User talk:Rd turbo

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

The map you refer to us quite accurate: it depicts the Roman Empire ca. 400 AD, by which time Dacia had been abandoned (ca. 275 AD) as untenable in the face of successive barbarian attacks. The population was transferred south of the Danube, where the new provinces named Dacia ripensis and Dacia mediterranea, shown on my map, were established. If you want any further info, just ask. Best regards, Constantine ✍ 12:27, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So the population that was "transferred" would have comprised mostly Romans? I imagine this was the case since Dacia preceded and succeeded the Roman occupation. DS (talk) 01:14, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it would have included the Roman citizens, their slaves, anyone who wanted to leave. How "Roman" these were is open to question; many must have been romanized Dacians. The province was not evacuated from a short-lived Roman "occupation", where the indigenous population somehow preserved its characteristics and was thus "liberated"; rather, it was abandoned after over 150 years of Roman rule, and a large part of the population must have been assimilated by then. The article Dacia (Roman province) has some useful info in this regard... Constantine ✍ 06:47, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]