Photo by TudorSeulean One of the oldest inhabited territory of Transylvania is the Sebes today. Here is a Dacian settlement built after the Roman Empire. Its most important development took place in medieval times, generated by the Saxon franconic colonists coming from the Rhine and Mosel area. Documentary mentioned in the 1245 under the name [...]
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The medieval fortification of Sebes
Posted by raluca on January 19th, 2011
Photo by TudorSeulean The Sebes fortification entered into the specialized literature as the first city hall who maintained a formal act of construction. On 23 November 1387, a delegation of city received from King Sigismund of Luxembourg, the right to enclose with a stone wall. The citadel which surrounded the medieval town was built in [...]
The medieval fortress from Diod
Posted by raluca on January 19th, 2011
The medieval fortress from Diod, is remarked in the military architecture of the time, by its rectangular shape rarely found in Transylvania. In the year 1442, lord of Michael of Geoagiu gave the city and the domain to Iancu de Hunodoara (John Hunyadi) who built between 1442 – 1445 with material derived in part from [...]
Dinogetia Fortress
Posted by raluca on January 18th, 2011
Dinogetia settlement was a Geto-Dacian , then fortified Roman , mentioned by Ptolemy (Geogr., III, 8, 2, 10, 1) on the left bank of the Danube , the mouth of the Siret River (across existing settlements Garvan , 11 km from City of Galati ). It. Ant. (225, 5) evidenced on the right bank, between [...]
Capidava Citadel
Posted by raluca on January 10th, 2011
Capidava Citadel is located on the right rocky side of the Danube, at halfway between Cernavoda (the ancient Axiopolis) and Hârşova (ancient Carsium). The camp was built in the time of Traian Emperor, during the Roman border fortification measures; the construction is attributed to some detachments of the 11th legion Claudia and the 5th legion [...]
Poienari Citadel
Posted by raluca on January 6th, 2011
Poienari Citadel is situated in Arges county, 4 km from Vidraru dam, built in stone at an altitude of 850 meters on a plateau from the slope of Cetatea Mountain. To reach the ruins of the citadel you must dare to climb the 1,480 steps of concrete, winding among the trees, at the end of [...]
The Carsium Fortress
Posted by raluca on December 17th, 2010
The Carsium Roman and Roman-Byzantine Fortress was built, probably, over a ciency fortification, since the second half of the first century A.C. At the beginning of 2nd century A.c., during the Dacian wars, in 103 A.C., Emperor Traian strengthened the fortress with stone walls. The fortress is mentioned frequently in all ancient documents from the [...]
The Fortress from Bologa
Posted by raluca on December 17th, 2010
The Fortress from Bologa can be found in the Bologa village of Cluj county. An ancient Roman castrum named Resculum, is the oldest settlement in the area specified in the documents. It was built around the year 106 AC, as a garrison of Cohort II “Hispanorum” whose mission was probably the defense of the Roman [...]
The peasant fortress from Slimnic
Posted by raluca on November 26th, 2010
Photo by chitzac Mentioned in documents from 1282 and 1309 Slimnic village hosts one of the most important sights in the county of Sibiu. The peasant fortress from Slimnic was built before the 15th century. The Fortress Church was built on a hill in the Slimnic commune where today we can stil see the remains [...]
Rupea Fortress
Posted by raluca on November 23rd, 2010
Photo by adrianbv Rupea Fortress is in Rupea city from Brasov county, being part of series of fortifications on the territory of Transylvania.Rupea fortress is one of the oldest archaeological remains in the territory of Romania, the first signs of human settlements dating from the Neolithic and early paleotic (5500-3500 BC). The first document dates [...]
