Editing Getae (section)

=== Ancient sources ===
[[File:Beaker birds animals Met 47.100.88.jpg|thumb|Beaker with birds and animals, Thraco-Getic, 4th century BC, silver, height: {{convert|18.7|cm|abbr=on}}, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]]

[[Strabo]] stated in his ''[[Geographica]]'' ({{Circa}} 7{{nbsp}}BC – 20{{nbsp}}AD) wrote that the term "Dacian" was used by some people to refer to the western part of the Getae who lived north of the Danube "towards [[Germania]] and the sources of the Danube", and the other Getae lived in the eastern parts, towards the [[Black Sea]], both south and north of the Danube.{{sfn|Strabo|20 AD|loc=VII 3,13}} According to him, the Dacians and Getae spoke the same language,{{sfn|Strabo|20 AD|loc=VII 3,14}} after stating the same about Getae and Thracians.<ref name="cah3">{{cite book|title=The Cambridge Ancient History (Volume 3)|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1982|edition=2nd|isbn=1108007147}}</ref>

In his time, Strabo believed that the lands of these western Getae stretched north of the Danube to the boundary of [[Germania]], embracing a part of the mountains of the [[Hercynian Forest]] where the [[Suevi]] lived. From here their lands stretched very far to east of the [[Carpathians]], to the lands of the [[Tyragetae]], who lived near the [[Dniester]], although he cautioned that the precise boundaries were not known to him.{{sfn|Strabo|20 AD|loc=VII 3,1}}

[[Pliny the Elder]], in his ''[[Naturalis Historia]]'' (Natural History), c.{{nbsp}}77–79{{nbsp}}AD, refers to "the ''Getae'', by the Romans called ''Daci''".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pogacias |first1=Andrei |title=The Dacians and Getae at War 4th Century BC– 2nd Century AD |date=2023 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9781472854520 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R5eiEAAAQBAJ&dq=Getae+Daci+Pliny&pg=PT22}}</ref>

[[Appian]], who began writing his ''[[Roman History (Appian)|Roman History]]'' under [[Antoninus Pius]], Roman Emperor from 138 to 161, noted: "[B]ut going beyond these rivers in places they rule some of the [[Celts]] over the [[Rhine]] and the Getae over the [[Danube]], whom they call Dacians".{{sfn|Appian|160 AD|loc=Praef. 1.4}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Millar|first1=Fergus|last2=Cotton|first2=Hannah M.|last3=Rogers|first3=Guy M.|title=Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Volume 2: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire page 189|year=2004|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-5520-1}}</ref>

[[Junianus Justinus|Justin]], the 3rd century AD Latin historian, wrote in his ''[[Epitome of Pompeius Trogus]]'' that Dacians are spoken of as descendants of the Getae: ''"Daci quoque suboles Getarum sunt"'' (The Dacians as well are a [[Kinship|scion]] of the Getae).{{sfn|Justin|3rd century AD|loc=XXXII 3}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Papazoglu |first1=Fanula |title=The Central Balkan Tribes in Pre-Roman Times: Triballi, Autariatae, Dardanians, Scordisci, & Moesians, translated by Mary Stansfield-Popovic page 335 |year=1978 |publisher =John Benjamins North America |isbn=978-90-256-0793-7}}</ref>

In his ''[[Roman History (Cassius Dio)|Roman History]]'' (c.{{nbsp}}200{{nbsp}}AD), [[Cassius Dio]] added: "I call the people Dacians, the name used by the natives themselves as well as by the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]], though I am not ignorant that some Greek writers refer to them as ''Getae'', whether that is the right term or not...".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shelley|first1=William Scott |title=The Origins of the Europeans: Classical Observations in Culture and Personality, page 108, Cassius Dio (LXVII.4) |year=199|publisher=Intl Scholars Pubns| isbn=1-57309-220-7 }}</ref>{{sfn|Sidebottom|2007|p=6}} He also said the Dacians lived on both sides of the Lower [[Danube]]; the ones south of the river (today's northern [[Bulgaria]]), in [[Moesia]], were called [[Moesians]], while the ones north of the river were called Dacians. He argued that the Dacians are "Getae or [[Thracians]] of Dacian race":<ref>Cassius Dio. ''Roman History'', [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/51*.html#22.7 55.22.6-55.22.7]. "The [[Suebi]], to be exact, dwell beyond the Rhine (though many people elsewhere claim their name), and the [[Dacians]] on both sides of the [[Danube|Ister]]; those of the latter, however, who live on this side of the river near the country of the Triballi are reckoned in with the district of Moesia and are called Moesians, except by those living in the immediate neighbourhood, while those on the other side are called Dacians and are either a branch of the Getae are Thracians belonging to the Dacian race that once inhabited Rhodope."</ref> 
{{blockquote|In ancient times, it is true, Moesians and Getae occupied all the land between [[Haemus Mons|Haemus]] and the Ister; but as time went on some of them changed their names, and since then there have been included under the name of Moesia all the tribes living above [[Dalmatia]], [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedonia]], and [[Thrace]], and separated from [[Pannonia]] by the [[Savus]], a tributary of the [[Danube|Ister]]. Two of the many tribes found among them are those formerly called the [[Triballi]], and the [[Dardani]], who still retain their old name.<ref>Cassius Dio LI 27</ref>}}