Fețele Albe Dacian fortress explained

Fețele Albe Dacian fortress
Map Type:Romania
Coordinates:45.6261°N 23.28°W
Location:Dealul Muncelului, Grădiștea de Munte, Hunedoara, Romania
Event:Trajan's Dacian Wars
Excavations:1969 [1]
Archaeologists:
  • Ioan Glodariu
  • Hadrian Daicoviciu
Condition:Ruined
Designation2:Monument istoric
Designation2 Number:HD-I-s-A-03196 [2]

Feţele Albe is a Dacian fortified settlement on the southern side of Muncelului Hill, situated north of Sarmizegetusa Regia, separated from it by a sharp declivity. Along with numerous walls and resulting terraces, the site contained a sanctuary with circular stone pillars on the third terrace.[3] The settlement was destroyed during the First Dacian War, rebuilt and again destroyed by fire by Trajan's army during the Second Dacian War in 106 CE.[1] The Romans then built a military camp (castrum) on the site.

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Notes and References

  1. Daicoviciu, Hadrian and Glodariu, Ioan (1969) "Consideratii asupra cronologiei asezarii dacice de la Fetele Albe" Acta Musei Napocensis 6: pp. 465 - 473, in Romanian
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Monuments in Romania, Hunedoara County . www.inmi.ro . 18 October 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120227080850/http://www.inmi.ro/lmi/HUNEDOARA.pdf . 27 February 2012 .
  3. MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan (1975) The Dacian Stones Speak University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pages 60 - 61,