![]() ![]() Although barbarian raids persisted the area more or less survived the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. Following these events both the provincial structure and the frontier were reorganised. In the mid-3rd century the Moesian frontier suffered from invasions of Goths and other peoples, and in 271 the Dacian province was evacuated. Following the latter invasion the province was divided in a Superior and Inferior part.Īt the creation of the province of Dacia in 106 the military occupation of the bordering section of the Danube was reduced, whereas the lower course along the Dobrudja was strengthened following the inclusion of the eastern part of the Romanian Plain into the territory of Moesia, but this was soon given up. It was only after Dacian incursion in 68/69 and 85/86 from across the Danube that the military infrastructure along the river was considerably extended. Nevertheless military interventions across the Danube continued, at least as far as the Dnjestr river, over 100 km to the north of the Danube delta. By that time Rome had already for over a century been interfering with regional affairs on both sides of the Lower Danube, but it seems that the Claudian rearrangement first led to the foundation of permanent military bases on the river. It received its own governor when Claudius added the Danubian Plain to its territory at the creation of the province of Thracia, in the 1st C A.D. The province of Moesia started off as a northward extension to that of Macedonia. The first step would concern a western segment consisting of the sites within the territories of Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary, already delivered at UNESCO, as Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube Limes (western segment), and the second step an eastern segment comprising the sites in Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania, with current selections of 133 and 117 sites, respectively. The boundary of this late Roman sector is in the Balkan, and involves the provinces Pannonia secunda, Moesia prima, Dacia ripensis, Moesia secunda and Scythia minor.įor the largest of the three envisaged properties, the Danube frontier, a nomination in two steps is proposed. In Europe the limes was established under Augustus was moved ahead under Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius between the rivers Rhine and Danube, in the territory of the United Kingdom and Romania, was moved back under Gallienus and Aurelian in the 3 rd century, and given up in the course of the 5 th century. ![]()
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