The expansion of the Roman Empire in the Balkan peninsula, alarming the Geto-Dacians, determined the strengthening of their unity. About the middle of the first century B.C., the Getic king Burebista succeeded in building an impressingly powerful state, by unifying the Geto-Dacian tribes on the wide space stretching from present-day Slovakia to the Balkans; he forced all the Pontic cities, from Olbia to Apollonia of Thracia, to submit to his rule. The clash between Burebista's and Caesar's forces was going to take place in 44 B.C.; but just then the Roman Emperor was murdered; after a little while Burebista shared the same fate.
At the beginning of our era the Roman Empire was getting closer in its expansion to the Danube, and the Geto-Dacians could do nothing but have relations with it, now cordial, now hostile, to assimilate the elements of the Roman civilization and military technics. They will resist the Romans both politically and military, for about century until the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan, who, after long and dreadfull years of wars, succeeded in 106 A.D. to break the heroic resistance of the Dacians, whose king, Decebal - entered in legend for his bravery - commited suicide to avoid being captured. The resistance and destruction of Decebal' Dacia lingered in the conscience of the raising generations as a glorious epic. The memorial monuments - Trajan's Column (Rome) and Tropaeum Trajani (Adamclisi, Dobrogea) - attest through their celebrated scenes to the Dacians' bravery in defending their plains, fields, rich and well-sheltering mountains. The monuments about i wrote are interesting and worthy to be seen.

Julianus Domitius