Thracian-related Indo-European tribes of the Carpathian and lower Danube region, ancestral to the later Dacian kingdom; the Getae were their southern/eastern branch, known to Herodotus.
Consolidated into the first unified Dacian kingdom under Burebista around 82 BCE, ending the pre-state tribal phase of Dacian and Getae culture.
Illustrated Osprey survey of Geto-Dacian warriors, society, and material culture from the 4th century BC to the Roman conquest.
Herodotus (Book 4-5) describes the Getae, 'the bravest and most just of the Thracians,' and their belief in immortality — the earliest written account of this people.
Strabo (Book 7) gives the fullest ancient geographic/ethnographic account of the Getae and Dacians along the lower Danube.