Dacia

Roman province, Europe

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history of Dacia

  • Trajan's campaign in Dacia
    In Dacia

    …and those lands as a Roman province eventually included wider territories both to the north and to the east. The Dacians were of Thracian stock and, among the Thracian successor peoples in the region, were most akin to the Getae. (Indeed, the similarities between the groups led the Greek historian…

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  • Trajan's campaign in Dacia
    In Dacia

    The new Roman province was at first put under a consular legate with at least two legions, but under Hadrian it was divided. Dacia Superior comprised Transylvania, under a praetorian legate and supported by a single legion at Apulum (Alba Iulia), while Dacia Inferior—in what was…

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