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Dacia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | 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 beginning of the 2nd century BC under a king, Oroles. |
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