The Daco-Roman Legend

The comparison of construction dates of the Hungarian and Rumanian cultic places presents important evidence against the Theory of Continuity.

Let us review the construction dates of the cultic places (churches) in the Transylvanian cities:

(Rumanian place-names in brackets.)

Note: the churchs marked with * were built by Moldavian or Wallachian voivods on their feudal lands in Transylvania.

Several Other Hungarian Church Constructions:

Other Rumanian Church Constructions in Transylvania

It cannot be uninteresting when the Rumanian churches of Wallachia and Moldavia were built.

WALLACHIA

MOLDAVIA

On the basis of these data, it can be concluded that the Hungarian Christian churches (monasteries, abbacies) appeared at the beginning of the 11th century in Transylvania. The first church of the Rumanian population - the one in Demsus - was built towards the end of the 13th century, almost three hundred years after the first Hungarian churches.

The oldest Wallachian and Moldavian Christian churches (monasteries) were built in the second half of the 14th century. Numerous structures, however, did not follow the first church buildings until the second half of the 15th, and later centuries. This leads to the conclusion that the Vlachs, infiltrating Transylvania at the end of the 12th century and at the beginning of the 13th century, lived under better, more advanced conditions than those of their brothers living on the northern shore of the Danube. This is also in accordance with the fact that the Vlachs founded their states several centuries later than the neighboring peoples.

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Referring the history of the Transylvanian Christian cultic places, we have only pointed out the circumstances that are enough to prove the untenability of the Theory of Continuity. We do not desire to praise nor to disparage anyone or anything. We only want to state and prove that those, who consider Hungarians to be late new-comers, have proclaimed war upon the historical facts. Our work proves that the Hungarians made Transylvania theirs on their own. They fused the people they found there with themselves. We bear out that Saint Stephen was an outstanding ruler. According to the opinion of his times, as well as judged by present day standards, he was a European authority and an apostle of Christianity, which has been embodying progressive conceptions. He was the first European ruler canonized by the Roman-Catholic Church.

The Theory of Dacian-Roman Continuity is untenable and baseless, among other things, because it ignores the basic and decisive question of Christian cultic places in the 10th-12th centuries.

Using the construction dates of the Christian cultic places, the existence, or the lack of them, we wanted to prove the falsehood of such doctrines. These doctrines, born of political considerations, show a totally misconceived idea of the ethnic picture of the Carpathian Basin in the first half of the 10th century. "...they revise the Carpathian basin's political and ethnical relationships in the 10th century by false data and basic errors." The romantic legend of the Dacian-Roman-Rumanian Continuity serves only political purposes without any scientifically acceptable proof.

The Daco-Roman Legend