Micia

Micia

The fort appears only as a raised level of earth. (2014)
Location within Romania
Known also as
  • Castra of Mintia
  • Castra of Vețel
Founded 2nd century AD
Abandoned c. 4th–5th century AD
Place in the Roman world
Province Dacia
Administrative unit Dacia Apulensis
Administrative unit Dacia Superior
Nearby water Marisus
Directly connected to
Structure
— Stone structure —
Size and area 181 m x 360 m (6.5 ha)
— Wood and earth structure —
Stationed military units
Legions
Cohorts
  • I Aurelia Antonina milliaria Hemesenorum [2]
  • II Flavia Commagenorum sagittaria [1][3][2]
Alae
  • I Augusta Ituraeorum sagittaria [1]
  • I Hispanorum Campagonum [3]
— Numeri —
Maurorum Micensium[3]
Location
Coordinates 45°54′43″N 22°48′55″E / 45.911806°N 22.815278°E / 45.911806; 22.815278Coordinates: 45°54′43″N 22°48′55″E / 45.911806°N 22.815278°E / 45.911806; 22.815278
Altitude 186 m (610 ft)
Town Mintia
County Hunedoara
Country  Romania
Reference
RO-LMI HD-I-s-A-03214 [4]
RO-RAN 91991.01 [4]
Site notes
Recognition National Historical Monument
Condition Ruined
Exhibitions Muzeul Civilizației Dacice și Romane, Deva

Micia was a large Roman fort for auxiliary troops and an important part of the western Dacian limes (limes Dacia). The archaeological site is located near the municipality of Vețel (Witzel), Hunedoara county in Transylvania, Romania. This Roman garrison monitored and secured the road and the river route to Partiscum, today Szeged in Hungary. In addition, there was a strategically important river port In the civil settlement, there were large baths and a small amphitheater. Significant is the large number of ancient inscriptions.

Castra

Vicus

Thermae

Amphitheater

In the southeast of the great military bath, at a distance of about hundred meters, there was found a small amphitheater. Possessed in a circle around an arena, the stone foundation of the walls had a circumference of 104 meters. The arena consisted of 31 × 29 meters.[5]

Necropolis

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Micia
  2. 1 2 Țentea, Ovidiu (2012). "EX ORIENTE AD DANUBIUM - The Syrian units on the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire". MEGA Publishing House. Retrieved 2014-03-17.
  3. 1 2 3 Tactică, strategie și specific de luptă la cohortele equitate din Dacia Romană, Petru Ureche
  4. 1 2 "Situl arheologic de la Veţel-Micia". National Archaeological Record of Romania (RAN). ran.cimec.ro. 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2014-02-04.
  5. Russell L. Sturzebecker: Photo Atlas. Athletic-Cultural Archaeological Sites in the Greco-Roman World. Europe, North Africa & the Middle East. Russell L. Sturzebecker, West Chester, PA 1985. ISBN 0-9600466-2-3. p. 349.
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