Troesmis
Sign in to saveTroesmis was an ancient Dacian town and later ancient Roman city and legionary fortress, a major site situated on the Danube and forming a key part of the Limes Moesiae frontier system. Around the fortress the Geto-Dacian town developed.
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Place details
- Locality
- Turcoaia
- Region
- Tulcea County
- Country
- România
- Population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Part of
- Moesian Limes
- Country
- Romania
- Location
- Turcoaia
- Image
- Troesmis3.jpg
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- Troesmis
- heritage designation
- Historic Monument
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Troesmis was an ancient Dacian town and later ancient Roman city and legionary fortress, a major site situated on the Danube and forming a key part of the Limes Moesiae frontier system. Around the fortress the Geto-Dacian town developed.
It is situated in what is now Romania near Igliţa-Turcoaia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Troesmis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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