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	Roman Emperors - DIR Battle Descriptions
		Battle of Sarmizegetusa (Sarmizegetuza), A.D. During Trajan's reign one of the most important Roman successes was the victory over the Dacians.The first important confrontation between the Romans and the Dacians took place in the year 87 and was initiated by Domitian.
		Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, A.D. During Augustus's reign (27 B.C.-14 A.D..), probably the greatest disaster suffered by the Romans was the defeat in the Teutoburg forest when the former proconsul of Africa, Publius Quinctilius Varus, together with three legions (XVII, XVIII, and XIX), six cohorts and three squadrons of cavalry (alae) were practically slaughtered.
		Battle of Yarmuk, A.D. During the reign of Heraclius this battle was fought between Romans and Arabs in the Jordan valley in the Roman province of Palestine.
	www.roman-emperors.org /assobd.htm (2604 words)

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		Romans engaged in a battle with the Latins.
		In the battle, Scipio defeated the Carthaginian forces and so severely defeated the forces of the Carthaginian ally King Syphax of Numidia that Scipio was able to expel Syphax's forces from the capital of Cirta with a force of 3 cohorts (about 1650 men).
		Pompeius Magnus is defeated in a battle with Q. Sertorius near the River Sucro and later enters an indecisive battle near the town of Saguntum.
	www.novaroma.org /camenaeum/RomanTimeline.txt (25003 words)

	swuklink: Searchable Time-Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Battle of Abrittus; the Goths defeat the Romans klilling the Roman emperors Trajan Decius and Herennius Etruscus
		Attila the Hun is defeated at Troyes by Aëtius in the Battle of Chalons
		Death of the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I in the Battle of Pliska, defeated by the Bulgar khan Krum; succeeded by Stauracius as Byzantine emperor
	www.swuklink.com /BAAAGDJA.php?srchstr=battle (3835 words)

	Battles and Campaigns of the Empire
		The battle of Cannea was a particularly severe defeat for the Romans during this part of the Second Punic war.
		Some of the 80 Carthaginian war elephants which opened the battle with a frontal charge were turned back in panic by the pandemonium of shouts and trumpet blasts which the Romans raised.
		The battle of Cynoscephalae was a turning point in military history, the Macedonian phalanx which had been invincible in combat for 200 years was finally defeated.
	www.josts.net /tec912/projects/fsorrentino/battles.htm (2203 words)

	Arta războiului la daci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The military ways of the Dacians and of their descendants, the Romanians, can be characterized by flexibility and ability of adapting to new; they were also very imaginative and creative being able to create new forms and military procedures astonishing to the enemy.
		It is well known that the Tribalii used a war mechanism organized on 4 lines: in the first line the weak warriors for exhausting the enemy, in the second the brave ones, in the third the horsemen and in the last, the women to encourage those who fought.
		This attack was necessary for the Romans, and on its victory depended the final defeat of the Dacian kings who could not accept the loss of their southern lands, the ruling over the greatest European economical artery-the Danube-also a strategically and military spot.
	www.gk.ro /sarmizegetusa/ranistorum/site_eng/arta.html (3548 words)

	Encyclopedia Of The Roman Empire
		TRAJAN began the greatest series of battles in Dacia's history in March 101, and by 106, all of Decebalus' realm was vanquished.
		In 251, Emperor Trajanus Decius fell in battle near the Danube, and from 254 to 261 the once secure border to the north was overrun.
		After the battle of Pharsalus in 48 B.C., he apparently pledged himself to Caesar and used his troops to aid Caesar at the battle of Zela in 46.
	encyclopediaoftheromanempire.blogspot.com (17561 words)

	THE DACIAN STATE, FROM BUREBISTA TO DECEBALUS
		- The Roman army is attacked by the Dacians at Tapae.
		- The leader of the Dacians at Tapae was Diuurpaneus, a nobleman (taraboste) from the south-west of Dacia.
		There is again a battle at Tapae, but the Romans won the battle.
	www.geocities.com /cogaionon/article3.htm (1136 words)

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		When the battle lines of both sides had been standing for a long time opposite each other, both being brave and neither side the weaker, they struck a truce and returned to their ancient alliance.
		The battle field was a plain rising by a sharp slope to a ridge, which both armies sought to gain; for advantage of position is a great help.
		They joined battle in almost the same way as before at the Catalaunian Plains, and Thorismud dashed his hopes of victory, for he routed him and drove him from the land without a triumph, compelling him to flee to his own country.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/4/8/0/14809/14809.txt (23581 words)

	THE WARS WITH THE ROMANS (101-102, 105-106 AD)
		Thhere was a great battle, but, although the Dacians were defeated, they withdrew in order.
		The arrival of winter and the battles that they had already fought convinced Trajan to interrupt the campaign.
		An important battle was fought at Adamclisi (in the south of Drobruja).
	www.geocities.com /cogaionon/article4.htm (568 words)

	Dacians and Romans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		There was again a new battle at Tapae, won by the Romans.
		However, due to revolts of the Germans, the Roman military force engaged with the Dacians was obliged to retire.
		In 101 Dacia was invaded by the Romans army, that crossed Danube at Viminacium (nowadays Kostolac, in Serbia).
	www.romaniantours.com /romans.html (999 words)

	Legio XIII Gemina
		He implies the existence of a this unit in his account of the battle against the Nervians, describes how it encountered the Aremoricans and states that it was present during the siege of Gergovia.
		After the decisive battle at Pharsalus, the soldiers were sent back to Italy to be pensioned off (Autumn 48), but in 46, they participated in Caesar's African campaign.
		During the reshuffling of the Roman forces after the battle in the Teutoburg Forest (September 9 CE), the legion was first transferred to Augsburg, maybe briefly to Mainz (with XIV Gemina and XVI Gallica), and finally (in 16?) to Vindonissa (modern Windisch) in Germania Superior, an old Helvetian town.
	www.livius.org /le-lh/legio/xiii_gemina.html (1122 words)

	History of Art: Art of the Roman Empire
		Jove, armed with a thunderbolt, intervenes in support of his favourites at the first battle of Tapae, just as Zeus does in a statuary group of Alexander at Sagalassus (Turkey).
		The glory of the victors is dampened in this narrative by the cruelty of the massacre: for example, an auxiliary grips the hair on the head of a decapitated enemy between his teeth.
		Numerous scenes illustrate troops on the move, addresses to the soldiers, field battles, infantry and cavalry actions in various types of terrain, and sieges.
	www.all-art.org /history100-2.html (1448 words)

	The United Goths
		Thence the victors hastened to the farthest part of Scythia, which is near the sea of Pontus; for so the story is generally told in their early songs, in almost historic fashion.
		In a battle at the river Phasis (whence come the birds called pheasants, which are found in abundance at the banquets of the great all over the world) Tanausis, king of the Goths, met Vesosis, king of the Egyptians, and there inflicted a severe defeat upon him, pursuing him even to Egypt.
		But when the battle was renewed, the Getae and their queen defeated, conquered and overwhelmed the Parthians and took rich plunder from them.
	www.earth-history.com /Europe/Goths/jordanes-goths-03-united.htm (5499 words)

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		Battle of the Ford of Jacob's Daughters (en)
		Battle of the Hill of the Jews (en)
		Battle of the Hooves and the Harlots (en)
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	Banat's Historical Chronology for the First Millennium A.D.
		Tettius Iulianus, consul suffectus in 83 and then governor of Moesia province, defeats the Dacians at Tapae in Banat.
		At the battle of Nedao River in Pannonia from 454, the allied forces of the germanic gepids and ostrogoths defeated the hunnic forces of the sons of Attila.
		Avars are defeated in 3 separate battles [held in the Alibunar-Moraviţa Valley zone] by the Byzantine army lead by Priscus.
	www.genealogy.ro /cont/20.htm (1410 words)

	Electronic Banat
		Returning to Italy, Eugene fought (1705) an inconclusive battle at Cassano against his cousin, Louis Joseph de Vendôme. His invasion of Provence (1707) was a failure, owing to the inadequacy of his forces.
		Although Hungary recovered part of its lost territories in 1939-40, it lost these and was reduced to boundaries approximating those of 1920 by the peace treaty signed in 1947 at Paris.
		Battle of Sarmizegetusa (Sarmizegetuza), A.D. During Trajan's reign.
	www.banatul.com /info/banat-history.shtml (1754 words)

	Domitian
		He had already won some victories in various parts of Britain and now advanced into northern Scotland were at Mons Graupius he gained a significant victory over the Picts in battle.
		However, the Dacians were eventually driven back and in AD 89 Tettius Julianus defeated them at Tapae.
		At the following battle of Castellum, Saturninus was killed and this brief rebellion was at an end.
	www.roman-empire.net /emperors/domitian.html (1743 words)

	Dacian Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Roman army was defeated at Tapae, by the Dacians led by Diurpaneus / Decebal (Dacian for the Brave).
		The Roman offensive was spearheaded by two legionary columns, marching straight to the heart of Dacia, burning towns and villages in the process.
		Thanks to the treason of a confidant of the Dacian king, Bicilis, the Romans found Decebalus's treasure in the river of Sargesia/Sargetia - a fortune estimated by Jerome Carcopino at 165,500 kg of gold and 331,000 kg of silver.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dacian_Wars (1049 words)

	The Late Roman Army Page
		The longer blades of late Roman troops were pointed and would have increased their reach in close quarter battle.
		As most weapons of this type found across the borders were imports from the Roman empire it appears that the barbarians adopted a Roman weapon rather than the other way round.
		The performance in battle of late Roman troops was not significantly worse than that of their early imperial counterparts.
	members.tripod.com /~S_van_Dorst/lrarmy.html (2123 words)

	AEGiS-Reuters: Asia takes aim at growing child sex trafficking
		Thai police complain they are fighting an uphill battle against an increasingly sophisticated industry worth up to 100 billion baht ($2.45 billion) a year, according to Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University.
		Desperately poor young girls from Myanmar, Cambodia and China are lured into Thailand with promises of lucrative jobs, only to end up in massage parlours and karaoke bars where customers will pay as much as 30,000 baht for virgins.
		Near Chiang Mai's historic Tapae Gate, Kwan, a 14-year-old boy who fled an abusive step-father two years ago, walks the streets until the early hours looking for clients for sex.
	www.aegis.com /news/re/2004/RE041114.html (821 words)

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		The battles at Tapae demonstrate clearly a decline in the effectiveness of the Roman Army.
		The V Alaude legion suffered destruction in the first battle of Tapae as a consequence of their decrepit state not because of the military genius of Decebalus or the impetuousness of their commander Cn.
		The battles of Tapae then were the catalysts that brought the entire northern frontier policy of not only the Flavians, but Nero and Caligula as well, to a final resolution.
	www.caneweb.org /pubsnref/AnnBul06.htm (18259 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dacian Wars
		Following the peace of 89, Decebal became a client of Rome, receiving money, craftsmen, and war machines from the Roman Empire, to defend the empire's borders.
		Trajan defeated a Dacian army at the Battle of Tapae, and in 102 Decebalus chose to surrender after some additional minor conflicts.
		The last battle with the army of the Dacian king took place at Porolissum (Moigrad).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Dacian_Wars (920 words)

	Excerpt: The Last Vampire
		The samlor glided along Moon Muang Road, heading for the Tapae Gate and the temple district beyond, moving through the murky, soaked night.
		For most of the Keepers down there, this would be the first contact in a century with any of their own kind.
		Lovers met in sweet battle, and mothers lived with their children.
	paraview.com /strieber/strieber_excerpt.htm (5800 words)

	Wars of Trajan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		A battle was fought at a place called Tapae, and although the Romans were victorious they delayed the invasion of the heartlands until after winter.
		Crossing the frozen Danube River, Decebalus invaded the neighboring Roman province of Moesia Inferior.
		Although the Dacians were initially successful, the Romans beat them off in a fierce battle at Adamclisi (Romans lost around 5000 men), without any significant damage to the province.
	forumancientcoins.com /forvm/Articles/wars_of_trajan.htm (758 words)

	Detail Page
		The first battle was part of Emperor Domitian's campaign against the Dacian King Decebalus, with the Roman legions under the command of Tettius Julianus.
		Taking place near the Iron Gates, a deep gorge cut by the Danube River about 100 miles east of modern Belgrade, the conflict was an absolute success for Rome.
		While the first battle ended the war, it did not prevent later struggles.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ROME1669 (142 words)

	Legio I Adiutrix
		During the war of succession, I Adiutrix and XIII Gemina fought bravely for the emperor Otho in first the battle of Cremona (April 69) but were defeated; the new emperor Vitellius sent it to Hispania, but in 70, we find it fighting under Quintus Petillius Cerialis against the rebellious Batavians.
		The Dacians had invaded the Roman empire in 86 and defeated the legions that were supposed to defend Moesia.
		In 88, a large Roman army group invaded Dacia and general Tettius defeated its king Decebalus at Tapae; the First was one of nine legions involved.
	www.livius.org /le-lh/legio/i_adiutrix.html (779 words)

	The Wargamer - Dacian Campaigns
		The campaign was carried into eastern Dacia, but the weight of the Dacian numbers gradually drove the Romans forces back, and in the final battle wiped them out, Fuscus suffering the fate of his army.
		Roman military honor was restored to some degree by the battle of Tapae, in 88 C.E., were the Dacian where thoroughly beaten.
		Decebalus, the King of Dacia, was forced to pay an annual tribute to Rome and to allow Roman armies passage through Dacian territory.
	www.wargamer.com /articles/gb-articles/dacia/dacia_8.asp (388 words)

	Wolf Warriors: the Romans, the Dacians and the Vlachs; Dracula and Hitler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Sarmatian horsemen, as they appear on Trajan's Column look similar to the horsemen from the Bayeux Tapestry commemorating the Battle of Hastings, where the horsemen are wearing Sarmatian Alan Lamella armour, but not the horses, as seen on the Trajan's Column.
		The Dacians were always going to battle under the Dracones, their Wolf-Dragon banner (having a Wolf head ending through a Dragon tail), characteristic for the Thracian armies as well.
		The Dacians warned the Romans that they have plenty of mushrooms to became fearless warriors and the outcome of the battle was a confirmation for that.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/vlachs (16853 words)

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