Dacians

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Image:Dacia 82 BC.png The Dacians (Lat. Daci, Gr. Dákai) were an Indo-European people, ancient inhabitants of Dacia (corresponding to modern Romania) and parts of Moesia in southeastern Europe. The first mention of them is in Roman sources, but classical authors are unanimous in considering the Dacians a branch of the Getae, a Thracian people known from Greek writings. Strabo specified that the Daci are the Getae who lived in the area towards the Pannonian plain (Transylvania), while the Getae proper gravitated towards the Black Sea coast (Scythia Minor).

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Population of Dacians

Their population must have been close to 2.000.000 inhabitants as they were estimated by conteporaneous sources to muster close to 200.000 men as total mobilisation of the army. In any population the number of fighting men is about 1/10 of the total population. This made their numbers the second largest in population in Europe after the Roman Empire.

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