m_iacomi wrote:
>> *****GK: This I don't get. Why would they have left the
>> mountains "lock stock and barrel" to fight the Romans,
>
> Dacian fortifications _were_ in the mountains and it's there that
> decisive final battles took place (women participating at them)
> Keep in mind that after creation of Dacia Romana, a new Sarmisegetuza
> Regia was founded, considerably lower than ex-Dacian capital, at
> some good distance from it. The name could be explained only in
> connection with local population's feelings, otherwise Romans had
> no special reason to call another place using a Dacian name
> Regards,
> Marius Iacomi
You know what I wonder about ? The actualy Sarmizegetusa Regia is .. how
to say.... too small.
The altars, the Sacral way, the Andezit Sun, the canalisation, all are
outside of the fortified City. Inside of the city the arheologs covered
it all again with earth " to protect them". The circumferince of the
fortified capital is too small for admiting such hard fights as the
ancients wrotte about.
And I am very suspicious about the FeTele Albe. This is on the next
mountain, they are maybe 2 km far one from each other.
And this is 6-10 times so big as Sarmizegetusa Regia. One can just see
the walls which begin somehow at the mid of the mountain and cover all
around. but there is nothing done. Everything is under the
earth...Sometimes when the wether play crazy and there is big quantities
of wather which came and break the earth, it let stones from
canalisation to see and later they are to find on the way up to the
graved city. As I have been there, I asked myself if not the FeTele Albe
is the right Sarmizegetusa and not this one which is now kept for
Sarmizegetusa.