Dacians were among the inhabitants of Eastern Europe before and during the Roman Empire. Many hundreds of personal names and placenames are known from ancient sources, and they throw light on the Dacian language and the extent to which it differed from Thracian.
Anthroponyms
Around 1150 Dacian anthroponyms (personal names) and 900 toponyms (placenames) have been preserved in ancient sources.[1][2] As far as the onomastic (proper names) of Dacians and Thracians is concerned, opinions are divided. According to Crossland (1982), the evidence of names from the Dacian, Mysian and Thracian area seems to indicate divergence of a 'Thraco-Dacian' language into northern and southern groups of dialects, but not so different as to rank Thracian and Dacian as separate languages, There were also the development of special tendencies in word formation and of certain secondary phonetic features in each group.[3] Mateescu (1923), Rosetti (1978) sustain that Thracian onomastic include elements that are common to Geto-Dacians and Bessians (a Thracian tribe).[4] A part of researchers support that onomastically, Dacians are not different from the other Thracians in Roman Dacia's inscriptions.[5] But recently, D. Dana basing himself on new onomastic material recorded in Egyptian ostraka suggested criteria which would make possible to distinguish between closely related Thracian and Dacian-Moesian names and singled out certain specific elements for the latter.[6]
In Georgiev's opinion (1960; 1977) Dacian placenames and personal names are "completely different" from their Thracian counterparts.[7]
Several Dacian names have also been identified with ostracons of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt,[8] i.e. Dadas and Dadazi,[9] Zoutoula,[10] Dotos and Dotouzi,[11] Dieri and Diernais,[10] Diengis,[10] Dida(s),[10] Blaikisa,[12] Blegissa,[12] Diourdanos,[12] Thiadicem,[12] Avizina,[12] Dourpokis,[12] Kaigiza,[13] Dardiolai,[14] Denzibalos (see also Dacian king name Deki-balos),[14] Denzi-balus (attested in Britain),[14] Pouridour,[15] Thiaper and Tiatitis,[16] Dekinais,[14] *Rolouzis,[16] (See Ostraca from Krokodilo and Didymoi)
A
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Avizina | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [12] | Probably related to Vezina. | |
B
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Bastiza | Name frequently found at Mons Claudianus i.e. two persons have this name on a list of Dacian names, but this name is also the patronyme of the soldier named Diernaios.[17] | The name ‘'bast'’ is found in Thrace (cf. Decev) but never as Bastiza.[17] | |
Bikili(s) | Decebal's friend (Dio Cassius) [18] | ||
Blegissa | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [12] | ||
Blaesus | Child of a soldier of cohors I Aelia Dacorum[19] | ||
Blaikisa | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [12] | ||
Brasus | Inscription at Apulum[20] that reads: Mucatra, son of Brasus, had a son and heir Mucapor Mucatralis[21] | According to Mommsen (1887), the name is formed by the compounds with –poris i.e. Mucaporis appear as Thracian and as Dacian in numerous cases[22] | |
Burebista | "Possessor of so much" cf Sanskrit bhuri "plenty, so much" and cf Ancient Iranian victa "possessor",[23][24] | King of Dacians (Strabo,[25] Jordanes and Decree of Dionysopolis) | See also: Buri, Buridavense, Buridava, Buricodava. See also Ariovistus. |
C
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Charnabon | King of the Getae (Sophocles's Triptolemos) | ||
Comosicus | Dacian High Priest and King who lived in the 1st century BC (Jordanes[26]) | ||
Cothelas, Gudila | King of the Getae in the 4th century BC | ||
Cotiso | Cotiso 'loved' [27] | King of the Dacians in the 1st century BC [27] | Tomaschek compared this name with the name Cotela of a Getian prince and with the name Cotys, name of several Odrysian and Sapaean (Thracian) princes. Also, he compared with the name Kotys, the Thracian goddess worshipped by the Edonians, a tribe that lived around Pangaion Mountain. He sees here again, the letter "o" as an obscured indistinct, pronunciation of "a". Therefore, he compared Cotiso with the Bactrian Kata "loved". [27] |
D
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Dablosa | He is attested at Mons Claudianus(O. Claud. II 402 and 403).[9] | ||
Dadas | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [9] | ||
Dadazi | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [9] | ||
Daizus | Thraco-Getian name Daizus Comozoi, interfectus a Castabocis. Daizus Comozoi is a "Royal" Dacian name found also with Thracians from south of the Danube. | ||
Damanais | Damanais attested at Mons Claudianus as the father of the Dacian soldier Dida from Krokodilo.[14] | ||
Dapyx | Dacian king.[27] | ||
Danillo | Roman Legionnaire | ||
Dardanos | 'Darda-‘ appears as both Daco-Mysian and Thracian.[28] | ||
Dardiolai | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [14] | ||
Decaeneus | "The one who knows" (dak, dek cf. Sanskrit dasa) or "The Dacian" [24] | High priest and king of Dacians (Strabo,[29] Dio Cassius, Jordanes) | |
Decibalus | Child of a soldier of cohors I Aelia Dacorum[19] | ||
Decebalus | Dacian word balas /balos is from PIE *bel 'strong, power' cf. Sanskrit bala "force"[30] and Dece from PIE *dek 'to take, to honor'[31]
Also, it had been suggested Decebalus means "The force of the Dacians" [24] |
King of Dacians (Dio Cassius) | Originally named Diurpaneus, after his victory against Romans he was called Decebalus ("The brave one")[32]
Many interpretations are possible for the PIE root *dek that is found also with the name Decaeneus[33] |
Denzibalos | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [14] | ||
Denzibalus | Attested in Britannia [14] | ||
Dekinais | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [14] | ||
Dicomes | king of Dacians [27] | ||
Dida | Aelius Dida - Dacian centurion of cohors I Aelia Dacorum stationed in Britannia.[19] | ||
Dida(s) | Dacian soldier from Krokodilo.[14] | ||
Diegis | Diegis / Degis from *dhegh ‘to burn' [34] | Dacian [27] | |
Diengis | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [10] | ||
Dieri | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [10] | ||
Diernais | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [10] | ||
Diourdanos | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [12] | ||
Diurpaneus | "admired from distance" cf. Sanskrit durepanya[33][24] | Name of the king of Dacians (Dio Cassius) He was renamed to Decebalus after victory over Romans. | It is a "Royal" Dacian name found also with Thracians from south of the Danube i.e. Dorpanas (IGB, II, 771) and Dyrpanais (Olbia). |
Dourpokis | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [12] | ||
Dotos | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [11] | ||
Dotouzi | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [11] | ||
Drilgisa | With the inscription CIL VI 1801 as Natopor's brother at Rome.[9] | Note also the following names: Drigissa in Superior Moesia and Dia-giza, slave at Rome, CIL XV 2445.[9] | |
Dromichaetes, Dromichaeta | Name of the king of Getae[27] It appears this is a Hellenised form [27] | ||
Duccidava | Daughter of a Dacian soldier mentioned in a Roman military diploma issued in 127 in Mauretania Caesariensis [35] | ||
Duras | King of the Dacians between 69 AD - 87 AD (Jordanes) |
K
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Kaigiza | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [12] | ||
Komakiza | Koma-kiza / Koma-kissa is a name attested at Didymoi.[9] | The endings term correspond to the Dacian king name Komosicus.[9] | |
Komozoi | Father of Daizus. Daizus Comozoi is a "Royal" Dacian name found also with Thracians from south of the Danube. |
M
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Moskon | Inscription on silver coins about a 3rd-century BC getic king | ||
Mucapor | Inscription at Apulum[20] that reads: Mucatra, son of Brasus, had a son and heir Mucapor Mucatralis[21] | These names are Thracians and Dacians (as Mucapor is attested as Dacian and as Thracian name).[22] The names containing Muca- are found in Thracian but also in the proper Geto-Dacian names[36] | |
Mucatra | Inscription at Apulum[20] that reads: Mucatra, son of Brasus, had a son and heir Mucapor Mucatralis.[21] | These names are probably Thracian, not Dacian, as Mucapor is attested as an ethnic Thracian name (see refs above).[22] |
N
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Natoporus | cf. Sanskrit nata 'bent', de nam 'bend' and cf. Nath 'lean, rely', 'seek for help'[37] | Dacian name of a prince from a Dacian royal family of the tribe of the Costoboci on a Roman inscription (II No. 1801) [37][38] | See also Dacian Natu-spardo (attested with Ammianus)[37]
NOTE: some scholars consider this a Thracian name. |
O
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Oroles, Orola | From ar-, or- 'eagle, big bird' [34] | Name of a Dacian prince (Justin) [39] |
P
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Petoporus, Petipor | Name of a Dacian prince [39] | ||
Pieporus | The first element Pie is analogue by initial and vocalism with the name Pie-figoi of a Dacian tribe mentioned by Ptolemy.[39]
The second element -porus is often met with Dacian and also with Bithynian (a Thracian tribe) names. Tomaschek explained it by the root *par 'replenish, nourish' or as *pa-la 'king'[39] |
Name of a king of the Costoboci (inscription C.1 Rom. VI, No. 1801).[39][38] | NOTE: Linguists Georgiev and Ivan Duridanov consider this a Thracian name; second element -por (variations: -puri, -pyra-s, -poris, -pouris) comparable to Latin puer 'son, child'.[40][41] |
Pouridour | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [15] |
R
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Rescuturme | The Dacian name Rescuturme can be related to the Aryan word rai "splendor, wealth" and raevant, revant "brilliant", if "-sk" is part of a derivation.[42] | Name of a Dacian woman. Inscription (CIL III 1195),[21] [42] | cf. names Resculum (a hamlet from Dacia) and Rascuporis / Rascupolis (name with Sapaean and Bithynian Thracian tribes)[42] |
Rhemaxos | Getic king who ruled to the north of the Danube around 200 BC | ||
Rholes, Roles | Getae chieftain in Scythia Minor (Dio Cassius) | ||
Rigozus | Anthroponym.[43] | ||
Rolouzis | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [16] | ||
Rubobostes | Dacian king in Transylvania in the 2nd century BC |
S
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Scorylo | From root *sker 'to leap, spin' [44] | Name of a Dacian general[42] | Cf. Scoris (Scorinis), a "Royal" Dacian name found also with Thracians from south of the Danube. |
T
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Tarbus | "hard, strong, powerful" cf. Bactrian thaurva (de tarva)[23] | possibly a prince of the Free Dacians[23][45] | |
Thiadicem | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [12] | ||
Thiamarkos | Dacian king (inscription "Basileys Thiamarkos epoiei")[46] | ||
Thiaper | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [16] | ||
Tiati | With the inscription CIL VI 1801 at Rome.[9] | ||
Tiatitis | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [16] | ||
Tsinna, Zinnas, Sinna |
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Tsiru | Tsiru son of Bassus in ISM V 27, Capidava (Scythia Minor), 2nd century[47] |
V
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Vezina, Vezinas | 'Active, vigorous, energetic', from PIE *ueg [48] | Main advisor of Decebalus[49] |
Z
Dacian name | Possible etymology | Attestation | Notes |
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Zalmoxis | Dacian god[23] | ||
Zebeleizis, Gebeleizis, Gebeleixis, Nebeleizis | Other name of the Dacian god Zalmoxis [23] | ||
Zia | "mare", cf. Thracian Ziaka, Sanskrit hayaka "horse" (See Thracian name Ziacatralis "who feeds the horses")[23] | Dacian name of a princess.[23] Variant: Ziais | |
Zoutula | Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [10] | ||
Zyraxes | "Powerful prince" cf. Bactrian Zura, Zavare "power" and cf. Khsaya "prince" [50] | Prince of the Getae [50] | A similar name's form is found in the city name Zurobara, from bara/vara ("city") and zuro ("fortified")[50] |
Toponyms
No | Dacian name | Etymology | Modern city/Location | Attestation | Notes |
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1 | Acidava (Acidaua) | Enoșești, Olt County, Romania | Tabula Peutingeriana[51] | ||
2 | Amutria (Amutrion, Amutrium, Admutrium,[52] Ad Mutrium, Ad Mutriam, Ancient Greek: Ἀμούτριον[53]) | Hypothetically located at one of the following sites in Oltenia (Southwestern Romania):
|
Ptolemy's Geographia, Tabula Peutingeriana[56] | ||
3 | Apula (Apulon) | Piatra Craivii, 20 km North of Alba-Iulia, Romania | Tabula Peutingeriana[51] | Apulum in Latin, see also Apuli | |
4 | Bersobis (Berzobim) | "White, shine" including birch-tree from root *bhereg > ber(e)z [57]
Alternatively, it could be compared with Berzama, place name from Thrace between Amhialos and Kabyle and Bactrian Bareza 'height' [18] |
Modern Berzovia village in Caraș-Severin County, on the bank of river Bârzava, Romania | The sole surviving sentence from Trajan's campaign journal in the Latin grammar work of Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae [58] | |
5 | Napoca (Napuca) | The following are the most important hypotheses regarding Napoca's etymology:
Independent of these hypotheses, scholars agree that the name of the settlement predates the Roman conquest (AD 106).[61] |
Cluj-Napoca, Romania[62] | Tabula Peutingeriana[51] [62] | |
Hydronyms
Dacian name | Modern name | Etymology | Attestation |
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Alutus, Aloutas | Olt | Possible etymology: Sanskrit alu, meaning "float, raft, water pot, small water jar" | Ptolemy, Jordanes |
Amutrion, Amutria | Motru | Skt. *mūtra "dripping water, urine", Skt. Jīmūta, "clouds that cause rain but not thunder"[63] | |
Argessos, Ordessos | Argeș | ||
Buseos | Buzău | Originally Μ[π]ουσεος, where Μπ is pronounced as B | |
Crisus | Criș | ||
Donaris | Upper Danube | ||
Hyerassus, Tiarantos, Gerasus, Seratos | Siret | ||
Istros | Upper Danube[64] | The Ancient Greek Istros was a borrowing from Thracian/Dacian meaning "strong, swift", akin to Sanskrit is.iras "swift".[64] | |
Maris, Marisos | Mureș | Herodotus, Strabo | |
Naparis | Ialomița | a) According to Russu, 'flow' / 'moisture'. It has probably the same root with Napoca (modern Cluj-Napoca)[65]
b) According to Parvan, after Tomaschek, the meaning is similar with Lith. Napras, in which there is a high probability of the root *nebh- "to spring". [66] c) According to Bogrea, 'spring' - compared with Old Persian napas 'spring' [66] |
Herodotus (IV 48), [65] [67] |
Patissus, Pathissus, Tisia | Tisa | ||
Pyretus, Pyretos, Pyresos, Porata | Prut | ||
Rabon | Jiu | ||
Samus | Someș | ||
Sargetia | Strei | ||
Tyras | Nistru | ||
Tibisis | Timiș | Herodotus |
See also
Notes
- ↑ Nandris et al. 1976, p. 730.
- ↑ Petrescu-Dîmbovița 1978, p. 130.
- ↑ Crossland 1982, p. 839.
- ↑ Rosetti 1978, p. 208.
- ↑ Oltean 2009, p. 95.
- ↑ Pogorelets, Ivantchik & Savvov 2007, p. 258.
- ↑ Georgiev 1977, p. 298.
- ↑ Dana 2003, p. 166.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Dana 2003, p. 174.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dana 2003, p. 185.
- 1 2 3 Dana 2003, p. 177.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Dana 2003, p. 183.
- ↑ Dana 2003, p. 174 and p=183.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Dana 2003, p. 175.
- 1 2 Dana 2003, p. 176.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Dana 2003, p. 179.
- 1 2 Dana 2003, p. 173.
- 1 2 Tomaschek 1883, p. 402.
- 1 2 3 "PVL Inscriptions - Birdoswald". Per Lineam Valli. 29 December 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- 1 2 3 Piso 2001, p. 425.
- 1 2 3 4 Kugener & Herrmann 1977, p. 516.
- 1 2 3 Mommsen 1887, p. 225.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tomaschek 1883, p. 409.
- 1 2 3 4 Van den Gheyn 1885, p. 177.
- ↑ Strabo & 20 AD, VII 3,12.
- ↑ Tomaschek 1883, p. 403.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Tomaschek 1883, p. 404.
- ↑ Hamp 1966, p. 108.
- ↑ Strabo & 20 AD, VII 3,5.
- ↑ Russu 1969, p. 163 and 109.
- ↑ Russu 1967, p. 101.
- ↑ "De Imperatoribus Romanis" (Assorted Imperial Battle Descriptions). An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors. Retrieved 8 November 2007.
Battle of Sarmizegetusa (Sarmizegetuza), A.D. 105. During Trajan"s reign one of the most important Roman successes was the victory over the Dacians. The first important confrontation between the Romans and the Dacians took place in the year 87 and was initiated by Domitian. The praetorian prefect Cornelius led five or six legions across the Danube on a bridge of ships and advanced towards Banat (in Romania). The Romans were surprised by a Dacian attack at Tapae (near the village of Bucova, in Romania). Legion V Alaude was crushed and Cornelius Fuscus was killed. The victorious general was originally known as Diurpaneus (see Manea, p.109), but after this victory he was called Decebalus (the brave one).
- 1 2 Tomaschek 1883, p. 405.
- 1 2 Russu 1967, p. 133.
- ↑ Dana 2006, pp. 118–119.
- ↑ Dumistracel 1988, p. 395.
- 1 2 3 4 Tomaschek 1883, p. 406.
- 1 2 Dana 2006, p. 117.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Tomaschek 1883, p. 407.
- ↑ Georgiev, Vladimir I.. "Thrakisch und Dakisch". Band 29/2. Teilband Sprache und Literatur (Sprachen und Schriften [Forts.]), edited by Wolfgang Haase, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1983. p. 1157. doi:10.1515/9783110847031-015
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- 1 2 3 4 Tomaschek 1883, p. 408.
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- ↑ Russu 1967, p. 136.
- ↑ Batty, Roger (2007): Rome and the Nomads: the Pontic-Danubian realm in antiquity, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-814936-0, ISBN 978-0-19-814936-1, page 366
- ↑ Berciu 1981, p. 139-140.
- ↑ Dana 2001–2003, p. 88.
- ↑ Russu 1969, p. 145, 154 and 160.
- ↑ Kővári, László; Ráth, Mór (1859). Erdély történelme [History of Transylvania]. Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca): Stein János Bizománya.
- 1 2 3 Tomaschek 1883, p. 410.
- 1 2 3 Tabula Peutingeriana, Segmentum VIII.
- 1 2 Pippidi 1976, p. 17.
- ↑ Nobbe 1845, p. 10.
- ↑ Diaconovich 1898, p. 758.
- 1 2 Schütte 1917, p. 96.
- ↑ Tabula Peutingeriana, Segmentum VII.
- ↑ Parvan 1926, p. 245.
- ↑ Priscian 520, VI 13.
- ↑ Pârvan 1982, pp. 165 & 82.
- ↑ Paliga 2006, p. 142.
- 1 2 Lukács 2005, p. 14.
- 1 2 Bunbury 1879, p. 516.
- ↑ "Jimuta, Jīmūta, Jimūta, Jimuೂta: 21 definitions". 3 August 2014.
- 1 2 Katičić & Križman 1976, p. 144.
- 1 2 Russu 1969, p. 130 and 154.
- 1 2 Brugmann et al. 2009, p. 324.
- ↑ Herodotus & Rawlinson (translator), p. 163.
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Further reading
- Olteanu, Sorin. "Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum - Toponyms Section". Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum (in Romanian and English). Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
- http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2007/2007-01-29.html
- http://www.zaw.uni-heidelberg.de/hps/pap/WL/Kontr.pdf
- https://www.scribd.com/doc/17495403/Bogdan-Murgescu-Istoria-Romaniei-in-texte-
- https://www.scribd.com/doc/16509714/Vasile-Parvan-Cetatea-Tropaeum-Consideraii-istorice
- About Berzovia http://www.net4u.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=227%3Abersobis&Itemid=59&lang=ro
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120316100512/http://www.net4u.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=1&lang=en