Dacia: An Outline of the Early Civilizations of the Carpatho-Danubian Countries |
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Adriatic Agathyrsi Alps amongst Apollonia Aquincum axes Balkans barbarians Bărboşi Black Sea bracelets Bronze Age bronze vases Bucarest Burebista Carpathians Carpatho-Danubian Bronze Age cauldron Celtic Celts Cimmerians civilization coins Costeşti culture Dacia Dalmatia Danube Danubian decorative discovered east Eastern Europe example excavations fibulae fortresses fourth period fragments Galicia Gaul Getae Getic gold Greco-Scythian Greek cities Hallstatt period Hellenic Herodotus Hungary Illyrian influence inscriptions Iranian Iron Age Istria Italy king La Tène period lands large number later Latin Lower Danube Macedonia Márton Middle Danube Mikhalkovo millennium B.C. Moesia Moldavia mountain Muncelului Mureş native North Italic Northern Olbia origin ornaments Pannonia penetration PLATE Pontic pottery province river Roman Rome Roumanian route Scythian second century second Iron Age silver sixth century style swords Tène period territory tetradrachms Thasian third La Tène Thrace Thracian tion tombs Trajan Transylvania treasure valley Villanovan Wallachia Wallachian plain West western workmanship
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Page 189 - ... powerful, conscious of itself. Indeed, the Dacians, as a nation, never accepted Roman rule: those who had not fallen in the two great wars withdrew sullenly into Northern Dacia, a land untouched by Roman conquest, and from there, either by themselves or in company with migrating bodies of Germans, made continual raids upon the province, as ' free Dacians', until in the end the Romans under Aurelian retired to the right bank of the river and left Dacia in the hands of the Goths. It is this exodus...
Page 14 - The end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age were of great importance in our prehistory.
Page 150 - In omnibus autem Pannoniis non disciplinae tantummodo, sed linguae quoque • notitia romanae, plerisque etiam litterarum usus, et familiaris animorum erat exercitatio.
Page 190 - We can only trace one oUa (raised by Trajan himself), and but four or five cohortes (raised either by Trajan or his successor), while peoples far less numerous than the Dacians, such as, for instance, the Thracians and the Dalmatians (not to mention the Syrians or Spaniards) contributed a very considerable number of auxiliary troops. Owing to the desperate resistance offered by the native population, Trajan gave the province an organization of a very peculiar character. In the first place he had...
Page 175 - ripam omnem burgis a solo extructis item praesidiis per loca opportuna ad clandestinos latrunculorum transitus oppositis munivit', and the story repeats itself ad i nfmitum down to the close of the fourth century and even later.
Page 164 - Lupus anemola ic avetat. Quot comidi mecum aveo. Ego Maurentia in hunc monumentum titulum posui Lupo Virginio meo, cum quern quinquaginta annis bene labor am adque inculpatim covixi; et Argenteo Samarconi (?) fratris vel subulele matris meae ipsum titulum feci...
Page 127 - ... ornaments, necklaces, bracelets, fibulae, and so on, as an analysis of these from the stylistic point of view establishes their geographic and ethnographic origin. In the Bronze Age in Dacia and even in the first Iron Age gold was used in large quantities for ornamental purposes. The Dacian La Tene period, on the other hand, is characterized by an almost complete absence of gold in the treasures hidden away during the wars of the period and by the predominance of silver in its place. This feature...
Page 73 - ... It was merely being reorganized, for in the La Tene period we shall see it once again in all its ancient power and glory. This will be the period of Dacian silver treasures, of great fortresses built on inaccessible mountain tops, and of victorious wars against Scythians and Celts alike. This topic will be considered in a later chapter. For the moment we must bear in mind that the first Carpatho-Danubian Iron Age can only be described as Scythian in the way in which the last Bronze period was...
Page 189 - ... Five periods of development are recognized — the Villanovan, Scythian, Greek, Celtic, and Roman. One chapter each is devoted to the characteristics and contributions of the civilization of each period. When Dacia was incorporated as a province of the Roman Empire, it was a great kingdom based upon a homogeneous ethnic foundation: "Its historical traditions were already old, its social and economic structure was well marked, and it possessed an advanced culture, which, influenced at first by...
Page 189 - This was no mere agglomeration of a number of savage tribes with a shifting population, scattered loosely over an extended territory, with a complete lack of political and national cohesion, such as Rome had found in Dalmatia or Thrace or Pannonia or Moesia; here was a nation, organized, powerful, conscious of itself.