Editing Dacians (section)

===Relations with Germanic tribes===
{{See also|Suebi|Bastarnae|Goths|Marcomannic Wars|Chernyakhov culture}}

[[File:GothicInvasions250-251-en.svg|thumb|right|Map showing the Dacian-speaking Carpi place in invading Roman Dacia in AD 250–1, under the Gothic leader [[Cniva|Kniva]]]]

The [[Goths]], a confederation of east German peoples, arrived in southern Ukraine no later than 230.{{sfn | Watson | 2004 | p=8 }} During the next decade, a large section of them moved down the Black Sea coast and occupied much of the territory north of the lower Danube.{{sfn | Watson | 2004 | p=8 }} The Goths' advance towards the area north of the Black Sea involved competing with the indigenous population of Dacian-speaking Carpi, as well as indigenous Iranian-speaking Sarmatians and Roman garrison forces.{{sfn | Heather | 2006 | p=85 }} The Carpi, often called "Free Dacians", continued to dominate the anti-Roman coalition made up of themselves, Taifali, [[Astringi]], Vandals, Peucini, and Goths until 248, when the Goths assumed the hegemony of the loose coalition.{{sfn | Burns | 1991 |pp=26–27}} The first lands taken over by the [[Thervingi]] Goths were in Moldavia, and only during the fourth century did they move in strength down into the Danubian plain.{{sfn | Burns | 1991 | pp=110–111 }} The Carpi found themselves squeezed between the advancing Goths and the Roman province of Dacia.{{sfn | Watson | 2004 | p=8 }} In 275 AD, [[Aurelian]] surrendered the Dacian territory{{clarify|date = November 2013}} to the Carpi and the Goths.{{sfn | Southern | 2001 | p=325 }} Over time, Gothic power in the region grew, at the Carpi's expense. The Germanic-speaking Goths replaced native Dacian-speakers as the dominant force around the Carpathian mountains.{{sfn | Heather | 2010 | p=128}} Large numbers of Carpi, but not all of them, were admitted into the Roman empire in the twenty-five years or so after 290 AD.{{sfn | Heather | 2010 | p=116}} Despite this evacuation of the Carpi around 300 AD, considerable groups of the natives (non-Romanized Dacians, Sarmatians and others) remained in place under Gothic domination.{{sfn | Heather | 2010 | p=165}}

In 330 AD, the Gothic Thervingi contemplated moving to the Middle Danube region,{{citation needed|date = November 2013}} and from 370 relocated with their fellow Gothic Greuthungi to new homes in the Roman Empire.{{sfn | Heather | 2010 | p=116}} The [[Ostrogoths]] were still more isolated, but even the [[Visigoths]] preferred to live among their own kind. As a result, the Goths settled in pockets. Finally, although Roman towns continued on a reduced level, there is no question as to their survival.{{sfn | Burns | 1991 | pp=110–111 }}

In 336 AD, Constantine took the [[List of Roman imperial victory titles|title]] ''Dacicus Maximus'' 'great victor in Dacia', implying at least partial reconquest of Trajan Dacia.{{sfn | Barnes | 1984 | p=250}} In an inscription of 337, Constantine was commemorated officially as Germanicus Maximus, Sarmaticus, Gothicus Maximus, and Dacicus Maximus, meaning he had defeated the Germans, Sarmatians, Goths, and Dacians.{{sfn| Elton | Lenski | 2005 | p=338}}