Dacians
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- For other uses of Dacians, see Dacia (disambiguation).
The Dacians (Lat. Daci, Gr. Dákai) were the ancient inhabitants of Dacia (corresponding to modern Romania) and parts of Moesia in southeastern Europe. They spoke the Dacian language, which has not been placed with certainty, but has links to Thracian and Albanian. The first mention of them is in Roman sources, but classical authors are unanimous in considering the Dacians a branch of the Getae, a Thracian people known from Greek writings. Strabo specified that the Daci are the Getae who lived in the area towards the Pannonian plain (Transylvania), while the Getae proper gravitated towards the Black Sea coast (Scythia Minor).
[edit] Population of Dacians
Their population was around 2,000,000 inhabitants, as they were estimated by conteporaneous sources to muster close to 200,000 men as total mobilisation of the army[citation needed]. In any population the number of fighting men usually equals about 1/10 of the total population[citation needed].
| This article about ethnicity or ethnology is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
de:Daker es:Tribus tracias fr:Daces hr:Dačani nl:Daciërs pl:Dakowie pt:Dácios ro:Daci ru:Даки sr:Дачани
