Free Dacians - Traditional Paradigm

Traditional Paradigm

According to many scholars, amongst the Free Dacians were refugees from the Roman conquest, who had left the Roman-occupied zone, and some Dacian-speaking tribes resident outside that zone, notably the Costoboci and the Carpi in Moldavia and Bessarabia. The refugees may have joined these resident peoples. Through proximity with the Roman province of Dacia, the Free Dacians possibly became Romanised and adopted the Latin language and Roman culture. Despite this acculturation, the Free Dacians may have been irredentists, repeatedly invading the Roman province in attempts to recover the refugees' ancestral land. They were unsuccessful until the Roman province was abandoned by the emperor Aurelian in AD 275. After this, the Free Dacians liberated the Roman province and joined the remaining Romano-Dacians to form a Latin-speaking Daco-Roman ethnic group that became the modern-day Romanian peoples.

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