Editing Dacians (section)

===Relations with Thracians===
{{See also|Dromichaetes}}

Since the writings of Herodotus in the 5th century BC,{{sfn|Herodotus|440 BC|loc=4.93–4.97}} Getae/Dacians are acknowledged as belonging to the Thracian sphere of influence. Despite this, they are distinguished from other Thracians by particularities of religion and custom.{{sfn|Oltean|2007|p=45}} Geto-Dacians and Thracians were kin people but they were not the same.{{sfn|Pârvan|1926|p=661}} The differences from the southern Thracians or from the neighbouring Scythians were probably faint, as several ancient authors make confusions of identification with both groups.{{sfn|Oltean|2007|p=45}} Linguist [[Vladimir I. Georgiev|Vladimir Georgiev]] says that based on the absence of toponyms ending in  ''dava'' in [[Southern Bulgaria]], the [[Moesi]]ans and Dacians (or as he calls them Daco-Mysians) couldn't be related to the [[Thracians]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Georgiev |first=Vladimir |date=1966 |title=The Genesis of the Balkan Peoples |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4205776 |journal=The Slavonic and East European Review |volume=44 |issue=103 |pages=286–288 |issn=0037-6795 |jstor=4205776}}</ref>

In the 19th century, [[Wilhelm Tomaschek|Tomaschek]] considered a close affinity between the Besso-Thracians and Getae-Dacians, an original kinship of both people with Iranian peoples.{{sfn|Tomaschek|1883|pp=400–401}} They are [[Aryan]] tribes, several centuries before [[Scolotes]] of the Pont and [[Sauromatae]] left the Aryan homeland and settled in the Carpathian chain, in the [[Haemus]] (Balkan) and [[Rhodope Mountains|Rhodope mountains]].{{sfn|Tomaschek|1883|pp=400–401}} The Besso-Thracians and Getae-Dacians separated very early from Aryans, since their language still maintains roots that are missing from Iranian and it shows non-Iranian phonetic characteristics (i.e. replacing the Iranian "l" with "r").{{sfn|Tomaschek|1883|pp=400–401}}