Cotiso
Sign in to saveCotiso, Cotish or Cotison (flourished c. 30 BC) was a Dacian or Getic king who apparently ruled the mountains between Banat and Oltenia (modern-day Romania). Horace and Florus call him a Dacian; Suetonius calls him king of the Getae. Florus wrote in his account of Roman history that Cotiso and his armies used to attack towards south when the Danube froze.
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- Background
- Proposed marriage
- Conflicts and death
- Cotiso and Coson
- Notes
- References
Cotiso, Cotish or Cotison (flourished c. 30 BC) was a Dacian or Getic king who apparently ruled the mountains between Banat and Oltenia (modern-day Romania). Horace and Florus call him a Dacian; Suetonius calls him king of the Getae. Florus wrote in his account of Roman history that Cotiso and his armies used to attack towards south when the Danube froze.
Some scholars believe he is identical to Coson, a Dacian king whose name appears on gold staters found in Transylvania.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cotiso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.