Roman Dacia

Dacia Trajanne or Roman Dacia was a province of the Roman Empire. She was known in the Roman Empire under the name of Dacia Felix (Happy Dacia) (see also Felix Legio IV Flauia ).

It is part of Dacia colonized by the Romans from 106 to 256.

Rough map to illustrate the situation of Dacia after the Roman conquest. The territory of Roman Dacia is blue, the territory of Dacia Dacian free red. Depending on the period, other areas have been temporarily under control of the Romans, and others do not.

The roads built by the Romans in Dacia.

The province was bordered by the Transylvania and Oltenia today. Between 15% and 50% of the territory were under Roman control. Some cards attest.

She was under the authority of a legate ranking Praetorian. The legio XIII Gemina , with numerous auxiliary troops , had his quarters in the province.

In 129 , under Hadrian , Dacia was divided into Dacia Superior and Dacia below , the first including the current region of Transylvania, the second region of the small current or Wallachia Oltenia. Shortly after a third province was built: "Porolissensis" after the city of Porolissum (near the village of Moigrad, common Mirid , Judet Salaj ). Only the top Dacia had a legion , and was therefore led by a senator with the rank of legate Imperial. Dacia Dacia porolissensis lower and were each governed by a knight bearing the title of procurator , had only their garrisons of auxiliary troops.

The reign of Marcus Aurelius brought a major administrative reform. The three provinces were united under the leadership of a legate of consular rank, this new province was named the Three Province Dacies (very Daci). The three former provinces, however, subsisted as subdivisions of the new group, but some changed their names. Dacia Dacia became greater after Apulensis Apulum and Dacia became less Malvensis "from Malva, a site long known and controversial, but now fixed with certainty Romula. It was at this time that the Dacia Porolissensis received a legion in garrison, the V Macedonica. The "consul" Three Dacies was therefore under his orders two legates (Apulensis and Porolissensis) and a procurator (Malvensis). Pertinax was among the first governors in Three Dacies 179.

Forts were built to withstand the revolt of the population, to attack the tribes Carp and later against the barbarian peoples. Three great military roads were built to unite the major cities, while a fourth, named in honor of Trajan, crossed the Carpathians and entered Transylvania through the cervix Rotetum.

The very Daci had a joint capital, Ulpia Sarmizegetusa Traiana and a joint meeting, which discussed provincial affairs, formulated claims and distribute the tax burden, but in other respects they were practically independent provinces from each other, each commanded by a legate or a procurator usually subordinate to the governor of consular rank.

The "free Dacians, who gave themselves the name of carp (hence the name Carpathians ) lived outside the Roman province , the territories north and east of the current Moldova , but also north of the Carpathians, where they had the name Costoboces, and in western Transylvania, known as "big Dacians.

While they do not lose themselves attacking a Roman fortress, the carp maintained many links with the Roman Empire. Romans deported Carp throughout Europe: they assimilated Roman culture and Roman language. During the occupation, they had close relations with both the Dacians in the province and people say barbarians this configuration allowed them to build complex alliances.

After the Roman retreat under Aurelian , they had recovered Dacia together with other barbaric attacks, including the Goths. They then called the "Carpodaces. The Greek historian Zosimus mentions for the last time in 381 Carpodaces these, that is to say, the Dacian tribes under the control of carp.

See also

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External Links

• The Danubian provinces of the Roman Empire: Celts, Romans, Germans Yann Le Bohec, Professor of Roman History at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne.
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