Dacia... in formam provinciae redacta
Sorin Nemeti
- abstract -
In absence of explicit sources a modern historian has to use all kind of information to restore pictures from the past. For the beginning of the province of Dacia we find, among old and new historians, the idea of the Dacians' extermination during the conquest wars, and, consequently, the realities of this new province explained without taking into account the presence of indigenous population and their social structure. This old idea is still shaping the few historical data concerning the fate of the Dacian people in the Roman Era. In fact, we know so little about the regime of the soil in Dacia after the wars. Excepting the too expended on modern maps territory of colonia Ulpia Traiana, what profs do we have on the administrative organization. What was the names of new founded villages, heads of some administrative units? Rearranging the few data contained by epigraphic inscription and literary texts in the lights of a new interpretation of the Ptolemy's list of towns we will try to draw a picture of the province Dacia after the Roman conquest, picture which contain the remains of the Dacian, too fast exterminated from our books.