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Headword:
Dakia
chôra
Adler number: delta,23
Translated headword: Dacian region
Vetting Status: low
Translation: That which Trajan colonized in the areas around the Istrus.[1] And Aurelian abandoned this [region], once the region of the Illyrians and the Mysians had been oppressed, thinking that it would be impossible to save the [region] which had been captured in the midst of the rivers. Therefore, he led out the Romans who had settled there out of the cities and the fields and he deposited them in the middle of
Mysia, having named the region "Dacia"; it now lies between the two Mysias and divides them from one another
Greek Original:Dakia chôra: hên ho Traïanos en tois peran tou Istrou chôriois katôikise. kai tautên Aurêlianos apelipe, kekakômenês tês Illuriôn te kai Musôn chôras, hêgoumenos adunatôs esesthai tên peran en mesois tois potamois apeilêmmenên diasôizesthai. exagagôn oun tous ekeise Rhômaious apôikismenous ek te tôn poleôn kai tôn agrôn en mesêi têi Musiai kathidruse, tên chôran onomasas Dakian: hê nun en mesôi tôn duo Musiôn keimenê diairei autas ap' allêlôn.
Notes:
Perhaps derived from John of
Antioch (so Adler).
[1] Danube.
Note that the term '
Mysia' was often used to describe what we nowadays more commonly render 'Moesia'. Cf.
mu 1472.
Reference:
OCD(3) pp.425 (Dacia) and 993 (Moesia).
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 July 2002@13:36:46.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added keywords and bibliography; cosmetics) on 4 September 2002@04:06:02.
Catharine Roth (modified translation slightly) on 4 September 2002@11:06:35.
Nicholas Fincher (Added note) on 15 July 2003@04:16:09.
David Whitehead (added x-ref; augmented bibliography) on 15 July 2003@04:31:12.
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