Dacia Not 'backwards'

[Kosmo]

Dacia was a complex and advanced society with many cities, fortifications, a national religion and a good military. It had little cohesion if we apply the term to the entire Romania of today.

Present day romanian historians refer to "daco-getic" civilisation because the name dacians was used by the romans for those in today Transilvania and the greek called getae for those in Moldova and Valahia. Moesians shared the same language with dacians and gets.

All this tribes were united by Burebista who conquered all his neighbours including greeks and celts and controlled an area from Bratislava in Slovakia to Olbia North of Black Sea and to the Balkan mountains in the South. After his death the area north of Danube was split in 4 kindoms with distinct coinage only to be again unified by the time of Decebal.

After roman conquest large areas inhabited by free dacians continued to exist until they became mixed with the goths during hunic invasion.

The best known of the free dacians were the carpians from which the name Carpathian mountains came. They made several large raids in Dacia and Moesia from Moldova and they were quite romanized. Some of the free dacians settled in the province of Dacia after the aurelian withdrowal of army and administration.

 

PS 1 Some romanian political groups, includin historians, try to make the dacians more then they were, so, carefully check the sources.

 

PS2 there is a huge quantity of information from arheological finds. I don't know how much is published in English.

 

PS3 Most say that bastarnae were german, but is little to prove this. Their modern fame is far larger then in ancient times. Nice to google their name to find several "articles" copy/pasted on lots of sites with the same huge errors.