🏛️ Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia

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Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia
The Dacian Limes is the generic modern term given to a collection of ramparts and linked series of Roman forts on the frontiers of the Roman province of Dacia dating from the early 2nd century AD. They ran for about 1,000 km and included the:Limes Alutanus on the eastern side of the Olt river Limes Porolissensis Limes Transalutanus in Wallachia so-called Trajan's Walls between Constanța and the Danube including: Lower Trajan's Wall or Athanaric's Wall just north of the Danube delta in Moldova Upper Trajan's Wall or Greuthungi Wall in central Moldova from the Prut to the Dniester rivers, although they may not have been Roman Constantine Wall, or Brazda lui Novac de Nord in Walachia from around 330 AD and 300 km long.

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CountryRomania
Continent / regionEurope
List type🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)43.73°N, 24.97°E · view on map

Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia is a cultural World Heritage site in Romania, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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