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

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

book by the

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and

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Vasile Pârvan Vasile Pârvan (; 28 September 1882 – 26 June 1927) was a Romanian historian and archaeologist. Biography Pârvan was born in Perchiu, Huruiești commune, Bacău County. He came from a modest family, being the first child of the teacher An ...

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

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris B ...

, resulted from a series of lectures that Pârvan gave at

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. Similar to his major work, Getica (1926), ''Dacia'' covers the ancient history of Carpatho-Danubian region. In both books, Pârvan presented

Dacia Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus ro ...

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

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* * Books by Vasile Pârvan Books about Dacia {{Romania-hist-book-stub

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