Getae

According to Herodotus (4.93), the Getae were "the noblest as well as the most Just of all the Thracian tribes." When the Persian s, led by Darius I Of Persia , campaigned against the Scythia ns, the Thracian tribes in the Balkans Surrendered to Darius on his way to Scythia , and only the Getae offered resistance (Herod. 4.93).

Although thought of as a war-like people, Getae were also able to show diplomacy. When the king of Macedon Lysimachus tried to conquer the Getae living North of Danube, he was defeated. The Getae king Dromichaetes took him prisoner but he treated him well. Dromichaetes convinced Lysimachus that there is more to gain as an ally than as an enemy of the Getae and released him.

The Getae's two principal God s were Zalmoxis and Gebeleixis .

"This same people, when it Lightens and Thunder s, aim their Arrow s at the Sky , uttering threats against the god; and they do not believe that there is any god but their own."

Later sources mention a tribe called the Tyragetae , apparently a Daco-Thracian tribe who dwelt by the river Tyras (the Dniester ). Their Tribal Name appears to be a combination of ''Tyras'' and ''Getae''.

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