Dacia (Denmark)
In medieval and early modern Latin texts, Dacia is a name for the Kingdom of Denmark in its changing borders, which at times also included large parts of southern Sweden. The word increasingly took the place of Dania from the middle of the 12th century . The associated adjective is dacus . There is no connection with the name Dacia of the Roman province in what is now Romania.
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In the Middle Ages, the names of appellations of origin were added to universities in order to better identify people. The suffix de Dacia , Dacus or - in later Germanization - from Dacien was used to designate people from Scandinavia or specifically from Denmark, e.g. B .:
In some Catholic orders (e.g. Dominicans , Franciscans , Johanniter ), Dacia was used as a designation for order provinces in Scandinavia. After the Reformation in Scandinavia brought about the abolition of the monasteries and those who came, the Hospitallers continued to have a titular Grand Prior of Dacia - an honorary rank without function, income or power.