Editing Dacians (section)

==Romanian cultural affects==
{{main|Origin of the Romanians}}
[[File:Burebista cropped.png|thumb|200px| Modern Romanian statue of the Dacian King Burebista (located in [[Călărași]])]]
Study of the Dacians, their culture, society and religion is not purely a subject of ancient history, but has present day implications in the context of [[Romanian nationalism]]. Positions taken on the vexed question of the [[origin of the Romanians]] and to what degree are present-day Romanians descended from the Dacians might have contemporary political implications. For example, the government of [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] claimed an uninterrupted continuity of a Dacian-Romanian state, from King [[Burebista]] to Ceaușescu himself.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Boia |first=Lucian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RM6MRPWXxQYC |title=History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness |date=2001 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=978-963-9116-97-9 |location=Budapest |pages=78; 125}}</ref> The Ceaușescu government conspicuously commemorated the supposed 2,050th anniversary of the founding of the "unified and centralized" country that was to become Romania, on which occasion the historical film ''[[Burebista (film)|Burebista]]'' was produced.

"The ducks come from the trucks." – A Romanian language pun about a mistranslation (duck and truck sound like dac and trac, the ethnonyms for Dacian and Thracian).<ref>Attributed to [[Ion Iliescu]] speaking about drugs, cf. http://www.gandul.info/politica/the-ducks-come-from-the-trucks-pe-sulaina-cenal-cu-aviara-gripa-de-ce-insista-conducatorii-sa-se-faca-de-ras-in-limbi-straine-cititi-aici-explicatia-lui-ion-iliescu-4438675</ref>