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# The Dacian Kingdom

The earlier studies are covered comprehensively in H. DAICOVICIU, Dacia de la Burebista la cucerirea romană (Cluj, 1972). A list of goods imported from the Roman Empire and Greece can be found in I. GLODARIU, 'Dacian Trade with the Hellenistic and Roman World' (BAR Suppl. Series 8, London, 1976). In Burebista and his time (Bucharest, 1978), I.H. CRIŞAN attempts a comprehensive account of the period, but he tends to substitute speculation for a scholarly analysis of the sources.

I.I. RUSSU, Die Sprache der Thrako-Daker (Bucharest, 1969) is a valuable source not only for linguists but for historians as well. Dacian and Getan coinage is analysed in C. PREDA, Monedele geto-dacilor (Bucharest, 1973).

The political history, up to the Roman conquest, of the territories lying to the west and south of the Dacian kingdom, is based on the author's earlier works: András MÓCSY, 'Pannonia' in RE Suppl. Bd. IX (Stuttgart, 1962), pp. 527-37), 'Die Vorgeschichte Obermösiens im hellenistisch-römischen Zeitalter' (Acta Ant. Hung. 14: 1966), and Pannonia and Upper Moesia (London, 1974), pp. 1-30. Reference is made in the latter work to the Dacianization of tribes living outside the kingdom. A question remains unresolved: whether the Dacian pottery found on late Celtic and early Roman sites in Pannonia offers archaeological proof of Burebista's western conquests, or whether the pottery derives from partially Dacianized German and Celtic groups resettled in the early Roman period {1-776.} from the northern half of the Carpathian Basin to Pannonia. There are illuminating reflections on the times of Oroles and Rubobostes in V. ILIESCU, 'Wann lebte König Oroles' (Analele Univ. Bucureşti, Limbi Classice 17: 1970).

The Dacian kings are listed in Jordanes' history of the Goths (pp. 73, 76, 77)

For an overview of the Dacian wars and the Dacian kingdom, see G. FORNI, La provincia della Dacia e la politica romana (Romania Romana, Accad. Naz dei Lincei 371, 1974, no. 207).