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The Dacians and the related Getae [8] spoke the Dacian language, which has a debated relationship with the neighbouring Thracian language and may be a subgroup of it. [9] [10] Dacians were somewhat culturally influenced by the neighbouring Scythians and by the Celtic invaders of the 4th century BC. [11]
Dacia (/ ˈ d eɪ ʃ ə /, DAY-shə; Latin: [ˈd̪aː.ki.a]) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west.
Eventually the Dacians were forced to recognize Roman supremacy in the Balkan area, although they had not yet been subjugated to Rome, as Suetonius and the emperor Augustus himself tells: Augustus had succeeded (during his principate) in curbing the incursions of the Dacians, making a great slaughter of them and killing three of their leaders
Trajan conquered the Dacians, under King Decibalus, and made Dacia, across the Danube in the soil of barbary, a province that in circumference had ten times 100,000 paces; but it was lost under Imperator Gallienus, and, after Romans had been transferred from there by Aurelian, two Dacias were made in the regions of Moesia and Dardania.
On its basis, Lengyel and Radan (1980), Hoddinott (1981) and Mountain (1998) consider that the Geto-Dacians inhabited both sides of the Tisza river before the rise of the Celtic Boii and again after the latter were defeated by the Dacians. [128] [j] [129] [k] The hold of the Dacians between the Danube and the Tisza appears to have been tenuous ...
Trajan's Dacian Wars (101–102, 105–106) were two military campaigns fought between the Roman Empire and Dacia during Emperor Trajan's rule. The conflicts were triggered by the constant Dacian threat on the Danubian province of Moesia and also by the increasing need for resources of the economy of the Empire.
The carving around the column depicts the Romans defeating the Dacians. “I was looking at that, trying to find great examples of Dacian dragons, which are these dragons with a wolf head ...
Haemus, became a mountain Haemus Mons; Thrax, son of Ares; Tegyrios, mortal; Eumolpus, inherited a kingdom from Tegyrios; Tereus, the king that was turned into a hoopoe [1]; Phineus, Phoenician son of Agenor, blind king and seer [2]