Who originally colonized Romania?

Answer 1

Romania was not colonized, Romania was the territory of the earliest civilization in Europe.

1. Ancient history: the land, called Dacia (inhabited by the Dacians, a Thracian people), was conquered and colonised by Rome at the turn of the 2nd century AD. The two peoples are our ancestors, plus some Slavic tribes (in a less significant proportion).

2. Parts of our country, before their two-phase unification, were colonised or under a form of other of foreign rule.

Transylvania was in turn conquered by the Hungarians, the Ottomans (Turks) and by the Austrian Empire till after the First World War.

Muntenia (Wallachia) was ruled by the Ottomans till the War of Independence (1877), and the same thing happened with Moldavia. There were also regions stolen (temporarily or permanently) by the Russians. Before, during and after the Second World War the Soviets and the Hungarians sliced off large portions of the country, while the Germans occupied us (with the Power's consent). After the war came the Soviets and they stayed a while (they left in the 50s).

Answer 2

The Roman Empire had conquered and colonized the Dacian Kingdom in 106 AD. The pursuit was, off course, the Gold. Dacia was an El Dorado of Antiquity, and therefore many Romans settled. The new people formed was called "Romani" or "Rumani", meaning "coming from Rome".

Answer 3

* 2 000 000: early hominids (Valea lui Grăuceanu-Bugiuleşti archaeological site, near the village Tetoiu, Vîlcea county) * 36 000 B.C.: traces of Homo sapiens (Peştera cu oase = The cave with bones, in southwestern Romania) * aprox. 3 500 B.C.: invasion of indo-european tribes (on the Romanian territory the Thracians). The most prominent Thracian people on the Romanian territory was the Dacians.* 106: Dacia was conquered by the Roman Empire - aprox. 200 years of civil and military Roman occupation.

Answer 4

Romania was not colonized.

See also the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Romania.