OzzyKP said:
Just some nationalist anti-Hungarian crap.
Translyvania was 'Hungarian" for a millenia, mirc should get over himself.
ANTI HUNGARIAN? Have I said anything about Hungary here???????????
Transilvania was in the Roman Empire province Dacia.
The Hungarians came from Asia and went into the almost empty region Pannonia. Just some slavs there. They first tried to expand west, but they were defeated. Then they expanded to the east. It was a theory that Transilvania was empty when they came, but there are a lot of reasons to believe it's not true. Just a few of them are here:
- if Transilvania was empty why they tried to expand to the well defended western states and not to the "empty" Transivania?
- we have in documents from Transilvania which use original Roman names for religious objects (while in that theory the Romanians appeared in the Byzantine empire and migrated to the north, and in the Byzantine empire there are other names for this objects)
- some Hungarian documents mention the principates of Gelu, Glad and Menumorut. They mention there also that Gelu was: VALAH. Valah, or Vlah, or Blah, or Blac, come from the name of a latin tribe living at the north of Italy named Volcae. In some languages, all the people of the Roman empire are Valah. So naming Gelu valah means that there were Romanian tribes living there.
- also, when the Hungarians became Catholic they made a huge action of covincing the Orthodox (!) people from Transilvania convert to Catholicism. And there weren't any (or very few) slavs. Then, why would them make such a huge convincing action?
... and the list can continue. If anyone doesn't believe me, I'll post more reasons. Don't think they are over.
At about 1250 AD Hungary conquered Transilvania (can't be sure, they conquered it very slow, not in a year). So it's impossible that Transilvania was Hungarian for 1000 years! We are not in 2250 AD! In fact the three Romanian states (Wallachia, Transilvania, and Moldavia) were united in 1600-1601 by Mihai Viteazul! Yes, only for short time but you realise how little time Transilvania was Hungarian. In 1859 all the Romanian-speaking states (so also Basarabia and Bucovina, that are now Moldavia and a region from Ucraina) were united by Alexandru Ioan Cuza that became Domn al Romaniei. Then Romania became a kingdom, then a communist country, and now a Republic.
So where's that "millenia"?
And don't forget in our days 92% of the people in transilvania are Romanians, 6% Hungarians and 1.8% Germans.
So Arad shouldn't be in Hungary.
AND I'M NOT ANTI-HUNGARIAN!
