Getæ, a people of Thracian extraction, who are first mentioned in history as dwelling on the right bank of the Danube, but who in the middle of the 4th century B.C. crossed that river and settled in
Transylvania and Wallachia. They were conquered by Darius Hystaspes in 515 B.C., and then accompanied him in his campaign against the Scythians. Both Alexander the Great, in 335, and Lysimachos, in 292, made attempts to subdue them, but neither was successful. During the first half of the 1st century B.C. they became politically united with the Dacians, a cognate race who had settled in their territories. The Getæ, as distinct from the Dacians, sided with Octavius against Antony, and during the greater part of the 1st century after Christ continued to harass the Roman legions. In 106 B.C. the Daeians and Getæ were subdued by Trajan, their country being added to the empire. Subsequently the Getæ became fused with the Goths (q.v.), who invaded their lands, and afterwards carried many of them with them in their westward migrations.