The Goths sack Roman fortresses along the…

The Goths sack Roman fortresses along the Danube River.

A Dacian ethnic identity has arisen over the past two hundred years, as Roman colonists have commingled with the Getae and the coastal Greeks.

Literacy spreads, and Getae who enlist in the Roman army learn Latin.

A Vulgar Latin tongue gradually supersedes the Thracian language in commerce and administration and becomes the foundation of modern Romanian; a religious fusion also occurs.

Some Getae, even before the Roman invasion, had worshiped Mithras, the ancient Persian god of light popular in the Roman legions.

Worshipers faithful to Jupiter, Diana, Venus, and other gods and goddesses of the Roman pantheon have multiplied as Roman colonization has progressed.

The Dacians, however, retain the Getian custom of cremation, though now, amid the ashes they sometimes leave a coin for Charon, the mythological ferryman of the dead.