Skirmish in Dacia

Roman legionaries engage Dacian irregulars

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[darkdanu89]

Who did Dacia conquer? Well in the times of Burebista they conquered all pontic greek cities between Olbia and Appolonia in the east, the celtic tribes of the Boii, Tauriscii, Scordiscii and Eraviscii in the west and also took the southern Danubian shore. In the north they stopped the bastarnae and sarmatian invasions.

So yes they did conquer, even if for a brief period. They even allied with Pompei against Caesar, and they defeated Domitian, then raiding and speading terror in all Moesia :D

[alexandramrsn]

1600 tones of gold and 3000 tones of silver were NOT a "little interest" or?? Would you like to have them?? At least we would like to have them back again!! And look again at that column, and think about it, please, tks.

[fanefum2]

@Flobblem You don't know that the Roman Empire don't win if a f*c*ing don't tell them where is the secret Citadel and how they could get there or they couldn't find our tezary 1600 kilograms of gold if someone don't tell them where exaclty are .So stop tell dacians are un organized or weak because they have the second army in the Europe and they have strengh bow mans and they heavy cavalery was verry powerfull.

[Flobblem]

the romans was their unwillingness to give up, simply wearing away any resistance they encounter.

[Flobblem]

for that reason.

Also @oneintelligentmuslim you have to bear in mind that Hannibal was attacking from a long way away, while the Dacians were fighting in their homeland, and that Caesar actually recruited many Gallic clans to his side, fracturing how much resistance he would have to face at any one time.

Also do not forget that no Roman even set foot on Britain for a very very long time due to their ferociousness.

I am not saying that the Dacians were in any way easy.

The strength of...

[Flobblem]

Weak and unorganised?

Never destroyed a single Roman legion?

I think you need to rethink your sources I am afraid.

Also Gauls were anything but unorganised. They were every bit as 'civillised' as the Romans, but (like the Greeks before them) the Romans considered anyone not Roman as barbaric (the term barbarian comes from a Greek joke about all foreign languages sounding like they are saying 'barbarbar'). The Romans feared the Gauls as much as any foe. They made sure to utterly destroy them

[oneinteligentmuslim]

You can not compare the weak and un-organized bands of Gauls or Britons with the agressive and mighty Dacian warriors. Remember that, the Dacians destroyed 6 (six) Roman legions and decimated the rest of the Roman Army The Gauls and the Britons never managed to destroy a single Roman legion !

[oneinteligentmuslim]

The Dacian Army was the second army in Europe, after the Roman Army. The emperor Trajanus had to use the entire force of the Empire (when the Roman Empire was at his height) to defeat the Dacians in two bloody wars. The Roman Army of Trajanus was 3 times larger than the army of Caesar in Gallia and 4 times larger than the Scipio's army used against Hannibal. Even so, they had very hard time and plenty of looses during those two wars against the powerfull and savage fighters of Dacia !!

[unurautare]

they had less hard time conquering Dacia because Dacia was then at its weakest and the Roman Empire at its strongest,dacians slaughtered the 1st six roman leions sent,but sent just sent more the next time xD anyway result was the same/similar on the future descendants of the people who live there,I guess,for example the British English simplified vocabulary has about 80% words of latin origin xP

[dieleia7]

1600 tones of gold....yes you are right they came here to steal and stoopid morons like mmadddog say we owe them...

[dieleia7]

Yes,and you did not ever read a book in your entire life! You'd better go to a library than post stoopid comments!

[Flobblem]

Kiwis4life has a point, as do you. however, if we separate ourselves from the Roman myth (self created by the Romans) we can see that it was not just the Dacians they had trouble conquering. They used to utterly fear the Gauls, and believed them undominable, as too with the Britains. Let us not forget their many wars with Carthage and the Hannibals who pushed the Romans back to their own city. In comparison with these the Romans had less of a hard time conquering Dacia