Sarmizegetusa Regia

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Sarmizegetusa ( Ζαρμιζεγέθουσα, Ζερμιζεγέθουσα, Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa ) in present-day Romania. The town is located on the site of the village Grădiştea de Munter in the community Orăştioara de Sus in Hunedoara County in Transylvania.

The area around Hunedoara is since the neolithic period a popular settlement area due to copper and iron deposits and was the heartland of many important crops, lasting effect over time that the Pannonian Basin and the Carpathian Mountains. The last archaeological culture was directly interact with northern Europe since the Late Bronze. At least since the late Bronze Age, this region became the hub between the Lusatian culture in the north, the early Greeks in the south, lies next to Pontus cultures and the Western urn field culture. The city is carefully classified as Thracian, which goes back to the Dacians, who probably conquered this territory under Burebista of the Boii and these subdued. This important temples were uncovered in Sarmizegetusa.

Sarmizegetusa (also called Sarmizegetusa Regia ) was from about 80 BC to 106 AD, the most important trade and economic and religious center of the inhabited by Dacians area. This place was secured by a ring of individual fortresses with the center Sarmizegetusa. The six forts Sarmizegetusa ( ⊙ 45.6223823.31033 ) Costeşti - Blidaru ( ⊙ 45.66777777777823.162777777778 ) Costeşti - Cetatuie ( ⊙ 45.6801923.15429 ) Capalna ( ⊙ 45.8246723.60455 ), Piatra Roşie ( ⊙ 45.6021823.14725 ), and Banita ( ⊙ 45.5193723.30612 ) were added to the list of UNESCO World heritage Site in 1999.

Sarmizegetusa was the most important military base and to 106 AD, the capital of the Dacian state structure. In the Dacian wars, he was devastated.

A short time later Colonia Ulpia Traiana was created with Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa 108-110 AD, about 40 kilometers southwest of the Romans, the former settlement removed the new capital of the Roman province of Dacia. It is located on the territory of today's community Sarmizegetusa (formerly also gradiste, Várhely Hungarian, German Burgort ).

After the fall of the Romans settled here and Others Alans, whose empire was taken over by Attila's Huns. After various tribes of the Migration gave here the jack in the hand, the Bulgarians and finally various Turkic tribes conquered the region. Since the 14th century it was again target of emigrants from northern Europe that eventually all went up in the present-day states.

Archaeological site » Sarmizegetusa Regia "

This former Dacian settlement has been excavated since the 18th century. Since 1995 there has been cooperation between the old and historic Institute of the University of Cologne and part of Romania to the National History Museum of Transylvania and the Babeş -Bolyai University of Cluj.

Ulpia Traiana archaeological site

Archaeological excavations have the city " Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa " developed as a planned move to scale proven Roman plans near the city Haţeg.