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dacian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dacian \Da"cian\, a. Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians. -- n. A native of ancient Dacia.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians. 2 (context rare poetic English) Of or pertaining to Romania or Romanians. 3 (context obsolete English) Of or pertaining to Denmark or the Danes. n. 1 A member of an ancient Indo-European ethnic group of Dacia, known as Dacians. 2 (context obsolete English) A Dane, Denmark having been known as Dacia in Medieval Latin. 3 (context rare poetic English) A Romanian. n. An extinct Indo-European language spoken by the people of Dacia.
Wikipedia
Dacian, Geto-Dacian, Daco-Getic or Daco-Getian refers to something of or relating to Dacia, the Dacians or the Dacian language.
Dacian may also refer to:
- Dacian archaeology
- Dacian art
- Dacia in art
- Dacian culture
- Dacian deities
- Dacian goddesses
- Dacian gods
- Dacian mythology
- Dacian names
- Dacian sites
- Dacian toponyms
- Dacian bracelets, bracelets associated with the ancient peoples known as the Dacians, a particularly individualized branch of the Thracians
- Dacian kings
- Dacian towns, settlements and fortified towns
- Dacian tribes
- Dacian warfare, spans from c. 10th century BC up to the 2nd century AD in the region defined by Ancient Greek and Latin historians as Dacia
- Dacian weapons
- Domitian's Dacian War, a conflict between the Roman Empire and the Dacian Kingdom
- Trajan's Dacian Wars, two military campaigns fought between the Roman Empire and Dacia during Roman Emperor Trajan's rule
It may also refer to:
- Daco-Roman, describes the Romanized culture of Dacia under the rule of the Roman Empire
- Daco-Romanian, the term used to identify the Romanian language in contexts where distinction needs to be made between the various Eastern Romance languages (Daco-Romanian, Aromanian, Istro-Romanian, and Megleno-Romanian)
- Roman Dacia, a province of the Roman Empire (106-271/275 AD)
- (obsolete), A Dane, Denmark having been known as Dacia in Medieval Latin
Usage examples of "dacian".
To these are added the Dacians, Hyrcanians, Derbicians, Carmanians, Parthians, with all Persis and Susiana, and the numerous nations upon the Caspian sea.
The first exploits of Trajan were against the Dacians, the most warlike of men, who dwelt beyond the Danube, and who, during the reign of Domitian, had insulted, with impunity, the Majesty of Rome.
Such as are on the other side are called Dacians, and are either a branch of the Getae or Thracians belonging to the Dacian race that once inhabited Rhodope.
They are still Dacians and Samaritans at dinner, in war, and in friendship, as they call it, but which is often a burden hardly to be borne.
Their Dacian herdsmen had brought along none other than the King of Dacia, Burebistas, who had heard of the defeat of Gaius Caesar at Dyrrachium.
As formerly in the land of the Dacians and the Sarmatians I had venerated the goddess Earth, I had here a feeling for the first time of a Neptune more chaotic than our own, of an infinite world of waters.
One day those Dacians are going to cross the Danube and give Rome a terrible fight, so watch out for them.
Gauls, Germans, Scythians, Sarmatians, and Dacians were considered barbarian.
Kalends Caesar outlined the intended campaign of Publius Vatinius and Marcus Antonius against King Burebistas of the Dacians, necessary because, said Caesar, he was going to plant colonies of Roman Head Count all around the margins of the Euxine Sea.
The most dangerous of my adversaries was Lusius Quietus, a Roman with some Arab blood, whose Numidian squadrons had played an important part in the second Dacian campaign, and who was pressing fiercely for the Asiatic war.
Soon after the reign of Augustus, they obliged the Dacians, who subsisted by fishing on the banks of the River Teyss or Tibiscus, to retire into the hilly country, and to abandon to the victorious Sarmatians the fertile plains of the Upper Hungary, which are bounded by the course of the Danube and the semicircular enclosure of the Carpathian Mountains.
Dacians, Herulians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Hyperboreans, heavy wheels without spokes, eyes sunk in fat, sodomy, double chins, illiterate emperors, fish fed on the flesh of learned slaves.
At the same time, the lucky though accidental resemblance of the name of Getae, ^* infused among the credulous Goths a vain persuasion, that in a remote age, their own ancestors, already seated in the Dacian provinces, had received the instructions of Zamolxis, and checked the victorious arms of Sesostris and Darius.