Identity and Distribution
North of the Danube, Dacians occupied a larger territory than Ptolemaic Dacia, stretching between Bohemia in the west and the Dnieper cataracts in the east, and up to the Pripyat, Vistula and Oder rivers in the north and north-west.
In BCE 53, Julius Caesar stated that the Dacian territory was on the eastern border of the Hercynian forest. According to Strabo's Geografica, written around AD 20, the Getes (Geto-Dacians) bordered the Suevi, who lived in the Hercynian Forest, which is somewhere in the vicinity of the river Duria, the present-day Vah (Waag). Dacians lived on both sides of the Danube. According to Strabo, Moesians also "lived on both sides of the Danube".
According to Agrippa, Dacia was limited by the Baltic Ocean in the North and by the Vistula in the West. The names of people and settlements confirm Dacia’s borders as described by Agrippa. Dacian people also lived south of the Danube.
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