Dava (Dacian)

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Dacian fortified settlement

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::summary Dacian fortified settlement ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/RomanDacia_TabulaPeutingeriana.png" caption="Many ''davae'' on the Roman Dacia selection from ''[[Tabula Peutingeriana]]''"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Dacia_around_60-44_BC_during_Burebista,including_campaigns-_French.png" caption="''Davae'' in [[Dacia]] during [[Burebista"] ::

Dava (Latinate plural davae) was a Geto-Dacian name for a city, town or fortress. Generally, the name indicated a tribal center or an important settlement, usually fortified. Some of the Dacian settlements and the fortresses employed the Murus Dacicus traditional construction technique.

Most of these towns are attested by Ptolemy, and therefore date from at least the 1st century CE.

The dava towns can be found as south as the cities of Sandanski and Plovdiv in present-day Bulgaria. Strabo specified that the Dacians ("Daci") are the Getae. The Dacians, Getae and their kings were always considered as Thracians by the ancients (Dio Cassius, Trogus Pompeius, Appian, Strabo, Herodotus and Pliny the Elder), and were both said to speak the same Thracian language.

Etymology

Many city names of the Dacians were composed of an initial lexical element (often the tribe name) affixed to -dava, -daua, -deva, -deba, -daba or -dova (

List of ''davae''

Below is a list of Dacian towns which include various forms of dava in their name: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Teritoriul_onomastic_al_elementului_dava_-_Sorin_Olteanu.jpg" caption="Onomastic range of the Dacian towns with the ''-dava'' ending, covering Dacia, Moesia, Thrace and Dalmatia" alt="Onomastic range of the Dacian towns with the -dava ending, covering Dacia, Moesia, Thrace and Dalmatia"] ::

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Bibliography

  • {{cite journal |last = Berzovan |first = Alexandru |title = Considerations regarding the origin of Dacian Term dava / deva / daba. A Historical and Linguistic Journey from the Lower Danube to Anatolia and Transcaucasia |url = https://www.academia.edu/43986589 |journal = The Thracians and their neighbours in antiquity. Archaeology and history. Studies in honor of Valeriu Sîrbu at his 70th anniversary |year = 2020 |publisher = Editura Istros, Brăila |location = Romania
  • {{cite book |last = Grumeza |first = Ion |author-link = Ion Grumeza |title = Dacia: Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=07-RjGQajw0C |year = 2009 |publisher = Hamilton Books |isbn = 978-0-7618-4465-5 |quote = }}
  • {{cite web |last=Olteanu |first=Sorin |title=Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum – Toponyms Section |url=http://soltdm.com/geo/arts/categs/categs.htm |language=ro, en |work=Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum |access-date=8 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716103139/http://soltdm.com/geo/arts/categs/categs.htm |archive-date=16 July 2011
  • {{Cite book | last = Polome | first = E. C. | author-link = Edgar C. Polomé | editor1-last = Boardman | editor1-first = John | title = The Cambridge Ancient History | year = 1982 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = London | isbn = 978-0-521-22496-3 | chapter = 20e
  • {{cite journal |first = Joseph |last = Van den Gheyn |author-link = Joseph Van den Gheyn |title = Les populations Danubiennes |year = 1885 |journal = Revue des questions scientifiques |volume = 17–18 |publisher = Société scientifique de Bruxelles |location = Brussels
  • {{cite book |last = Velkov |first = Velizar Iv |author-link = Velizar Iv Velkov |title = The cities in Thrace and Dacia in late antiquity: (studies and materials) |publisher = Hakkert |year = 1977 |isbn = 90-256-0723-3
  • {{cite journal |last = Tomaschek |first = Wilhelm | author-link = Wilhelm Tomaschek |title = Les Restes de la langue dace |journal = Le Muséon |volume = 2 |year = 1883 |publisher = "Société des lettres et des sciences" Louvain, Belgium |location = Belgium

References

  1. Georgiev, Vladimir I.. (1981). "Introduction to the History of the Indo-European Languages". Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. "Bronze Age Tomb Finds Thrill Romanian Historians". Balkan Insight.
  3. "Considerations regarding the etymology of the Dacian word dava / deva / daba. A Historical and Linguistic Journey from the Lower Danube to Anatolia and Transcaucasia". ResearchGate.
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  5. Ethnic continuity in the Carpatho-Danubian area by Elemér Illyés, 1988,{{ISBN. 0-88033-146-1, page 223
  6. (1988). "Trajan's Column: A New Edition of the Cichorius Plates". Alan Sutton.

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