page_title: Timeline of Ancient Romania
section_title: 6th century BC
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Ancient Romania / Iron Age (1200 BC – 400 AD) / 6th century BC
caption_attribution_description: English: Offering pot from a Scythian grave from Alba Iulia, Romania, 6th century BC. In display at National Museum of the Union, Alba Iulia
context_page_description: This section of the timeline of Romanian history concerns events from Late Neolithic till Late Antiquity, which took place in or are directly related with the territory of modern Romania.
context_section_description: 6th-5th century BC
  Tomis is founded
  Histria, temple of Zeus Polieus
  560 BC – Megara founds Heraclea Pontica
  Callatis founded by Heraclea Pontica, itself a colony of Megara
  c. 550 BC – Agathyrsi, a Thraco-Scythian people, build burial tombs around modern day Ciumbrud, in contrast with the surrounding people who practice incineration
  514 BC – Darius I led his Persian army over the Bosphorus and campaigns unsuccessfully against the Scythians on the Danube.
  513 BC – Darius subdues the Getae and east Thrace in his war against the Scythians.
  513 BC – first written evidence of tribes (Getae or Dacians) inhabiting the region by Herodotus
caption: Offering pot from a Scythian grave from Alba Iulia, Romania, 6th century BC. In display at National Museum of the Union, Alba Iulia
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