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Ancient Cities in the Constanta Area
During the bizantine period, (8th – 12th century), Tomis was also known as Constantiana or Constanta, a name that was taken from the imperial family that ruled in the 4th AC.
The most important touristic objectives you can visit in Tomis/Constanta are: the main wall of the Tomis citadel, which you can find along the Ferdinand Boulevarad, the Roman edifice with a Mozaic, found in Ovid Square, the therme (baths), found on the west side of Constanta and the antique urban area of the Cathedral Park. The latter displays 12 archaeological levels, that show a period of almost a millennium of the town’s history and also prove its existence in the sixth century a C.
Numerous archaeological artefacts can be seen at the National Museum of History and Archaeology, in Constanta, Ovid Square no 12.
Callatis
Where once stood the antique Greek city Callatis is now the Mangalia city, 44 km south of Constanta. Callatis was a Greek colony founded by the people who came from the megarian center of Pontic Heracleea, probably at the end of the 6th century BC.
Callatis is mentioned by great writers and historians like Ptolemy, Strabo, Memnon and Ovid. The first Greek necropolis dating from the 4th-2nd centuries BC includes graves that were very varied, as far as rituals and markings go. One of the most important tombs found in the Callatis necropolis is “the papyrus one”, discovered in 1959, covered with 3 stone plates and made out of big blocks of limestone.
Among the famous archaeological discoveries of the city you’ll find the site wall, the Syrian basilica, the papyrus grave, which you can visit at the Callatis Museum.
Capidava
The Capidava citadel was built on what is now that highway that links Harsova with Cernavoda, at the middle of the distance between the two settlements. Capidava is part of the many castres and castles built by Roman emperor Traian at the beginning of the second century AC. Capida is a getic name, meaning “the citadel at the turning point”, which confirms the existence of a preroman settlement.
This was a military settlement, where roman troops were stationed and this status was kept for about 5 centuries. After the bizantine Empire was reorganized, Capidava became a peasant fortress, built over the ruins of the roman fortifications. Its inhabitants were mostly frontier guards.
Author: Alex Stanescu
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C.D.A. says:
Hi, besides the ancient cities mentioned above there is much more to see in Dobrogea. The land is full of ancient history and beautiful landscapes, some of them still rather wild and pristine.
For a more complete list of ancient places in the Romanian part of Dobrogea you cand check http://digital-escape.blogspot.com/search/label/Dobrogea
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