Aizis
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| Alternative name | Aixis,Aixim,Airzis,Azizis,Azisis,Aizisis,Alzisis,Aigis,Aigizidava,Zizis |
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| Location | Caraș-Severin,Romania |
| Coordinates | 45°29′16″N21°50′59″E/ 45.4877°N 21.8498°E |
Aizis(Aixis,Aixim,Airzis,Azizis,Azisis,Aizisis,Alzisis,Aigis,Aigizidava[*],Zizis,Ancient Greek:Αίζισίς) was aDaciantown mentioned by EmperorTrajanin his workDacica.Located atDealul Ruieni,[1]Fârliug,Caraș-Severin,Banat,Romania.
One sentence surviving fromDacica,in the Latin grammar work ofPriscian,Institutiones grammaticae,[2]says:inde Berzobim, deinde Aizi processimus,meaningWe then advanced to Berzobim, next to Aizi.[3]The phrase describes the initial itinerary march into Dacia by theRomanarmy. After theRoman conquestofDacia,theAizis fortwas built there.
It is also depicted in theTabula Peutingeriana,asAzizis,on a Roman road network, betweenBersoviaandCaput Bubali.
Etymology
[edit]The place name Aizizi, located in the South West of Dacia has a root / radical containing the Bactrian "ait",Armenian"iz" 'snake' or better theBactrian"azi" Armenian "ajts" 'goat'.[4]The Romanian historian and archaeologistVasile Pârvanalso gives the meaning 'goat'.[5]
This Dacian name (mentioned also byPtolemyasΑίζισίς) confirms theDacian languagechange fromProto-Indo-European*g to z: Αίζισίς (Ptolemy) < *aig-is(yo) – '(place) with goats' (Greek αίζ, αίγός goat)[6]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^"Monografia localității Fârliugby Pr. Cristian Franț ".Archived fromthe originalon 2010-07-12.Retrieved2010-12-09.
- ^Priscian 520,VI 13.
- ^Exploratio: Military and Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople by N. J. E. Austin, N. B. Rankov Routledge, 1995,ISBN0415049458,ISBN9780415049450
- ^"Les restes de la langue dace" by W. Tomaschek (Gratz University) in "Le Muséon (Revue Internationale Volume 2)", Louvain, 1883 (page 402)
- ^Pârvan 1982,p. 165.
- ^E.C. Polome "Chapter 20e Balkan Languages (Illyrian, Thracian and Daco-Moesian)" in The Cambridge Ancient History, edited by John Boardman, 2nd Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, The Prehistory of the Balkans, the Middle East and the Aegean World, Tenth to Eighth Centuries BC,ISBN978-0-521-22496-3,page 887
References
[edit]Ancient
[edit]- Priscian(c. 520).Institutiones grammaticae(in Latin). Teubner.
Modern
[edit]- Pârvan, Vasile(1982). Florescu, Radu (ed.).Getica(in Romanian). București, Romania: Editura Meridiane.
External links
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- Traiani Augusti,Dacicaat Forum Romanum[usurped]
- Monografia localității Fârliug by Pr. Cristian Franț
- "Enciclopedia Banatului: Fârliug".Archived fromthe originalon 2017-11-10.
