Encyclopedia > Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains
Built in murus dacicus style, the six Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains, in Romania, were created in the 1st centuries BC and AD as protection against Roman conquest.
Their extensive and well-preserved remains present a picture of a vigorous and innovative Iron Age civilisation. Today, treasure-hunters are searching the area, as Romania lacks legislation in this domain.
He unifies the Thracian population from Hercinica[?] (today's Moravia in the West, to the Bug in the East and from Northern Carpathians to Southern Dionysopolis[?], choosing his capital (called Argedava[?] or Sargedava[?]) near Costesti[?] (the Orastie[?] hills - see DacianFortresses of the OrastieMountains).
The spiritual center was called by Strabon[?] as Kagaion[?], the holly mountain, which is thought to be localized somewhere in the Bucegi[?] mountains.
On the South of Danube, the Proconsul[?] of the province of Macedonia, the general Varro Lucullus, during the second Mithridatic War[?] (74 BC-72 BC) occupies the Greek cities on the West coast of Black Sea from Apollonia[?] to the Danube Delta.
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