Angustia was a

fort A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from La ...

in the

Roman province The Roman provinces (, pl. ) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was ruled by a Roman appointed as Roman g ...

Dacia Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus ro ...

in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD today near the town of Breţcu, Romania. It was the key centre for defence of the eastern half of

Roman Dacia Roman Dacia ( ; also known as ; or Dacia Felix, ) was a province of the Roman Empire from 106 to 271–275 AD. Its territory consisted of what are now the regions of Oltenia, Transylvania and Banat (today all in Romania, except the last regi ...

as it controlled the vulnerable Oituz Pass. It was remote and at least 200km from the so-called Imperial Road, the backbone of the Roman communication system connecting

Drobeta ''Drobeta'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker (entomologist), Francis Walker in 1858. Species * ''Drobeta albicauda'' (Hampson, 1910) * ''Drobeta albirufa'' (Druce, 1909) * ''Drobeta andrevia'' ...

(on the Danube) to

Porolissum Porolissum was an ancient Roman city in Dacia. Established as a military fort in 106 during Trajan's Dacian Wars, the city quickly grew through trade with the natives and became the capital of the province Dacia Porolissensis in 124. It is one of ...

. The main routes for supplying this strategic fort from the eastern frontier eventually collapsed one by one and the remaining route along the Alutus was 472 km. Its garrison was Cohors I Bracaraugustanorum. Angustia - Plan

Notes

Bibliography

* Nicolae Gudea: ''Castrul roman de la Breţcu.'' In: ''Acta Musei Porolissensis'' 4, 1980, 255-334. * Dumitru Protase: ''Angvstia (Breţcu).'' In: ''Angustia'' 1, 1996, 85-88. * Nicolae Gudea: ''Der Dakische Limes. Materialien zu seiner Geschichte.'' In: ''Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz.'' 44, 2, 1997, 62–6
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