 This area includes the present-day countries of Romania and Moldova, as well as parts of mostly southern and eastern Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, as well as ancient Moesia (Eastern Serbia, Northern Bulgaria).However some isolated settlements are located in Dalmatia (modern Albania and Croatia) as is the case of Thermidava, or in Dardania (Kosovo) as is Quemedava.The Dacian towns are also called "davae" (singular "dava") since many names were composed of an initial lexical element affixed to "-dava", "-daua", "-deva", "-deba", "-daba", or "-dova", which meant "city", "town" or "fortress"" in the Dacian language (