Editing Getae (section)

==== Same people ====
[[File:Teritoriul onomastic al elementului dava - Sorin Olteanu.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|alt=Onomastic range of the Dacian, Getae, and Moesian towns with the dava or deva ending, covering Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, and Dalmatia and showcasing linguistic continuity|[[Onomastics|Onomastic]] range of the [[Dacian towns|Dacian, Getae, and Moesian towns]] with the ''[[Dava (Dacian)|dava]]'' or ''deva'' ending, covering Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, and [[Dalmatia]], and showcasing linguistic continuity]]
Strabo, as well as other ancient sources, led some modern historians to consider that, if the Thracian ethnic group should be divided, one of this divisions should be the "''Daco-Getae''".<ref name="mocsy">{{cite book|author=András Mócsy|title=Pannonia and Upper Moesia|publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul|year=1974|isbn=0-7100-7714-9}} See p. 364, n. 41: "If there is any justification for dividing the Thracian ethnic group, then, unlike V. Georgiev who suggests splitting it into the Thraco-Getae and the Daco-Mysi, I consider a division into the Thraco-Mysi and the Daco-Getae the more likely."</ref> The [[linguistics|linguist]] [[Ivan Duridanov]] also identified a "[[Dacian linguistic area]]"<ref>{{cite web|author=Duridanov, Ivan|url=http://www.kroraina.com/thrac_lang/thrac_8.html|title=The Thracian, Dacian and Paeonian languages|access-date=2007-02-11}}</ref> in [[Dacia]], [[Scythia Minor (Dobruja)|Scythia Minor]], [[Lower Moesia]], and [[Upper Moesia]].

[[Romanians|Romanian]] scholars generally went further with the identification, historian [[Constantin C. Giurescu]] claiming the two were identical.<ref>{{cite book|author=Giurescu, Constantin C.|title=Formarea poporului român|location=Craiova|year=1973|language=ro|page=23}} "They (Dacians and Getae) are two names for the same people [...] divided in a large number of tribes". See also the hypothesis of a [[Daco-Thracian|Daco-Moesian language / dialectal area]] supported by linguists like Vladimir Georgiev, Ivan Duridanov and Sorin Olteanu.</ref> The [[archaeologist]] [[Mircea Babeș]] spoke of a "veritable ethno-cultural unity" between the Getae and the Dacians.{{citation needed|date=January 2011}} According to [[Glanville Price]], the account of the Greek geographer [[Strabo]] shows that the Getae and the Dacians were one and the same people.<ref name="price">{{cite book|last1      = Price
|first1     = Glanville |title      = Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe |year       = 2000|publisher  = Wiley-Blackwell| isbn      = 0-631-22039-9 }}, p. 120</ref>
Others who support the identity between Getae and Dacians with ancient sources include freelance writer [[James Minahan]] and [[Catherine B Avery]], who claim the people whom the Greek called ''Getae'' were called ''Daci'' by the Romans.{{sfn| Minahan |2000 |p=549}}{{sfn| Avery |1962 |p=497}} This same belief is stated by some British historians such as [[David Sandler Berkowitz]] and [[Philip Matyszak]].{{sfn| Sandler Berkowitz| Morison |1984 |p=160}}{{sfn| Matyszak| 2009|p=215}}  The Bulgarian historian and thracologist [[Alexander Fol]] considers that the Getae became known as "Dacians" in Greek and Latin in the writings of [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]], Strabo and [[Pliny the Elder]], as Roman observers adopted the name of the [[Dacian tribe]] to refer to all the unconquered inhabitants north of the [[Danube]].{{sfn| Fol |1996 |p=223}} Also, [[Sir Edward Bunbury, 9th Baronet|Edward Bunbury]] believed the name of Getae, by which they were originally known to the Greeks on the [[Euxine]], was always retained by the latter in common usage: while that of Dacians, whatever be its origin, was that by which the more western tribes, adjoining the [[Pannonians]], first became known to the Romans.{{sfn|Bunbury|1979|p=151}} Some scholars consider the Getae and Dacians to be the same people at different stages of their history and discuss their culture as ''Geto-Dacian''.{{sfn|Waldman|Mason|2006|p=335}}