Why Isn't Italy Named Romania After The Romans?

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Views of the Colosseum: Giovanni Paolo Panini
Herodotus: Monsieurdl
Torre Sant’ Andrea: Freddyballo
Kasteel Peles: Al
Colosseum: Diliff
SPQR: Lamré

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[NameExplain]

I was worried this video topic might seem a stretch, I asked people about it and they had never even connect Romans & Romania in their heads, but glad to see initial positive reaction. Thank you all <3
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[ChristianIce]

Just to be clear, Sicily and Sardinia are still part of Italy :)

[tommasobianchi]

I don’t care
Italians
French
Spanish
Romanian
Portuguese
We are all a big Latin family
Love from Italy

[olefredrikskjegstad]

It's worth at least mentioning that the "Byzantine Empire" as we call it, who we must remember always referred to themselves as "Romans", did also use the name "Romania" to refer to their lands, though it was one of several.

[PingasMonkeyrdClass]

Dacia: "There's gold in them there hills!"

Rome: "Its free real estate."

[shredermn]

Rome: Nice gold you've got over there...
USA: Nice oil you've got over there...

[GiulioImparato]

In Italy we have a Region called " Romagna" . The region used to be called Romania because of...the byzantine empire( who still called themselves Romans) .The region hosted the Esarcate of Ravenna, wich was a powerful byzantine stronghold with Ravenna as capital just before Lombard territories up North. The name stuck even after lombard conquest in 751.

[DigUrOwnHole]

I love Italy and I love Romania. And the rest of our latin brothers as well. Peace

[valelife]

Why didn’t you marked as Italy Sicily and Sardinia too?

-A disappointed italian

[RealAlbolife]

Great video. I learned a lot from this video.

Just one thing: Dacians had nothing to do with Slavs. Dacians were an unique ethnic group of their own, and slavs did not even exist in the Balkans during this time. They only migrated in the region during the 6th, 7th and 8th century CE.

[fermainjackson]

Italy is in English. "Italia" is the name....👍😎👆🇮🇹

[V-man]

Italians are the closest decendants of the Romans. Romania is a great country, i hope I visit someday. Much love from Greece "Una faccia una razza"!

[vladimanea]

In fact romanian has 70% latin words.(Hello to other cousins like France, Italy, Spain, Portugal)😘

[OzbiljneTeme]

Ironically, he called Balkans the Balklands.

[thegoodlydragon]

I was just in Romania and was talking with the Uber driver. I mentioned how many people don't know that Romanian is a Latin language and he told me, "Almost, Latin is a Romanian language."

[is_bogi_ba]

Romanian here, the little tribe in the boot of Italy was named Vitalia, and it was populated with cattle, în romania we call them "vite" 😁

[Brukner]

As a Romanian, I really appreciate you putting in the time and research.

[feynstein]

1:39 "Roman emperor Tarzan invaded it" Lmao his name is pronounced Tray-juhn, dude.

[iuliucristianmoldoveanu]

Nice to see a video attesting our latin root. proud 🇷🇴 romanian here.

[MeLancer]

I conducted business with a Romanian immigrant a couple years ago. He was proud of their Roman heritage.