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Noviodunum (castra)

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Wall section of the fort.

Location within Romania

Noviodunum ad Istrum

Castra of Isaccea

Tabula Peutingeriana Notitia Dignitatum

Moesia

Moesia Inferior

Dinogetia (Izvoarele) Aegyssus

vexill. V Macedonica vexill. I Italica I Iovia Scythica[1]

Moesica

45°16′N 28°29′ECoordinates: 45°16′N 28°29′E

La pontonul vechi

Isaccea

Tulcea

Romania

TL-I-s-A-05804[2]

159696.05[2]

National Historical Monument

1955[2]

Ruined

www.noviodunum.ro

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Noviodunum, known also as Noviodunum ad Istrum, was a fort and a port in the Roman province of Moesia located on the lower Danube.

 

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 See also
• 3 Notes
• 4 References
• 5 External links

History

 

Major military ports and fleets in the first two centuries of the Roman Empire (from Augustus to Septimius Severus). Noviodunum is located at the mouth of the Danube.

 

The geographical position of this settlement offered to the Romans the possibility of supervision and control of the border of the entire Roman limes in the north of the Danube. The strategic importance has been determinant in the economic and administrative function around which developed the military and naval legionaries.

 

Noviodunum was passed under Roman control with the annexation of Thrace in 46 AD, being then attached to the Roman province of Moesia.

Noviodunum on Tabula Peutingeriana.

 

It became an important port of Classis Flavia Moesica[3] and a military center of the region starting from Domitian-Trajan, after the conquest of Dacia. Here some vexillationes of legio V Macedonica were detached,[4] at least until the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Then followed vexillationes of legio I Italica,[5] and then from the Diocletian legio I Iovia.[6]

 

It was probably destroyed during the second half of the 3rd century during the period of heavy invasions of Goths and Heruli. It was rebuilt during the reign of Emperor Constantine the Great (after 324), during the military campaigns and placed under the command of Dux Scythiae.[7]

 

In 369 on the opposite bank of the Danube was fought a great battle between the Emperor Valens and Athanaric and its Tervingi.

 

Between 434 and 441 AD, the city with its naval base was occupied by the Huns and then went back under Roman rule and then be part of the Byzantine Empire.

 

Currently near its ruins is the Romanian town of Isaccea. The area has been subject to recent excavations, which have highlighted the importance.[8]

 

See also

• List of castra

Notes