Angustia was a
fort
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in the
Roman province
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of
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 ...
in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
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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