Conquest of Dacia
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Were the Roman military campaigns in Dacia that led to the conquest of that region.
Chronology
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January 105: The agreements established in 102 were not respected by the Dacians. In fact, Decebalus not only rearmed the army and rebuilt the old fortresses around the capital but attacked the Iazyges, allies of the Romans, taking possession of some of their territories (as part of the Banat).
Was the war of Roman Emperor Domitian against the Dacians under King Duras, that had invaded the Roman province of Moesia.
January 87: Domitian and his general Fuscus repelled the invasion but were not able on their turn to succesfully invade Dacia.
April 86: At the end of 85 or the beginning of 86 AD, the Dacian king Duras ordered his troops to attack the Roman province of Moesia on the southern course of the Danube river.
Was the first campaign in Dacia by Roman emperor Trajan. Dacia became a Roman client.
January 103: The Dacians renounced to an independent foreign policy, once again accepting the status of socii populi romani.
January 102: The invading Roman army reaches Tibiscum (modern Timișoara), in Dacia.
January 102: Tapae in Dacia (modern-day Otelu Rost) conquered by Roman Empire.
April 102: Trajan's offensive resumed in March. This time, the advance started from several fronts.
January 103: Trajan then divided the army into at least three columns, through which he began to besiege the Dacian fortresses of the Orăștie mountains. Dacian citadels, such as that of Costești, fell one after another.
January 103: Decebalus, to spare the capital the horrors of a useless siege, capitulated. Peace conditions: cede some territories to the Roman Empire (annexed to the neighboring provinces of Moesia Superior and Inferior), such as the eastern Banat, Oltenia, the depression of Hațeg in Transylvania (where contingents of veterans were positioned up to Apulum) and part of the Wallachian plain of Muntenia (with the creation of new forts at Buridava and Piroboridava);.
January 103: Banat incorporated in Moesia superior.
Was the second campaign in Dacia by Roman emperor Trajan. It started when the Dacian king, Decebalus, broke the peace terms with Rome. Dacia was annexed by the Roman Empire.
September 106: The next year they gradually conquered the mountain fortress system that surrounded the Dacian capital, Sarmizegetusa. The final decisive battle took place near the walls of Sarmizegetusa, during the summer of 106.
