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  • noun Plural form of Dacian.

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Examples

  • 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 James Samuelson

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

    Jamaica Gleaner Online 2009

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

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • 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.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • 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' 2007

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

    The Dawn Stag, by Jules Watson. Book review Carla 2007

  • 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 Carla 2007

  • 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. 2005

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