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    actibusque Getarum (The Origin and Deeds of the Getae), commonly abbreviated Getica, written in Late Latin by Jordanes in or shortly after 551 AD, claims to...
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    wrote two works, one on Roman history (Romana) and the other on the Goths (Getica). The latter, along with Isidore of Seville's Historia Gothorum, is one...
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    The Romanian Battlegroup Getica (Romanian: Grupul Român de Luptă "Getica") is a pro-Ukraine volunteer unit fighting in the Russian invasion of Ukraine...
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  • Getica is a historical book, "De origine actibusque Getarum" ("The Origin and Deeds of the Getae/Goths") written by Jordanes in the 6th century. Getica...
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  • Asociația Sport Club Daco-Getica București, commonly known as Daco-Getica București, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest, Sector...
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    assimilated in with the settling Danes. A short note about the Dani in Getica by the historian Jordanes is believed to be an early mention of the Danes...
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    Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. In his book Getica (c. 551), the historian Jordanes writes that the Goths originated in southern...
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    legendary King Filimer, settled after leaving Gothiscandza, according to the Getica by Jordanes, written around 551. It is generally assumed that the story...
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  • addressed. Criton also has a historical work, Getica, now lost about the history of Daco-Getae. Getica was at the basis of Trajan's own work, Dacica (or...
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    115-116 Jordanes, Getica 38. 197 and 201 Jordanes, Getica 40. 209 and 41. 214; Hydatius, chronicle 150, in: MGH AA 11, p. 26 Jordanes, Getica 36. 190 Shippey...
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  • Getica was a historical book about the Getae tribes of Thrace which Suidas, Jordanes, and Freculphus attribute to Cassius Dio, while Philostratus sees...
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    ambitions. Peutinger printed the Getica together with Paul the Deacon's History of the Lombards, so that the Germania, the Getica, and the History of the Lombards...
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  • 5. 21. Tacitus, Germania, 46. Curta 2001: 38. Dzino 2010: 95. Getica 5 Getica 23 Getica 48 Gołąb 1992: 287–291, 295–296. Przemyslaw Urbanczyk, Iron Age...
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    from the second Iron Age. Based on the partial results of the excavations, Getica (1926) wrote – his most important work – a vast historical-archaeological...
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  • century history of the Goths written by Jordanes, referred to today as Getica. Some parts of it are considered unreliable. For example it claimed to extend...
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    form of an original Gothic word by Jordanes, in the 6th century CE work Getica, as a name for euhemerised semi-divine early Gothic rulers. In continental...
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  • battle against the Visigoths resulted in defeat, and was chronicled in Getica by Jordanes. He is the first Gepidic king whose name survives. Geberic Visimar...
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    Tertullian. Retrieved 14 August 2009. Jordanes, De origine actibusque Getarum [Getica] (The Origin and Deeds of the Goths) c. 551. Mierow, Charles C., trans....
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    Variae, IV.33 Cassiodorus, Variae, II.27 Jordanes, Getica 303 Jordanes, Getica, 297 Jordanes, Getica, 299 Bury (1923), Ch. XIII, pp. 461-462. Bury (1923)...
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    Naparis, and in the unidentified Miliare river mentioned by Jordanes in his Getica. Gábor Vékony says that this hypothesis is not plausible, because the Greeks...
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    Volume 1, p. 418 Hughes 2012, p. 4. PLRE, p. 21. PLRE, p. 493. Jordanes, Getica, 176; Merobaudes, Carmina, iv, 42–43, and Panegyrici, ii, 110–115, 119–120;...
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  • (Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae III, 9); Riutimus or Riotimus (Jordanes, Getica 237-8). Delamarre, Xavier. Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche...
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    as a "great island" by Gothic-Byzantine historian Jordanes in his work Getica. The island was located in the Arctic regions of the sea that surrounded...
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    Roman sources: the contemporary writings of Ammianus Marcellinus, and in Getica by the sixth-century historian Jordanes. He also appears in a fictionalized...
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    Hunnic or even precursors of the Thuringii. While in one passage in his Getica, Jordanes describes Odoacer as king of the Turcilingi (Torcilingorum rex)...
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  • destroyed an ammunition depot in Tyotkino. Meanwhile, the Romanian Battlegroup Getica, a unit of Romanians and Moldovans in the International Legion, announced...
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  • codex dated to the 8th–9th century, containing a copy of the Romana and Getica of Jordanes. It was destroyed in a fire on the night of July 15–16, 1880...
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    471. Chronica Gallica 452 Wood 1994, Gregory II, 9 Drew, p. 1 Jordanes, Getica, 231 Sidonius Apollinaris in Panegyr. Avit. 442. John Malalas, 374 Marius...
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    that are still subject to debate." Goffart, Walter (2005), "Jordanes's Getica and the disputed authenticity of Gothic origins from Scandinavia". Speculum...
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    Bruun, Studies in the romanization of Etruria, Vol. 1–7, p. 101 Jordanes, Getica 243 Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28,5,15 Paul, Vauthier Adams (3 August...
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