Understand Romania
Romania History
56 cards · 52 + 4 jokers
Culture playing cards · First edition 2026
Every card is a moment in Romanian history, with dates and facts: from Cucuteni and the Dacians to the Union, the kings, communism and the European Union.
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- CUCUTENI — c. 4800 – 3000 BC. Between about 4800 and 3000 BC, the Cucuteni communities of Moldavia built settlements of hundreds of houses and painted pots with red, white and black spirals. Their pottery is counted among the most beautiful of prehistoric Europe. Many settlements were burned on purpose, and why remains a mystery.
- GETAE AND DACIANS — 6th c. BC – 106 AD. In the 5th century BC, Herodotus called the Getae "the bravest and most just of the Thracians". The Greeks called them Getae, the Romans Dacians, but they spoke the same language. They believed in the god Zalmoxis and in the immortality of the soul.
- BUREBISTA — reign c. 82 – 44 BC. Around 60 BC, Burebista united the Geto-Dacian tribes into a kingdom stretching from the Danube to the northern Carpathians and the Black Sea. His adviser was the high priest Deceneus. Julius Caesar was preparing a campaign against him, but both were killed in 44 BC.
- SARMIZEGETUSA REGIA — 1st c. BC – 106 AD. The capital of Dacia, 1,200 metres up in the Orăștie Mountains. It had temples of andesite and limestone, an "andesite sun" probably used as an altar, and walls of huge stone blocks. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
- DECEBALUS — reign 87 – 106 AD. King from 87, Decebalus destroyed the army of the Roman general Cornelius Fuscus and won from Domitian a favourable peace, with money and Roman craftsmen. He then resisted Trajan in two wars. In 106, cornered, he took his own life rather than be paraded in triumph in Rome.
- DACIAN–ROMAN WARS — 101 – 102 and 105 – 106 AD. In 101–102 and 105–106, Trajan led the largest armies of the age against Dacia. Sarmizegetusa fell, and the royal treasure — hundreds of tonnes of gold and silver, according to an ancient author — was taken to Rome and paid for huge buildings.
- TRAJAN — emperor 98 – 117 AD. Emperor from 98 to 117, Trajan brought the Roman Empire to its greatest size. At Drobeta, the architect Apollodorus of Damascus built him a bridge of stone and timber across the Danube, over a kilometre long, used by the legions in the second war.
- TRAJAN'S COLUMN — erected in 113 AD. Erected in Rome in 113, the column is 30 metres tall and its relief winds around it for almost 200 metres. It shows more than 2,500 figures: Dacians, Romans, bridges, fortresses and the suicide of Decebalus. It is the most important picture source about the Dacians.
- ROMAN DACIA — Roman province 106 – 271 AD. From 106 to 271, Dacia was a Roman province. Its capital was Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa; towns such as Apulum, Napoca and Porolissum grew up. Settlers came from all over the empire, and the gold mines of the Apuseni Mountains were heavily worked.
- THE LATIN LANGUAGE — 2nd – 8th c. AD. Romanian grew out of the spoken Latin of the Danube provinces. Basic words such as "pâine" (bread), "apă" (water), "om" (man) and "casă" (house) come from Latin. Romanian is the only Romance national language in Eastern Europe.
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