Historical place profile
Drobeta
Drobeta is a Dacian settlement that was conquered by the Romans in A.D. 101-2. Trajan's engineer Apollodorus of Damascus built a bridge here that spanned the Danube in 103-5. This bridge, supported by 20 stone pilings and extending 1,135 m connected Drobeta to Pontes (on the right bank of the river).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:207100
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:207100
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 44.629271, 22.657173
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Drobeta is a Dacian settlement that was conquered by the Romans in A.D. 101-2. Trajan's engineer Apollodorus of Damascus built a bridge here that spanned the Danube in 103-5. This bridge, supported by 20 stone pilings and extending 1,135 m connected Drobeta to Pontes (on the right bank of the river).
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 21 E5 Drobeta
Source and reuse
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Research path
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