30 Facts About Roman Dacia

Roman Dacia was of great importance to the military stationed throughout the Balkans and became an urban province, with about ten cities known and all of them originating from old military camps.

Roman Dacia evacuated his troops and civilian administration from Dacia, and founded Dacia Aureliana with its capital at Serdica in Lower Moesia.

Roman Dacia's kingdom extended to Pannonia in the west and reached the Black Sea to the east, while to the south his authority extended into the Balkans.

Moesia Inferior absorbed what eventually became South Moldavia, Muntenia, eastern Oltenia, and the south-eastern edge of the Carpathian Mountains, while Roman Dacia Traiana was composed of the western portions of Oltenia, Transylvania, and Banat.

Along Roman Dacia's exposed western border and stretching towards the vast Pannonian Plain lived the Iazyges, a Sarmatian tribe.

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An immediate effect of the wars leading to the Roman Dacia conquest was a decrease in the population in the province.

When barbarian incursions resumed during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, the defences in Roman Dacia were hard pressed to halt all of the raids, leaving exposed the provinces of Upper and Lower Moesia.

Roman Dacia Malvensis was possibly assigned to its procurator, Macrinius Avitus, who defeated the Langobardi and Obii.

Roman Dacia did not keep it for long; by the end of 170, Fronto was defeated and killed in battle against the Iazyges.

Roman Dacia crushed the Quadi in 174 AD, defeating them in battle on the frozen Danube river, after which they sued for peace.

Roman Dacia's reign saw an increase in the number of Roman municipia across the province, while Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa and Apulum acquired the ius Italicum.

Roman Dacia permitted the soldiers to marry local women; consequently, if the soldier was a Roman citizen, his children inherited his citizenship.

Evidence concerning the continued existence of a native Dacian population within Roman Dacia is not as apparent as that of Germans, Celts, Thracians, or Illyrians in other provinces.

The increasing Romanization of Dacia meant that only a small number of earlier Dacian pottery styles were retained unchanged, such as pots and the low thick-walled drinking mug that has been termed the "Dacian cup".

Archaeological evidence from burial sites has demonstrated that the native population of Roman Dacia was far too large to have been driven away or wiped out in any meaningful sense.

Hadrian, the subsequent emperor, shifted the fourth legion from Berzobis to Singidunum in Moesia Superior, suggesting that Hadrian believed the presence of one legion in Roman Dacia would be sufficient to ensure the security of the province.

Epigraphic evidence attests to large numbers of auxiliary units stationed throughout the Dacian provinces during the Roman period; this has given the impression that Roman Dacia was a strongly militarized province.

However, once Roman Dacia was incorporated into the empire and the frontier was extended northward, the central portion of the Danube frontier between Novae and Durostorum (modern Silistra, Bulgaria) was able to release much-needed troops to bolster Roman Dacia's defences.

When considering provincial settlement patterns, the Romanized parts of Dacia were composed of urban satus settlements, made up of coloniae, municipia, and rural settlements, principally villas with their associated latifundia and villages.

Identification of villa sites within central Roman Dacia is incomplete, as it is for the majority of the province.

The major gods of the Roman pantheon are all represented in Dacia: Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Venus, Apollo, Liber, Libera, and others.

Roman Dacia was frequently referred to in Dacia with the titles silvester and domesticus, which were used in Pannonia.

Emperor Philip the Arab ceased payment in 245 AD and the Carpi invaded Roman Dacia the following year, attacking the town of Romula in the process.

Roman Dacia transferred from Dacia to Pannonia a large percentage of the cohorts from the fifth Macedonica and thirteenth Gemina legions.

The Roman citizens, removed from the town and lands of Dacia, he settled in the interior of Moesia, calling that Dacia which now divides the two Moesiae, and which is on the right hand of the Danube as it runs to the sea, whereas Dacia was previously on the left.

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End result was that Aurelian established a new province of Roman Dacia called Roman Dacia Aureliana with its capital at Serdica, previously belonging to Lower Moesia.

The Roman Dacia armies inflicted a crushing defeat on the Tervingi.

Roman Dacia tried again in 368 AD, setting up his base camp at Carsium, but was hampered by a flood on the Danube.

Roman Dacia therefore spent his time rebuilding Roman forts along the Danube.

The civilian population of Roman Dacia did not treat this as a prelude to a coming disaster; there was no mass emigration from the province, no evidence of a sudden withdrawal of the civilian population, and no widespread damage to property in the aftermath of the military withdrawal.