Regarding the Thraco-Dacian origin of Albanian names : Besa, Besiana
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I. Bessa - Female Name attested in an inscription at Ulpia Traiana
Sarmizegetusa:
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Iulia Bessa, ULPIA TRAIANA, CIL, III 1438 (Farcadin HD)
CIL 03, 01438 = IDR-03-02, 314.:
" Deae Nemesi /
Regin(ae) /
Cornelius Cornelianus /
defens(or) lecticar(iorum) /
et Iulia Bessa /
co(n)iux eius /
ex voto posuer(unt) "
II. Attested -> "Bessi" Tribe :
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Herodot :
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url :
http://www.boap.org/LDS/Ancient-history-items/Herodotus-
History/Herodotus-Seventh-Book
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The following are the Thracian tribes through whose country he
marched: the Paeti, the Ciconians, the Bistonians, the Sapaeans, the
Dersaeans, the Edonians, and the Satrae.
Some of these dwelt by the sea, and furnished ships to the king's
fleet; while others lived in the more inland parts, and of these all
the tribes which I have mentioned, except the Satrae, were forced to
serve on foot. The Satrae, so far as our knowledge goes, have never
yet been brought under by any one, but continue to this day a free
and unconquered people, unlike the other Thracians. They dwell amid
lofty mountains clothed with forests of different trees and capped
with snow, and are very valiant in fight.
They are the Thracians who have an oracle of Bacchus in their
country, which is situated upon their highest mountain-range.
The Bessi, a Satrian race, deliver the oracles; but the prophet,
as at Delphi, is a woman; and her answers are not harder to read.
Eutropiu :
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url :
http://www.ccel.org/p/pearse/morefathers/eutropius_breviarium_2_text.h
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X. The other Lucullus, who had the management of affairs in
Macedonia, was the first of the Romans that made war upon the Bessi,
defeating them in a great battle on Mount Haemus; he reduced the town
of Uscudama, which the Bessi inhabited, on the same day in which he
attacked it; he also took Cabyle, and penetrated as far as the river
Danube. He then besieged several cities lying above Pontus, where he
destroyed Apollonia, Calatis, Parthenopolis, Tomi, Histros, and
Burziaone,22 and, putting an end to the war, returned to Rome.
Both the Luculli however triumphed, but the Lucullus, who had
fought against Mithridates, with the greater glory, because he had
returned victorious over such powerful nations. "
Jordanes :
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<<Jordanes in his Gothic history, written in the middle of the VI-th
c. provides one of the final accounts. Thus, speaking about the
Danube river, he informs us that this river is called
Ister in the language of the Bessi (a Thracian tribe): "Qui
[=Danubius] lingua Bessorum Hister vocatur" >>
Best Regards,
marius a.