Table of Movements and Settlements of various Nationalities and Tribes in the Provinces bordering on the Lower Danube between the Getic period and about the end of the Thirteenth Century, A.D., compiled by the Author,and corrected from the Ancient historians (Taeitus, Dion Cassius, Eutropiue) and the works of Gibbon, Smith, Lesage, Engel, Lauriani, Neigebaur, Henke, Wilkinson, Merivale, Freeman, Dierauer, Roesler, Pie, and others.
| NATIONALITY or | First appearance in | Term of Domination | By whowm and when | Final Disappearance | Remarks |
| TRIBE, with supposed | Danubian Provinces | Conquered | |||
| Subdivisions | |||||
| GETAE-Getae and Dacians | 335 B.C. | ? | ? | ? | Believed to be of Thracian origin; not clearly traceable. |
| DACIANS ... ... ... | (Successors of or | ? B,C. to A.D. 106 | Romans (Trajan), | See Remarks | The Dacians rose against the Romans under Ant. Pius and at other |
| cotemporary with the Getae) | A.D. 106 | times, but were probably fused with the Romans and the barbarians | |||
| who followed them. | |||||
| ROMANS ... ... ... | 1st century B.C. | 106 A.D. to 274 A.D. | Withdrew before the | ? | A considerable proportion of the Roman and Daco-Roman descendants |
| Goths about 274 A.D. | fused with succeeding tribes, and their descendants survive in | ||||
| Roumania to-day. | |||||
| GOTHS-Ostrogoths, Visigoths, | 250 A.D. | 274 A.D. to 375 A.D. | Huns, 375 A.D. | 578 A.D. | About 376 A.D. they crossed the Danube, driven before the Huns, and |
| Gepidae | were allowed to settle with other tribes in Mcesia. Sometimes | ||||
| the Goths and Huns were allied. | |||||
| Sarmatians, Quadi, Marcomanni | ... ... ... | 282 A.D. to 375 A.D. | Romans, 375 A.D. | ... ... | The Sarmatians fought against the Romans at various periods, but |
| invaded Dacia at | were conquered by Valentinian, 375 A.D. | ||||
| various times ; Sarmatians | |||||
| settled | |||||
| Huns (and Alani)... | 370 to 375 A.D. | 375 A.D. to about | Gepidae, 453 A.D. | 460 A.D. | The Huns were driven eastward, but returned a few years afterwards, |
| 453 | overran Italy, and are mentioned as being in Dacia about | ||||
| 564 A.D. | |||||
| GEPIDAE ... ... ... | See above (Goths) | 453 to 550-564 A.D. | Lombards and Avari, | 568 A.D. | |
| 550 A.D. | |||||
| LOMBARDS... ... ... | 550 A.D. | 564 to ? | Joined the Byzantines | ... ... | The Lombards, allied to the Avari, overran a great part of Dacia and |
| Pannonia, and, entering the army of Justinian, left their possessions | |||||
| to the Avari. | |||||
| AVARI ... ... ... | 550 A.D. | 564 to 610-640 | Dispersed. Part annihilated | End seventh century | The Avari were alternately masters and vassals of other tribes |
| (intermittently) | by Heraclius | ||||
| (610-640) | |||||
| BULGARI ... ... ... | 493 A.D. to 499 A.D. | 634 (with Slaves) | Byzantines (Basilins) | See Remarks | The Bulgari were of Scythian origin, and many tribes have been |
| 679 (alone) to 1014- | 1014-1019 | included in them by different authors. Amongst then, the | |||
| 1019 | Wallachs, Croats, Moravians (Lesage). | ||||
| SLAVEs ... ... ... | 493 to 527 | See Remarks | See Remarks | ... ... | The Slaves settled in detachments in various parts, from the Euxine |
| to the Adriatic Sea, and, allied with one or more tribes, fought the | |||||
| Bzantines. Many merged into the general population. | |||||
| BYZANTINE EMPIRE... | ... ... | 1014 to ? | ... ... | ... ... | For some time Dacha was nominally incorporated with the Empire. |
| UNGRI - Hungarians or | 824 to 839 A.D. | Powerful in Dacia | Stephen (about 997) | ... ... | Transylvania was annexed to Hungary either 1002 or 1070 A.D. |
| Magyars | Trajana tenth | founded Hungarian | |||
| century | Kingdom | ||||
| PATZINAKITAI (probably a | End of ninth century | Powerful tenth century | Came under Kumani | Disappeared in Hungary | The Patzinakitai, settled chiefly in the Carpathians, are associated |
| mixed race) | &c. | about 1275 | with Wallachs and Kumani as vassals. | ||
| KUMIANI(and Chazars) | 1047 A.D. (with Chazars) | Powerful 1083 to | Settled and baptized | The Kumani dominated over and absorbed other tribes on the | |
| 1220 | 1220 A.D. | Carpathians. | |||
| WALLACHO-BULGARIAN | |||||
| Empire- | |||||
| (Wallachs, called also | Wallachs, 976-1027 | 1199 to 1246-1285 | Tartars, about 1246- | ... ... | The Wallachs were a race of shepherds ; considered by some an inde- |
| Romani, Blachi, &c.) | 1285 | pendent tribe (see above remarks on Bulgari), by others descendants | |||
| of the Daco-Roman colonists. | |||||
| TECTONIC KNIGHTS and | ... ... | Teut. Knts. 1200 to | ... ... | ... ... | The King of Hungary, as suzerain of Transvlvania and part of |
| KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN | 1223 ; Kilts. St. | Wallachia, gave the government of certain districts to the Teutonic | |||
| John 1249 to ? | Knights in 1200, but withdrew it in 1223 A.D. | ||||
| TARTANs (or Mongols) ... | About 1240 | Made inroads into | Retired northwards to | ... ... | At the same time there were smaller voivodeships, banates, and |
| 'Moldavia' and | Russia. Founded the | khanates north of the Danube. | |||
| Wallachia 13th | Tartar Dynasty | ||||
| century. Ruled in | |||||
| Moldavia 13th | |||||
| and first half of | |||||
| 14th century. |