Editing Iazyges (section)

==Geography==
Records of eight Iazygian towns have been documented; these are [[Uscenum]], [[Bormanum]], [[Abieta (ancient city)|Abieta]], [[Trissum]], [[Parca (city)|Parca]], [[Candanum]], [[Pessium]], and [[Partiscum]].{{sfn|Laurent|1830|p=157}}<ref>Klaudios Ptolemaios. Handbuch der Geographie. Griechisch-Deutsch. Herausgegeben von Alfred Stückelberger und Gerd Graßhoff. Schwabe Verlag Basel. 2006, p. 310-311</ref> There was also a settlement on [[Gellért Hill]].{{sfn|Mulvin|2002|p=18}} Their capital was at Partiscum, the site of which roughly corresponds with that of [[Kecskemét]], a city in modern-day Hungary.{{sfn|Perenyi|1973|p=170}}{{sfn|Gutkind|1964|p=372}} It is believed that a Roman road may have traversed the Iazyges' territory for about {{convert|200|mi}},{{sfn|Williams|1997|p=91}} connecting [[Aquincum]] to [[Porolissum]], and passing near the site of modern-day [[Albertirsa]].{{sfn|Lambrechts|1949|p=213}} This road then went on to connect with the Black Sea city states.{{sfn|Krebs|2000|p=234}}

The area of plains between the Danube and Tisza rivers that was controlled by the Iazyges was similar in size to Italy and about {{cvt|1000|mi}} long.{{sfn|Grainger|2004|p=112}}{{sfn|Petit|1976|p=37}} The terrain was largely swampland dotted with a few small hills that was devoid of any mineable metals or minerals. This lack of resources and the problems the Romans would face trying to defend it may explain why the Romans never annexed it as a province but left it as a client-kingdom.{{sfn|McLynn|2010|p=366}}{{sfn|Sedgwick|1921|p=171}}

According to [[English people|English]] cartographer [[Aaron Arrowsmith]], the Iazyges Metanastæ lived east (sic) of the [Roman] Dacia separating it from [Roman] Pannonia and Germania.{{sfn|Arrowsmith|1839|p=105}} The Iazyges Metanastæ drove Dacians from Pannonia and Tibiscus River (today known as [[Timiș River]]).{{sfn|Arrowsmith|1839|p=105}}