Editing Dacia (section)

=== 1st century AD ===
[[File:Dacian_Kingdom_under_Burebista.png|thumb|alt=Dacia under Burebista 45 BC|The biggest extent of the Dacian Kingdom under Burebista according to Strabo]]
Strabo, in his Geography written around AD 20, says:

<blockquote>″As for the [[Southern Germany|southern part of Germany]] beyond the [[Albis]], the portion which is just contiguous to that river is occupied by the [[Suebi|Suevi]]; then immediately adjoining this is the land of the [[Getae]], which, though narrow at first, stretching as it does along the Ister [<nowiki/>[[Danube]]] on its southern side and on the opposite side along the mountain-side of the [[Hercynian Forest]] (for the land of the Getae also embraces a part of the mountains), afterwards broadens out towards the north as far as the [[Tyragetae|Tyregetae]]; but I cannot tell the precise boundaries″</blockquote><ref name=Strabo1>[[Strabo]], ''Geography''</ref>

On this basis, Lengyel and Radan (1980), Hoddinott (1981) and Mountain (1998) consider that the Geto-Dacians inhabited both sides of the [[Tisza]] river prior to the rise of the Celtic [[Boii]].{{sfn|Taylor|2001|p=215}}<!-- STRABO IS A PRIMARY SOURCE: {{sfn | Strabo | VII.3.1 |ps=: As for the southern part of Germany beyond the Albis, the portion which is just contiguous to that river is occupied by the Suevi; then immediately adjoining this is the land of the Getae, which, though narrow at first, stretching as it does along the Ister on its southern side and on the opposite side along the mountain-side of the Hercynian Forest (for the land of the Getae also embraces a part of the mountains), afterwards broadens out towards the north as far as the Tyregetae; but I cannot tell the precise boundaries.}}<ref>Strabo (20 AD) v. 1.6; vii 1.3; vii 5.2</ref> --> The hold of the Dacians between the Danube and the Tisza was tenuous.{{sfn|Lengyel|Radan|1980|p=87|ps=: "No matter where the Boii first settled after they left Italia, however, when they arrived at the Danube they had to fight the Dacians who held the entire territory – or at least part of it. Strabo tells us that later animosity between the Dacians and the Boii stemmed from the fact that the Dacians demanded the land from the latter which the Dacians pretended to have possessed earlier."}} However, the archaeologist Parducz argued for a Dacian presence west of the [[Tisza|Tisa]] dating from the time of Burebista.{{sfn|Ehrich|1970|p=228}} According to [[Tacitus]] (AD 56–117) Dacians bordered Germania in the south-east, while [[Sarmatians]] bordered it in the east.{{sfn|Gruen|2011|p=204|ps=: Germany as a whole is separated from the Gauls and from the Raetians and Pannonians by the rivers Rhine and Danube, from the Sarmatians and Dacians by mutual fear or mountains; the ocean surrounds the rest of it}}

In the 1st century AD, the [[Iazyges]] settled West of Dacia, on the plain between the Danube and the Tisa rivers, according to the scholars' interpretation of [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]'s text: "The higher parts between the Danube and the Hercynian Forest, as far as the winter quarters of Pannonia at Carnutum and the plains and level country of the German frontiers there are occupied by the Sarmatian Iazyges, while the Dacians whom they have driven out hold the mountains and forests as far as the river Theiss".{{sfn|Hrushevskyi|1997|p=93}}{{sfn|Bosworth|1980|p=60}}<!-- PLINY IS A PRIMARY SOURCE: {{sfn|Pliny's Natural History|2000|p=179}} -->{{sfn|Carnap-Bornheim|2003|p=228}}{{sfn|Shelley|1997|p=10}}