Getae
The Getae (Greek: Γέται, singular Γέτης) was the name given by the Greeks and Romans to several Thracian tribes who lived in the region south of the Lower Danube. It is now known today as northern Bulgaria, and north of the Lower Danube, in Romania.
They spoke the ancient Thracian language like their neighbors, the Dacians. There was also a branch of Tyragetae on the Dniester River, and two tribes of Massagetae and Thyssagetae in Scythia. Many historians of the 4th to 6th centuries AD referred to the Goths, who then lived in the same area north of the Danube, as Getae.[source?]
Getae Media
The area of land most often historically associated with the Getae people, shown in red dots at the mouth of the Danube River
The Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari, 3rd century BC
Beaker with birds and animals, Thraco-Getic, 4th century BC, silver, height: 18.7 cm (7.4 in), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Onomastic range of the Dacian, Getae, and Moesian towns with the dava or deva ending, covering Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, and Dalmatia, and showcasing linguistic continuity
Eastern Europe in 200 BC showing the Getae north of the Danube river
Other websites
Media related to Thracians at Wikimedia Commons
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