Scaidava () was a
Dacian town between
Iatrus and
Trimammium (
Ablanovo) near the village of Batin, Bulgaria.
It was later an
ancient Roman
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fort along the empire's border, forming part of the
limes Moesiae
The Moesian Limes () is the modern term given to a linked series of Roman forts on the northern frontier of the Roman province of Moesia along the Danube between the Black Sea shore and Pannonia (present-day Hungary) and dating from the 1st cen ...
defences along the
Danube
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.
[Martin Lemke, Towards a Military Geography of Moesia Inferior, LIMES XXII Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies Ruse, Bulgaria, September 2012]
See also
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Dacian davae
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List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia
This is a list of ancient cities, towns, villages, and fortresses in and around Thrace and Dacia. A number of these settlements were Thracian and Dacians, Dacian, but some were Celtic, Ancient Greece, Greek, Roman Empire, Roman, Paeonian, or Per ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
References
Ancient
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Modern
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Further reading
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Moesia
Dacian towns
Archaeological sites in Bulgaria
Ruins in Bulgaria
Ancient Bulgaria
Roman auxiliary forts in Bulgaria
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