| Second Dacian War | |||||||||
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| Part of the Dacian Wars | |||||||||
 After the war, the core Dacian territory immediately became the imperial province of Dacia, while the more eastern and western territories were annexed to the provinces of Upper and Lower Moesia. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Roman Empire Iazyges |
Dacia Roxolani | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Trajan | Decebalus | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 150,000–175,000[1] | 200,000[1] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown | Heavy, 500,000 prisoners[2][3][4] | ||||||||
Trajan's Second Dacian War was fought between 105 and 106 because the Dacian king, Decebalus, had broken his peace terms with the Roman Emperor Trajan from the Trajan's First Dacian War.
- ^ a b Le Roux 1998, p. 73.
- ^ Cassius Dio, LXVIII, 14, 4-5
- ^ Filippo Coarelli, Trajan's column, Roma, 1999, tavv. 164-165 (CI-CII/CXXXVII-CXL) pp. 208-209.
- ^ Pliny the younger, Epistulae, VIII, 4, 2.