Ezra 4:9. Persian colonists planted in Samaria by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon, after carrying away Israel. Probably the Dahi (Herodotus, 1:125). Widely-scattered; under the name Dabae, at the E. of the Caspian (Strabo, 11:8, section 2, and 9, section 3), and near the sea of Azof; also as Dacians, upon the Danube. Possibly, ancestors of the Danes.