Dacia was the land of the Dacians, a Thracian people living in the region of the Carpathian Mountains, which covers much of modern Romania. The kingdom was unified by Burebista in the first century BCE and was at its most powerful again under Decebalus, with a capital at Sarmizegetusa Regia in the Orastie Mountains, and fortresses on the hilltops. Dacia had rich gold and silver mines. The Roman emperor Trajan conquered it in two wars, depicted on Trajan's Column in Rome, and made it a Roman province, bringing in settlers and soldiers. Roman rule ended in the third century. The influence of the Dacians and the Romans on the origins of the Romanian people is a subject of long-standing debate.
Before and after
- from 66 BCE to 217 CERoman–Parthian Wars
- 8 December 65 BCEBirth of Horace
- 63 BCEBirth of Strabo
- 23 September 63 BCEBirth of Augustus
- from 60 BCE to 106 CEDacia
- from 59 BCE to 51 BCECaesar begins the conquest of Gaul
- 58 BCEPublication of Commentarii de Bello Gallico
- 58 BCEBattle of Vosges
- 58 BCEBattle of the Arar
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