Acidava (castra)

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| known_as = Castra of Enoșești

| built_during_reign_of = Trajan ?

| founded = 2nd century AD

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I Thracum[http://www.irregular.ro/articol%20petru%20ureche.pdf Tactica, strategie si specific de lupta la cohortele equitate din Dacia Romana, Petru Ureche]{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

I Flavia Commagenorum

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| province = Dacia

| admin_unit_1 = Dacia Malvensis

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| limes = Alutanus

| links = Romula

| coordinates = {{coord|44|22|41|N|24|15|53|E|source:kolossus-rowiki|display=inline,title}}

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| place_name = Culă Enoșești

| location_town = Enoșești

| location_county = Olt

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Castra Acidava was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia,{{cite web |url=http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/216997 |title=Places: 216997 (Sucidava) |author =Poulter, A. |author2 =DARMC |author3 =R. Talbert |author4 =S. Gillies |author5 =S. Vanderbilt |author6 =J. Becker |author7 =T. Elliott |date=17 December 2020 |accessdate=November 19, 2013 |publisher=Pleiades}} The toponym is attested in the Peutinger Table.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cambridge.org/us/talbert/talbertdatabase/TPPlace1764.html|title = Name: Acidava}} 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.{{sfn|Blejan|1998|p=42}}

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.

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  • {{cite book

|last=Blejan

|first=Adrian

|title=Dacia Felix – Istoria Daciei Romane

|url=http://www.litere.uvt.ro/vechi/documente_pdf/cursuri/bejan/dacia%20felix.pdf

|year=1998

|language=ro

|access-date=2010-12-08

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315183858/http://www.litere.uvt.ro/vechi/documente_pdf/cursuri/bejan/dacia%20felix.pdf

|archive-date=15 March 2012

}}

{{Limes Dacicus}}

Category:Roman auxiliary forts in Romania

Category:History of Oltenia

Category:Limes Alutanus

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