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Province, 117 CE
Moesia Inferior
Imperial province, consular legateCapital: TomisRoman since 86 CE
The eastern half of the Danube split, fronting the Black Sea's Getic and Sarmatian frontier. Its port city Tomis is best known for a single unwilling resident: the poet Ovid, exiled here by Augustus in 8 CE for reasons he never named outright, and dead in this province a decade later without ever being recalled.
Split from a single Moesia province in 86 CE under Domitian.
16 places on the map
- Almus · Auxiliary Fort
- Belene Roman Fort · Auxiliary Fort
- Capidava Roman Fort · Auxiliary Fort
- Cernavodă Roman Fort · Auxiliary Fort
- Fortress of Legio I Italica (Novae) · Fort
- Fortress of Legio V Macedonica (Troesmis) · Fort
- Fortress of Legio XI Claudia (Durostorum) · Fort
- Galați Bridgehead Fort · Auxiliary Fort
- Hârșova Roman Fort · Auxiliary Fort
- Isaccea · Naval Base
- Ratiaria · Auxiliary Fort
- Sexaginta Prista · Auxiliary Fort
- Trajan's Victory Monument · Battle
- Tulcea Roman Fort · Auxiliary Fort
- Tutrakan Roman Fort · Auxiliary Fort
- Ulpia Oescus · Fort
Sources
- Ovid, Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto
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