of Attila. ... The Eurasian Avars were a nomadic people of Eurasia who migrated into central and eastern Europe in the 6th century. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Pechenegs or Patzinaks, also known as Besenyők, were a semi-nomadic steppes people of Central Asia that spoke a Turkic language. ...

This period of migration also caused the dislocation of a bulk of the local romanised population from the Latin speaking areas north of the Jireček Line, to the south, specifically the Aromanians, believed to have been sepparated sometimes in between the 7th and 9th century. The Megleno-Romanians are believed to have split sometimes in the 10th century, when Pechenegs invaded the Byzantine Empire. The Jireček Line The Jireček Line is an imaginary line that divided in the ancient Balkans, until the 4th century, the influences of the Latin (in North) and Greek (in South) languages. ... Aromanian shepherd in traditional clothes, photo from the early 1900s. ... Megleno-Romanians (In Megleno-Romanian: VlaÅŸi, in Greek: Βλαχομογλενίτες; Vlachomoglenítes) is a disputed exonym for a people inhabiting six villages in the Moglená region spanning the Pella and Kilkis prefectures of Macedonia, Greece, as well as a single village across the border in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. ... Byzantine Empire (Greek: ) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. ...

The Byzantine Empire held the territory of today's Dobruja from time to time (such as during Justinian's reign in the 6th century or again under the emperors of the Macedonian dynasty 9th-10th centuries), but it was a border that was hard to maintain due to the constant invasions from the north. In 971, the Byzantine Empire reestablished its dominance north of the Danube and in Dobruja after defeating the Kievan Rus', Dobruja being part of the Byzantine Paristrion thema (province) between 971 and 1204. Dobruja, or sometimes Dobrudja (Dobrogea in Romanian, Добруджа—transliterated Dobrudzha—in Bulgarian, Dobruca in Turkish), is the territory between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, including the Danube Delta, Romanian coast and the northernmost part of the Bulgarian coast. ... Justinian I depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale. ... This Buddhist stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century. ... Events Births Deaths Culen of Scotland Categories: 971 ... Map of the the extent of Kievan Rus through the 11th century. ... Events Births Deaths Culen of Scotland Categories: 971 ... // Events February - Byzantine emperor Alexius IV is overthrown in a revolution, and Alexius V is proclaimed emperor. ...

The Romanians are the descendants of a Romanized population, namely Daco-Thracian. The traditional theory was that the Romanians lived in their current territory during all the Dark Age period, occasionally fleeing to the mountains to escape the migrating hordes. However, in 19th century a new theory arised, which asserted that the Romanians migrated to current Romania from south of the Danube sometimes during the Middle Ages. For more details, see Origin of Romanians. A romanization or latinization is a system for representing a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, where the original word or language used a different writing system. ... Alternate meanings: see Dacia (disambiguation) Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci or Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa (Tisza river, in Hungary), on the east by... The Thracians were an Indo-European people, inhabitants of Thrace and adjacent lands (present-day Bulgaria, Romania, northeastern Greece, European Turkey and northwestern asiatic Turkey, eastern Serbia and parts of Republic of Macedonia). ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... The Romanians (also sometimes referred to along with other Balkan Latin peoples as Vlachs) are a nation speaking Romanian, a Romance language, and living in Central and Eastern Europe. ...

External links

• Original Text Documents and Monument Information on Romanian Medieval Ages at the Romanian Group for an Alternative History Website. (Mostly in Romanian.)