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TYRAS (Ancient city) DAKIA
Tyras (Turas, Ptol. iii. 10. § 16), a town of European Sarmatia, situated
at the mouth of the river just described. (Herod. iv. 51; Mela, ii. 1.) It was
originally a Milesian colony (Scymn. Fr. 55; Anon. Peripl. P. Eux. p. 9); although
Ammianus Marcellinus (xxii. 8. § 41), apparently from the similarity of the name,
which he writes Tyros, ascribes its foundation to the Phoenicians from Tyre. Pliny
(iv. 12. s. 26; cf. Steph. B. p. 671) identifies it with an older town named Ophiusa
(gelidis pollens Ophiusa venenis, Val. Flacc. vi. 84). Ptolemy, however (l. c.),
makes them two different towns; and places Ophiusa somewhat more N., and towards
the interior. Scylax knows only Ophiusa, whilst the later writers, on the other
hand, knew only Tyras. (Cf. Neumann, Die Hellenen im skythenlande, p. 357, seq.)
It probably lay on the site of the present Ackermann. (Clarke,> Travels, ii. p.
124; Kohl, Reisen in Sudrussland, i. 167.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
DAKIA (Ancient area) SARMATIA
Dakia, as a Roman province, lay between the Danube and the Carpathian
Mountains, and comprehended the modern Transylvania, Wallachia, Moldavia, and
part of Hungary. The Daci were of the same race and spoke the same language as
the Getae, and are therefore usually said to be of Thracian origin. They were
a brave and warlike people. In the reign of Domitian they became so formidable
under their king, Decebalus, that the Romans were obliged to purchase a peace
of them by the payment of tribute. Trajan delivered the Empire from this disgrace.
He crossed the Danube, and after a war of five years (A.D. 101-106) conquered
the country, and made it a Roman province. At a later period Dacia was invaded
by the Goths; and as Aurelian considered it more prudent to make the Danube the
boundary of the Empire, he resigned Dacia to the barbarians, removed the Roman
inhabitants to Moesia, and gave the name of Dacia (Aureliani) to that part of
the province along the Danube where they were settled.
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A Greek city on the W bank of the Dniester liman near Belgorod-Dnestrovskii.
It is mentioned in ancient sources (Strab. 7.3.16; Ptol. 3.10.8; Ps. Skyl. 68;
Steph. Byz. and Anon. Peripl. 88.62). Founded in the 6th c. B.C., it was destroyed
by the Getae in the mid 1st c. B.C. The city recovered, was replanned, and was
destroyed again ca. 240 A.D., probably by the Goths.
Excavation has been hampered by thick mediaeval strata, but there
are remains of buildings with cellars from the 4th c. B.C. and some dwellings
of later eras. Parts of an ancient defensive wall with a circular tower (probably
2d c. A.D.) have been excavated, and from the same century a broad street with
rows of houses on either side. During this period Legio I Italica was stationed
in Tyras as well as Legio V Macedonia and Legio XI Claudia.
Pottery is represented by Ionian wares from the 6th c. B.C. and red-figured
Attic wares from the 5th c. From the 3d c. B.C. on, relief wares from Asia Minor
predominate. The city minted its own coins from 360 B.C. The Hermitage and Kiev
Museums contain material from the site.
M. L. Bernhard & Z. Sztetyllo, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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