Acidava (castra)

Acidava
Location within Romania
Known also as	Castra of Enoșești
Founded during the reign of	Trajan ?
Founded	2nd century AD
Place in the Roman world
Province	Dacia
Administrative unit	Dacia Malvensis
Limes	Alutanus
Directly connected to	Romula
Structure
— Stone structure —
Stationed military units
— Cohorts —
I Thracum[1] I Flavia Commagenorum[1]
Location
Coordinates	44°22′41″N 24°15′53″E
Place name	Culă Enoșești
Town	Enoșești
County	Olt
Country	Romania
Reference
RO-RAN	128150.01
Site notes
Condition	Ruined

Castra Acidava was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia,^[2] The toponym is attested in the Peutinger Table.^[3] built near the ancient town of Acidava.

It was part of the Limes Alutanus frontier system built under emperor Hadrian running north–south along the Alutus (Olt) river.^[4]

The fort had a quadrangular shape with stone walls about one metre thick, which surrounded an area of 100 m². The fort housed auxiliary troops from the cohort I Flavia Commagenorum and the I Thracum. A civilian settlement (vicus) developed around it. The fort and the civil settlement functioned between the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.

The fort was largely destroyed by the building of the railway in 1972.

See also

• List of castra

External links

• Roman castra from Romania - Google Maps / Earth Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today

Notes

1. Tactica, strategie si specific de lupta la cohortele equitate din Dacia Romana, Petru Ureche^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. Poulter, A.; DARMC; R. Talbert; S. Gillies; S. Vanderbilt; J. Becker; T. Elliott (17 December 2020). "Places: 216997 (Sucidava)". Pleiades. Retrieved November 19, 2013.
3. "Name: Acidava".
4. Blejan 1998, p. 42.

Sources

• Blejan, Adrian (1998). Dacia Felix – Istoria Daciei Romane (PDF) (in Romanian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 2010-12-08.