Krushuna ( ) is a village in
Letnitsa Municipality
Letnitsa Municipality () is a small municipality ('' obshtina'') in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located on the border between the area of the Fore-Balkan and the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town ...
,
Lovech Province
Lovech Province (, former name Okrug, Lovech okrug) is one of the 28 provinces of Bulgaria, lying at the northern centre of the country. It is named after its main city: Lovech. As of December 2009, the population of the area was151,153. , northern
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
.
The remains of
ancient Roman
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...
forts
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 ...
"Kaleto" and "Daran-baran" are located about 500 m south of Krushuna.
[Roman fortresses "Kaleto" and "Daran-baran" http://visit.guide-bulgaria.com/a/1330/rimski_kreposti_kaleto_i_daran-baran.htm] They probably date from the 2nd century BC and were strategic defenses against tribes from the north;
Goths
The Goths were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. They were first reported by Graeco-Roman authors in the 3rd century AD, living north of the Danube in what is ...
,
Carpi
Carpi may refer to:
Places
* Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, a large town in the province of Modena, central Italy
** Roman Catholic Diocese of Carpi
* Carpi (Africa), a city and former diocese of Roman Africa, now a Roman Catholic titular see
People ...
, Sarmatians, Vandals and Slavs.
References
Villages in Lovech Province
Roman auxiliary forts in Bulgaria
{{Lovech-geo-stub