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Moe·sia

(mē′shə, -shē-ə)
An ancient region of southeast Europe south of the Danube River in what is now Serbia and northern Bulgaria. Originally inhabited by Thracians, it was conquered by the Romans c. 29 bc and occupied by Goths in the fourth century ad.
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Moe•si•a

(ˈmi ʃi ə)

n.
an ancient country in S Europe, S of the Danube and N of ancient Thrace and Macedonia: later a Roman province.
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A lost Moesian myth could have depicted a god transforming into a frog in order to father a new lineage of kings.
(52) Perhaps Jordanes--himself of Moesian descent--was even baptized there.
The name accounts for the pattern of their development; in this area, the geological structure is very complex because the bedding floor is very old and in fact represents a remnant of the original Romanian mainland, the Dobruja platform and the Moesian platform, which are progressively coming down from mountains to plains.
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In Bulgarian history and culture, the Bulgarian nation is rooted in three historical and geographic regions that roughly correspond to the Ancient Roman provinces in the Balkans a Moesia, Thrace, and Macedonia, with the adjectives Moesian, Thracian, and Macedonian referring to the regional origin of the Bulgarians, and in no way describing an ethnonym but a denonym.
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Thus, Bulgaria and Serbia are referred to as Moesia (Inferior and Superior, respectively), Hungary is Pannonia, Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia are Dacia, the European part of Turkey is Romania, but they knew that, even if the old names were still in use, the people living there were no longer Moesians, Pannonians or Huns, Dacians or Romans, but rather Bulgarians and Serbs (Slavs), Hungarians, Romanians, Turks and Hellenes, etc.
Additional observations regarding the phrase religio romana in a Transylvanian document dated 6 June 1574
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