Dava (Latinate plural davae) was a Geto-Dacian name for a city, town or fortress. Generally, the name indicated a tribal center or an important settlement...
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This Dacian group is associated by Schütte (1952) with towns having the specific Dacian language ending 'dava' i.e. Setidava. A previous Dacian presence...
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Dava Bazaar, an area in South Mumbai noted for producing medical and scientific instruments as well as lab chemicals Dava (Dacian), the Geto-Dacian name...
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that Dacian and Thracian were closely related for various reasons, most notably that Dacian and Moesian town names commonly end with the suffix -DAVA, while...
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List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia (redirect from List of Dacian towns)
It is suggested that the "dava" endings are from the Dacian language, while the rest from the Thracian language. However "dava" towns can be found as south...
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Dacia (redirect from Dacian State)
This Dacian group, possibly the Costoboci/Lipița culture, is associated by Gudmund Schütte with towns having the specific Dacian language ending "dava" i...
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Quemedava. The Dacian towns are also called davae (singular dava) since many names were composed of an initial lexical element affixed to -dava, -daua, -deva...
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column shows Romans attacking a Dacian fortification using the "testudo". The Dacians constructed stone strongholds, davas, in the Carpathian Mountains in...
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This article contains a list of reconstructed words of the ancient Dacian language. They have been restored by some linguists from attested place and personal...
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Argedava (redirect from Dacian fortress of Popești)
no other sources seem to name the dava discovered at Popești, so no exact assumptions can be made about its Dacian name. It is possible that the two different...
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Burebista (section Dacian kingdom)
king of the Getae and Dacian tribes from 82/61 BC to 45/44 BC. He was the first king who successfully unified the tribes of the Dacian kingdom, which comprised...
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Getae (section Getae and Dacians)
westward neighbours, the Dacians, several scholars[who?], especially in the Romanian historiography, posit that the Getae and the Dacians were the same people...
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List of ancient Daco-Thracian peoples and tribes (redirect from List of ancient Geto-Dacian, Moesian, Thracian and Paeonian tribes)
affiliation of these peoples - Geto-Dacians, Moesians, Thracians and Paeonians (including possibly or partly Thracian or Dacian tribes) and not only on a geographical...
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name is Turn (tower) + dav from Dacian dava (structure/fortress), i.e. "the river that flows amongst towers and davas[citation needed]"; or a reference...
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Classification of Thracian (redirect from Thraco-Dacian)
which end in -dava in Dacian and Mysian, as opposed to -para, in Thracian placenames. Georgiev argues that the distance between Dacian and Thracian was...
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Setidava (category Dacian towns)
in his Geography, was a Dacian outpost in north central Europe. This town, with the typical Dacian location name ending of -dava, was mentioned in Ptolemy's...
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Mihăilești (category Dacian sites)
decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics. Illustration of the Dacian dava at Popești, potentially Burebista's capital Argedava Mihăilești-Cornetu...
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Thermidava (category Dacian towns)
at a compound of Greek thermos and the Thracian suffix -dava or a toponym derived from Dacian. This led to theories that this was a settlement close to...
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Piroboridava (category Dacian towns)
was a Dacian town mentioned by Ptolemy, and archaeologically identified at Poiana, Galați, Romania. The second part name of the city Dacian dava shows...
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fluctuating nature of the Dacian states, especially before the time of Burebista and before the 1st century AD, the Dacians would often be split into...
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participated in the origin of the Albanians vary between attributing Thracian, Dacian, or another Paleo-Balkan component whose language was unattested. Among...
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related for various reasons, especially that Dacian and Moesian town names commonly end with the suffix -DAVA, while towns in Thrace proper generally end...
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Cumidava (category Dacian towns)
) The name Comidava is a compound of dava 'town' and "comi". Scholars' opinions about the meaning of the Dacian word "Comi/Cumi" include: 'Desire, love'—a...
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pottery, funeral urns, etc.[citation needed] In Dacian times, on these places was raised the dava known as Rumidava or Ramidava (after various historical...
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no other sources seem to name the dava discovered at Popeşti, so no exact assumptions can be made about its Dacian name. It is also quite possible for...
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Zurobara (category Dacian towns)
a Dacian king. In a second line of interpretation, because of Proto-Indo-European *e > Dacian "a" (cf. PIE *dhewa > Dacian "dava", PIE *ser > Dacian "sara")...
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form by the Gaelic equivalent may have been widespread in toponyms. The Dacian dava (hill fort) is probably etymologically cognate.[citation needed] In some...
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Capidava (category Dacian towns)
took its name from the old Getic dava "settlement". "Capidava" has the characteristic Dacian ending, the suffix –dava meaning "settlement, village, town"...
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Argidava (category Dacian towns)
no other sources seem to name the dava discovered at Popești, so no exact assumptions can be made about its Dacian name. It is possible that the two different...
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controversy. It is considered that the name comes from the ancient Dacian word dava, meaning "fortress" (as in Pelendava, Piroboridava, or Zargidava)....
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