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  Dacia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, named by the ancient Greeks Getae, was a large district of Southeastern Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa, on the east by the Tyras or Nistru, now in eastern Moldova.
The Roman Province Dacia is represented on Roman Sestertius (coin) as a woman seated on a rock, holding aquila, a small child on her knee holding ears of grain, and a small child seated before her holding grapes.
A kingdom of Dacia was in existence at least as early as the first half of the 2nd century BC under king, Oroles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dacia   (1701 words)

  
 Dacia
The degree of Romanization in Dacia was extensive.
Dacia was Romanized but it retained their traditional cattle driving and agricultural practices.
Dacia was a liability that Rome kept for a longer time because of wealth and strategic location, however, these factors were not enough to outweigh the severe drawbacks.
www.usd.edu /~clehmann/pir/dacia.htm   (1085 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Boetius of Dacia
He was detained at the pontifical curia at Orvieto, and went on to join the Dominicans in Dacia.
Dacia, in ancient geography the land of the Daci, named by the ancient Greeks Getae, was a large district of Central Europe, bounded on the north by the Carpathians, on the south by the Danube, on the west by the Tisa, on the east by the Tyras or Nistru, now...
In Boetius of Dacia’s essay, "On the Supreme Good," he says that there is a supreme possible good in every man. He clarifies that he does not mean good in an absolute sense, but that there is a degree of supremacy that is attainable specifically to man, and this potential is not infinite.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Boetius-of-Dacia   (1354 words)

  
 ROMANIAN CARS SITE
The motor-cars Dacia 1100 had been produced until the end of 1971, and some 37,546 cars took to the Romanian roads.
Type 1310 was exported in South America, UK and in Canada Dacia 1310 continues to be manufactured today, berline(types TL, TLX, S, L, R, CR) with new head-lights, break with new stop-lights(types CL, L, FT), and pick-up (type 1304).
Dacia Sport was based on the berline type, and had a reshaped coupe bodywork with two doors.
www.geocities.com /motorcity/downs/4582/dacia.htm   (1908 words)

  
 Moldova.org - Auto - News - Dacia
Dacia is a Romanian car maker which belongs to the Renault group.
Dacia 1310, 1400, 1410 were minor improvements of the Dacia 1300, which in turn was based on the Renault 12 of the 1970s.
During the communist era, in the plant where Dacias were made there were two assembly lines: one line producing Dacias intended for sale in Romania and the other line producing the same car (albeit from superior parts, and assembled with greater care) for export.
auto.moldova.org /marci/eng/26   (431 words)

  
 Dacia-Province of the Roman Empire
The tres Daciae had a common capital, Sarmizegethusa, and a common government, which discussed provincial affairs, formulated complaints and controlled taxation; but in other respects they were practically independent provinces, each under an ordinary procurator, subordinate to a governor of consular rank.
Dacia also served as a base of operations for the Parthian invasions of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, and would continue to serve in that matter under Commodus's successor Septimius Severus.
Dacia was a permanent garrison of Legio V Macedonia, which later in 185 AD, was awarded the title Pia Fidelis (loyal and faithful) by Emperor Commodus.
www.unrv.com /provinces/dacia.php   (1079 words)

  
 Dacia (car)
Dacia 1300 was based on the Renault 12 model of the 1970s, Dacia having acquired the tooling from Renault.
In September 1999, Dacia was bought by the Renault group, with a view to making Romania its hub of automobile development in Central and Eastern Europe.
Dacia sold 53,000 vehicles in 2002, and it holds an almost 50% market share in Romania.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/d/da/dacia__car_.html   (480 words)

  
 Dacia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Dacia of King Burebista, stretching from the Southern Bug river in what is today Ukraine to the Danube in what is today Slovakia, and from the Balkan mountains in what is today Bulgaria to Transcarpathia in what is today Ukraine.
The Roman citizens, removed from the town and lands of Dacia, he settled in the interior of Moesia, calling that Dacia which now divides the two Moesiae, and which is on the right hand of the Danube as it runs to the sea, whereas Dacia was previously on the left.
The Roman emperor Galerius, also born in Dacia Aureliana, and whose mother was from Dacia Traiana, had became an enemy of the Roman name and proposed that the Eastern Roman Empire to be called the Dacian Empire (Lactantius - Of The Manner In Which The Persecutors Died chapter XXVII 1).
koz.vianet.ca /boshis15.htm   (2189 words)

  
 Baby Name Dacia - Origin and Meaning of Dacia
Place name: Dacia was a Roman province which were where Romania is now.
Dacia is a rather uncommon female first name, ranking 3138 out of 4275 for females of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Dacia is a rare surname as it was not ranked for people of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
www.thinkbabynames.com /meaning/0/Dacia   (145 words)

  
 Dacia on coins
After all, it was almost a hundred years since the empire had ceased expansion, so maybe the Romans went a little overboard in their celebrations.
Dacia was a mountainous region bordered by the Danube (the personification of the river is depicted on the last coin below), and Trajan needed the best engineers to navigate this topography.
In a response similar to Scipio's Invasion of Africa to take the war to Carthage during the time of Hannibal, Decebalus attemped an invasion of the Roman province of Moesia., This attack was repelled and the Dacians gradually retreated to Sarmizegetusa.
tjbuggey.ancients.info /dacian.html   (1040 words)

  
 Dacia - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Trajan invaded Dacia in 102 and again in 105.
The Goths invaded (250—70) the region, and Aurelian was obliged to concede Dacia.
It was the Roman colonists in Dacia who formed the Latin-speaking nucleus that established the Romance tongue Romanian, which is still spoken in that region.
messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/Dacia   (195 words)

  
 DACIA - Publications and Presentations
DACIA provides mechanisms for run-time reconfiguration of applications to allow them to adapt to the changing operating environments.
DACIA is designed so that communication overheads are low, comparable to those of procedure calls when components are co-located and those of raw network communication when they are located on remote hosts.
DACIA is designed so that communication costs among co-located components are similar to those of procedure calls.
www.eecs.umich.edu /~aprakash/dacia/publications.html   (911 words)

  
 Gallery without Walls - Romanian Art since 1996
DACIA is the name of the old territory situated at the north of Danube, inhabited by the Daci or Getae, a people of Thracian stock.
Dacia was roughly equivalent to modern Romania, extending from the Carpathian Mountains in the north to the Danube River in the south and from the Dnestr River in the east to the Tisza River in the west.
In the reign of Augustus, emperor of Rome, the Dacians, formidable warriors, began to provoke the Romans.
www.dacia.com /about_me.htm   (217 words)

  
 Dacia, Ancient Coinage of, by Moushmov Number
Rev : PROVINCIA DACIA AN VII or AN VIII.
Rev : PROVINCIA DACIA AN VI or AN VIII or AN VIIII.
Gallienus AE 26 of the Province of Dacia.
www.wildwinds.com /moushmov/dacia.html   (1274 words)

  
 History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - CS Dacia
Cableship Dacia at the time of her sinking was in the process of diverting the German South American cable into Brest.
The date of 3 December 1916 shown on the photographs is correct; the date of 1915 given elsewhere is incorrect.
SS Dacia is on the left of the picture.
www.atlantic-cable.com /Cableships/Dacia/index.htm   (147 words)

  
 Dacia - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
DACIA [Dacia], ancient name of the European region corresponding roughly to modern Romania (including Transylvania).
Trajan invaded Dacia in AD 102 and again in 105.
The Goths invaded (250-70) the region, and Aurelian was obliged to concede Dacia.
encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/D/Dacia.asp   (312 words)

  
 Roman Dacia
The conquest of Dacia by the Romans and its turning into an imperial province (A.D. 106-271) brought about major changes in the native population's economic, social and political life.
The spirit of the conquerors, backed by the diligence of the local population, proved very profitable for the country: Dacia reached a high level of material and spiritual culture.
The crisis that shook the Roman Empire in the 3rd century, as well as the pressure exerted by the "Barbarian" populations, made Emperor Aurelianus (A.D. 270-275) withdraw his troops, administrative body and part of the urban population from Dacia southward, across the Danube (A.D. 271), where Dacia Aureliana was set up.
www.rotravel.com /romania/history/cap4.php   (499 words)

  
 Autosoviet: DACIA
The Dacia is a Romanian factory that started the activity in the 1968 (same year of the Lada and of the Polish FSO).
Like Lada with Fiat, this factory, located in the city of Pitesti Arges, was born by a collaboration with a Western automotive factory, the Renault (that has a stake of over 92% in the Dacia factory).
Obviously, the money was not the same of the Western cars...and the effort in the competitions, anyway, was admirable, although the inferiority and the outdated project of the cars.
digilander.libero.it /cuoccimix/ENGLISH-automotorusse9-D(dacia).htm   (922 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Dacia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Dacia DACIA [Dacia], ancient name of the European region corresponding roughly to modern Romania (including Transylvania).
Hadrian distinguished himself as a commander (especially in Dacia) and as an administrator.
Dacia plans 4wd Logan wagon; Romanian automaker wants to turn up heat on rival Skoda.(Dacia Automobiles S.A. releases R 90 Aventure to meet Skoda Automobilovy Koncern Ltd.'s business competion)(Brief Article)
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/03384.html   (551 words)

  
 DIFFLOCK.com - Dacia Duster
The Dacia Duster dates from the bad old days when Romania was part of the Communist Bloc and all motor manufacturers were owned by the state.
It was the result of collaboration between ARO (who had built Soviet GAZ 4x4s under licence in Romania since 1964) and Dacia (who had close links with Renault and had been building some of the French company's products under licence since 1966).
The Dacia name was chosen because Britain was already familiar with the Dacia Denem, a licence-built Renault 12 introduced in 1982.
www.difflock.com /buyersguide/pastmasters/daciaduster/index.shtml   (640 words)

  
 Priory of Dacia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
What had not helped in maintaining contact were the disputes within the Dacia Priory and its changes of personnel, and the increasing isolationism of the aging Paris administration which was in stark contrast to the previous pro-active role undertaken by Baron Michel de Taube.
After more than a decade of being isolated, Dacia sought to regain international contact, and accepting the claims of the King Peter Order, as being part of the same pedigree as Dacia, contact was made in 1985, with the so-called 'Russian Grand Priory of Malta' (King Peter Constitution) under their Grand Prior, Gaston Tonna-Barthet.
In 2004, assistance was given by Dacia to family members of the Hereditary Commander's group in re-establishing a new base in Paris.
www2.prestel.co.uk /church/oosj/dacia.htm   (961 words)

  
 Cartype : Dacia logo
Dacia (pronounced DAH-tchee-ah) is a Romanian car maker which belongs to the Renault group.
Dacia sold 53,000 vehicles in 2002, and it holds an almost 50 per cent market share in Romania.
Between 2000 and 2003 Dacia SuperNova (which looked like the Nova) took its place with a Renault engine and gearbox and air conditioning option.
www.cartype.com /page.cfm?id=247&alph=E   (477 words)

  
 NATO EADRCC: Exercise "Dacia 2003" - 7-10 October 2003
Exercise “Dacia 2003”, scheduled to take place from 7 to 10 October 2003, is a contribution of Romania to the Partnership Work Programme (PWP) for 2003
Exercise “Dacia 2003” is a contribution of Romania to the Partnership Work Programme (PWP) for 2003.
The overall aims of Dacia 2003 are to practice:
www.nato.int /eadrcc/2003/dacia/aims.htm   (415 words)

  
 dacia
July 2004 marked the end of its 35 year production run and, whilst they will continue to be seen for many years to come on Romania's roads I've no doubt, it seems impossible that no new Dacias are going to be built any more.
For sure there are more important changes going on in Romania for better and for worse, but I will seriously miss this car.
Based on the French Renault 12 as a result of a licensing contract signed with Renault in September 1966 (Peugeot, Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Austin also made a bid), the vast majority of these cars (over 1,700,000) were made in the Berlina saloon design.
www.woodcock88.seriouslyinternet.com /Romania/dacia/dacia.html   (211 words)

  
 The Constitution of Dacia
Language diversity shall be accepted in all areas of the law, including private and public matters.
The Powers of the Executive government shall hereby be invested in the Parliamentary body of government and within the selected Prime Minister.
The Lower House Parliamentary body of government shall be elected by Proportional Representation of the citizens of Dacia.
www.ndsu.nodak.edu /ndsu/ambrosio/dacia/bluedaaautonomists.html   (294 words)

  
 PROVINCIA DACIA
Its reward was to be the principle garrison legion in the newly won province.
The legions and the Romanized civilian population evacuated Dacia between 268 and 271 A.D. XIII Gemina, beaten and battered by years of warfare, was pulled back to Poetovio in Slovenia.
In 270 A.D., it returned to the Danube to Ratiaria (Artschav in modern Bulgaria) in the newly organized province of Dacia Ripensis.
www.dacia-novaroma.org /legiunea.htm   (609 words)

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