Page from the Notitia Dignitatum, a late Roman register of military commands, depicting shields of the magister militum praesentalis II. It gave birth to the Romance language and the Roman name, as preserved in the memory of modern Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians. A space of Latin language, that emerged from the provincial horizon of Rome.The Christian spirit shaped the civilization of the people, influencing the inclusion into the Roman (and East Roman) political and state structures. A Christian space, consisting both of an ancient, sedentary Christianity inherited from the Roman world and a newer Christianity that emerged through the conversion to Christianity of the rest of Daco-Thracian tribes.The territory where this process took place, consensually agreed to be near the Jireček Line is characterized as having two main peculiarities: By extension, historians started to use the term to mean the time period of the history of the Romanian people until the 6th century, which witnessed the cultural and linguistic Romanisation of many Daco-Thracian tribes. The term was coined in 1901 by Ovid Densusianu, who used it to describe the "oldest epoch of the creation of the Romanian language", when the Vulgar Latin spoken in the Balkans between the 4th and 6th centuries, having its own peculiarities, had evolved into what is known as Proto-Romanian.
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