Az örök Dacia mítosza. A dákoromán kontinuitás metahistóriája a kortárs román régészet- és történettudományban
The Metahistory of Dacian-Romanian Continuity in Contemporary Romanian Archaeology and Historiography

Summary/Abstract: One of the most persistent metahistories of Romanian historiography, overarching ideological, political and disciplinary boundaries, is the theory of Dacian– Romanian continuity. Born as the political narrative of Romanian intellectual emancipation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, by the end of the nineteenth century it had been adopted by the professionalized historical scholarship, and was then used, due to the stormy territorial and political changes in the twentieth century, as a source of legitimation. While the theory had for long failed to receive professional support from linguistics, thanks to the ideological turn after World War II it gradually suppressed all the alternative hypotheses and possible different interpretations. Its expansion was further bolstered in the second part of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s regime by historical protochronism, which received political legitimation at that time. The paper explores the post-1990 history and reception of the theory of Dacian-Romanian continuity, as well as the recent archaeological and historical analyses that have been published in the topic, in the form of a detailed historiographical analysis, locating them in the context of Hungaro–Romanian scholarly dialogue and of modern European archaeology.

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