GETO-DACIANS AND DANUBE ROMANCES IN THE SERVICE OF THE EMPIRE. THE ARDABURS FAMILY (5TH – 6TH CENTURIES)
GETO-DACIANS AND DANUBE ROMANCES IN THE SERVICE OF THE EMPIRE. THE ARDABURS FAMILY (5TH – 6TH CENTURIES)

Summary/Abstract: As a result of the cohabitation between the free Dacians from the Carpathians and the Germanic Goths here in migration, we can formulate some quite plausible hypotheses about some Geto Dacian and Daco-Roman characters, with a Gothic or Visigothic allure, from the Lower Danube, like Ardabur senior, Aspar Ardabur, Ardabur junior, Plinta, high military dignitaries and with positions of important influence at the imperial court in Constantinople. Later also of a prominent Romance writer and historian of the 6th century, Iordanes (Iordannis). They could constitute a reason for justified historical pride, thus completing the thread that seemed irreparably broken at the end of the ancient, unknown history of the Romanians. A brilliant episode was also distinguished by the possibility of the exceptional personality of Ardabur Aspar, a Gothicized Geto-Dacian, then re-Romanized in the Eastern Roman Empire, by the historical chance of maximum individual scope to become emperor in Constantinople in the year 457. His possible descent from the North-Danube Getic Bure gives us the opportunity to put him in line with the special personality of Burebista, the king of a once great state, and to rightfully see him as another successor of the Thracian-Getic genius from the north Danube.

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