Angustia (castra) explained
| Angustia |
| Alt Names: | Angustiae |
| Known As: | Castra of Brețcu |
| Founded: | 2nd century AD |
| Abandoned: | 3rd century AD |
| Robust Struct Material: | Store |
| Robust Struct Dim1: | 141 |
| Robust Struct Dim2: | 179 |
| Robust Struct Area: | 2.5 |
| Robust Struct Towers: | 12 |
| Weak Struct Material: | Wood and earth |
| Weak Struct Built During Reign Of: | Trajan ? |
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| Province: | Dacia |
| Admin Unit 1: | Dacia Superior |
| Admin Unit 2: | Dacia Apulensis |
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| Coordinates: | 46.051°N 26.3128°W |
| Altitude M: | 615 |
| Map: | Romania |
| Place Name: | Cetatea Lupului |
| Location Town: | Brețcu |
| Ref:Ro:Lmi: | CV-I-s-A-13052 [4] |
| Ref:Ro:Ran: | 64103.03 [5] |
| Condition: | Ruined |
| Excavations: | 1877, 1925 - 1926, 1950, 2010 |
| Archaeologists: | - Emil Panaitescu
- Mihail Macrea
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| Exhibitions: | National Museum of Eastern Carpathians |
Angustia was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD[4] [5] today near the town of Breţcu, Romania.
It was the key centre for defence of the eastern half of Roman Dacia 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 (on the Danube) to Porolissum. 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.[6]
Its garrison was Cohors I Bracaraugustanorum.
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, 62–63 PDF.
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.net4u.ro/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111%3Abretcu&catid=60%3Alimesul-estic&Itemid=69&lang=ro Strategii defensive și politici transfrontaliere la Dunărea de Jos - Brețcu
- Cristian M. Vlădescu - Fortificațiile romane din Dacia Inferior, Ed. Scrisul Românesc, 1986
- http://www.irregular.ro/articol%20petru%20ureche.pdf Tactica, strategie și specific de luptă la cohortele equitate din Dacia Romană, de Petru Ureche
- Web site: Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2010 ("2010 List of Historic Monuments") . Ministerul Culturii şi Patrimoniului Naţional . Monitorul Oficial al României, Partea I, Nr. 670 ("Romania's Official Journal, Part I, Nr. 670"), page 1012 . 1 October 2010 . 2012-12-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120610112533/http://www.cultura.abt.ro/Files/GenericFiles/LMI-2010.pdf . 2012-06-10 .
- Web site: 64103.03 . ran.cimec.ro . National Archaeological Record of Romania (RAN) . 2009-11-29 . 2014-05-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140514164919/http://ran.cimec.ro/sel.asp?lang=EN&descript=bretcu-bretcu-covasna-canabele-castrului-de-la-bretcu-cod-sit-ran-64103.03 . 2014-05-14 .
- Radu . Zagreanu . Corneliu . Gaiu . 2015-01-01 . Marcu et alii - Recent Developments in Understanding the limes Porolissensis . Limes XXIII.
