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    The Getae or Getai (/ˈɡɛtiː/ or /ˈdʒiːtiː/, also Getans) were a large nation who inhabited the regions to either side of the Lower Danube in what is today...
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    Dacians (redirect from Daco-Getae)
    Dacians were known as Geta (plural Getae) in Ancient Greek writings,[citation needed] and as Dacus (plural Daci) or Getae in Roman documents, but also as...
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    Zalmoxis is a divinity of the Getae and Dacians (a people of the lower Danube), mentioned by Herodotus in his Histories Book IV, 93–96, written before...
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    Δρομιχαίτης, romanized: Dromichaites; c. 300 – c. 280 BC) who was a king of the Getae on both sides of the lower Danube (present day Romania and Bulgaria) around...
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    Anatolia throughout antiquity and who included the Thracians proper, the Getae, the Dacians, and the Bithynians. The Thracians themselves did not leave...
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    Republic, Poland and Ukraine. A Dacian kingdom that united the Dacians and the Getae was formed under the rule of Burebista in 82 BC and lasted until the Roman...
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    early Bronze Age, which began about 3500 BC. From it also developed the Getae, the Dacians and other regional groups of tribes. Historical and archaeological...
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    that the Getae spoke the same language as the Thracians, and the Dacians the same language as the Getae. However, the earliest account of the Getae is attributed...
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  • Gebeleizis was a god worshiped by the Getae, whose name has been interpreted as a theonym for the Indo-European sky and weather god, evidently also called...
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  • romanized: Dromichaites) was king of the Getae on both sides of the lower Danube (present day Romania and Bulgaria) around 300 BC. The Getae had been federated in the...
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    kings, while the northeast came under the dominion of the kingdom of the Getae. The three Odrysian kingdoms were eventually conquered by the rising kingdom...
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    Strabo, 7.3.2, "Now the Greeks used to suppose that the Getae were Thracians; and the Getae lived on either side the Ister, as did also the Mysi, these...
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    De origine actibusque Getarum (The Origin and Deeds of the Getae), commonly abbreviated Getica (/ˈɡɛtɪkə/), written in Late Latin by Jordanes in or shortly...
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    argumented by Strabo as the result of Aelius Catus's displacement of 50,000 Getae from the north to the south of the Danube, who settled areas in the north-eastern...
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  • period. The Dacians, who are widely accepted to be the same people as the Getae, were a branch of Thracians who inhabited Dacia, which corresponds with...
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  • gen. "Χαρναβώντος") was a king of the Getae, mentioned in Sophocles' tragedy Triptolemos as ruling the Getae, without a precise geographical location...
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    Burebista (Ancient Greek: Βυρεβίστας, Βοιρεβίστας) was the king of the Getae and Dacian tribes from 82/61 BC to 45/44 BC. He was the first king who successfully...
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  • historical book, "De origine actibusque Getarum" ("The Origin and Deeds of the Getae/Goths") written by Jordanes in the 6th century. Getica may also refer to:...
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  • Dacian (redirect from Getae-Dacian)
    Look up Dacian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dacian may refer to: of or relating to Dacia in southeastern Europe Dacians, the ancient Indo-European...
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    his poem that Dryads wept from Epirus and Hebrus up to the land of the Getae (north east Danube valley) and even describes him wandering into Hyperborea...
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    mentioned by Homer in Odyssey Coreli Corpili Krestones Krobyzoi, perhaps Getae Maduateni Maedi MaedoBythini, Maedi that migrated to Asia minor Melanditae...
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  • corresponding to the present territory of Romania and Moldova and inhabited by the Getae and Dacian peoples, with its capital Sarmizegetusa Regia. After clashing...
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  • province of Macedonia, marched against the Getae, who were allies of Rome's enemy, Mithridates VI of Pontus. The Getae frequently raid the Thracians' lands...
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    were ruled by kings, who entered into unions with the Odrysian kingdom, Getae or Sapaeans—large Thracian states existing between 5th–1st c. BC. Between...
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  • Strabo vii.; Ptol. iii. 5. § 25), literally, the Getae of the Tyras, were a sub-tribe of the Getae, situated on the river Tyras (modern-day Dniester...
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  • serious, severe," Aper, a wild boar, and Geta, referring to one of the Getae, a Thracian people. All three cognomina were associated with the imperial...
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    of the Cicones Polymestor of the Bistonians Zalmoxis of the Getae Charnabon of the Getae, who came into power when grain was first given to men mentioned...
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    millennium BCE – now Cimmerians 12th–7th centuries BCE Dacians and Thracians (Getae) 11th century BCE – 3rd century CE Scythians 8th–4th centuries BCE Sarmatians...
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  • the same region north of the Black Sea and Lower Danube, especially the Getae, and Scythians. The three most important surviving histories of the Goths...
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    abandoned their attacks on Peuce and instead crossed into the territory of the Getae. A portion of the powerful Bastarnae tribe (probably a mixed Germanic-Celtic...
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