World Heritage Identification Number: 1718
World Heritage since: 2024
Category: Cultural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇷🇴 Romania
Continent: Europe
UNESCO World Region: Europe and North America
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The Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia: A Fortified Landscape of Ancient Rome
The Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia, inscribed in 2024, offers a unique glimpse into the expansive territorial reach of ancient Rome. This extensive property encompasses 277 component parts, representing the longest and most intricate land border of any former Roman province in Europe. Stretching over approximately 1,000 kilometers, the Dacian Limes served as the defensive barrier for the Roman province of Dacia, located entirely north of the Danube River.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
From 500 BCE on, the Roman Empire extended its territory across parts of Europe and North Africa until its frontier totaled some 7,500 kilometres by the 2nd century. The Romanian segment, the Dacian Limes, was operational from 106 to 271 CE. The property comprises 277 component parts and represents the longest, most complex land border of a former Roman province in Europe. Traversing diverse landscapes, it is defined by a network of individual sites that include legionary fortresses, auxiliary forts, earthen ramparts, watch towers, temporary camps and secular buildings. Dacia was the only Roman province entirely north of the Danube River. Its frontier protected it from ‘barbarian’ populations and controlled access to valuable gold and salt resources.
Encyclopedia Record: Dacian Limes
The Dacian Limes is the generic modern term given to a collection of ramparts and linked series of Roman forts on the frontiers of the Roman province of Dacia dating from the early 2nd century AD. They ran for about 1,000 km and included the:Limes Alutanus on the eastern side of the Olt river Limes Porolissensis Limes Transalutanus in Wallachia so-called Trajan's Walls between Constanța and the Danube including: Lower Trajan's Wall or Athanaric's Wall just north of the Danube delta in Moldova Upper Trajan's Wall or Greuthungi Wall in central Moldova from the Prut to the Dniester rivers, although they may not have been Roman Constantine Wall, or Brazda lui Novac de Nord in Walachia from around 330 AD and 300 km long.Additional Site Details
Area: 1,491.6 hectares
(iii) — Unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition
(iv) — Outstanding example of a type of building or landscape
Coordinates: 47.1807888889 , 23.1594111111
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© National Museum of Transylvani an History. Used with permission.
