Dacians

• “Now the Dacians are the attacking party, and the Romans defend themselves behind forts; and then again the army is in motion with Trajan at its head, crossing rivers, and erecting fortifications.”

  Roumania Past and Present

• “The Dacians were the occupants of a large part of Central and Eastern Europe.”

  Jamaica Gleaner Online

• “Among those nations who lived along its banks were Celts, Germans, Dacians, Scythians, and Thracians, including the Getae on the northern bank opposite Alexander.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “A source I have says the ninth legion was wiped out by the Dacians in 86AD.”

  The Dawn Stag, by Jules Watson. Book review

• “I didn't know the story of them being wiped out by the Dacians in 86 AD!”

  The Dawn Stag, by Jules Watson. Book review

• “There will be statues of Dacians conquered by Hadrian in 101-106 AD, a set of splendid pillars in human form, called caryatids, from the Forum of Augustus, as well as a series of medieval ceramics among the ruins.”

  ROME TO HAVE 'NEW LOUVRE'

• “Romanian Dacianism stems from the theories of philosopher Ion Nika in the 1920s - a phlosophical attempt to explain Romania's absolute lack of any contribution to the history of Western Christian civilization by positing that this lack actuallly "cloaked" the truth: Romanians were the source of all Western Civilization and the Dacians were Christians 800 years before Christ.”

  languagehat.com: PARADICSOM.

• “Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the”

  Dracula

• “Dacians, and many other nations, and thinking that the religious body of the Christians were yet wanting to complete the subjugation of all things to himself, and [thereupon] threatening them with persecution unless they should agree to [1404] worship daemons, as did all other nations, thus compelled [1405] all who were living godly lives either to sacrifice [to idols] or die.”

  ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus

• “Maximinus beat back the threats of Sarmatians, Dacians, and Goths but was opposed by the senate.”

  2. Foreign Invasion and Internal Disarray

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