The Falsification of
History
The following is the true story Romania's attempt to
falsify it's own history in order to gain Transylvania from Hungary,
then ethnicly cleanse the Hungarian population living there.
Since the 1900's, the Daco-Roman Theory of continuity has been
the official ideology of Romania; this is the ideology on which they
base their claim to Transylvania . This theory states that after the
Romans conquered Dacia between A.D. 101 - A.D. 107, the Dacians and
their Roman conquerors intermarried and formed what would become the
Romanian nation. This process was supposed to have occurred in about
170 years. There is no archaeological evidence to support this claim,
and linguistic evidence shows that Romanian contains 3800 words of
Slavic origin, 2600 words of Latin origin, as well as hundreds of
words of Albanian origin. The true origin of the Romanians, or Vlach,
is the western Balkans, not Transylvania.
Additionally, this melding of Dac and Latin peoples, if one can
believe Romanian claims, would have taken place over an incredibly
short period of time. One would be hard pressed to find historical
parallels of this situation elsewhere, especially in light of the
fierce Dac resistance to Rome.
According to Roman historians, " the fierce Dac people put up
an astonishing fight. Not even women and children were willing to
surrender to the conquering legions, and had to be exterminated one
by one."
By the time the Emperor Aurelian ordered the last Roman legions
out of Dacia, in 271, the province had been , "completely devastated"
by barbarian invasions. Indeed, many of Rome's Balkan provinces
suffered this fate, with whole populations fleeing, or being swept
away . One only need look at the Roman province of Illyricum (present
day Croatia and Serbia), whose population was totally annihilated by
the barbarian invasions. Illyricum was much closer to the Roman
heartland, and was a province of vital importance to the Romans, for
it provided the Romans a land link to Greek civilization, and the
riches of the east.
The Romanian name for Transylvania is Ardeal. This word derives
from the Hungarian word for Transylvania, Érldey, - the root
of this word being érd, which means forest. in Hungarian
Érldey means 'wooded land'.
Transylvania is a Latin word meaning, 'beyond the forest'.
During the middle ages, Latin was the official language of the
Hungarian Court. Érdely was referred to as Transylvania in
Hungarian royal documents.
The names, Romania and Romanians never existed before the 19th
century. Prior to the use of these names, they always referred to
themselves as Wallachian (Vlach). Historically, no other nation has known the Vlach people as Romanians until the late 19th century. For example, during the middle ages, French crusaders called them "Blach", the neighboring Greeks and Slavs knew them as Vlach, while Hungarians have known them as "Olah", which derives from "Volach".
Romanians adopted the Latin alphabet only during the last
century, in an attempt to further promote their Daco-Roman
ideology.
As far as the religion of the Romanians are concerned, Would the descendants of
the proud Roman legionnaires and colonists accept the use of Old Church Slavonic
in their liturgy, and not Latin (or even Greek), as was the case? No Romanian
church, relic, or written source concerning any Romanian church, existed in
Transylvania prior to the 13th century.
Hungarian Kings starting with King Bela IV, allowed the Vlach to settle in
Transylvania after the Mongol invasion of Europe. Successive Hungarian kings
allowed Vlach rulers and their people to settle in southern Transylvania after
suffering defeats in the Turkish wars. The first written source mentioning the
Vlach in Transylvania is from the 13th century.
After the Romanians annexed Transylvania, immediately following
the first world war, the Romanians systematically changed every
historic Hungarian place name throughout the region. Cities, towns,
villages, mountains, streams, and rivers, were all given new Romanian
names to better fit that country's Daco-Roman ideology.
In another attempt to falsify the history of Transylvania,
Romanians have tried to destroy every trace of historic Hungarian
civilization in Transylvania. An example of this ongoing process is
in the city of Kolozsvár. Mayor Gheorghe Funar has been
attempting for years to try to remove one of the last remaining
Hungarian statues in Transylvania, that of Hungarian King Matthias
Corvinus. Due to international pressure, and the resistance of local
Hungarian population, Funar was foiled in his attempts, yet did
manage to have the plaque stating that Matthias Corvinus was a
Hungarian king removed from the statue, while surrounding the
immediate area with six Romanian flags . Currently, in another
attempt to destroy the statue, Funar has ordered "archaeological
digs" to proceed around the base of King Matthias's statue.
The most despicable attempt by Romanians to falsify history has
been their denial of the ethnic cleansing, and the ongoing attempt at
cultural genocide against the Hungarian population of Transylvania.
Romanians claim that stories about the mistreatment of Hungarians in
Transylvania are propagated by Hungarian revisionists. Proof to the
contrary has been brought to the United States Congress. The
Hungarian Human Rights Foundation has alone presented more than 1,000
pages of written testimony and testified orally on 27 separate
occasions before US Congressional committees, in addition to
providing numerous presentations at Congressional Human Rights
briefings, documenting the Romanian regime's non-compliance with
human rights norms.
The following excerpt is quoted from the Congressional
Record:
"The repression of the 2.5 million Hungarian nationals in
Romania, who constitute more than 10 percent of the country's
population, continues unabated... Ample evidence was presented
at these hearings to demonstrate that Romania is pursuing a
systematic effort to destroy the very fabric of Hungarian
cultural life in Romania by eliminating Hungarian schools, classes,
and other institutions..."
Based on:
Sisa, Stephen. The Spirit of Hungary. Morristown, N.J.
:Vista Books, 1990. March l977.
Wass de Czege, Albert. Documented Facts and Figures on
Transylvania. 1977.