Talk:Romania in the Middle Ages

Principality of Transylvania
This should be discussed in the article about the History of Hungary. Transylvania belonged to Hungary until 1920 when it was annexed by Romania. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.36.159.178 (talk) 10:18, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

About the new article
Borsoka! Great job! Creditable work. Fakirbakir (talk) 11:30, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Klepper, Nicolae
Nicolae Klepper has been tagged as unreliable. It does not look like the best source. Is it possible to replace it, it sources quite a bit of information. AIR corn (talk) 10:59, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I need 4-5 days to replace it. Borsoka (talk) 17:29, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem. AIR corn (talk) 17:48, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

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Presence of the Bulgarian Empire in the history of Romania and Romanian lands for almost the entire duration of the Middle Ages
It can be noted that the presence of the Bulgarian Empire in the history of Romania and Romanian lands during the Middle Ages, between the VII and XIV centuries, is greatly underestimated and almost overlooked. Bureaucrats are deleting valuable and relevant information about Romania's history. In Romania in the Early Middle Ages “Bulgaria” is mentioned 31 times, here only 2 times. Many important things, like the following, aren’t mentioned: Reading the text of this article, one is almost convinced that the inhabitants of the Romanian lands in the Middle Ages are not clearly identified by the science of History, and also that Romanian statehood begins with the invasion of the Hungarians/Magyars - tribal confederation, located to the northeast of the powerful at this time Bulgarian Empire, and in constant war with the centuries old Bulgarian state, mostly for the lands of what is modern Romania ...
 * Battle of Ongal
 * Bulgarian lands across the Danube
 * First Bulgarian Empire
 * Uprising of Asen and Peter
 * Second Bulgarian Empire
 * Old Church Slavonic in Romania

Good luck MiltenR (talk) 22:19, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Maybe as a consequence of the timeframe. Bulgaria had no real influence on the history of the territory after 1242. Yes, masses of (semi-)nomadic Romanians most probably migrated from Serbia and Bulgaria to their present homeland in this period, but there is an article dedicated to this highly sensitive issue (Origin of Romanians). Borsoka (talk) 00:32, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Haven't Hungarians migrated to the Carpathian basin (under Árpád and the seven tribes, etc.) way after transhumance already existed in the Daco-Romance populations both north and south of the Danube? And Bulgaria did have an influence on the history of present-day southern Romania most notably (to some extent even after the 13th century, but definitely not greater than it used to have during the Early Middle Ages) and it was also referred to as the Wallachian-Bulgarian Empire in some of the documents of the Vatican. The Middle Ages in Romania and, in general, in the Carpathian basin, do not start with the Mongol invasion, that is absurd. That period in question is already confined in the timeline of the High Middle Ages. The Mongol invasion was devastating for the Kingdom of Hungary and represented a temporary downfall for it... but the Middle Ages did not start in Hungary with the Mongol Invasion either, of course.
 * And, during the Early Middle Ages, Romanians already have had medieval states developed in present-day Transylvania and Banat, as per two works of Hungarian origin, more specifically Gesta Hungarorum and Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum, and they are indeed historically accurate, they are not made up. Many Transylvanian Saxon scholars (e.g. Johannes Honter, Stephan Ludwig Roth, etc.) also support the claim according to which Romanians were already here before the Hungarian invasion. Romanians and other Daco-Romance populations (which were transhumant in nature as well, not necessarily semi-nomadic) were already scattered southward of the Danube during the Early Middle Ages.
 * The admixture theory regarding the origin of Romanians is partly correct but definitely not the Roeslerian one. The origin of the Romanians has long been a matter of scholarly debate but it is far from being 'a highly sensitive issue', only perhaps in the minds of some Hungarian historians who also think that Burgenland also belongs to Hungary, yet another absolutely catastrophic absurdity, I swear! Rosenborg BK Fan (talk) 15:09, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, about 300 hundred years after the Magyar invasion, the Gesta Hungarorum indeed writes of a Vlach state in Transylvania, along with a Khazar state in Crisana, a Bulgarian state in the Banat supported by the Cumans, a Czech state in Nitra, and Roman princes in Pannonia, and also refers to the presence of the Székelys in Crisana. None of these states and peoples are documented in sources written at the time of the Magyar invasion. On the other hand, the same Gesta had no information about those who fought the invading Magyars according to contemporaneous sources. The Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum does not write of Vlachs in Transylvania at the time of the Magyar conquest, but refers to Vlachs who left Pannonia.  Borsoka (talk) 15:32, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Timeframe
you may have not realised that there is a separate article about the history of Romania in the Early Middle Ages, covering the period from the Roman withdrawal from Dacia till the Mongol invasion. This article covers the subsequent period. Borsoka (talk) 13:29, 8 January 2023 (UTC)


 * The Early Middle Ages are constituent and important part of the Middle Ages in general. They are the starting point of the Middle Ages. Of course I noticed that respective article for a very long time and I can read it very well in English. Not only that, but I also can read medieval documents in Latin. I can also speak and read in Hungarian and German and know a bit of Transylvanian Saxon myself. I know history very well, in an unbiased way. Thank you and all the best! Rosenborg BK Fan (talk) 15:11, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
 * In point of fact, I realised it so much that I linked it in the introduction very well, so as to further highlight its importance and shed light on early Romanian historiography. Alles Gute! Minden jót! 🙂 Rosenborg BK Fan (talk) 15:14, 8 January 2023 (UTC)