Historical place profile
Tropaeum Traiani (settlement)
Civitas Tropaensium was a Roman castrum settled by Roman veterans of the Dacian Wars. Constantine I rebuilt the city after it was destroyed by the Goths and it survived until the Avars sacked it in A.D. 587.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:217027
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:217027
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 44.092073, 27.943987
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Civitas Tropaensium was a Roman castrum settled by Roman veterans of the Dacian Wars. Constantine I rebuilt the city after it was destroyed by the Goths and it survived until the Avars sacked it in A.D. 587.
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 22 E4 Tropaeum Traiani
Source and reuse
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Research path
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