And your Indian name is George Custer Runningbear.

In prehistory, this beautiful land was inhabited by peoples known as the Thracians. The Thracians who lived in the area which is more or less modern Romanian were the Dacians, or who the Greeks called the Getae.

Ancient Dacian with Funny Hat.

They developed a society composed of agriculture, ceramics, metal-working, etc. Like many of the peoples in this region, they were more or less peaceful, having minor skirmishes with other tribes and also the occasional Celt, Sarmatian and Germanic tribes. Then one day, drunk on tuica, they decided to attack Rome. This made the Romans angry. 

Emperor Trajan of Rome sent many armies against the Dacians and by 105 AD, the Roman armies had defeated their enemies and razed their capital of Sarmizegethusa. Trajan didn't much care for the Dacians 

When the Dacian lands became part of the Roman Empire it was colonized by Roman citizens that were refered to as  "ex toto orbe romano" or, citizens from the regions controlled by Rome, such as the Arabic peninsula and even Northern Africa. 

Citizen of Rome that helped colonize the Dacian kingdom.

So what do you do when your country is invaded by foreigners that execute a genocidal policy against your people and give your lands and women to other foreigners?

You call yourself a Roman.

That's correct. In Romania, names like Tiberius, Cesar, and even the man himself, Trajan are common. Even the name for this country "Romania" was chosen because they want to celebrate the centuries of rape and pillage carried out by the Roman Empire and to show their ties to the Italian peninsula, where even today they are despised and spit on by modern Italians.

Not that I have a problem with any of this...except that Romanians are very upset that the gypsies or "tsigani" refer to themselves as the Roma people. According to Romanians, this unfairly implies that the Roma are somehow connected historically to the Romanians who perceive themselves as being somehow connected to the Roman empire.