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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2018  
         
  Article:   THE FORTLETS ON THE FRONTIER OF DACIA POROLISSENSIS: STRUCTURES, LANDSCAPE, FUNCTIONALITY.

Authors:  HORAȚIU COCIŞ.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  
The frontier of Dacia Porolissensis was developed within a tripartite scheme or form of organization. In the first line there were the auxiliary forts, in the second one the burgus-type structures and in the third and most remote one, the watchtowers, all these military features being connected by roads and reinforced in the most important areas by linear fortifications. The present study will deal with the second line of burgus-type structures, trying to establish as much as possible their role within the mechanism of the frontier of Dacia Porolissensis. This kind of military border installations has never been studied separately; such being the case, this article aims to quantify all the available information and to bring, as much as possible, a better understanding of how these middle fortifications are actually in charge of intra and extra provinciam traffic and commerce and also, most probably, to intercept small hit-and-run bands or reduced scale brigandage.

Keywords: Roman frontier, Dacia Porolissensis, burgi, middle fortifications, functionality.
 
         
     
         
         
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