First Dacian War
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Was the first campaign in Dacia by Roman emperor Trajan. Dacia became a Roman client.
Chronology
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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: The Dacians renounced to an independent foreign policy, once again accepting the status of socii populi romani.
January 103: Banat incorporated in Moesia superior.
