Herodot tells us that the thracians are the most
after the indians. Herodot tells us that the dacians/getae are thracians
too.
Dio Cassius contrary, affirms the thracians are "
the succesors of the dacians who once inhabited the Rhodops Mountains".But Dio
Cassius, if we remember well, was the gouvernator of Panonia, and he studiated
deep the dacians even if his work about them is lost.So Dio Cassius must know
what he speak about.
The arheological evidence shows that
the oldest traces are to find in the dacians theritory but not in the
thracian theritory.
From the geografical area, the dacians and the
dacian theritory is more bigger as the thracians.
From the number of the people, too the ancient
greeks and romans, shows the getae to be the most numerous of all
thracians.
So far I know, the only one who affirms the big
family should be the thracians ist Herodot. If this is right , I guess Herodot
did a mistake. He knew the thracians as the neighbours of the greeks and so he
tought , the thracians is the big family and his statement was fallowed untill
today.
Are there another evidence or statements which
demonstrate that indeed the thracian is the family and the dacians just a
branche of them?
best regards
a. moeller