Peuce Island

Peuke (also Peuce ) was in ancient geography, a vegetated with spruce island in the Danube Delta. Apollonius of Rhodes reported that the island Peuke was originally formed by a large sandbar between today's Danube arms Sf. Gheorghe (then Hieron stoma ) and Sulina (then Naracon stoma ). The island was about the size of the island of Rhodes, and disappeared in the early Middle Ages, when the Danube River changed its course in the mouth.

Peuke was another of the Peukinern (also Peucini ), a branch of Bastarni inhabited. Tacitus calls all Bastarni in 98 AD under this Part stem Peukiner.

The historian Arrian of Nicomedia reported that the Thracian king Syrmos with his tribe, the Tribal Learning, 335 BC on the island sought refuge when he was persecuted by Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army during the Balkan campaign. Alexander brought ships on the Danube, to use them to attack the island. The attempts failed because of the swift current, steep banks and violent defense.

Alaric I, the first certainly known king of the Visigoths and, after 800 years, the first military leader who conquered 410 n Chr.Rom, was born on the island Peuke at the southern mouth of the Danube.