Getae

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The Getae were an ancient people of the Lower Danube region, closely related to the Dacians and known from Greek and Roman sources for their warrior culture and interactions with classical civilizations.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Getae canonical 9
Getae (often linked in ancient sources) 1
Geto-Dacian 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Thracian people
ancient people
associatedDeity Zalmoxis
belief immortality of the soul
closelyRelatedTo Dacians
linked to: Dacian tribes
conflictedWith Macedonian Kingdom
Persian Empire
linked to: Achaemenid Empire

Roman armies
culturalRelation shared customs with Dacians
similar material culture to Dacians
cultureType warrior culture
describedBy Dio Cassius
Herodotus
Jordanes
Strabo
economyBasedOn agriculture
pastoralism
raiding
engagedIn trade with Greek colonies
ethnicGroup Thracians
inhabitedRegion Lower Danube
linked to: Danube

Moesia
Scythia Minor
interactedWith Classical Greek colonies on the Black Sea
Roman Empire
Roman Republic
knownFrom Greek sources
Roman sources
languageFamily Indo-European languages
mentionedAs Getae in Latin
Getai in Greek
neighborOf Greeks
Scythians
Thracians
partOf ancient Balkans history
politicalOrganization tribal chiefdoms
practiced archery
horseback warfare
regionToday Bulgaria
Moldova
Romania
Ukraine
northern Greece
religion polytheism
sometimesIdentifiedWith Dacians
linked to: Dacian tribes
subgroupOf Thracian tribes
linked to: Thracians
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
early 1st millennium CE
used fortified hilltop settlements

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Thracians subgroup Getae
Dacian language associatedPeople Getae (often linked in ancient sources)
linked to: Getae
Zalmoxis culture Getae
Zalmoxis worshipedBy Getae
Burebista languageContext Geto-Dacian
linked to: Getae
Scythia Minor inhabitedBy Getae