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Castra (pl.) is a Latin term used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire for a military 'camp', and castrum (sg. ) [ 1 ] for a ' fort '. [ 2 ] Either could refer to a building or plot of land, used as a fortified military base .
Celtic naked warrior of the Braganza Brooch or fibula, gold (Norte Region, Portugal) Gold torc from Burela (Galicia, Spain). Castro culture (Galician: cultura castrexa, Portuguese: cultura castreja, Asturian: cultura castriega, Spanish: cultura castreña, meaning "culture of the hillforts") is the archaeological term for the material culture of the northwestern regions of the Iberian Peninsula ...
It is the largest castrum in Romania, occupying 37.5 hectares (93 acres) (750 x 500 m). It was the base of the legion Legio XIII Gemina transferred there by Trajan to the newly conquered province of Dacia at the end of the war in 106.
Castrum Novum (new fort) is an ancient Roman town, located in the municipality of Santa Marinella, to the north of Cape Linaro, ca. 60 km north-west of Rome Italy. [1] It is located near Mount Guardiole, 1.5 km from the coast, where an Etruscan settlement was found. [2]
The castro is a fortified village that began to be inhabited from the 6th century BC, lacking streets of right angles and full of construction almost always circular. The oldest houses were mostly of straw-mud and the latest masonry.
Samum was a castrum (fort) in the Roman province of Dacia, situated at the very northern border of that territory.It lay on the right (northern) side of the river Someș, in historical and later known as Transylvania, in of present Romania.
The Andone [a] castrum was built in the medieval diocese of Angoulême.It is now 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the south of the Boixe forest, but in the 10th century the forest was much larger, and began no more than 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) away. [2]
It was originally built in the medieval period as a castle called the Castrum Maris (English: Castle by the Sea; Italian: Castello al Mare). It was rebuilt by the Order of Saint John as a bastioned fort called Fort Saint Angelo between the 1530s and the 1560s, and it is best known for its role as the Order's headquarters during the Great Siege ...