The town of Sarmizegetusa Regia was the capital and major fortress of the Dacian kingdom, probably built in the mid first century BCE.

Galați town itself developed from an ancient Dacian settlement of the sixth and fifth centuries BCE where there was a ford across the Danube river.

Schütte ( 1952 ) associated the Dacian tribe of Arsietae with the Arsonion town.

The ancient documents attest names with the Dacian name ending-dava ' town ' in the Balto-Slavic territory, in the country of Arsietae tribe, at the sources of the Vistula river.

Strabo's statement that the Moesian people spoke the same language as the Dacians and Getae is confirmed by the distribution of placenames, attested in Ptolemy's Geographia, which carry the Dacian suffix-dava (" town " or " fort ").

Remesiana was an ancient Roman city built after the Roman conquest of Moesia, in the area of the Dacian town Aiadava.

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.

Some Dacian ruins can be found in the town.

According to Vulpe, the tablets include only what was known before 1900, for example, it uses the spelling " Comidava " for a Dacian town, although now it's known that the correct spelling is " Cumidava ", as found in 1942 in an honorific inscription dedicated to Julia Mamaea.

The large number of Dacian / Moesian davae ( town names end in '- dava ' or '- deva ') across entire Moesia, parts of Thrace and Dalmatia, indicates a much closer linguistic affinity between Dacian and Moesian languages, than between Moesian and Thracian, hinting to a much closer connection between Dacians and Moesians.

These Costoboci Transmontani, according to Gudmund Schütte, also inhabited the Dacian town of Setidava mentioned by Ptolemy, located by Schütte in the south-east of modern Poland.

The Apuli were a Thracian tribe centered at the Dacian town Apulon ( Lat.

Argedava ( Argedauon, Sargedava, Sargedauon, Zargedava, Zargedauon, ) was an important Dacian town mentioned in the Decree of Dionysopolis ( 48 BC ), and potentially located at Popeşti, a district in the town of Mihăileşti, Giurgiu County, Romania.

The forms Argidava and Arcidava found in other ancient sources like Ptolemy's Geographia ( c. 150 AD ) and Tabula Peutingeriana ( 2nd century AD ), clearly place a Dacian town with those names at this geographical location.

* Aigis ( Dacia ) ( Aizis ), a Dacian town and later Roman castrum in Dacia

The Bastarnae were perhaps involved in the Dacian Wars of Domitian ( 86-88 ) and Trajan ( 101-102 and 105-106 ), since these took place in the lower Danube region and it is known that both sides were supported by neighbouring indigenous tribes.

In Romanian the word stem bucur means ' joy ', (" beautiful ") and it is believed to be of Dacian origin.

The Museum of Romanian History is another important museum in Bucharest, containing a collection of artefacts detailing Romanian history and culture from the prehistoric times, Dacian era, medieval times and the modern era.

The first polity that is believed to have included the whole of Bessarabia was the Dacian polity of Burebista in the 1st century BC.

This assumption is supported by the fact that the Dacian standard, the Dacian Draco, had a wolf head.

The name of the river is Dacian in origin, from Indo-European * wed, " water ".

The native name of the Cock's Head ( O. caput-galli ) is one of the few words of the extinct Dacian language that have been recorded.

* Lysimachus tries to extend his influence beyond the Danube River, but he is defeated and taken prisoner by the Getae ( Dacian ) king Dromichaetes ( Dromihete ).

This idea is supported by known influences on Dacian culture from Hellenistic Greece, influences which may have included ideas about geometry and astronomy.

The royal Dacian capital Zarmizegethusa is mentioned under a large number of orthographic varieties due to several different pronunciations of the name:

Feţele Albe is a Dacian settlement on the southern side of Muncelului Hill, situated north of Sarmizegetusa Regia, separated from it by a sharp declivity.

When the Dacian Kingdom of Decebal, which included the territories just on the other side of the Carpathian Mountains from what is today Bukovina, fell to the Romans in 106, the area came under linguistic and cultural influence of the Roman Empire.

Saint Christopher () is venerated by Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians as a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd century Roman Emperor Decius ( reigned 249 – 251 ) or alternatively under the Roman Emperor Maximinus II Dacian ( reigned 308 – 313 ).

Trajan's Column () is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars.

After Trajan's death in 117, the Roman Senate voted to have Trajan's ashes buried in the Column's square base, which is decorated with captured Dacian arms and armor.

It is possibly related to the Romanian viezure (" badger "), a word of uncertain etymology, believed to be inherited from Dacian / Thracian and related to the Albanian vjedhullë (" badger ", " thief ") and vjeth (" to steal "), and the Slavic jazvrŭ (" hedgehog "; cf.

Ulpia is Trajan's own gens ( Ulpia ), while the cognomen " Victrix " means " victorious ", and was awarded after the valliant behaviour in the Dacian wars.

The basic vocabulary is of Latin origin, although there are some substratum words that are assumed to be of Dacian origin.

While there is unanimous agreement among scholars that Dacian was an Indo-European language, there are divergent opinions about its place within the IE family: ( 1 ) Dacian was a dialect of the extinct Thracian language, or vice versa e. g. Baldi ( 1983 ) and Trask ( 2000 ).

The Dacian language is poorly documented.

Unlike for Phrygian, which is documented by several inscriptions, only one Dacian inscription is believed to have survived.

There is scholarly consensus that Dacian was a member of the Indo-European family of languages.

A previous Dacian presence that ended with the Hasdings ' arrival is considered also by Heather ( 2010 ) who says that the Hasdings Vandals “ attempted to take control of lands which had previously belonged to a free Dacian group called the Costoboci ” Several tribes on the northern slopes of the Carpathians were mentioned that are generally considered Thraco-Dacian, i. e. Arsietae ( Upper Vistula ), Biessi / Biessoi and Piengitai.

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

This leads to the assumption that the mentioned Argedava was Burebista's capital of the Dacian kingdom.

The sanctuaries of the ancient Dacian Kingdom capital, Sarmizegetusa Regia

* Wye — The ancient Dacian Dynasty of Emperors are the direct ancestors of the hereditary Mayoralty of the sector of Wye.

In Vršac, archaeologists have found traces of ancient Dacian and Roman settlements.

Inhabited by the ancient Dacians, today's territory of Romania was conquered by the Roman Empire in 106, when Trajan's army defeated the army of Dacia's ruler Decebalus ( see Dacian Wars ).

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.

The Dacian names for a number of medicinal plants and herbs may survive in ancient literary texts, including about 60 plant-names in Dioscorides.

A few hundred words in modern Albanian and Romanian may have originated in ancient Balkan languages such as Dacian ( see List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin ).

No lengthy texts in Dacian exist, only a few glosses and personal names in ancient Greek and Latin texts.

# About 160 of the Romanian substratum words have cognates in Albanian and therefore may be of Illyrian origin rather than Dacian, as many contemporary scholars consider Albanian to be a modern descendant of the ancient Illyrian language.

But Strabo's view is controversial among modern linguists: dava placenames are absent south of the Balkan mountains, with one exception ( see Dacian language # Relationship with ancient languages | Thracian, below )

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 ).

To the south, it has been argued that the ancient Thracian language was a dialect of Dacian, or vice versa, and that therefore the Dacian linguistic zone extended over the Roman province of Thracia, occupying modern-day Bulgaria south of the Balkan Mountains, northern Greece and European Turkey, as far as the Aegean sea.

According to some ancient sources, notably Strabo, the northwestern section of the Anatolian peninsula, namely the ancient regions of Bithynia, Phrygia and Mysia, were occupied by tribes of Thracian or Dacian origin and thus spoke dialects of the Thracian or Dacian languages ( which, Strabo claimed, were in turn closely related ).

In ancient literary sources, the Dacian names for a number of medicinal plants and herbs survive in ancient texts, including about 60 plant names in Dioscorides.

Both Georgiev and Duridanov use the comparative linguistic method to decipher ancient Thracian and Dacian names, respectively.

The working assumption is that Axiopa meant " black water " in Dacian, on the basis that Cernavodă is probably a loan-translation of the ancient Dacian name.