Roman colonization of Dacia and Balkans

[TheForeigner]

How large was roman colonization in Dacia and Balkan provinces? What would have been the ethnic makeup of the legions and colonies? What was the numeric strenght of settlers and soldiers compared to the indigenous population and the long term genetic impact? What is the evidence: arheological,historical,anthropological and genetic?

[Scholarios]

This article has been on my "to read list " for awhile, but haven't gotten a chance.

The supposed extermination of the Dacians: A literary tradition"

Terra Deserta: Population, Politics, and the decolonization of Dacia

You'll need JSTOR for the last one...

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[blogen]

How large was roman colonization in Dacia and Balkan provinces? What would have been the ethnic makeup of the legions and colonies? What was the numeric strenght of settlers and soldiers compared to the indigenous population and the long term genetic impact? What is the evidence: arheological,historical,anthropological and genetic?

Very different stories. But we know the Dacian story and that was devastating, basically the Romans repopulated the province after a huge scale ethnic cleasing. The new population of Dacia was mostly Celtic origin from Pannonia and the Balkan with significant pan-Roman (Romanised peoples from the empire) and Oriental elements. Good example in Dacia is the discontinuity of the Dacian settlements. The new Roman settlemenst built in other space with sometimes the old Dacian names, but the Dacian settlements stopped existing. This is one of the great problem with the Daco-Roman theory. This was a Romanization process without Dacians. The Dacian folk was slaughtered or it was forced into slavery escept the Free Dacians who were the survivor refugees outside the Roman rule.

[TheForeigner]

Seems far fetched that romans would have exterminated or chased out the dacians. What happened to free dacians according to you?

[blogen]

Seems far fetched that romans would have exterminated or chased out the dacians. What happened to free dacians according to you?

They were small groups, since the Romans conquered the main Dacian populated regions. These small gropus slowly assimilated into the Sarmatian and German folks around the limes.

[TheForeigner]

They were small groups, since the Romans conquered the main Dacian populated regions. These small gropus slowly assimilated into the Sarmatian and German folks around the limes.

Most of Dacia was not incorporated in the Roman Empire. This is crap. Exterminationists theories about dacians are not taken seriously anymore.

[blogen]

Most of Dacia was not incorporated in the Roman Empire. This is crap. Exterminationists theories about dacians are not taken seriously anymore.

The Romans conquered the whole Dacian populated area, except two peripherical region (the Dacians were a minority or small diaspora only outside the red line):


And the extermination of the Dacians is the well know historical and archaeological fact. The discontinuity of the Dacian settlements in the Roman province is a clear fact.