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Dacia 82 BC
Dacian kingdom during the reign of Burebista, 82 BC

The Dacians were an Indo-European people, the ancient inhabitants of Dacia (located in the area in and around the Carpathian mountains and east of there to the Black Sea), present-day Romania and Moldova, parts of Sarmatia and Scythia Minor in southeastern Europe.

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  • Konstantinbågen detalj 04

    Two of the eight marble statues of Dacian warriors surmounting the Arch of Constantine in Rome.

  • Dacian Draco on Trajan's Column 2

    Dacian Draco as from Trajan's Column

  • Roman Empire Map AlexanderFindlay1849

    Roman era Balkans

  • Captive dacian pushkin

    Dacian cast in Pushkin Museum, after original in Lateran Museum. Early second century AD.

  • AdamclisiMetope34

    Roman monument commemorating the Battle of Adamclisi clearly shows two giant Dacian warriors wielding a two-handed falx

  • KMM - Kriegergrab Clumesti Rekonstruktion 03

    Replica of the raven-totem helmet from Satu Mare County

  • 106 Conrad Cichorius, Die Reliefs der Traianssäule, Tafel CVI

    Death of Decebalus (Trajan's Column, Scene CXLV)

  • Roman provinces of Illyricum, Macedonia, Dacia, Moesia, Pannonia and Thracia

    Roman Dacia, Moesia Inferior, Moesia Superior and other Roman provinces

  • Dacian Constantin Arch IMG 6559

    Dacian on the Constantine Arch

  • Roman bust of a Dacian tarabostes, Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia - 20070614

    Dacian tarabostes (nobleman) – (Hermitage Museum)

  • Comati dacians romanian goverment picture

    Comati on Trajan's Column, Rome

  • 2007 Dacian Engineering Tools

    Dacian tools: compasses, chisels, knives, etc.

  • Koson 79000126

    Geto-Dacian Koson, mid 1st century BC

  • Relief Bendis BM 2155

    Votive stele representing Bendis wearing a Dacian cap (British Museum)

  • Poiana vase

    Fragment of a vase collected by Mihail Dimitriu at the site of Poiana, Galaţi (Piroboridava), Romania illustrating the use of Greek and Latin letters by a Dacian potter (source: Dacia journal, 1933)

  • Burebista cropped

    Modern Romanian statue of the Dacian King Burebista (located in Călărași)

See also

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