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Dacians were initialy a tracian people, which spread over modern Romania about 6 century BC. Initialy they were called by the greeks, gets. Till first century BC, they formed small kingdoms, cohabiting on the teritory with many other ethnic tribes, especialy celto-germanics, but also scitics. Since they were the only who remained there in masses, they asimilated over the centuries the remaints of the celto-germanics and scitians, and this, influenced their language and blood, but not so much the culture, which remained, mainly, tracic and genuine one. Initialy, they inherited some tracian gods, like Bendis(moon god) and Gebeleizis(sun god), but, in time, they developed their own culture and religion. They becomed to develop very much the religion current of imortality, maybe under the influence of the germanic asimilated populations - the ideea to not fear of death, death is only a transition to another better world. This was mixed with the increasingly traditions of many little god and godness, which were related especialy to the mountains phenomenons. Initialy, the little kingdoms were centerd all over the teritory, but, in time, all the tribes centered in mountaineouss areeas. This was, probably, a reaction against the migratory foes: the bulk of the population retreat to the mountains when a migrationist wave arosed, and, then, the tribes unified and relegated the foes, or made them insiders. Around 3-2 century BC, a new god arosed: Zamolxis, who becomed the main god; the legend says Zamolxes was initially a philosopher who retreat in the dacian mountains(holly mountain Kogayon), and transformed himself in a god(an early kind of messiah). At the half of the first century BC, the king Burebista succeded in unify all the dacian small kingdoms, and formed a huge kingdoom, spreaded from the river Tisa, in wast, to river Nister, in east, from Moravia, in north, to balkan mountains, in south. He, also, conquered the greek colonies from the shore of Black Sea. His army is said to been over than 200 000 peoples, and it seems the romans becomed very concerned about the size of his army. His capital was also, situated in the mountains, even many economic centers were spreaded on the plain or sea-shore. The dacians becomed an ancient peoples who loved mountains, in contradiction with other ancient powerfull peoples, who considered mountaineous areeas useless and dangerous. They learned to subsist in large number at the mountains, herding in large number animals which were well adapted to mountaineouss conditions, minning and exploiting the timber. Burebista was killed by a conspiracy, in 44 BC, and his mighty kingdom divided again in many small realms. Only at the end of the first century AD, the king Decebalus succeded again to unify the dacians. It seems his kingdoom was not such large like the one of Burebista, but he succed to made an alliance with the remainder tribes. also he developed very much the gold mining, and payed many roman soldiers and engineers to develop his economy and army. in fact, his army becomed such powerfull, that the romans, failling to defeat him, agreed to pay large tribute. In this way, the dacians becomed, at the end of the first century BC, the public enemy n°1 for the roman Empire. Traianus succeded to convince the senate to allocate latge summs of moneys to a dacian campain. He gathered 13 legions(unprecedented roman army) against the dacians, and, after 6 years of bloody wars, he succeded to destry the decebalus alliance, and to conquer his kingdom. He conquered half of the dacians total teritory, destroyed the dacian state, and menaced the unconquered dacians with another campain and dire punishments, only if they dare to establish a new dacian state. (I'll continue...)