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THE REAL ROMANIAN EARLY HISTORY (III)

"DECEBALUS" ("BRAVEHEART")- KING DIURAPNEUS' NICKNAME

Motto: "Of Gods Themselves should we descend

All, facing Death, still have to bend;

It makes no difference as to die

An old hunchback, or younger guy,

Yet, Lion better says "good bye"

Over a Dog in chains..."

 (From: "Decebalus addressing the people", by George Cosbuc)

Throughout the First century A.D., the Carpatho-Danubiano-Pontic geographical space apparently was some kind of an immense fighting zone. Its Thracian local population sees herself continously harassed, plundered, robbed, pushed aside, stricken and hit by all kinds of tribal new-comers, whose migratory waves gradually succeed to settle down somewhere and...

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