The Dacian Wars: How Rome Conquered Romania's Ancestors

Before Romania was a nation, before the legions marched, before Vlad Țepeș or Stephen the Great or Michael the Brave — there was Dacia, a kingdom that challenged Rome and nearly won. This episode of The History of Romania takes you to the edge of the Roman Empire, where Emperor Domitian suffered humiliating defeat and Trajan fought two brutal wars to subdue the mountain kingdom of Decebalus. We walk Trajan's Column in Rome — carved with the story of the Dacian Wars — and visit the real battlefields: Tapae, Sarmizegetusa Regia, the Iron Gates. We explore the Dacian falx, the curved blade that terrified Roman soldiers; the sealed letters Decebalus sent to the northern tribes; and the treasure he hid beneath the river Sargetia. And we confront the most haunting moment: Decebalus's suicide, his severed head brought to Rome, displayed on the Gemonian steps. This is the war that made Dacia a Roman province — and set the stage for everything that followed.

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