[rmlew]

Dacia had been part of the Roman Empire at its height. Rome was weakened by disease and civil war, and retrenched. Dacia is largely modern Romania and Moldova. Romania is called Romania because the Dacians were Romanized and Roman soldiers settled there.

And you are dramatically over simplifying the Gothic War. That said, I have long been saying of our southern border that our Danube has been breached and that Hadrianople awaits.

[dangus]

I wouldn’t in any way deny that I’ve fantastically simplified the fall of Rome. Edward Gibbon spent several volumes; I spent a few, scant paragraphs.

However, I’m not referring to the Roman provice of Dacia, but to the area immediately to the East of that province, and to the north of Moesia Inferior and Thracia, from which the Roman province (IIRC) got its name.