Dacia: An Outline of the Early Civilization of the Carpatho-Danubian Countries is a history

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 book by the Romanian

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 historian

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 and archaeologist Vasile Pârvan

Vasile Pârvan

Vasile Pârvan was a Romanian historian and archaeologist.He studied history in Bucharest, with Nicolae Iorga as one of his professors. He continued his studies in Germany. His Ph.D. thesis, written in 1909, was titled The nationality of merchants in the Roman Empire...

 (1882 – 1927). The book, published post-mortem in 1928

1928 in literature

The year 1928 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Ford Madox Ford publishes Last Post. It is the final book of a four-volume work titled Parade's End published between 1924 and 1928....

, resulted from a series of lectures that Pârvan gave at Cambridge University. Similar, to his major work, Getica (1926), Dacia covers the ancient history of Carpatho-Danubian region. In both books, Pârvan presented Dacia

Dacia

In ancient geography, especially in Roman sources, Dacia was the land inhabited by the Dacians or Getae as they were known by the Greeks—the branch of the Thracians north of the Haemus range...

as a great kingdom with a homogeneous ethnic base, an advanced civilization and a well-defined political and national identity.