„Dacia … diuturno bello Decibali viris fuerat exhausta”. Alföldi András és a daciai kontinuitás
„Dacia … diuturno bello Decibali viris fuerat exhausta”.András Alföldi and the continuity of Dacia

Summary/Abstract: In the 1930s and 1940s András Alföldi published several scholarly papers, but largely in Hungarian only, about the history of the Dacians and the Province of Dacia. His investigations followed in the path of traditional Hungarian research on the history of Transylvania during antiquity. At the same time Alföldi criticized the more and more strengthening hypothesis of the Daco-Roman continuity. This theory in essence claimed the presence of Dacians en masse in the Traianic province. It also stated that the Dacians quickly – within 160 years ‒ and fully got linguistically Romanized. Additionally it posited that these Romanized Dacians remained in Transylvania after the abandonment of the province and thus became the ancestors of the future Rumanians. András Alföldi treated the history and ethnic relations of the region with full scientific scrutiny and integrity and refused the untenable and in many respects unscientific hypothesis of the Daco-Roman continuity. Present investigations, although they barely quote and often ignore Alföldi’s articles, do however justify the basic correctness of his observations.

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