List of Dacian towns and fortresses

This is a list of ancient Dacian towns and fortresses from all the territories once inhabited by Dacians, Getae and Moesi. The large majority of them are located in the traditional territory of the Dacian Kingdom at the time of Burebista. This area includes the present-day countries of Romania and Moldova, as well as parts of mostly southern and eastern Ukraine, Slovakia,Husovská (1998) 13 Poland and Hungary, as well as ancient Moesia (Eastern Serbia, Northern Bulgaria). However some isolated settlements are located in Dalmatia (modern Albania and Croatia) as is the case of Thermidava,Five Roman emperors: Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan, A.D. 69-117 - by Bernard William Henderson - 1969, page 278,"At Thermidava he was warmly greeted by folk quite obviously Dacians" or in Dardania as is Quemedava.

The Dacian towns are also called davae (singular dava) since many names were composed of an initial lexical element affixed to -dava, -daua, -deva, -deba, -daba, or -dova, which meant "city", "town" or "fortress"" in the Dacian language (<PIE *dhe-, "to set, place" or *dhewa, "settlement"). Generally, the name indicated a tribal center or an important settlement, usually fortified.

The known towns names have been are attested by Ptolemy (1st century AD) and other ancient writers, but many have not been identified in the field yet. Conversely, there are many recent discoveries of Dacian settlements and fortresses, but most of them have no assigned names yet.

Some of the Dacian settlements and the fortresses employed the traditional Murus Dacicus (Dacian Wall) construction technique.

Table Picture Name Tribe Founded Attested by Area (ha) Discovery Location Country Acidava (Acidaua) ? ? Tabula Peutingeriana ? ? Enoșești Acmonia (; Agnaviae; Agmonia) ? ? Ptolemy's Geographia; Tabula Peutingeriana; Ravenna Cosmography ? ? between Marga and Zăvoi Aedava () ? Unknown; Justinian (r. 527–565) restored the damaged portion of the town defenses Procopius, De Aedificiis ? ? on the Danubian road between Augustae and Variana Aiadava ? ? ? ? ? Bela Palanka Aizis ? ? ? ? ? Fârliug Amutria ? ? ? ? ? ? Apulon ? ? ? ? ? Alba Iulia Arcina ? ? ? ? ? ? Arcobadara ? ? ? ? ? ? (Mala Kopania) ? ? ? ? ? Mala Kopania (Zemplín) ? ? ? ? ? Zemplín

See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Dacia Dacians Romanian archaeology List of castra in Dacia List of castles in Romania

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