Castra of Cristești

{{Short description|Fort in the Roman province of Dacia}}

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| name = Castra of Cristești

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| founded = 2nd century AD

| abandoned = 3rd century AD

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| province = Dacia

| admin_unit_1 = Dacia Superior

| admin_unit_2 = Dacia Apulensis

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| coordinates = {{coord|46|30|37|N|24|29|20|E|source:kolossus-rowiki_region:RO|display=inline,title}}

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| location_town = Cristești

| location_county = Mureș

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| location_country = {{ROU}}

| ref:RO:LMI = MS-I-m-B-15368.02{{cite web|url=http://www.cultura.abt.ro/Files/GenericFiles/LMI-2010.pdf |publisher=Ministerul Culturii şi Patrimoniului Naţional |title=Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2010 ("2010 List of Historic Monuments") |work=Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, Nr. 670 ("Romania's Official Journal, Part I, Nr. 670"), page 1741 |date=1 October 2010 |accessdate=5 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610112533/http://www.cultura.abt.ro/Files/GenericFiles/LMI-2010.pdf |archivedate=10 June 2012 }}

| ref:RO:RAN = 114364.02{{cite web|url=http://ran.cimec.ro/sel.asp?lang=EN&descript=cristesti-cristesti-mures-situl-arheologic-de-la-cristesti-hosuba-cod-sit-ran-114364.02|publisher=ran.cimec.ro|title=114364.02|work=National Archaeological Record of Romania (RAN)|date=2012-07-20|accessdate=5 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201001832/http://ran.cimec.ro/sel.asp?lang=EN&descript=cristesti-cristesti-mures-situl-arheologic-de-la-cristesti-hosuba-cod-sit-ran-114364.02|archivedate=1 February 2015}}

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| condition = Ruined

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Although not unanimously accepted, the existence of the castra of Cristești in the Roman province of Dacia is substantiated by bricks and tiles bearing the name of a Roman military unit, the Ala I Gallorum et Bosporanorum. The lack of any other traces of the Roman fort may easily be due to its destruction by the Mureș River. At Cristeşti, a Roman settlement from the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD was unearthed which was an important center of potters.

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