Where was the Romans land?

Answer 1

It is Romania. This name was originally used as one of the names for the Byzantine Empire. The term Byzantine was coined by the German historian Hieronymus Wolf in 1557. It has been used ever since by historians to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part of this empire. The eastern part was not affected by the invasions which led to the demise of the western part and continued to exist for nearly 1,000 years. The people of this empire did not use the term Byzantine. They called their empire Roman Empire, Romania or Rhomais. The Name Romania (land of the Romans) was popular and was used mainly unofficially. Later, the people who lived in the areas of what was to become Romania adopted this name.

In the Middle Ages the terms Vlah or Wallach were used to indicate the people who lived in Wallachia (in southern Romania) and Moldova. These terms were used by German and Slavonic peoples to indicate all Latin speakers. The people of Wallachia called themselves Romans. They identified themselves with the Latin word Romanus (Roman), which in their language became Roman. This was first recorded by Italians and Frenchmen who travelled to Walachia, Moldova and Transylvania (present day eastern and central Romania). In 1532, the Italian humanist Francesco delle Valle wrote that the language of these peoples was similar to Italian and they claimed that they came to live in these lands from ancient Rome. In 1574, the French traveller Pierre Lescalopier wrote: "The whole of the country of Wallachia and Moldova and most of Transylvania was populated by Roman colonies in the days of the Roman emperor Trajan. This people say that they are the true successors of the Romans and they called their parlance romanechte; that is, Roman."

Romanian (like Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese) is a Romance language; that is, a language derived from Vulgar Latin, a mixture of Latin and local languages which developed in parallel with Classical Latin.

An early 19th century Wallachian revolutionary leader, Tudor Vladimirescu (c. 1780-1821) used the term Rumania to refer exclusively to the principality of Wallachia. This was because he led a rebellion which occurred exclusively in this principality. The name Romania to refer to the common homeland of all Romanians emerged in the early 19th century. It came in official use in 1861.

Wallachia and Moldova were both under the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire. The Greek War on independence (1821-32) against the rule of the Ottoman Turks included rebellions in the principality of Wallachia and the principality of Moldova. The Great Powers (Britain, France and Russia) intervened if favour of the insurgents and defeated the Ottoman Turks. In 1857 the Great Powers held a referendum in Wallachia and Moldavia which showed that the people wanted the union of the two lands. In 1858 the Great Powers decided that the two countries were to become The United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, but they had to have separate institutions. However, in 1859 both Wallachia and Moldova elected the same man as their prince. This begun a process of unification of these two lands and the beginning of the creation of Romania. Full national unity was achieved after WWI when Transylvania Bucovina (a small area north of Transylvania), which had been under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Bessarabia (which was the eastern part of Moldavia and had been given to the Russian Empire in 1812) became part of Romania.

Answer 2

Italy