Clariae

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Dacian tribes.

The Clariae were an ancient people living between the Haemus Mountains and the Danube river. They are known from only one passage from Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia , where he mentions them alongside the Aedi and Scaugdae as the neighbours of the Getae. [1]

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According to the scholar Georgi Mihailov, the Clariae were a Getic tribe. [2]

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  1. Batty, Roger (2007). Rome and the Nomads: The Pontic-Danubian Realm in Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 234. ISBN   978-0-198-14936-1.
  2. Mihailovi, G. (1991). "Thrace Before the Persian Entry into Europe". In Boardman, John; Edwards, I. E. S.; Hammond, N. G. L.; Sollberger, E.; Walker, C. B. F. (eds.). The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 591–618. ISBN   978-1-139-05429-4. Getic tribes were probably the Aedi, the Scaugdae and the Clariae...