Unified Dacian state that emerged under King Burebista (r. c. 82-44 BCE), briefly a major regional power feared by Caesar, later re-consolidated under Decebalus before Trajan's two wars of conquest.
Conquered by Emperor Trajan after the Dacian Wars (101-102 and 105-106 CE); Decebalus took his own life and the kingdom was annexed as the Roman province of Dacia.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Dacian Kingdom (Burebista-Decebalus) — the shape you scrub through changes in 82 BC · 41 BC · 50.
Accessible modern narrative of Dacian civilization from Burebista through Decebalus and the Roman conquest, drawing on archaeology.