Spanish historian Juan Ramon Carbo Garcia on Wednesday held a conference in Madrid on the past and the present of the Romanian people, from ancient Dacia to today's Romania, organised by the Romanian Culture Institute (ICR) in Madrid in cooperation with the Romanian Embassy in Madrid and the Salamanca University. ICR Madrid Director Horia Barna mentioned in his introductory speech to the conference that the opinion and perspective of a Spaniard impassioned by Romania's history are fundamental.
Professor Garcia presented the historical developments of the Romanian people, starting with the 1st century B.Ch. and the presence of Gaeto-Dacians of Thracian roots, focusing on the era of Dacian ruler Burebista and the fact that Burebista and his successor, Decebal, were rulers over centralised kingdoms, continuing with the Roman Conquest and the Romanisation process.
Garcia presented then an overview of the successive waves of migrating invaders, continuing with the period of Romanian provinces governed by district governors called vojevods, and then the Romanian principalities, and concluding with the Modern Times, the Union of the Romanian Principalities, the Declaration of Independence, the 1918 Greater Union, the effects of WWII on Romania's politics, the expansion of the Soviet influence, the Ceausescu regime and the 1989 December Revolution.
Besides the historic depiction of the events, the Spanish professor pointed out the importance attached in various historic eras to the Latin roots of the people that emerged on the territory of today's Romania and how the continuity of the Roman civilisation in this geographical area would be brought up as argument to justify such roots.
From the era of the principalities, when the Romanian rulers sought to strengthen the idea of Latin roots in order to win Western support to repel the Ottoman attacks, throughout the entire 18th century, when the Transylvanian School highlighted and documented the Latin roots of Romanians, to the ideological argumentation of the state independence (against the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian spheres of influence) backed by the principle of the Romance language spoken by Romanians, historian Carbo have noticed a continual preoccupation with emphasising the roots that have tied Romanians to the Roman West.
The ICR Madrid initiative is part of a series of events designed to promote and support researchers with an interest in the Romanian culture, and to cultivate relations with Spanish universities. Juan Ramon Carbo Garcia, a professor with the Prehistory, Old History and Archaeology chair of the History and Geography Department of the Salamanca University, has been a steady impassioned lover of Romanian culture, being the recipient of a cum laude master's degree in 2007 for a paper on the spread, integration, social and ideological control over Eastern cults in Roman Dacia.
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