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The Getae or Getai (/ˈɡɛtiː/ or /ˈdʒiːtiː/,; Ancient Greek: Γέται; also Getans) were a large nation who inhabited the regions to either side of the Lower Danube in what is today northern Bulgaria and southern Romania, throughout much of Classical Antiquity. The main source of information about the Getae are Greek and Roman chroniclers, who write that the Getae were closely related to the neighbouring Thracians to the south and Dacians to the north. Cassius Dio writes that the Getae are the same people as the Dacians, Getae being the Greek name for the Dacians. Modern scholars continue to debate the details of these relationships.
The Getae first appear in historical records as fierce opponents of the Persian invasion in 513 BC, as described by the early Greek historian Herodotus. They faded out of historical records during the Roman Empire, when many appear to have become Romans, and others north of the Danube were gradually overwhelmed by other peoples moving from the north and east towards the Roman frontier.
The ethnonym Getae (Ancient Greek: Γέται) was first used by Herodotus. The root was also used for the Tyragetae, Thyssagetae, Massagetae and others.
Strabo stated in his Geographica (c. 7 BC – 20 AD) wrote that the term "Dacian" was used by some people to refer to the western part of the Getae who lived north of the Danube "towards Germania and the sources of the Danube", and the other Getae lived in the eastern parts, towards the Black Sea, both south and north of the Danube. According to him, the Dacians and Getae spoke the same language, after stating the same about Getae and Thracians.
In his time, Strabo believed that the lands of these western Getae stretched north of the Danube to the boundary of Germania, embracing a part of the mountains of the Hercynian Forest where the Suevi lived. From here their lands stretched very far to east of the Carpathians, to the lands of the Tyragetae, who lived near the Dniester, although he cautioned that the precise boundaries were not known to him.
Pliny the Elder, in his Naturalis Historia (Natural History), c. 77–79 AD, refers to "the Getae, by the Romans called Daci".
Appian, who began writing his Roman History under Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor from 138 to 161, noted: "[B]ut going beyond these rivers in places they rule some of the Celts over the Rhine and the Getae over the Danube, whom they call Dacians".
Justin, the 3rd century AD Latin historian, wrote in his Epitome of Pompeius Trogus that Dacians are spoken of as descendants of the Getae: "Daci quoque suboles Getarum sunt" (The Dacians as well are a scion of the Getae).
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Getae
The Getae or Getai (/ˈɡɛtiː/ or /ˈdʒiːtiː/,; Ancient Greek: Γέται; also Getans) were a large nation who inhabited the regions to either side of the Lower Danube in what is today northern Bulgaria and southern Romania, throughout much of Classical Antiquity. The main source of information about the Getae are Greek and Roman chroniclers, who write that the Getae were closely related to the neighbouring Thracians to the south and Dacians to the north. Cassius Dio writes that the Getae are the same people as the Dacians, Getae being the Greek name for the Dacians. Modern scholars continue to debate the details of these relationships.
The Getae first appear in historical records as fierce opponents of the Persian invasion in 513 BC, as described by the early Greek historian Herodotus. They faded out of historical records during the Roman Empire, when many appear to have become Romans, and others north of the Danube were gradually overwhelmed by other peoples moving from the north and east towards the Roman frontier.
The ethnonym Getae (Ancient Greek: Γέται) was first used by Herodotus. The root was also used for the Tyragetae, Thyssagetae, Massagetae and others.
Strabo stated in his Geographica (c. 7 BC – 20 AD) wrote that the term "Dacian" was used by some people to refer to the western part of the Getae who lived north of the Danube "towards Germania and the sources of the Danube", and the other Getae lived in the eastern parts, towards the Black Sea, both south and north of the Danube. According to him, the Dacians and Getae spoke the same language, after stating the same about Getae and Thracians.
In his time, Strabo believed that the lands of these western Getae stretched north of the Danube to the boundary of Germania, embracing a part of the mountains of the Hercynian Forest where the Suevi lived. From here their lands stretched very far to east of the Carpathians, to the lands of the Tyragetae, who lived near the Dniester, although he cautioned that the precise boundaries were not known to him.
Pliny the Elder, in his Naturalis Historia (Natural History), c. 77–79 AD, refers to "the Getae, by the Romans called Daci".
Appian, who began writing his Roman History under Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor from 138 to 161, noted: "[B]ut going beyond these rivers in places they rule some of the Celts over the Rhine and the Getae over the Danube, whom they call Dacians".
Justin, the 3rd century AD Latin historian, wrote in his Epitome of Pompeius Trogus that Dacians are spoken of as descendants of the Getae: "Daci quoque suboles Getarum sunt" (The Dacians as well are a scion of the Getae).
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