The Dacians: Rome\'s Greatest Enemy?

[Robert Vermaat]

[quote] [quote="Robert Vermaat" post=329713]Sorry, but that's incorrect, as has been shown here so many times already. This 'denetification' only rests on the names used by ancient authors, who often used older names for later peoples: The Huns were named 'Scythians', and medieval armies from Western Europe were still styled 'Celts'. Should we take those identifications literally too? Of course not. Goths aren't Getae (let alone Dacians).
Alaric styled himself 'Rex Gothorum', not 'Rex Getae'.
The Goth language is undeniably Germanic and not Dacian.[/quote]
[quote] No, it rest on archaeology too. The majority of artefacts found in Santana de Mures/Cerneahov culture (the Goths culture) is of Dacian origin. [/quote] That's not what the majority of archaeologists agrees upon.
[quote] Getae and Dacians are the same (is like Alemani and Franks, they are both Germans)[/quote] Boldly stated, but very wrong. The dacians may have belonged to a much larger group labelled Getae, but that does not mean that every Geta is a Dacian. Therefore, even IF the Goths had been the same as the Getae, they could have been but one member of that group, but different.
Likewise, The Alamanni and Franks are both part of the Germanic group, but Franks are not Alamanii, they are not 'the same'. Similarli, Dacians and Getae are not 'the same'. But that does not matter, because they used a different language:
[quote] The so called Gothic language is know mostly from Codex Argenteus, but I doubt that Codex is a Gothic one, but probably it belonged to Longobards, so there is Longobard language. Goths back then was already Romanized and used Latin.[/quote] What ARE you taliking about? The 'so-called' Gothic language? Soory Diegies, but that the conclusion of eminent linguists, not some amateur. The Goths were Romanised and used latin? What, as their prime language? And you have proof of that? We know the differences between Lombard and Gothic, and the Gothic Bible is not a mislabelled Lombard manuscript, even if that would suit your theories of 'Goths=Dacians=Rumanians' much better.
[quote] Either way Goths wasnt for sure a homogenous people, but a mix of people. And more then sure they didnt migrated from Scandza either, nor wandered some 2 mileniums until arrived at Danube. Majority of modern historians reject now that tale of Jordanes[/quote]Well, no-one is claiming that, so please set up your straw men somewhere else. The Goths were indeed not homogenous, and nobody still believes they trotted from Scandinavia all the way to Rome. Time for you to stop claiming that 'the Goths were Dacians', too.