Explore: Getae In Literature

The Getae or Getai (/ˈɡɛtiː/ or /ˈdʒiːtiː/,; Ancient Greek: Γέται; also Getans) were a large nation who inhabited the regions to either side of the Lower

Dacians were known as Geta (plural Getae) in Ancient Greek writings,[citation needed] and as Dacus (plural Daci) or Getae in Roman documents, but also as Dagae

Gebeleizis was a god worshiped by the Getae, whose name has been interpreted as a theonym for the Indo-European sky and weather god, evidently also called

related to peoples who had lived earlier in the same region north of the Black Sea and Lower Danube, especially the Getae, and Scythians. The three most important

the Getae on both sides of the lower Danube (present day Romania and Bulgaria) around 300 BC. The Getae had been federated in the Odrysian kingdom in the

Getarum (The Origin and Deeds of the Getae), commonly abbreviated Getica (/ˈɡɛtɪkə/), written in Late Latin by Jordanes in or shortly after 551 AD, claims

River near the Black Sea, in what is now Romania. The Dacian Kingdom, which united the Getae and Dacian tribes, was founded in 82 BCE and lasted until it

the kingdom of the Getae. The three Odrysian kingdoms were eventually conquered by the rising kingdom of Macedon under Philip II in 340 BC. A much smaller

of Aelius Catus's displacement of 50,000 Getae from the north to the south of the Danube, who settled areas in the north-eastern parts of the later province

as 'Scythians' or as descendants of other peoples recorded in the same region like the Getae." Goffart 1989, p. 112. "Goths, Vandals, and Gepids, among