r/mapporncirclejerk • u/Evermauve I'm an ant in arctica • Mar 05 '25
Someone will understand this. Just not me Why didn't the Romans start their empire in Romania? It's literally in their name? Are they stupid?
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u/Salt_Celebration_502 Mar 05 '25
Romania = actual Romans
Rome = delusional cosplayers
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u/One_Dirty_Russian Mar 05 '25
God punished the Romans by turning them into Italians. The OGs resettled in Romania.
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u/AshmedaiHel Mar 05 '25
Romania is the roman empire, they just lost all other parts bit-by-bit.
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u/GenericLordName Mar 05 '25
They did though. Don't you know, Dacians invented the Latin language? That's right, the Dacian civilization was so great that the Romans spoke their language. Also, how do you think the Romans had such a huge empire? I'll tell you why, you see, there are secret tunnels in the Carpathians leading to places such as Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Giza, making transit between the two places very easy. I bet they didn't tell you any of this at school, did they?
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u/DocGerbill Mar 05 '25
easy there mr president, you should take your medication now
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u/GenericLordName Mar 05 '25
Dacians! D-Dacians are the greatest!... Rome.... Carpathian tunnels....... Z-Zamolxis and Decebal.. a-are...... *falls asleep*
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u/Third_Sundering26 Mar 05 '25
I doubt Trump knows who the Dacians were.
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u/DocGerbill Mar 05 '25
Nono, the Romanian 1st place presidential candidate has these kind of episodes, like literally, word for word.
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u/PineappleQuiet6923 Mar 05 '25
You forgot your /s.
Now people can see how stupid our citizens get. They really believe that kind of bs.
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u/Weird1Intrepid Mar 05 '25
I got taught this secret history by a Romanian homeless dude too lol. And all about how the Roman empire was founded with gold stolen from Romania etc. I totally believe it 😂
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u/PineappleQuiet6923 Mar 05 '25
He missed the part where latin language evolved from romanian language.
I shit you not, we also have a pro russian presidential candidate who talks this kind of shit. And apparently stupid people around the country believe this kind of crap.
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u/Single_Positive533 Mar 05 '25
Actually the ancient Romans (Latini) were good navigators and took Spanish lessons from the Mayans. The merge of cultures lead the to "Latin" adopted by the Holy Roman Empire later on.
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u/PineappleQuiet6923 Mar 05 '25
And i guess the mayans took spanish lessons from the mexicans from the north, right? Lol
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u/Single_Positive533 Mar 05 '25
After the big Mexican wall was destroyed, yes.
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u/PineappleQuiet6923 Mar 05 '25
You are mistaken, my internet friend. They wanted you to believe they navigated their way to learn spanish from the mayans, while they used the secret tunnels from under the Bucegi mountains in Dacia.
Everyone knows about the tunnels that the old giants made from Dacia (also known as Eden back then) to the pyramids of Egypt and to Maya and Aztec kingdoms.
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u/Single_Positive533 Mar 05 '25
No, they arrived in ships. The Dacians met with Giant Sloths halfway through the Atlantic and helped them creating the first Dacian-Megatherium Empire of South America. But they spoke Argentinian.
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u/Third_Sundering26 Mar 05 '25
Yes, the Mexican Empire, which was controlled by the Sapa Aztec Sitting Bull, whose capital was Cahokia.
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u/Mousazz Mar 05 '25
there are secret tunnels in the Carpathians leading to places such as Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Giza, making transit between the two places very easy.
Dacians look at Elon Musk's Boring Company LA Tesla tunnel: "Look what they need to minic a fraction of our power!"
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u/HooLeeShiiit Mar 05 '25
Starting in Romania= Raw mania
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u/WhatTheFuqDuq Mar 05 '25
They probably thought they already conquered it, due to the name. Perfect scheme.
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u/rtb001 Mar 05 '25
Aak someone to list all the Romance languages and I guarantee Romanian is going to be the one they miss, despite the fact that our is the most obvious answer since Roman is literally in the name.
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u/Dramatic_Rip_2508 Mar 06 '25
In all fairness, Romania is also the least popular one out of France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Hell, the first 3 of those had massive colonial empires and the last one of those had the center of the Western Roman Empire.
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u/torsyen Mar 05 '25
They were looking for their homeland, and looked everywhere in Europe and North Africa before they found it. Building all them roads only slowed them down. So to answer your question.. yes.
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u/cfs002 Mar 05 '25
Rome actually used to be in Romania until the aliens moved it, you would know this if you watched the History Channel.
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u/Bach2Rock-Monk2Punk Mar 06 '25
They did but it was referred to as Dacia then and the Roman's didn't like the Name "Dacian Empire ". They relocated to a dumpy little settlement south of Etruria called Rome and rest is....whatever
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u/ItyBityGreenieWeenie Mar 05 '25
They did. A small group of elite Romans from Romania took over some small goat village on the Tiber. The rest of history is accurate, it just gets this one little detail wrong.
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u/The_Hipster_King Mar 05 '25
Puny fake Romans, they even named us Dacia on old maps just so they get away with it
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u/LashColinaS Mar 05 '25
romanian, italian, spanish and portugese are all part of the roman language. what are you talking about brotha.
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u/TwinFrogs Mar 05 '25
They tried to move there when Italy got full of Guido Italians with spray tans and became too much like New Jersey.
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u/Glittering_Fig2522 Mar 05 '25
And they didn't conquer the whole of Romania, what a bunch of losers
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u/manneerik Mar 06 '25
Yea I also wondered why Belisarius didn’t fight for Belarus. It’s literally his name!
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u/usandholt 27d ago
In Danish Aliens are Rummænd and Romania is Rumænien. We are of course highly suspicious of Romanian just because of this fact!
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u/Andre_ev Mar 05 '25
Because than name already was for people of Roma - gipsies
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u/Sure_gfu Mar 05 '25
Gipsies arrived in the territory about 500 years ago... Long after romanian territories were established.
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u/m_enfin Mar 05 '25
The Romans were from Rome, Italy. They expanded their territory, and what is now called Romania was one of their conquered provinces The name Romania is being used since the 18th century
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u/ovaone Mar 05 '25
Do you get to the cloud district very often? Oh, what am I saying? Of course you don't.
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u/ProfHitman Mar 05 '25
Romania or Dracula started war with Fatih Sultan Mehmed after he took over Constantinople!
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u/United_Hall4187 Mar 05 '25
Oh my!! some of the comments here I hope are intended to be humorous and not serious lol :-) "Romans" as in from "Rome, Italy" not Romania :-) just saying
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u/haversack77 Mar 05 '25
They spoke Latin across that whole red area. I bet the Romans couldn't believe their luck when they invaded it.
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u/genetic_patent Mar 05 '25
People dont remember what is what called before Romania and why it is called Romania
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u/scouserman3521 Mar 05 '25
They did , but 'big archeology' is covering it up to bump pizza profits from fat merican tourists in Italy. Yeah, big archeology is also in the pizza game.. who knew 🤷♂️
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u/TrashCanMagnus Mar 05 '25
Have you seen that place? shit's crazy. It's next to Russia and full of vampires.
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u/WildeRepublic Mar 06 '25
Fun fact, the name of the country actually comes from Roman.ia the original domain name for the Roman Empire.
Augustus was such a shit poster fr fr.
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u/EastMeridian 27d ago
Fun part is that most of the people commenting this thread could not recognize the current italian flag
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u/FreshBarracuda2129 26d ago
Zyngaria... Just kidding, that would rather be Spain... I'm Spanish btw
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OP questions Romanian intelligence yet she doesn’t know the toponymy of the country’s name to begin with.
Intelligence should certainly be a factor here but not in the way OP thinks, or should I say, “doesn’t think?”
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u/sayan1989 Mar 05 '25
I know its a joke, but gonna answer it :)
Roman empire get its name from Rome, not Romania :)
Fun fact there are also a population called Roms (Poland language call it Romowie) (its our Central/east Europe gypsies).
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u/Third_Sundering26 Mar 05 '25
At least during the Byzantine era, the Roman Empire was called Romania, which just means the “land of the Romans.” It was pronounced slightly different from the modern Romania, though.
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u/GOKOP Mar 05 '25
I thought Roms and Gypsies are the same thing?
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u/sayan1989 Mar 05 '25
Yeah, didnt i call it like that?
,,called Roms (...)its our european gypsies" XD i just dont know if the rest of the world call it same, that why i write all of it.
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u/GOKOP Mar 05 '25
Oh, ok. In most cases (and here too) I'd understand the construction "Y is our X" as "Y is our equivalent to X". So I got confused
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u/HyperJuggerNaut Mar 05 '25
Maybe because Romania was not a thing that time. For Romans it was "free land"
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u/CineticaJouli Mar 05 '25
It was called Dacia
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u/HyperJuggerNaut Mar 05 '25
Cool thing to know but do you think Romans cared what it was called? People who lived there were concidered barbarians and the land was ripe for taking
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u/CineticaJouli Mar 05 '25
I think the Romans knew the name since they tried to conquered it twice, and the second time they succeeded. Also, the Romans renamed it Dacia Felix, if you know what Felix means in Latin.
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u/bummed_athlete Mar 05 '25
Romania (Dacia) was the last territory Rome conquered and the first that they lost.
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u/Acceptable_Line6579 Mar 06 '25
It started in Rome, and the name of Romania comes because it was colonized by Romans …. Is basic history pal…
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u/Theposis Mar 05 '25
Actually the name of Romania refers to the fact that they were huge fans of Rome. So there was a big Rome 'mania' going on and people would say "boy, those Dacians sure have a bad case of Rome-mania!" The rest, my chums, is history.