Costoboci

The Costoboci were a Dacian tribe, which lived in the areas known today as Maramures and southern Ukraine.Arheologically speaking, they are identified whith the Lipita culture.When the roman emperor Traian conquered in 106 Dacia, the Costoboci where among the free dacian tribes (which remained unconquered by the romans).

From their positions in the north, the Costoboci often raided the roman province of Dacia, in conjunction whith rebellions of the local dacians.One of these raids (conducted probably by theyr "king" Pieporus ),during the reign of the roman emperor Marcus Aurelius reached as farr as Attica, affecting severly the provinces of Moesia,Scythia Minor and Macedonia.

Beeing defeated by the romans, the Costoboci lost much of theyr power.So, in the year 172, probably bribed by the romans ,the Hasdingii (part of the german tribe of the Vandals) attack and conquer most of the land of the Costoboci.Howewer, this invasion did not put an end to the dacians living in here,as they continued to coexist in a certain measure whith the invaders, as proven by the arheological sites.Costoboci living in the east, in what is now Bukovina, probably endend under Carpians control, another free dacian tribe.