Information AboutKarpo-dacian |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT CARPIANS | |
| dacian tribes | |
| ancient roman enemies | |
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ORIGINS The Carpians are thought to be Dacians, despite the fact that the ancient sources do not indicate this clearly. Zosimos did use the name ''καρποδακαι'', "Carpo-Dacians" and some historians interpret this as "Carpians of Dacian origin", but this most likely meant "Carpians of Dacia", having a geographical rather than ethno-linguistical meaning. However, the archaeological remains of the Carpian settlements show that their culture was derived from the Dacian La Tène , with Roman and Scythian influences. HISTORY While most Dacian tribes (such as the Costoboci ) were either defeated by the Roman Empire or overrun by Germanic tribes such as the Vandals ,the Carpians (probably a federation of Free Dacian tribes) increased their power in the 2nd Century AD, becoming (until the barbarian invasions) the most important adversaries of the Roman empire in South-Eastern Europe. The Carpians where without any doubts of Dacian origin, but whith many Sarmatian and Roman influences. From the end of the 2nd Century AD, the Carpians began to be caught up between the Roman Empire in the south and west, and the growing power of the Goths to the east. Howewer, after a series of wars, the Goths and the Carpians allied themselves against their common enemy, the Roman Empire . Between , where they remained in and around the area located near the modern town of Pecs , until the Hunnish invasion. from outside the empire. Howewer, Byzantine historian Zosimus mentioned them in the 5th Century , using the name of Carpo-Dacians (possibly to distinguish them from the Carpians living in the Roman territory), as being defeated at the Danube by Byzantine Theodosius I in late 4th Century ( Book IV page 114 . This was the last chronicle in which the Carpians appear. Their fate (as the fate of all the free Dacians in general) is still a matter of debate to historians. Probably some of these free Dacians retreated into the heavily forested areas of the Carpathians, where together whith the Daco-Romanians formed later the Romanian People ; some may have been either slavicized (it has been suggested several times that the Hutsuls of southern Ukraine and Bukovina may have been, in part, Slavicized free Dacians), assimilated by some migrating people (like the Goths , or that they eventually migrated southward and that they could be the ancestors of Albanians . |
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