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Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa was the financial, religious, and legislative center and where the imperial procurator (finance officer) had his seat, while Apulum was Roman Dacia's military center. From its creation, Roman Dacia suffered great political and military threats. The Free Dacians, allied with the Sarmatians, made constant raids in the ...
Written a few decades after Emperor Trajan's Roman conquest of parts of Dacia in AD 105–106, [18] Ptolemy's Geographia included the boundaries of Dacia. According to the scholars' interpretation of Ptolemy (Hrushevskyi 1997, Bunbury 1879, Mocsy 1974, Bărbulescu 2005) Dacia was the region between the rivers Tisza , Danube, upper Dniester, and ...
The Roman province of Dacia occupied present-day Transylvania, Banat, and Oltenia. The Romans built forts to protect themselves from attacks by Roxolani , Alans , Carpi and free Dacians (from parts of Banat and Wallachia ), as well as three new major military roads to join the main cities.
In Roman Dacia, an estimated 50,000 troops were stationed at its height. [1] [2]At the close of Trajan’s first campaign in Dacia in 102, he stationed one legion at Sarmizegetusa Regia. [2]
Tibiscum (Tibisco, Tibiscus, Tibiskon) was a Dacian town mentioned by Ptolemy, later a Roman fort and municipium. [5] [6] The ruins of the ancient settlement are located in Jupa, near Caransebeș, Caraș-Severin County, Romania. The Roman settlement here was one of the most important vestiges of classical antiquity in Banat.
Roman head of a Dacian of the type known from Trajan's Forum, AD 120–130, marble, on 18th-century bust. The Dacians (/ ˈ d eɪ ʃ ən z /; Latin: Daci; Ancient Greek: Δάκοι, [1] Δάοι, [1] Δάκαι [2]) were the ancient Indo-European inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia, located in the area near the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea.
Apula on the Roman Dacia selection from Tabula Peutingeriana. Apulon (or Apoulon) was a Dacian fortress city close to modern Alba Iulia, Romania. The Latin name of Apulum is derived. The exact location is believed by many archaeologists to be the Dacian fortifications on top of Piatra Craivii, Craiva, Cricău, about 20 km north of Alba-Iulia. [1]
Roman Dacia (3 C, 91 P) S. Dacian sites (1 C, 3 P) T. Dacian towns (1 C, 83 P) Ancient tribes in Dacia (1 C, 21 P)