A chronicle for students and the curious

The History of the Romanian People

from King Burebista to the present day

Thirty articles tracing our people’s history across more than two millennia: from the Getic-Dacian kingdom through the founding of the medieval states, the Great Union and the trials of the twentieth century, to Romania today.

The Dacians and Rome

Burebista, Decebalus, Roman Dacia and the formation of the people

  1. 1Burebista and the Getic-Dacian State (82–44 BC)
  2. 2Decebalus’s Kingdom and the Wars with Rome (85–106)
  3. 3Roman Dacia (106–271)
  4. 4Romanization and the Formation of the Romanian People

Migrations and foundations

From the Aurelian withdrawal to the medieval states

  1. 5The Age of Migrations and the Aurelian Withdrawal (3rd–10th Centuries)
  2. 6Knezates, Voivodeships and the Great Invasions (9th–13th Centuries)
  3. 7The Founding of Wallachia: Basarab I and the Battle of Posada
  4. 8Mircea the Elder and the Struggle Against Ottoman Expansion
  5. 9The Founding of Moldavia: From Dragoș to Alexander the Good

Voivodes and princes

Stephen, Vlad, Michael, Brâncoveanu and the culture of the 15th–17th centuries

  1. 10Stephen the Great and Holy (1457–1504)
  2. 11Vlad the Impaler, Neagoe Basarab and Wallachia in the 15th–16th Centuries
  3. 12Medieval Transylvania: Voivodeship, Nobles and Serfs
  4. 13Ottoman Suzerainty and the Romanian Princes of the 16th Century
  5. 14Michael the Brave and the First Union of the Romanian Lands (1600)
  6. 15Matei Basarab, Vasile Lupu and the Culture of the 17th Century
  7. 16Constantin Brâncoveanu and Dimitrie Cantemir

The Phanariote era and the awakening of the nation

From the Phanariotes to the Union of the Principalities

  1. 17The Phanariot Era (1711/1716–1821)
  2. 18Habsburg Transylvania and the National Movement (18th Century)
  3. 19The Revolution of 1821 Led by Tudor Vladimirescu
  4. 20The Organic Regulations and the Revolution of 1848
  5. 21The Union of the Principalities (1859) and the Reign of Alexandru Ioan Cuza

Modern Romania

The Kingdom, the war of reunification and the Great Union

  1. 22Carol I, State Independence and the Kingdom of Romania
  2. 23Romania in the First World War (1914–1918)
  3. 24The Great Union of 1918 and Greater Romania
  4. 25Interwar Romania (1919–1939)

The twentieth century and the present

War, communism, the Revolution and European integration

  1. 26Romania in the Second World War (1939–1945)
  2. 27The Establishment of the Communist Regime (1945–1965)
  3. 28Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania (1965–1989)
  4. 29The Revolution of December 1989 and the Post-Communist Transition
  5. 30Romania in NATO and the European Union: The Present