The Romanization of Dacia was profound, complete and lasting, but this process was primarily a civilizing one, that did not led to the disappearance of the native population, but on the contrary, of its involvement in the new institutional and cultural context. A quick review of the succession of events in the provincial period and, distinctly, of the attestations regarding the role of representatives of the pre-Roman population in those events is likely to suggest that their presence in the Dacian-Roman society was very consistent.
