Daco-Roman

The term Daco-Roman describes the Romanized culture of Dacia under the rule of the Roman Empire. The Romanian historian of ideas and historiographer Lucian Boia stated that the Daco-Roman formula, as an origin for the Romanian people, began to surface around the 1870s.^[1]

Famous individuals

Ulpia Severina (fl. 3rd century), the wife of the Emperor Aurelian whose nomen Ulpius was widespread in all the provinces along the Danube may have been from Dacia.^[2]

See also

• Gallo-Roman
• Romano-British culture
• Culture of Ancient Rome
• Dacian language
• Eastern Romance substratum
• Romanian language
• Origin of the Romanians
• Romance languages
• Legacy of the Roman Empire
• The Balkan linguistic union
• History of Romania

Further reading

• (English) Kelley L. Ross The Vlach Connection and Further Reflections on Roman History

Notes

1. Boia 2001b, p. 92.
2. Watson, Alaric (1999). Aurelian and the Third Century. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-07248-4.

References

• Boia, Lucian (2001b). History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness. Central European University Press. ISBN 978-963-9116-97-9.
• Cihac, Alexandru (1870). Dictionnaire d'étymologie daco-romane: éléments latins comparés avec les autres langues romanes (in French). Frankfurt: Ludolphe St-Goar. ISBN 978-0-559-38812-5.
• Elton, Hugh (1996). Warfare in Roman Europe, AD 350-425. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-815241-5.
• MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan (2000). The Dacian Stones Speak. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4939-2.