* October 26 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist, author of many books on ancient Dacia ( d. 1909 )

In ancient geography, especially in Roman sources, Dacia was the land inhabited by the Dacians or Getae as they were known by the Greeks — a branch of the Thracians north of the Haemus range.

* List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia

Thracians inhabited parts of the ancient provinces: Thrace, Moesia, Macedonia, Dacia, Scythia Minor, Sarmatia, Bithynia, Mysia, Pannonia, and other regions on the Balkans and Anatolia.

To distinguish Romanians from the other Romanic peoples of the Balkans ( Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, and Istro-Romanians ), the term Daco-Romanian is sometimes used to refer to those who speak the standard Romanian language and live in the territory of ancient Dacia ( today comprising mostly Romania and Moldova ), although some Daco-Romanians can be found in the eastern part of Central Serbia ( which was part of ancient Moesia ).

Some of Iorga's studies focused specifically on the original events in the process: ancient Dacia's conquest by the Roman Empire ( Trajan's Dacian Wars ), and the subsequent foundation of Roman Dacia.

In the 1st century AD, it was probably the predominant language of the ancient regions of Dacia and Moesia and possibly of some surrounding regions.

# Some may derive from other little-known ancient languages at some time spoken in Dacia or Moesia: for example, the Iranic Sarmatian, or the Turkic Avar, Bulgar or Cuman languages, or, conceivably, some unknown pre-Indo-European language ( s ) of the Carpathians or Balkans.

At the start of the Roman imperial era ( 30 BC ), the Dacian language was probably predominant in the ancient regions of Dacia and Moesia ( although these regions probably contained several enclaves of Celtic and Germanic speakers ).

Agathyrsi () were a people of Scythian, Thracian, or mixed Thraco-Scythic origin, who in the time of Herodotus occupied the plain of the Maris ( Mures ), in the mountainous part of ancient Dacia now known as Transylvania, Romania.

* List of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia

mentioned in primary sources ( see also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia, List of Dacian plant names ).

Milliarium of Aiton is an ancient Roman milestone dating from 108 AD, shortly after the Roman conquest of Dacia, and showing the construction of the road from Potaissa to Napoca, by demand of the Emperor Trajan.

In 1856 he initiated the archaeological research at the ancient Dacian town of Cumidava ( now Râșnov ), where the Romans built a castrum after the conquest of Dacia.

Zalău is situated in the area inhabited by " Free Dacians ", away from the historical landmark of Porolissum, a well-preserved Roman Castrum with an imposing fortress, an amphitheater, temples, houses and a customs house in the ancient Roman province of Dacia.

* Dacia, Kingdom of Dacians, ancient geographic demarcation of Central and South-Eastern Europe

* Roman Dacia ( also known as Dacia Felix, Dacia Traiana or Dacia Trajana ), ancient Roman imperial province in modern Romania

** Dacia Aureliana, ancient Roman province in modern Bulgaria and Serbia

** Dacia Ripensis, ancient Roman province, part of Dacia Aureliana

Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-preserved than neighboring Kourion.

At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.

Enlil is associated with the ancient city of Nippur, sometimes referred to as the cult city of Enlil.

In this view, her activity as goddess of marriage established the patriarchal bond of her own subordination: her resistance to the conquests of Zeus is rendered as Hera's " jealousy ", the main theme of literary anecdotes that undercut her ancient cult.

Strabo ( 14. 1. 37 ) records an Homeric temple in Smyrna with an ancient xoanon or cult statue of the poet.

A hero ( heroine is always used for females ) (), in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.

Politicians, ancient and modern, have employed hero worship for their own apotheosis ( i. e., cult of personality ).

The cult of the Heavenly Dog was widespread between the tribes west and east of the ancient China.

During the Roman periods it was renowned as the largest temple in Greece and housed one of the largest cult statues in the ancient world.

Despite his importance to the myths and imaginative literature of ancient Greece, the religious cult of Prometheus during the Archaic and Classical periods seems to have been limited.

The ancient gods with tails of animals who stood for primitive bodily insticts, were considered to protect the flocks and herds, and some of them survived in the cult of Dionysos ( Satyrs and Seilinoi ) and Pan ( the goat-god ).

** Imperial cult ( ancient Rome ), Roman religion

( High-risk United Nations Task-force ), is sent to San Nicolas Island to investigate deadly cult activity taking place in an ancient monastery.

Although some historians claim that ancient Egyptian society was a “ death cult ” because of its elaborate tombs and mummification rituals, it was really quite the opposite.

" At Sais, however, the patron goddess of the ancient cult was Neith, many of whose traits had begun to be attributed to Isis during the Greek occupation.

Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Libera, an ancient fertility goddess, wife of Liber and is also considered a life – death – rebirth deity.

It was well-known throughout the Mediterranean area in the ancient age, and an important cult was celebrated in it.

It was to bring together the storylines of season 1 ( Manticore ) and season 2 ( ancient blood cult ) and reveal the mythology of Dark Angel.

This cult was an ancient blood cult that passed on this genetic immunity to selective members to keep this antibody against the return of the comet ( which was set to happen in Season 3 ) so that they'd survive for being genetically select.

" Walter Burkert notes that the story of Io was told in the ancient epic tradition at least four times of which we have traces: in the Danais, in the Phoronis — Phoroneus founded the cult of Hera, according to Hyginus ' Fabulae 274 and 143 — in a fragment of the Hesiodic Aigimios, as well as in similarly fragmentary Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.

To him, the rites of their cult suggest an incomprehensibly archaic, quasi-magical and probably very ancient rural tradition.

The Eleusinian Mysteries () were initiation ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in ancient Greece.

Aztec legends identify the Toltecs and the cult of Quetzalcoatl with the legendary city of Tollan, which they also identified with the more ancient Teotihuacan.