13 Facts About Getae

Getae or Gets were a Thracian-related tribe that once inhabited the regions to either side of the Lower Danube, in what is today northern Bulgaria and southern Romania.

The ancient geographer wrote that the Dacians and Getae spoke the same language, after stating the same about Getae and Thracians.

Getae said the Dacians lived on both sides of the Lower Danube; the ones south of the river, in Moesia, were called Moesians, while the ones north of the river were called Dacians.

Getae argued that the Dacians are "Getae or Thracians of Dacian race":.

The Bulgarian historian and thracologist Alexander Fol considers that the Getae became known as "Dacians" in Greek and Latin in the writings of Caesar, Strabo and Pliny the Elder, as Roman observers adopted the name of the Dacian tribe to refer to all the unconquered inhabitants north of the Danube.

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Getae compared the probable linguistic situation with the relation between modern Norwegian and Danish languages.

The Getae are mentioned for the first time together in Herodotus in his narrative of the Scythian campaign of Darius I in 513BC, during which the latter conquered the Getae.

Between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC, the Getae were mostly under the rule of the flourishing Odrysian kingdom.

In 313BC, the Getae formed an alliance with Callatis, Odessos, and other western Pontic Greek colonies against Lysimachus, who held a fortress at Tirizis.

Getae flourished especially in the first half of the 3rd century BC.

The ancient authors Strabo and Cassius Dio say that Getae practiced ruler cult, and this is confirmed by archaeological remains.

The Getae were placed under the control of the Roman vassal king in Thrace, Rhoemetalces I In 6AD, the province of Moesia was founded, incorporating the Getae south of the Danube River.

Getae are sometimes confused with the Goths in works of early medieval authors.