1939 ROMANIA Moldavia Walachia Transylvania PROPAGANDA

DESCRIPTION
This is a concise history of ROMANIA spanning over 2000 years.
This book published in 1939 presents the history of Romania and its people, from the first mentions in historic documents to formation and consolidation of the Romanian state. The book was written by historian Romulus Seisanu. It is very well documented with documents and historical chronicles, professionally written. Some details of the Romanian history are very little known, here there are thoroughly examined.

CONTENT
> 1 folded map of Romania & 1 folded sketch
> 116 pages of text in English [content, 10 chapters, index of names and places]

"Whether they called themselves Vlahi , Wallachians , Muntenians , Moldovians , Transylvanians or whether they received these names from foreigners, the Romanians have always been conscious of the fact they formed one people, and have constantly striven for the formation of a national state, coinciding with their racial frontiers"

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I. Origin of the Romanian People
> First mentions of the population and tribes living in today's Romania (the Getae also called Dacians) in documents related to: expedition of Alexander the Great in 4th century BC, Herodotus "History" from 450 BC, fights and wars with the Egyptian, the Persians, the Celts, and finally the Romans)
> Wars with the Roman Empire: Dacian kings- Burebista and the last king Decebalus; Roman Emperor Trajan and his campaign against Dacia, final defeat of Dacians in 106 AD, Roman colonization in Dacia, formation of the Romanian people and Romanian language
> Comparison of Latinisation and Romanic influences over other Roman provinces in Britain, in Gaul (today France), in Spain; Roman Empire retreats and abandons Dacia in AD 275, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius
> Barbarian invasions, spread of Latin Christianity in Dacia from the 4th century on

II. Views of foreign historians and geographers on the racial origin of the Rumanians
> Documents regarding Romania and Romanian population written by Pope Pius II in 15th century, Giovanni Antonio Magini (Italian geographer ) in the 16th century, Roman historian Eutropius, poet Horaces, German historian Johann Troester in 1666, A de Gerando om 1845, Thibault Lefebre in 1875, Julius Jung, Leopold von Ranke, Traugott Tamm in 1891, and many other historians
> Medieval chronicles mentions on Romania and Romanians: Russian chronicle of Nestor 10th century, The Chroncicle of the Anonymous Notary of King Bela, the Hungarian Chronicle of Simon of Geza, the Anonymous Chronicle of 1308 attributed to a Catholic eclesiastic, the Niebelungen of the Middle Ages, and other

III. The Rumanians of the Balkan peninsula
> The Byzantine chroniclers refer to the existence of Romanians (Vlahi) in the Balkans, the mountains of Illyria, Thrace, part of Macedonia, Epirus, Peloponnesus

IV. Hungarians and Romanians
> Seven Magyar tribes accompanied by an isolated tribe of Kabarres settled in in the 9th century in Pannonia; in year 897 the Magyars started military expeditions in Transylvania; in year 1000, King Stephen was converted to Christianity and the Catholic Pope organized Hungary

V. Transylvania as an independent or autonomous principality
> Hungarian domination extended eastward and tried to incorporate Transylvania. Political and military organizations of Romanians in Transylvania from year 1137 to the end of 16th century.
> Possessions of Romanian sovereigns of Wallachia and Moldavia (Mircea the Elder, Vlad Tepes / Dracula, Stephen the Great ) in Transylvania

VI. Union of Transylvania with Moldavia and Walachia under Michael the Brave (1599-1601)
> Creation of Romanian state in 1599, by Michael the Brave, assassinated in 1601
> Foreign colonization in Transylvania: Szekels, Saxons

VII. Origin and development of the Rumanian State
> Romanians set up small duchies and principalities between the 8th and 13th centuries, in Wallachia, Moldavia and in Transylvania; also established south of Danube larger States (Greater Wallachia of the 10th century, and the Romano-Bulgar Empire in the 13th century). They were obliged to engage in severe combats against the Turks: Mircea the Elder , Vlad Tepes, Michael the Brave defeated several Turkish armies
> Crusade organized under the patronage of Pope Eugenius IV on Danube
> Reign of Stephen the Great in Moldavia and his fight against Turks
> Foreign projects for the Union of Romanian Lands, Romanian projects
> The WW1

VIII. The Rumanians beyond the national boundaries
> In USSR , Poland , Czechomoravia , Hungary , Yugoslavia , Albania , Greece , Bulgaria , Vidin , Italy

IX. The territories transferred to the Rumanians in 1920 and the principle of self determination: Bessarabia Bukovina Transylvania

X. Hungary and the treaty of Trianon
> At the end of WW1, the unification of Romania was finally made possible, through the Peace Treaty of Trianon