Trajan's Second Dacian War

Second Dacian War
Part of the Dacian Wars
Date105 to 106
Location
Result Roman victory
Territorial
changes
Roman Empire annexes Dacia west of Siret river
Iazyge client kingdom set up in Banat and Oltenia
Belligerents
Roman Empire
Iazyges
Dacia
Roxolani
Commanders and leaders
Trajan Decebalus
Strength
between 150,000 and 175,000[1] 200,000[1]
Casualties and losses
Unknown

Heavy

500,000 prisoners[2][3][4]

Trajan's Second Dacian War was fought between 105 and 106 because the Dacian king, Decebalus, had broken his peace terms with the Roman Emperor Trajan from the Trajan's First Dacian War.

Trajan's movements 105-106
  1. ^ a b Le Roux 1998, p. 73.
  2. ^ Cassius Dio, LXVIII, 14, 4-5
  3. ^ Filippo Coarelli, Trajan's column, Roma, 1999, tavv. 164-165 (CI-CII/CXXXVII-CXL) pp. 208-209.
  4. ^ Pliny the younger, Epistulae, VIII, 4, 2.

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