Dava (Dacian)
Some of the Dacian settlements and the fortresses employed the Murus Dacicus traditional construction technique.The dava towns can be found as south as the cities of Sandanski and Plovdiv in present-day Bulgaria.The Dacians, Getae and their kings were always considered as Thracians by the ancients (Dio Cassius, Trogus Pompeius, Appian, Strabo, Herodotus and Pliny the Elder), and were both said to speak the same Thracian language.[4] A non-Indo European, Kartvelian solution has also been briefly mentioned, but dismissed as a random occurrence (Tomaschek 1893, p. 139) e.g., see comparison with *daba, 'town, village'.[5] Below is a list of Dacian towns which include various forms of dava in their name:
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