Editing Getae (section)

=== Suggested link to Jats ===
There have long been attempts to link the Getae and [[Massagetae]] to the [[Jat people|Jats]] of South Asia. Likewise, the Dacians have been linked to the [[Dahae]] of Central Asia (and the Dahae to the [[Dasas]] of South Asia).[[W. W. Hunter]] claimed in 1886, suggested that the Jats were an [[Iranian peoples|Iranian people]] – most likely [[Scythian]]/[[Saka]] in origin,<ref>W. W. Hunter, 2013, ''The Indian Empire: Its People, History and Products'', Routledge, 2013, p. 179-180.</ref> [[Alexander Cunningham]] (1888) believed that references in classical European sources{{snd}}like [[Strabo]], [[Ptolemy]] and [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]{{snd}}to peoples such as the ''[[Zath]]s'', may have been the Getae and/or Jats.<ref name="cunningham">Alexander Cunningham, 1888, cited by: Sundeep S. Jhutti, 2003, ''The Getes'', Philadelphia, PA; Department of East Asian languages & Civilizations University of Pennsylvania, p. 13.</ref><ref name="Jhutti">[http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp127_getes.pdf Sundeep S. Jhutti, 2003, "The Getes", ''Sino-Platonic Papers'', no. 127 (October)], pp. 15–17. (Access: 18 March 2016).</ref> More recent authors, like [[Tadeusz Sulimirski]],<ref>{{cite book |title=The Sarmatians: Volume 73 of Ancient peoples and places |pages=113–114 |last=Sulimirski |first=Tadeusz |author-link=Tadeusz Sulimirski |publisher=Praeger |location=New York |year=1970 |isbn=9789080057272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gdjhuAAACAAJ |quote=The evidence of both the ancient authors and the archaeological remains point to a massive migration of Sacian (Sakas)/Massagetan ("great" Jat) tribes from the Syr Daria Delta (Central Asia) by the middle of the second century B.C. Some of the Syr Darian tribes; they also invaded North India.}}</ref> [[Weer Rajendra Rishi]],<ref>{{cite book |title= India & Russia: linguistic & cultural affinity |page=95 | last=Rishi |first=Weer Rajendra |author-link=Weer Rajendra Rishi |publisher=Roma |year=1982 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vns_AAAAMAAJ&q=Getae}}</ref> and Chandra Chakraberty,<ref>{{cite book |title=The prehistory of India: tribal migrations |first=Chandra |last=Chakraberty |publisher=Vijayakrishna Bros |year=1948 |page=35}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Racial basis of Indian culture: including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal |first=Chandra |last=Chakraberty |publisher=Aryan Books International |year=1997 |isbn=8173051100}}</ref> have also linked the Getae and Jats.

Less credible, however, are parallel claims by Alexander Cunningham that the ''[[Xanthii]]'' (or ''Zanthi'') and ''[[Iatioi]]''{{snd}}mentioned by Strabo, Ptolemy and Pliny{{snd}}may have been synonymous with the Getae and/or Jats.<ref name="cunningham"/> The ''Xanthii'' were later established to be a subgroup (tribe or clan) of the Dahae. Subsequent scholars, such as [[Edwin Pulleyblank]], [[Josef Markwart]] (also known as Joseph Marquart) and [[László Torday]], suggest that ''Iatioi'' may be another name for a people known in classical Chinese sources as the [[Yuezhi]] and in South Asian contexts as the ''[[Kushan Empire|Kuṣānas]]'' (or Kushans).<ref name="Jhutti"/>