DACIA
REVIVAL INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY
by Dr.N.Savescu
Dacia Revival is a foundation which proposes to
demonstrate that “We, The Dacians have not perished.”
The various opinions, concepts, unscientific
interpretations presented in a false manner trying to attribute to our nation a
recent origin, are inaccurate.
When Alexander von Humboldt said that: “the ability to
understand one’s history, constitutes, for every nation the “the test stone” of
its maturity,” I believe that he was including us, those living for millennia
in the Carpatho-Pontico-Danubian space, whatever you want to call: Romanians , Vlahos-Vlahs-Vlaci,
or Geto-Dacians.
These wrong interpretations, attributing to us a
“Roman” origin, ignoring the fact that the Carpatho-Pontic-Danubian region
represents the cradle for the people of Europe, is what determined me to create:
the “Dacia Revival”, “Dacia Magazine”, “Dacia T.V.” in New York and to organize
the Dacology Congresses: Sarmisegetuza 2000, Burebista 2001, N. Densusianu 2002
and Tartaria 2003, Danubian Civilization, Roots 2004, Kogaion 2005 and Decebal
2006.
The truth not only has to be spoken, but it has to be
proven as well.
The creation of a false history about our people,
during the last 200 years, based on ignorance, on an unreasonable preoccupation
to prove that Romanians are a nation of a recent interbreeding between some
Roman soldiers and local Dacian women, is an ignominy. The morbid logic, which
governs those kinds of “historical” concepts about the formation of Romanian
people, is immoral.
Let’s turn the pages of some of “Romanian” history
books and see how the Romanian people were created.
Florin Constantinescu, in “A Sincere History of the
Romanian People,” published by “Universal Encyclopedic”
The same “historian” lets us know that, the “categorical”
superiority of the Roman Civilization as compared to the Geto- Dacians imposed
itself in the Carpatho-Danubian space, romanized the natives, and first made
Romans out of Geto Dacians, who finally became Romanians!
These “historical pearls” are found in abundance not
only in this “sincere history” of the Romanian people, but even in the ones
opposed to it.
The trout is that
The Maltese were occupied by them for 1,088 years
(from 218 BC to 870 AD) and they don’t speak Latin today.
The Greeks were under Roman occupation for 641 years
(from 146 BC to 395 AD), the Egyptians for 425 years (from 30 BC to 395 AD),
the Hebrews for 325 years (from 70 BC to 395 AD) and the Britons for 450 years.
I do not remember anybody saying that Latin is spoken
today in any of these countries.
Andre Maurois, in the “History of England” asks
himself: “where are all those Romanized Celts and Britons after 450 years of Roman
occupation?” None of these peoples occupied for hundreds and thousands of years
by the Romans, have forgotten their language, only, the Dacians, did! And this
is after less then 165 years of Roman occupation of only 14% of the Dacian
territory.
I believe there should be a limit to our credibility
in accepting the dogma (believe and don’t ask!) of our history.
The Carpatho- Danubian region holds the oldest
vestiges of the existence of human activities in
There is not much we can tell about these far off
ancestors. One of the most depressing aspect of our history starts when
politics try to manipulate our past. One finds himself helpless face to face
with these scientists, who got to some illogical conclusions about the
historical past of our people and one asks himself, whether it isn’t be better
not to get involved in their “affairs”. To exist, the truth needs two things:
someone to speak it out and someone to hear it.
I’ll take the first step and talk to you about our
true ancestors, Geto- Dacians.
We cannot walk through life blind folded and with the
ears covered to an evident truth.
We cannot refuse to listen to the comments of the ones
who are rejecting the dogma- believe and don’t ask. I am the teacher; you have
to listen to me!
We can’t accept the fact that, till the year 106 AD, Daco-Romanian
didn’t exist only because that is what we are thought in the Romanian schools
and universities. We cannot accept the fact that the Roman legions penetrated
Dacia, conquered 14% of its territory for a negligible historical period of time,
165 years and, over night, its entire population, occupied or not, started
speaking a different language, the Roman one (without 86% of Dacia’s territory
ever being stepped on by the Roman soldiers’ foot).
We cannot accept that some Roman Empire’s mercenaries
arrived from all over the corners of the ancient world; Africa,
Ironically, accordantly to some Romanian historians, they
managed to do that not only in the 14% of the occupied territory, but even on
the rest of the 86% never seen by them.
Today, the official Romanian historians try to
convince us that the Roman soldiers, were not only very virile (after a
military service of 25-30 years), but also very cultured, succeeding to teach
the Latin not only to the Dacian women, their spouses and parents, but even to
the new born ones… Big patience and culture had these Roman mercenaries, and
all that in a period of one hundred years!
Gentlemen, such dumb founded “history” we do not have
to accept, without objection. Isn’t it more logical, somehow, what the greatest
Romanian historian Nicolae Densusianu proves: the Dacians spoke the Latin
language, before the Romans to exist (see www.dacia.org ).
The fact that
we are not
Carolus Lundius, the President of the Swedish Academic
of Science, who in the year 1687, published “Zamolxis the First Legislator of
the Gets” in which he affirms that the first written laws in the human history
were Zamolxis laws, was proud to consider his people related to Geto Dacian one
.
Observe the first written message in the history of
humanity was found in
Even the puzzle Dacians versus Gets was solved almost
2000 years ago by
Dio Casius in Epitome of Book LXVII : “I call the people Dacians, the names
used by the natives themselves as well as by the Romans, though I am not
ignorant that some Greek writers refer to them as Getae “
When will our history start not with a meager and
insignificant defeat, but with the Geto- Dacian kings and their grate victories?
Let tray to see how these history could look like….
“At the time
when
Herodotus and
Iordanes tell us about the arrival on our territory in the year 529 BC of
Cyrus, Persian king, the ruler of a vast Empire, stretching from the
His military
force, a true war machine, created to crash any resistance attempt, gives up in
front of the Carpatho-Danubian people and Cyrus the Great dies in a battle with
the Messgets. Queen Tomiris, the victorious winner of the battle, will build at
Fifteen years
later, in 514 BC, wanting to wipe off the shame suffered by his predecessor,
leading 700,000 soldiers and building a bridge made of warships from Chalcedony
to Bezants, arrives the Great Persian king, Darius, the son of Histaspe.
He wanted to
take a closer look at these Gets “who believe themselves immortals”, and he was
given the occasion.
In the
beginning, Darius proposed marriage to Antirus’s daughter, the Getic king.
Despising the king, the Gets refused him. Furious, Darius builds another
bridge, this time over
After his
death, his son, Xerxes, wanting to revenge his father’s insult (tells us the
same Iordanes on page 25), starts a campaign against Geto Dacians with an army
of one million of which 700,000 soldiers, 300,000 auxiliaries, as well as 1200 war
ships and 3000 transport ships”.
What do you think, gentlemen, about the effort to rise
such an armed force against an insignificant people, without culture, who had
to wait another 650 years for the Romans to conquer and “interbreed” with
them?!
Doesn’t it seem to you that someone is playing a”strange
joke” with this history?
Not long ago, only a few months after the 3rd
International Congress of Dacology, dedicated to
Today, the history of the Carpatho-Pontico-Danubian
region is rediscovered by some foreigners such as: William Ryan and Walter
Pitman (Senior Scientists at
In fact, reading their conclusions, we return to him,
to N. Densusianu, the one who in 1913, through his posthumous literary work
“Prehistoric Dacia”, was introducing us, the Daco-Romanians, as one of the first
people of Europe and as the ones who shaped Europe. Unfortunately, his work was
published in a period when the Latinism and the politico- religious idea of the
Catholic type was flourishing, period which will put us back in time, by a few
hundred years.
The uselessness of the idea that the Romanian people
emerged after the year 106 AD as a young people in
Nicolae Densusianu has the courage to confront them
all and to prove a different origin of our nation, the one, which, instead of starting
with the year 106 AD, stretched over thousands and thousands of years, where
our ancestors were heroes, persons deserving respect.
He, N. Densusianu, has dedicated his entire working
strength and breath to the nation he belonged to and of which he was proud. He
belonged to the people who passionately loved the entire land occupied by
Romanians, where the borders were set by the spoken language,
At the beginning of twenty century Nicolae Iorga
Argiropolus, put again in circulation the unfortunate idea of the so called
“Romanizing” of the Dacian people. This halted the Dacian research for some
hundred years. In a moment of lucidity and inspiration, he contested everything
he had sustained his entire life, by affirming that” we are not a nation of
bastards”.
It is “impossible to believe that the Romanian people
was born from the withered potency of some Roman veterans drained of vigor
after a military service of 20-30 years”, tells us Cornel Barsan in the
“Dacia’s revenge” Publishing Objective,
Craiova, page 90.
Even so, the monsters’ gallery incited on our nation
would not be complete, says the same C. Barsan, if there would be no mention of
the Romanian authors, who, in a solidarity spirit with the above, don’t refrain
from insulting the nation’s spirit by labeling the Dacians as drunks, Decebal
as invader, Vlad Tepes/ The Impeller, as a famous criminal of Stalin and
Hitler’s type, Mihai Viteazul-paranoic colonialist, the genius of the Romanian
poetry, Mihail Eminescu- fascist, Octavian Goga-knave, and Mihail Sadoveanu and
George Calinescu-communists.
Turning over the pages of the world’s publications, we
find the American Sumerolog, John A. Halloran asking himself “How can it be
explained the fact that inside a western Romanian region, surrounded by towns
with Sumerian names: Urastie, Simeria, Kugir, there were found little tablets
made from local clay with Sumerian pictograms on them, but older by 1000 then
the ones from Mesopotamia.”
In the “Scientific American Journal” from 1968, the
Tartaria tablets are presented as being similar to the ones from
The Russian archeologist V.Titov estimates that the
primitive writing has its origins in the Balkans of the IV- th millennium BC.
In 1973, the
subject of Milton McChesney Winn’s Ph. D. thesis at the
Marja Gimbutas, professor of archeology at USLA, one
of the promoters of this hypothesis, was a coordinator for this doctorate thesis
(The living Goddesses – University of California Press, 1999 p.50-51), where
the above researcher lets us know the fact that Tartaria writing preceded the
Sumerian one by a few thousand years.
The researcher Haral Harmann “Research Centre of
Multilingualism” of Brussels, on the 28th of October 2000, at a
Conference taking place in Milan, talked about the beginning of writing in the Balkans
at 5.500 BC, not forgetting to mention the fact that, till not long ago it was
considered that the writing was invented in Sumer, in the year 3.300 BC.
The Romanian archeologists were more cautious,
considering, in the beginning, the little tablets of Tartaria as fake. Later
on, they considered the signs on them as primitive ones, then sacred signs,
maybe a sacred writing, maybe a beginning of writing? Or some Sumerian
merchants passed by us and lost them (and all this with more then 1000 years
before
After 42 years from their discovery by the Romanian
archeologist N. Vlassa, their existence begins to be accepted. But the Romanian
archeologists are disagreeing with the dating, arguing that it would be an
historic inaccuracy to consider these tablets as old as the rest of the world
does.
In 2004, Marco Merlini from
Some of the previous Congresses of Dacology tried to
answer some of these questions:
- Did it exist in
- Where in
- Did this writing of the proto-Europeans disappear or
did it continue until today?
- Is it possible that a short period of 165 years
occupation of only 14% of the Dacian territory by Roman mercenaries caused the
complete disappearance of the Dacian language, and replacing it by Latin?
Doesn’t it make more sense that the Indo-European language which emerged from
the Carpatho-Danubian space, gave birth not only to the Sanskrit language, but
also the “Romance” languages such as Latin?
The most serious theories of
Indo-European Origins propose that the homeland of the speakers of the
Proto-Indo-European language is to be found in the
One of the most respected
archaeologists of our time, Colin Renfrew thinks that
Proto-Indo-European unity is to be found in the Balkans, in agreement with the
opinion of Diakonov. Proto-Indo-European was however an offshoot of
Pre-Proto-Indo-European which was the language of the early farmers who crossed
the q1Aegean from Anatolia to settle in
From Carpatho-Danubian-Balkans
center, as Diakonoff realized, (around 5000 BC), a division with the bulk of
the early Proto-Indo-European languages of central and Western Europe (the
languages of “Old Europe” in some terminologies) appears and on the one hand, and those of the steppe
lands to the north of the Black Sea on the other (4th millennium BCE).
More recently, Finnish scholar Kalevi
Wiik has also proposed Indo-European origins in
The theory of Indo-European
origins in
They were also
in agreement with an other independent linguistic analysis of Indo-European
languages [Rexova, K., Frynta, D. & Zrzavy, J. “Cladistic analysis of
languages: Indo-European classification based on lexicostatistical data.” Cladistics
19, 120–127 (2003)].
For thousands of years, the legend of great flood has endured in the
biblical story of Noah and such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh.
Few scientists believed that such a catastrophic deluge had actually occurred.
But these Bible “stories” for some scientific people appeared to have a real sense.
William. Ryan and Walter Pittman in their scientific
research regarding Noah’s Flood, “The new scientific discoveries about the
event that changed history” have discovered an event that changed history; a
sensational flood 8,600 years ago in what is today the
Archeologists searched the
length and breath of the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers in
12,500 B.C., earth
temperature increased, and the Eurasian ice sheet started to melt. The level of
sea and oceans increased with 150 meters.
The Atlantic Ocean water
burst through the
Sophisticated dating
technique, sometime using both the carbon 14 and a new method of Thermal
Ionization Mass Spectrometry (TIMS) confirmed that 8,600 years ago the mounting
seas had burst through the narrow Bosporus valley, and the salt water of
Mediterranean had poured into the lake with unimaginable force, racing over
beaches and up rivers, destroying or chasing all life before it. The margins of
the lake, which has been a unique oasis, a Garden of Eden for an advanced
culture in a vast region of semi-desert, became a sea of death. The people
fled, never to return.
Today scientific people
explore the exiting archeological, genetic, and linguistic evidence suggesting
that the flood rapidly created a human Diaspora that spread as far as Western
Europe, Center Asia,
Understanding these
testimonies presupposes a little reflection when we are speaking about old
Romanian or better saying Dacian history.