Dacia

Dacian Kingdom
c. 82 BC–106 AD
Dacian draco
Dacia’s expansions and largest extent under Burebista c. 45 BC
Capital	Sarmizegetusa
Common languages	Dacian
Religion	Thracian polytheism, Zamolxism
Demonym(s)	Dacian
Government	Monarchy
King
• 82–44 BC	Burebista (first)
• 87–106 AD	Decebal (last)
Historical era	Classical antiquity
• Established	c. 82 BC
• Domitian's Dacian War	84–88 AD
• Trajan's Dacian Wars	101–106 AD
• Disestablished	106 AD
Preceded by Succeeded by Dacians Getae Thracians Roman Dacia Free Dacians

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Dacia (/ˈdeɪʃə/, DAY-shə; Latin: [ˈd̪aː.ki.a]) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus roughly corresponds to present-day Romania, as well as parts of Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Ukraine.^[1]

A Dacian kingdom that united the Dacians and the Getae was formed under the rule of Burebista in 82 BC and lasted until the Roman conquest in AD 106. As a result of the wars with the Roman Empire, after the conquest of Dacia, the population was dispersed, and the capital city, Sarmizegetusa Regia, was destroyed by the Romans. However, the Romans built a settlement bearing the same name, Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetuza 40 km away, to serve as the capital of the new Roman province of Dacia. A group of "Free Dacians", may have remained outside the Roman Empire in the territory of modern-day Northern Romania until the start of the Migration Period.^[1]