Getae

The Getae was the name by which the pre-Roman ancient writers reffered to the tribes that will become the later Dacians. The Romans used predominantly the name Dacus (pl. Daci) to reffer to the Getae, but the name Getae was also employed. The Getae appears to have been a Thracian culture who lived in what are today Romania, Ukraine and Bulgaria. The Tyragetae are believed to have been the Getae living near the river Tyras (Dniester).

"...they are the noblest as well as the most just of all the Thracian tribes." - Herodotus

When the Persians, led by Darius campaigned agains the Scythians, the Thracian tribes in the Balkans surrenderd to Darius, on his way to Scythia, and only the Getae offered resistence.

Their god was Zalmoxis.

"This same people, when it lightens and thunders, aim their arrows at the sky, uttering threats against the god; and they do not believe that there is any god but their own." - Herodotus