I just sent you Fabian Istvan's Imperiul si barbaricum. I have only read the introduction to this book so far, but I can tell you it's about the relations between the Eastern Roman Empire and the territories north of the Danube during the 4-7 centuries. I think it also covers some of the period after the collapse of the Danubian limes.
Mmm. There are many changes you want me to make to the Roman Empire map. It will take some time. Unfortunately I can't help you this week, maybe the next week.
Andrei nacu (talk) 15:25, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey, have you receved the last two books I sent you? I got no reply from you since last week.
OK, I now have some extra time to deal with the Roman Empire map. I will make a new one from scratch which I hope will be the best historical map on wiki. Just wait me till tomorrow evening to get started.
Andrei nacu (talk) 17:44, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Well, I can't really be of much help if you don't tell me at least the name of an author who wrote something about the archeology of Moldavia. I know there is an Archeological Bulletin of Moldavia edited by the Iasi Archeological Institute, but it covers all the excavations across Moldavia regardless of the historical period.
I like your Costoboci article and I think it was a brilliant idea to put those notes about the Romanian archaeological interpretation and material culture and ethnicity. However, I really have to provide you with some more recent books on Romanian archeology. It's sad that you have to rely on 35 years old communist books.
Now a technical question regarding the Roman map. Do you think I should add shaded bathymetry like in this map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Italy_relief_location_map.jpg or should I keep only the standard nuances of blue?
Andrei nacu (talk) 22:20, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Sorry I can't answer more frequently to your messages.
I'm not sure if I want to post my map on Wikipedia. The new physical map, as it stands now, looks way too good for a free online encyclopaedia. Maybe I should better improve the old map, at least for the time being.
It's pretty odd that you say you received the last 2 books I mailed you because I got a delivery error message. You'd better check your mail before thanking me for something you didn't get.
Andrei nacu (talk) 18:08, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Dear EraNavigator, I've only just seen your message after months. Your claim that I did not respect WP's etiquette is false. On the contrary, I made myself extremely clear: once again, if you ever had a look at the Notitia Dignitatum Orientis, which you indeed quote as if you did, you should have noticed that here duces are not placed sub dispositione of magistri militum as is the case in the Notitia Dignitatum Occidentis. Moreover, in referring to Jones's LRE as supporting your views, you're misrepresenting this author's and showing that you did not read carefully the secondary literature either. I have no more to say. You keep the wrong chart if you like. Regards, Fredmont (talk) 23:50, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Ciao Andrea,
I've uploaded a new version of the old empire map. Take a good look and tell me if there are any other changes you want me to make.
A friend of mine told me there are no recent books written about the Carpi or Costoboci. But she also mentioned this book from 1982: http://aleph.bcucluj.ro:8991/F/8GDENS76I2YRVVSPYC96JFK6MV3ESRA85XQQG5NH3FK2C81VCK-00341?func=full-set-set&set_number=016703&set_entry=000001&format=999
I will pay a visit to the Academic Library on Monday and I suppose I can take a look at it if you want. And I still have to go for Opreanu's 'Imperiul si Barbaricum', the last unscanned book of the ones we talked about.
P.S. I've sent you Tiplic's ('Early Medieval Fortifications in Transylvania (10-12 centuries)') and Opreanu's ('Transylvania at the end of antiquity and during the migrations period') books again. Hope they'll reach you this time. I used the best and most secure Romanian file sharing service, transfer.ro
Abracci
Andrei nacu (talk) 02:21, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Ciao Andrea,
I believe you don't know what a map projection actually is. Anyway I just finished my maps for the Moldavian Electoral Comission (there was a really interesting election last Sunday in Moldova). The first one with the results of the past election is here (http://voteaza.md//userfiles/image/alegerile.png) while the other one will be pubished imediately after the definitive results of the November 28 poll will be announced today. If you are curios about the election results, I've uploaded a simplified version here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ALEGERILE_RM_28.11.10.png)
Well, I agree to place my new Roman Empire map on wiki, but I need some assistance from you in exchange. First of all, I want a scanned copy of the Barrington Atlas. Secondly, I need you to help me create 4 simillar maps of the later Roman Empire:
Have you read any of the books I sent you? How do you find the authors' interepretations?
Andrei nacu (talk) 05:45, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
If there was a copy of the Barrington Atlas at my university library than I wouldn't have asked for your help. I need it to verify the routes of the main roman highways. My only sources, the Penguin Atlas of Ancient Rome and the DeAgostini historical atlas are not precise enough. And I really want to have a copy of the atlas for myself.
For the late Empire maps I need you to help me with the location of the barbarian tribes and the place of the legionary bases.
Moldova is a Romanian name of slavic origin. It's not Russian. And Transnistria still has a Moldavian plurality (33-34%) even after the dubious results of the census carried by the sepparatists in 2004 (http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fișier:Transnistria-harta_etnica_2004.jpg). In fact the Rusophones are mostly concentrated in the 4 largest towns of the region, Tiraspol, Bender, Rabnitsa and Dubasari. About 60% of the countryside is covered by Moldavian villages. There can be no question of reunification with Romania until the Russian army leaves Transnistria and the region is reintegrated with the rest of the Moldova. We cannot afford a Kaliningrad-type Russian enclave on our border.
Andrei nacu (talk) 22:49, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Exactly! The new projection is the same as the old one, Lambert azimuthal equal-area. However this time I haven't carelessly tilted the central meridian. I thought you were confusing the map projection with the map layout or design.
Oops. Sorry about the Fenni misspelling. I've chosen black for the legion names because it makes a better contrast with the topography. I don't think they are hard to distinguish as they are written in Italics with capital letters.
You are right that most Transnistrians want to remain under Russian tutelage, but some of them are realistic enough to see that neither Moldova nor Ukraine would ever allow them to become a second Kaliningrad. The Ukrainians are particularly worried about the developments in Transnistria and they have taken some important steps in recent years to boycott sepparatist registered products, car plates, money, Transnistrian-issued authorisations, etc, etc. It doesn't really matter where Moldova or Romania stand now but where they will be in 50 or 100 years. I believe the Rusophones in Transnistria will either gradually leave for Russia (after all, most of them came during the Soviet Union) or will have to learn Romanian after the region will be back under Moldavian control. In any case, I would rather have two Romanian states (like Germany and Austria) than a single unified country sharing a land border with Russia. And vodka is bad for your liver. ;)
Thank you for the promised Christmas present! Wow. I didn't know an atlas published 10 years ago could be so expensive!
Andrei nacu (talk) 23:35, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
No, I don't think we should take off the major maritime trade routes. I believe they complement the land routes and give us a better picture of the strong connections which existed between the major ports, especially those situated within the Mediterranean Basin.
I hope you noticed the other changes I made. Portus Namnetum was mispelled as Namnetus, Mare Adriaticum was Mare Hadriaticum on the old map, Lycia and Pamphylia was Lycia and Pamphilia...
And I still have to add those 4 or 5 bigger lakes in Algeria and Western Tunisia.
I've seen the name Sinus Arabicus written over the entire Red Sea, not only the Gulf of Aqaba on several maps. Do you have any sources which indicate that MARE ERYTHRAEUM was indeed the correct Latin name for the Red Sea?
Andrei nacu (talk) 22:31, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I haven't forgot about the sources, they are all here in the 'Summary': http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Empire_125.png
Hi, I saw that you collaborated on articles related to Dacia and thought this could be of interest: WikiProject Dacia is looking for supporters, editors and collaborators for creating and better organizing information in articles related to Dacia and the history of Daco-Getae. If interested, PLEASE provide your support on the proposal page. Thanks!!--Codrinb (talk) 04:16, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Limigantes discussion notes Codrin.B (talk) 20:26, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Dacians are marked with the same color as Slavs which is completely incorrect and unfortunate. While Costoboci and Carpi, considered by most historians as Dacian, are in a blue/uncertain color. While Bastarnae who are a Celtic-Germanic mix with possible Dacian elements is marked as Germanic for sure. This is raising serious questions about the map and its neutrality. I suggest at least a distinct Dacian color and section in the legend. --Codrin.B (talk) 20:44, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Happy New YEar, Era.
Say, do have any knowledge about the suffixation -onia in Thracian ? Eg Many Thracian -derived places have such endings. Edonia, Mygdonia, Krestonia, Palegonia, Paeonia, Macedonia (although the ethnic identity of the latter three aren;t exactly Thracian. Hxseek (talk) 00:45, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Please contribute to this issue with your view Codrin.B (talk) 21:08, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Since there are so many religious wars going on at the moment around Dacians and their language, we are proposing to all involved to use their creativity, knowledge and energy in creating separate articles for different language affinities. Stop deleting and reverting and start creating!
Please refrain from changing the main article on Dacian language, the origins of Dacian tribes, the maps of Dacia and the Wikipedia language tree based on linguistic theories. And above all, please be careful to not introduce original research and keep an neutral point of view. |
Instead, expand or create the articles listed at the WikiProject Dacia's Current Collaboration, using as much academic evidence you can gather.
Once these separate articles went through a lot of scrutiny and have reached a good article status, we can discuss the addition of links to the various theories and potentially even add sections about them in the Dacian language and Dacian tribes articles.
Let the Daciada begin! Thanks for your support! --Codrin.B (talk) 16:37, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Andrea,
I wish you all the best in the new year and I hope you'll finally be able to write your own history book(s) in 2011!
OK, I'll put the Iazyges, Roxolani, Costoboci and Agathyrsi on the map. Tell me their exact location. As for the road names, I will add them as soon as I'll have the Barrington Atlas to make a final ckeck of the road network. Just let me know if you're having difficulties purchasing a copy of the Atlas.
I'm currently on a heated debate with 2 Romanian users, Daizus and Codrinb regarding the Balto-Slavic linguistic affiliation of the Dacians and the labelling of the Costoboci, Carpi and Bastarnae. I would really appreciate some help from you. Afterall you're the brain behind the Barbaricum section of the Empire map and you can provide some references for the theories we decided to embrace. I don't want people to be doubtful about our map just because of some isolated disputes.
Andrei nacu (talk) 02:10, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
The debate with Daizus and Codrinb is going nowhere and I really came to suspect they are following an anti-Romanian agenda. Or maybe they are just paid by some organization to support theories going against the new vawe in Romanian historiography. At least they should be aware their ideas will be considered outdated fairly soon, maybe even sooner than they expect.
Now we need to conceive a battle plan for the next several weeks. You said you want to make an article with the list of Duridanov's Dacian words and their Baltic equivalents. I intend to create a new map of Roman Dacia to replace the old one which was made using a Communistoid map made by the Romanian Academy in the early 1990's.
It doesn't matter how you'll get the Barrington Atlas as long as you'll send me at least a scanned copy of it.
Ciao, Andrei (talk) 03:25, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Until you get started with the article on Duridanov's list I was thinking of classifying the Daci, and perhaps the Bastarnae as well, as Uncertain. Don't get upset, this will only be a temporary edit (I hope). And I think I should upload another map file with no ethno-linguistic labelling of the Barbarian tribes. What do you think?
If you read my latest messages on Codrin's talk page than you should know I haven't surrendered to their point of view. It was only a tactic to see how they reacted to my suggestion of reintroducing the Dacian linguistic group and making the Carpi and Costoboci Dacian. Fortunately Daizus prooved to be a honest chap and I kind of feel sorry for mixing him together with the Geto-Daco-Romanist and protochronist clique. The same cannot be said of Codrinb unfortunately... In any case I had so much fun debating against them!
Andrei (talk) 13:30, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
I guess Daizus wants me to mark the Bastarnae as uncertain not because they had previously been a Celtic tribe, but because of some presumed connections with the Dacians or beacause they could have formed an ethno-linguistic group of their own. And oh yes they also inhabited parts of Greater Romania. I mean he had nothing to say about the 2 groups of Sitones or about the Southern Fenni whose location and affiliation is also quite controvesial and speculative. This really makes me suspicious.
Andrei (talk) 14:10, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
I hate how Daizus is sticking his nose into our communications even more than you do, but I don't want him to believe I'm just blindly obeying your requests. If I haven't agreed with your proposals then I would have simply stated that as I did when you asked me to mark the Costoboci as Sarmatian. Why can't he understand this?
No, I was thinking of having two versions of this map so that people can choose which one they want to have in individual articles. The Bastarnae will remain Germanic, I agree with you. But I don't like how the Carpi, Daci and Costoboci are now all classified as uncertain. This could make people believe they were all related and that we couldn't find a suitable label for their ethno-linguistic group. And that would be OR. What can we do about it?
Andrei (talk) 15:49, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
I've made the change to the Empire map. The Dacians are now classified as of uncertain origin. I hope you'll come soon with more arguments supporting the Dacian-Balto-Slavic connection as I am eager to revert the map to its previous version. And I also hope Hxseek will join this debate as soon as possible.
Andrei (talk) 19:37, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
After reading the article on the Carpi more carefully I kindly suggest you to soften the note on 'Romanian archaeological interpretation'. I don't like using articles like this one to discredit Romanian historiography. Even if the methods used by Communists like Gh. Bichir or Constantin Daicoviciu (maybe you heard of him) or by contemporary historians supporting the Continuity paradigm have been discredited in recent years we have to be less harsh on them. They were/are only thinking they were/are serving the national interest of Romania by advocating their theories and we should at least respect that!
And what do you think about classifying the Daci as Thracian? Wouldn't that be more fun and provocative?
Ciao, Andrei (talk) 14:15, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Maybe it would be better to write a sepparate article about the Communist or protochronistic influences in Romanian historiography, I don't know. In any case the continuity paradigm only deals with the Daco-Romans living in Roman Dacia and not with the Carpi or Costoboci.
I don't think any mainstream historian questions the affiliation of the Dacians to the Thracian ethno-linguistic group. I think it is more reasonable to mark the Daci as Thracian.
Andrei (talk) 15:05, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
If you say that noone knows to which group of Indo-European languages Thracian belonged to, than it would be logical to mark the Dacians as Uncertain. I think Hxseek will support this as well.
Andrei (talk) 15:05, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Dacian-Baltic connection Codrin.B (talk) 03:53, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
EraNavigator, please stop the accusations and attacks, since they are unfounded. I invited you to the project from the begining, and then I even created this very neutral proposal, where all linguistic theories have a place. Please provide your linguistic knowledge there. I appreciate your work, but like, Daizus I am questioning the obvious original research and the controversial, potential fringe theories. I am open to ideas and interested to see the new Dacian-Baltic connection page, as long as it doesn't fail to be notable and it is not original research. The other idea is that the map, due to the hard work of the author, is used everywhere, and it has to be stable. We can't experiment and push marginal ideas to it, since it will act like Trojan Horse in a lot of articles. Those are my only objections. I apologize if I overreacted to some of these changes. I think your efforts and interest are laudable.--Codrin.B (talk) 15:46, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Removal of citation needed templates from paragraphs that need citations Codrin.B (talk) 18:28, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Given the highly controversial theories regarding Costoboci, Carpi (people), the amount of edit wars and the risk for conflict, I kindly suggest the use a user space or of the WikiProject Dacia drafts space, until the article is ready for prime time and a consensus is reached. You can certainly ask for reviews at the user/draft space. Thanks for your hard work and continued cooperation.--Codrin.B (talk) 19:42, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello! Given the potential for conflict and suspicions raised by the WikiProject Dacia , I added an important notice for scope clarifications and disclaimer in the intro and goals/scope sections. If interested and willing, please review and provide any feedaback and suggestions you may have. Thank a lot! --Codrin.B (talk) 20:47, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Ciao Andrea,
I'm really getting bored of these disputes. But I just don't want to surrender to people who are doing so much harm by aggressively promoting the presumed original and disconnected 'civilization' of the Getae and Dacians all over Greater Romania and their speculative firm links with modern Romanians.
I made the Daci Balto-Slavic again and I don't give a damn if the Empire map will be entirely removed from Dacia-related articles. It doesn't deserve to be present on Dacian-biased articles.
Andrei (talk) 23:24, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
Come on buddy, wake up! I need you to back what I recently stated on the map's talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Roman_Empire_125.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research/Noticeboard#File:Roman_Empire_125.png
If we are going to support the probable Balto-Slavic affiliation of the Dacians than we must go to the end with our reference-based arguments.
Andrei (talk) 13:15, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I have made a report because of the incidents related to the Empire map and the Dacia wiki-project.
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
Well, Andrea if you had supported me and what I wrote on the map's talk page then things might have been different. Now is too late, as both Hxseek and Daizus suggested that the best way would be to mark the Daci as Uncertain. In any case, I consider Daizus to be a neutral and un-biased user, as opposed to Codrinb. And I frankly don't care if the Dacians spoke a Balto-Slavic or Tibetan language, but I kind of made use of this debate to expose some dangerous fringe ethno-racial concepts (Dacomania, Dacology and Protochronism) promoted around here.
Andrei (talk) 19:41, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
The table looks great and I encourage you to keep building it. However I don't think this is enough for classifying the Daci as Balto-Slavic on the Empire map. You need to publish a book or at least an article on this subject if you want me and others to back your theory.
Andrei (talk) 20:10, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Tell me if you need references or sources to create your table. I will gladly help you with anything you need.
Hey, how are you progressing with the aquisition of a copy of the Barrington Atlas? I would appreciate if you could send me some material until middle February to finish the Empire maps and to draw a new map of Roman Dacia.
Andrei (talk) 20:18, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Oh God, I think Codrin is again dramatizing things. Please ignore all what he said about Balkan craziness or Romanians being over-sensitive about Dacians and Slavs. Everyone admits the Slavs had a major contribution to the Romanian Ethnogenesis and noone has threatened or assaulted me so far for having my doubts about Daco-Roman continuity theories :) And I think there are many neutral Romanian users on Wikipedia to choose from if you want someone else to preside over Wiki-Project Dacia. However, I think Codrin should be given a chance to redeem himself.
Andrei (talk) 21:42, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
I will enter my semmestrial examination period this Friday and you will scarcely hear from me in the coming 2 or 3 weeks. I wish you good luck with your table of reconstructed Dacian words. I hope we will also be able to finish the Empire map by the time I return. Ciao.
Andrei (talk) 22:59, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind words. I have a few notes for you Codrin.B (talk) 20:33, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
List of reconstructed Dacian words
Do you happen to have this book in English or French? This is all I found: http://books.google.com/books?id=zO0tAAAAMAAJ --Codrin.B (talk) 22:34, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi there! Instead of removing ((citation needed)) from sections stating they are already referenced in the main text (where?!), please replace those tag with those references in the main text you are talking about. It is perfectly fine to reference the same book multiple times in the article, even though it might seem repetitive to you. If there are no such main text references, then please provide the additional/missing references. But do not remove the tags without giving those references, especially from disputed articles. I hope it makes sense. Regards. --Codrin.B (talk) 02:09, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Ciao Andrea. I'm finally back to Wikipedia. I see that your article on the reconstructed Dacian words is coming along nicely. But you only added 6 or 7 words in the table and already reached the letter "k". Are you going to show just ~20 words? This won't add much weight to your theory that Dacian was a Baltic language. I'm sure Duridanov had a longer list of words and cognates.
I was wondering, has anyone tried to make a list of ancient Dacian toponyms which are simillar to modern Baltic place names? Andrei nacu (talk) 14:32, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion starting up at Talk:Batavia (disambiguation), that may be of interest to you. The subject is technically a page move discussion, but the purpose of the discussion is to decide where Batavia should redirect. Until earlier today, Batavia redirected to History of Jakarta, but during this discussion, it is redirecting to Batavia (disambiguation). Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
Thanks for your help. HuskyHuskie (talk) 22:42, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
You are receiving this because you are one of the principal editors of one of the articles that is linked to Batavia (disambiguation). This notice is being posted to all of the top three editors of each of these articles (in terms of total edits), with the following exceptions:
This is an attempt to be a neutrally-phrased posting in keeping with the principles of WP:CANVASS. If you find anything in the wording or the manner posted to be a violation of that guideline, please notify me at my talk page.
If you keep on removing tags which were added after talk page discussions (e.g. in Costoboci the full citation tags on Batty or other citation needed tags) or you remove sourced valid content which runs contrary to your own theories (as the Onomastics section where the Dacian origin of the Costobocan names is supported by scholarship), I will have you reported for disruptive editing and ask you to be blocked from editing certain articles/topics. Don't make me show others some of your editing patterns. Daizus (talk) 01:21, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Have you found the time to scan some of the maps from the Barrington Atlas? I am eager to start working on a new map of Roman Dacia and the surrounding regions. I also want to make another map of the Roman and Germanic walls and fortifications built on the territory of modern Romania, such as the Brazda lui Novac, The Devil's Dykes or the Greuthungi Wall. Andrei nacu (talk) 00:20, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Of course there are migrations, there always have been; but I'd think that today's Romanians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Greeks are mostly descended from the Neolithic/ Copper Age peoples of the Vinca/ Stercevo/ Ezero/ etc complexes. For 'Vlachs - see a good book by Tom Winniforth Greeks Old and New. Regards ! Slovenski Volk (talk) 09:17, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Your note on Dacian names is ill-informed. Most of those names come from Egyptian ostraca and inscriptions and they are not mentioned in Dacian auxiliary units.
Several Dacians are explicitely called that way:
And of course, on the Roman military diploma:
Having such lists with secure Dacian names, we can find others. For example:
We know that Decibalus and Damaneus are Dacian names (the latter cf. AÉ 1996, 1647 and RMD 398). So the editors of the inscription concluded Diurdanus is also a Dacian.
It should be noted that these Dacian soldiers were not recruited in Dacian auxiliary units. Thia Timarchi was recruited in cohors II Gallorum veterana, Thiopus Rolae in cohors VII Thracum, Damanaeus S[---]ri in cohors V Delmatarum c.R., Diurdanus Damanaei in cohors I Flavia Musulamiorum, Itaxa Stamillae in cohors II Lingonum, etc. Daizus (talk) 17:19, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
PS: is Petipor securely Dacian? My understanding is that the name-suffix -por is distinctly Thracian.EraNavigator (talk) 08:53, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Overall, I have been surprised by your negative reaction to my contributions to the Dacian articles. I expected that people with a serious interest in historical research like yourself would be delighted that someone was trying to move the arguments forward from the stale parameters of Daco-Roman continuity by asking new questions such as what was the relationship between the sedentary and nomadic communities in Moldavia. Which leads me to ask you a final question: do you personally believe in Daco-Roman continuity? EraNavigator (talk) 17:07, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
A couple of examples: Boudicca's revolt in Britain. If we only had inscriptions, we would know nothing of this important event - which by the way exposes the nonsensical nature of your argument that the Costoboci cannot have had relations with Rome before 170 because we don't know of any. (2) Trajan's Conquest of Dacia: the info we have about this epic event is pathetically weak, because of the loss of accounts by Dio, Ammianus and Trajan's own memoirs of the campaigns. What little we do know mainly comes from the "summary of the summary" of Dio's account. Instead, historians are left to speculate on what the friezes on the Column might imply. If we had the lost accounts, I very much doubt that we would be arguing about whether the Costoboci were Dacians or not: we would know. We might even be able to establish whether they spoke a Baltic language! (My own opinion is that the Sarmatian horsemen shown fighting the Romans on the Column were Costoboci allied with Decebal).
Try reconstructing the Conquest of Gaul from inscriptions: you could easily fit your data on the back of an envelope instead of the substantial book Caesar left. I'm amazed that you think our knowledge of the Dacian Wars is sufficient. The scale and duration of these wars (15 major battles are attested on the Column) should fill a large volume like Josephus' Jewish War. Instead all you have is a list of units, a few camps and the cartoonesque friezes on the Column (talk about stereotypes!). Oh, and the name of the guy who brought Decebal's head to Trajan.
I am well aware of the limitations of ancient authors (although some e.g. Tacitus, Ammianus are obviously far better than others e.g. Dio, Zosimus). Although they were not, in most cases, contemporary with their subject-matter, they did have access to official records, now lost. Inscriptions are generally more reliable (although these can contain lies and propaganda also). But the simple fact is that imperishable inscriptions (on stone, metal) will never be remotely sufficient to fill the gaps in the chronicles, despite continual new discoveries. The only hope of a quantum-leap in our knowledge of the history of the Principate is if the missing chronicles were found. The most likely place would be Egypt where papyrus can survive and fragments of ancient works are constantly turning up. But what is really needed are complete scrolls, and I guess those would only be found if archaeologists uncovered the intact private library of a wealthy Egyptian landowner's villa. Ideally it would also contain some lost geographical and ethnographic works. If you think of the millions of works that were lodged in the Library of Alexandria, what is left of the knowledge of the ancient world is pitiful.
Regarding the Costoboci, obviously I can't produce evidence of relations with Rome before 170.
I just saw what you wrote to Andrei. I agree totally. Vlachs were dispersed pastoralists and their families, merceneries, etc, who used a Greek and Slavic influenced former Roman trade language to communicate amongst themselves. Perhaps after fall of Bulgarian Empire, +/- with the help of Cumans, they established rule over a (former) Dacia which had virtually no established polities. They probably only switched definitively to Romanian in early modern period ! This is clear when one notes that many Romanian voidvodes had Slavic names, used Slavic liturgy and Slavic writing (including in the burial of the famous Count Draculja). They did this to create their own seperate identity from Slavic neighbours, and subsequent modern scholars have propagated this by 'proving' Daco-Roman-Romanian continuity when there is none objectively to be had. {And this is not a value judgement, this is typical of any country - eg Illyrian-Albanian theory, or that of my own place of birth - Macedonia. Still very prevalent in Balkan countries, whilst westerners have been able to 'deconstruct' their identities more objectively}. This explains why Vlachs only really appear in sources from 11th century, and "Romanians" in the ? 17th. See [1] Slovenski Volk (talk) 06:55, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
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Ciao Andrea,
I have created a new version of the Roman Empire map in 125. If you have any suggestions please let me know before I upload it to Wiki Commons. I myself have some uncertainties regarding province boundaries and capitals. Here are some of them:
I would like to read a good book regarding the administrative divisions of the Roman Empire, with some accurate maps if possible. Can you recommend me such a book?
I'm eager to hear from you.
Andrei
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Hi EraNavigator. Please see my comments at the talkpage. --Bermicourt (talk) 21:02, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
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Although I don't disagree with all your edits, I'm reverting them all and asking that you discuss these on the talk page first, per my edit summary request. Some of your changes are contrary to consensus. Cynwolfe (talk) 17:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hi. I've been working in limitanei and palatini (Roman military) and occasionally checking up against the other Roman military articles. So I was rather surprised to see that late Roman army only goes to 395, with east Roman army following thereafter, and west Roman army missing. I am wondering where this period division comes from. At the very least, since it's an unconventional distinction, I think a prominent link to east Roman army, and possibly west Roman army once it's created, would be helpful. Ananiujitha (talk) 17:27, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
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Tiberius would appear to recognized on the reverse of the coin in question. The legend on the obverse reads CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE. If the date of issue is correct (13–14 AD), Augustus was not dead, and is thus the only filius Divi at the time, the Divus meaning Julius Caesar. There's a discussion at Talk:Roman Empire, where notice was given of the impending (now realized) deletion of the preceding coin, which may have been placed by you (or someone else; I've lost track). That coin was deleted from Commons because no one could be bothered to find source info, despite my alerting watchers of Roman Empire to the problem. That is why it had to replaced for the Roman Empire infobox. And that is why we have talk boxes, so this sort of thing is unnecessaryCynwolfe (talk) 19:07, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
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