drobeta-ancien city

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Drobeta-Turnu Severin

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(drobe´te-toor´noo severen´)

in the thracian-gatae language (old ancestors) DRUB ( from Drobeta) means rock clef
Turnu Severin means "Tower of Severus" a tower built to commemorate a victory of emperor Septimius Severus .

Drobeta-Turnu Severin, city and port in southwestern Romania, capital of Mehedinti County, near the Iron Gate on the left bank of the Danube River. Drobeta-Turnu Severin was founded on the site of Drobeta, an ancient town believed to be the oldest Roman settlement in Romania.

Drobeta signifies the begin of the Romanian people, inaugurated by the entrance of Emperor Trajan, which brought with him the roman culture, same as after centuries, also by the entry of King Carol the First at Turnu Severin the west penetrated in Romanian earth, determining the birth of the modern Romania.

Short history:

98-565 A.D. The city that is now Drobeta-Turnu Severin, an ancient dacian settlement, was colonized and made into castrum, by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. It was mentioned in the 2nd century AD by geographer Ptolemy of Alexandria as Drobeta. The town was an important military and political center during Roman occupation.

101-106 A.D. Emperor Trajan break the heroic resistance of Dacians (romanian ancestors) and succeed in 106 A.D. He build a castrum (fortified place) to guard the bridge and a palestra (athletic training grounds). Drobeta was the first stone town built in Dacia.The most impressive feature of this time was the greater bridge built across the Danube for Emperor Trajan by Apollodorus of Damascus. It was an achievement of the 2nd century engineering.

124 A.D. under Emperor Hadrian (117-138) Drobeta was a prosperous town. The harbors, commercial and strategic roads favored the development of the city. It was amounted to the rank of municipium by the emperor Hadrian. Population around 14, 000.

193 A.D, become colonia, during Septimiu Sever (193 - 211 A.D.). That means that all Drobeta's citizens were equal with the Roma's citizens and have same rights in Empire. Colonia Drobeta were a greater city with a prosperous economy, temples, basilica, forum, fortress and baths. Population 40, 000.

271 A.D. The crisis occurring in the Roman Empire as well as the pressure of the "barbarians" forced Emperor Aurelian to withdraw the romans troops, administration and a part of the urban population. After the retreat of the Roman administration from Dacia, the city was preserved under the Roman occupation, as the bridge head in the north bank of the Danube (centuries IV-VI).

Destroyed by Huns in the V-th century, the city was rebuilt by Justinian (527-565).

During the sixth century A.D. come the first Slavonic tribes, who were going to "settle tight" along the same Danube's Southern region, thus geographically separating us forever, through their compact settling, into two large "brotherhoods" located at the Northern and Southern neighboring areas.

After the romans withdrew most of the Dacian Empire territory got re-unified under the name of what we call today Romania. In the middle age known as three provinces, Walachia, Moldavia and Transylvania

1233 In the Middle Age, the city reborn under the name SEVERIN (Severinopolis ) name giving in remembrance of the roman emperor Septimius Sever. Turnu Severin signifies the tower or the north walled city (situated on the northern bank of the Danube), and became the political center of the Banat of Severin (XIII-th century). The city was claimed and possessed successively by the Magyar king and the Wallachia voivodes, Litovoi, Basarab I, Mircea the Oldest.

1453 after Constantinople's fall, the city was possessed by the Turkish; Even under the expansionit waves full of atrocities, the spoken language as the customs, paradoxically, remain the same until the modern period.

1524. Once under Turkish occupation, the territory's administration moved to the west of Oltenia and was central in Cerneti. After the Danube was saved from the Turkish control (as a consequence of the Adrianopol peace deal in 1829), It was decided to build the present town, with a rigorous project (1836), then of the harbor (1858). The building of some industrial factories determined the redevelopment of the town. The building of some industrial factories determined the redevelopment of the town.

In 1833 the inhabitants of nearby Cerneti evacuated their village, which was razed by the Ottomans, and moved to Turnu Severin

1841 The town grew on multiple levels (economical, urban and social), built in european stile by general P. Kiseleff, voievodes Al Ghica, architect Xavier Villacrose, engineer Moritz von Ott. Populated 85% by austrian, germans, greeks, italians, jews, frenchmen.

1851 became municipium ( a capital of Mehedinti county).

8 May 1866 the city become for the second time "via regia" a king route. In 106 A.D. Trajan, and then 1866, King Carol the First who determine the born of the modern Romania. The years 1877-1878: Romanian Royal Army comes to join the Russians' into a fierce and ultimately victorious conflict against the then-decadent Turkish Empire, through what has nationally become known as our "INDEPENDENCE WAR".

Drobeta joined with Turnu Severin in the 1970s and was renamed Drobeta-Turnu Severin.

Some notes about the romanian ancestors:......................................................................................................................................................Dacians flag.

The well-known Greek historian, Herodotus, used to say the following about Thracians: "...after the Indians, the Thracian people constituted the largest ethnicity among all the rest of the world's races. Should they benefit from one ruling only and be spiritually united, they might acceed to become, in my opinion, absolutely undefeatable and to surpass, by far, the greatness of all the other Earth's proud races. The Thracians bear many names, each one according to their living regions, yet all of them show, through almost everything, highly similar customs".

Strabon, depicting no fewer than 22 tribes. Dacian were one of tribes. Burebista and then Decebalus the Braveheart, was their kings. A notes from history said that even Cezar feared, .Burebista, the king of the greatest Dacian . Both Cezar and Burebista died in 44 B.C..

Socrates, the great Greek plilosopher, who was once confessing to have personally learned, straight from one of Zalmoxis' apprentices, an incantation of those "ABLE TO MAKE HUMAN BEINGS IMMORTALS". Zamolxis is considered Dsacian God.

Thracians
Their homeland was the Thracian plain, south into the Macedonian and Rodope mountains and probably north into the Balkan mountains. Alexander of Macedonia defeated and ruled the Thracians in the 4th century BC, followed by the Roman Empire, Byzantium, the Bulgars & Slavs, and the Ottomans. Some Thracian elements were assimilated and have continued to recent times.
Bulgarians refer to all archaeology from the late Neolithic period to Slavic times as Thracian, and it is highly likely that the same peoples did populate the region. Bulgarians also claim the Getae of the Danube plain (Muntenia, Dobrogea and north east Bulgaria as a Thracian tribe and thus the empire of Burebista as Thracian.
Getae
Getae is the name that appears in ancient Greek texts for the people who inhaboited the Black Sea coast from the time of the History of Herodotus in the 5th century BC Getae is generally used when referring to the period from 9th to 2nd centuries BC when the written information comes from the Greeks.
It is not known how the Getae were related to the Thracian tribes to the south and the tribes later to be know as Dacians. The Romanians hold that the Getae is the Greek name and Dacian is the Roman name for the same peoples and therefore generally refer to the Geto-Dacians.
The Bulgarians, on the other hand, treat the Getae as a Thracian tribe and claim the capital from where Burebista led his empire was near Svishtari in north east Bulgaria.
Dacians
The Romans used the name Dacians for the people who lived north of the Danube. It may be that the Getae and the Dacians were the same people, or these were just the names of two important tribes that were used for the entire people.