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A. Caecina Severus
was endowed by the
governor of
Macedonia, as
Μυσιας
άρχων
and in this quality he defeated the barbarians from Pannonia at Sirmium,
but because Dacians and Sarmaths attacked, he had to leave the battlefield – as Dio
Casssius (LV, 30) relates. He turned to the territories where the new invasion
occurred in order to reject the attack. At that moment, the legatus of Macedonia
province was identified as
Sex. Aelius Catus
. At the beginning of the following
year, in 7 A.D,
Caecina Severus
found on the territory of future Moesia province
will follow the attackers in
barbaricum
and will find himself caught in the
Volceene
marshes where he settled camp. This place was not specified so far, but it could be
related with the marshes found around Tisza River. With some military efforts,
Caecina Severus
, managed to get out of this situation. The territory reffered to in
the quotation, can be the one considered barbarian and was situated north of the
river, between Tisza and Danube. This quotation is presented in regard to the way
in which the Roman army was divided, their aim being to attack from different
directions the barbarians. This could be the moment when, another important event
for the relation between Romans and Dacian-Getae occured. It is the highly
debated issue of
Aelius Catus expedition that led to the movement of 50.000 Getae
north of the Danube river, on the territory of future Moesia province. We notice
that Strabon (VII, 3, 10) remains the singular literary source.
Referring to the place where they deployed the Getae, quasi-unanimous opinion
in modern historiography from V. Pârvan and R. Vulpe and continuing until
recently, C.C Petolescu appreciated that displaced populations came from cities
and settlements in the Plain of Wallachia (Zimnicea, Popeşti, Piscul Crăsani etc.).
For a correct understanding of this event first of all we should consider the international
context and where it took place. The Getae displacement south of the Danube
occurred in an area where the uprising of Dalmatians and Pannonians against the
Roman army took place. Or, it could be only in the corresponding southern Banat
and the plain between Tisza and Danube (today Bačka in Serbia) found first in
direct contact with the Romanian-world in our opinion. Moreover, the building
start of a road along the Danube allowed the close supervision of the north bank of
the Danube remade several times for several decades in the first century A.D.
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The conquest of Dacia
. A special Dacian incursion of great magnitude
occurred in the winter of 85/86, an event that determined in conditions remaining
largely unclear even the death of legatus Oppius Sabinus. The rejection of the
barbarian attack over the Danube was extended for some time; it seems, until the
year 86 judging by some literary information. On the starting point of the Dacian
attack, most of the researchers launched two opinions. The first hypothesis considers
possible the organisation of the Dacian attack around the Banat region starting
mainly from inside the Carpathian mountain chain, in the direction Timiş–Cerna
and hence most part over the Danube. Indirect clues in this regard would be the
discovery of monetary deposits dated to this period on the south bank of the Tekija