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The name of the Dacians' homeland, Dacia, became the name of a Roman province, and the name Dacians was used to designate the people in the region. [3] Roman Dacia , also Dacia Traiana or Dacia Felix , was a province of the Roman Empire from 106 to 271 or 275 AD.
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 ...
A part of researchers support that onomastically, Dacians are not different from the other Thracians in Roman Dacia's inscriptions. [5] But recently, D. Dana basing himself on new onomastic material recorded in Egyptian ostraka suggested criteria which would make possible to distinguish between closely related Thracian and Dacian-Moesian names ...
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 ...
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).
The Dacians never fielded a standing army, even though there was a warrior class of sorts, the comati, meaning "long-haired people". Instead, local chieftains, the pileati , meaning "cap-wearing people", raised a levy when required, a force only available after the harvesting season ended.
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
Dacians, the ancient Indo-European inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia; Dacian language; of or relating to one of the other meanings of Dacia; Dacian (prefect), 4th-century Roman prefect who persecuted Christians; Dacian Cioloș (born 1969), Romanian agronomist, politician and former prime minister; Dacian Varga (born 1984), Romanian ...