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. They …

The Dacians are often mentioned under Augustus, according to whom they were compelled to recognize Roman supremacy. However they were by no means subdued, and in later times to maintain their independence they seized every opportunity to cross the frozen Danube during the winter and ravaging the Roman cities in the province of Moesia , which ...

The Dacians were members of an alliance that engaged Roman troops in 112, 109, and 75 bce. By the time of that contact, Dacian society had divided into two distinct classes—an aristocracy and a proletariat.

The ancient Dacians or Gauls - famous farmers, craftsmen and warriors - were contemporaries of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their belief in immortality has generated a complex mythology.

In the winter of 101–2, the Roman army under Trajan had been amassed near the later city of Nicopolis ad Istrum at the junction of the Iatrus (Yantra) and the Rositsa rivers in readiness for the attack by the Sarmatian Roxolani tribe from north of the Danube (who were allied to the Dacians), and resulted in a Roman victory for which the city ...

May 3, 2020 · The Dacians were a warrior people from Dacia, in the area near the Carpathian Mountains, who attacked the Roman Empire not once but three times. In ancient times, Dacia was the name given to the area of Central Europe bounded by the Carpathian Mountains.

In Romania: The Dacians. The Carpathian-Danube region in which the Romanian ethnic community evolved was settled about 2000 bce by migratory Indo-Europeans who intermingled with native Neolithic (New Stone Age) peoples to form the Thracians. When Ionians and Dorians settled on the western shore of the Black Sea . Read More

Jun 7, 2021 · As Trajan’s legions broke into marching camps, envoys from the Dacians arrived to talk peace with Trajan, but they were quickly dismissed. Whether or not his offer of peace was a ploy to delay Trajan, Decebalus’ warriors attacked the Roman advance parties.

May 20, 2023 · The Dacians were part of an alliance that attacked Roman troops in 112, 109 and 75 BC. Around 60-50 BC, King Burebista unified and expanded the kingdom making it a regional power. He even defeated the Greek cities on the north coast of the Black Sea and expanded his kingdom beyond the Tisza River, north to modern day Slovakia and south of the ...

Aug 18, 2024 · In Rome, after Caesar’s death, a civil war began. Dacia, left without a king, disintegrated into four parts. A new charismatic leader, Decebalus, reunited the Dacians only a century later.