What is History of Romania?
{{Intro-missing|date=October 2024}} == Prehistory and the Romans == Some of the oldest [[human]] remains found in [[Europe]] were discovered in Romania.<ref>{{Citation|last=Trinkaus|first=E.|title=Early Modern Human Cranial remains from the Peştera cu Oase|url=http://www.geo.edu.ro/sgr/mod/downloads/PDF/Trinkaus-JHE-2003-45-245.pdf|journal=Journal of Human Evolution|volume=45|issue=3|pages=245–253|year=2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070925185013/http://www.geo.edu.ro/sgr/mod/downloads/PDF/Trinkaus-JHE-2003-45-245.pdf|doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2003.08.003|pmid=14580595|archive-date=2007-09-25|accessdate=2008-01-10|url-status=dead}}</ref> They were about 42,000 years old. This may have been when the first [[Homo sapiens]] came to Europe.<ref>{{Citation|last=Zilhão|first=João|title=Neanderthals and Moderns Mixed and It Matters|url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cookie_setting_error.html|journal=Evolutionary Anthropology|volume=15|issue=5|pages=183–195|year=2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213011303/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cookie_setting_error.html|doi=10.1002/evan.20110|archive-date=2008-02-13|accessdate=2008-01-10|s2cid=18565967|url-status=dead}}</ref> The world's first and oldest [[writing]] comes from people who lived in today's Romania. Approximately 5300 years BC. According to [[archaeology]] it is not a matter of symbols, but the world's first writings. It belonged to the Vinča culture which inhabited all of today's Serbia with over 150 Vinča sites and minor parts of Western Romania, northwestern Bulgaria, eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina and Southeastern Hungary. [[File:REmpire-Dacia.png|left|thumb|350x350px|The Roman province of Dacia in red.]] [[Herodotus]] in the fourth book of [[Histories (Herodotus)|The Histories]], written in about 440 {{BCE}}. Herodotus wrote that the [[Getae]] were defeated by the [[Persian Empire|Persian]] Emperor [[Darius I of Persia|Darius the Great]] when he battled the [[Scythians]].<ref>{{Citation|last=Herodotus|title=The Ancient History