Paul Lachlan MacKendrick. The Dacian Stones Speak. University of North Carolina Press, 1975. ISBN 0-8078-4939-1. The natives with whom we shall be concerned in this chapter are the Getae of Muntenia and Moldavia in the eastern steppes, and the Dacians of the Carpathian Mountains. Herodotus calls them 'the bravest and the justest of the Thracians,' and they were in fact two branches of the same tribe, speaking two dialects of the same Indo-European language. (p. 45)
Sulimirski, Tadeusz. The Sarmatians: Volume 73 of Ancient peoples and places. New York, Praeger, 1970. с. 113 – 114. The evidence of both the ancient authors and the archaeological remains point to a massive migration of Sacian (Sakas)/Massagetan (great Jat) tribes from the Syr Daria Delta (Central Asia) by the middle of the second century B.C. Some of the Syr Darian tribes; they also invaded North India.
