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MPG Layer 3 Audio File  |  2003-10-24  |  2.4 MB  |  2 channels  |  44,100 sample rate  |  2 minutes, 34 seconds
Transcription: Romania's territory has been inhabited from times long past. It was here where in the Neolithic some of the most prolific European cultures, Cucuten and Gumenlica flourished. Known by the Greeks under the name of Jets and by the Romans as Dacians, the ancient inhabitants of the present Romanian territory were first mentioned by Herodotus. Enigmatic and solitary, the Dacian fortified settlements and strongholds that have been preserved from those times were built and defended with his life by the last Dacian king, Decebalus. However, the oldest fortified towns, the ones on the Black Sea shore, ...