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Roman head of a Dacian of the type known from Trajan's Forum, AD 120–130, marble, on 18th-century bust. The Dacians (/ ˈ d eɪ ʃ ən z /; Latin: Daci; Ancient Greek: Δάκοι, [1] Δάοι, [1] Δάκαι [2]) were the ancient Indo-European inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia, located in the area near the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea.
Roman towns endured in Dacia's middle and southern regions, albeit reduced in size and wealth. [244] The competing theory states that the transfer of Dacia's diminished population overlapped with the requirement to repopulate the depleted Balkans. [278] Although it is possible that some Daco-Romans remained behind, these were few in number. [279]
At the boundaries of Roman Dacia, Carpi (Free Dacians) were still strong enough to sustain five battles in eight years against the Romans from AD 301–308. Roman Dacia was left in AD 275 by the Romans, to the Carpi again, and not to the Goths. There were still Dacians in AD 336, against whom Constantine the Great fought.
From 85 to 89, the Dacians, commanded first by King Duras-Diurpaneus, and from 86 by the new king Decebalus, [21] fought two wars against the Romans. [39] In 85 the Dacians, having gathered a mighty army, crossed the Danube and swept into the Roman province of Moesia, where only one legion was stationed, led by governor Gaius Oppius Sabinus ...
The city was taken after the Romans discovered and destroyed [citation needed] the capital's water supply line. Dacians decorated their bodies with tattoos like the Illyrians [10] and the Thracians. [11] The Pannonians north of the Drava had accepted Roman rule out of fear of the Dacians. [12] Dacia remained a Roman province until 271.
Map of Roman Dacia between 106 and 271, including the areas with Free Dacians, Carpi and Costoboci. The Free Dacians (Romanian: Dacii liberi) is the name given by some modern historians to those Dacians [1] who remained outside, or emigrated from, the Roman Empire after the emperor Trajan's Dacian Wars (AD 101-6).
English: Roman province of Dacia, part of modern day Romania and Serbia, from the conquest of Trajan in 106 AD to the evacuation of the province in 271 AD. Roman settlements and legion garrisons with Latin names are included in the map, as well as the Costoboci, Carpi and Free Dacians.
Burebista (Ancient Greek: Βυρεβίστας, Βοιρεβίστας) was the king of the Getae and Dacian tribes from 82/61 BC to 45/44 BC. He was the first king who successfully unified the tribes of the Dacian kingdom, which comprised the area located between the Danube, Tisza, and Dniester rivers, and modern day Romania and Moldova.