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Abstract
Rediscovering the “old” Dacia in modern Romanian literature. Between nostalgia and claiming another beginning of the historical destiny. At the dawn of Romanian modernity, a new concept began taking shape in the local culture – Old Dacia. With a semantic resonance and a temporal scope extending beyond the perspectives provided by Romanised Dacia, this “first draft” introduced an exoticism with a scholarly note into the public sphere, maintained curiosity and stirred a certain degree of amazement. The historical origins were discussed, and occasionally even questioned, in harmless narrative registers; those who had been presented as the earliest ancestors were reevaluated, and a different homeland was outlined on the world map. Its acclimatisation and acceptance into the collective mindset, inclusion in school curricula, and presence in popular literature were challenging. There was a lack of necessary information, of storytellers gifted with the ability to put words to paper; above all, however, there was a scarcity of readers.
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