In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the
Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North.
On the other hand, Burebista also focused on the Celtic tribes with whom Dacians conflicted.
Dacii (The Dacians), Bucharest: Editura pentru Literatura.
Before the Romans invaded, the native people there were known as
Dacians. Mr.
Unfortunately, history has very little to say about the mentality, the language, the social life and the political structures, the food, the architecture and the habits, the culture, the religion, the army and even the looks of ancient
Dacians. Accurate historical information about the semi-mythical pre-roman cradle of Romania is poor, scattered and above all doubtful (Boia 172-179).
In the First and early Second Centuries, the
Dacians, from what is now Romania, were the tough enemies of Rome under their king Decebalus.
North Walian comic turned historian Terry Jones investigates claims that early Germans,
Dacians and Goths were nothing but primitive brutes - a theory supported by their merciless besieging of Rome in 9AD.
These shields could mean Quintus Sollonius was a veteran of campaigns against the
Dacians (in what is now Romania) conducted by the emperor Hadrian's predecessor Trajan.
Some 2,000 years ago, the barbarous Carpathian rulers known as the
Dacians charged into battle against the invading Roman forces behind wolf-head banners.
Fascinated with the human details, Hendo tells the story of the
Dacians (from what we now call Romania) who resisted the Romans so fiercely that they were later recruited by the Emperor Trajan as auxiliary soldiers.
The clasp is still in working order and Robin said the shields on either side of Mars were
Dacian. This could mean Quintus was a veteran of Trajan's vicious wars with the
Dacians in what is modern Romania.
Eventually, the Emperor Trajan triumphed over the
Dacians whose fighting qualities impressed the Romans so much that they were recruited as auxiliary soldiers.