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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.
During his reign, Burebista transferred Geto-Dacians capital from Argedava to Sarmizegetusa Regia. [38] [39] For at least one and a half centuries, Sarmizegetusa was the Dacians' capital and reached its peak under King Decebalus. The Dacians appeared so formidable that Caesar contemplated an expedition against them, which his death in 44 BC ...
Dacian towns and fortresses with the dava ending, covering Dacia, Moesia, Thrace and Dalmatia. This is a list of ancient Dacian towns and fortresses from all the territories once inhabited by Dacians, Getae and Moesi.
Subsequent attacks, the first by the Getae in 15, [30] the second by the Dacians some fifteen years later, [31] forced Emperor Tiberius to promote the displacement around 20 AD of the Iazygian Sarmatians in what is now the northern Hungarian plain along the course of the Tisza river (east of the Danube), resulting in the expulsion of the ...
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]
Words borrowed from Latin (e.g. Latin aurum > ar "gold", gaudium > gaz "joy" etc. [205]) date back before the Christian era, [198] [199] while the Illyrians on the territory of modern Albania were the first from the old Balkan populations to be conquered by Romans in 229–167 BC, the Thracians were conquered in 45 AD and the Dacians in 106 AD.
This is a list of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia (Ancient Greek: Θρᾴκη, Δακία) including possibly or partly Thracian or Dacian tribes, and non-Thracian or non-Dacian tribes that inhabited the lands known as Thrace and Dacia.
High priest and king of Dacians (Strabo, [29] Dio Cassius, Jordanes) Decibalus Child of a soldier of cohors I Aelia Dacorum [19] Decebalus: Dacian word balas /balos is from PIE *bel 'strong, power' cf. Sanskrit bala "force" [30] and Dece from PIE *dek 'to take, to honor' [31] Also, it had been suggested Decebalus means "The force of the Dacians ...