In the course of the 1st century AD, the Roman Empire built along its borders a defensive line about 6,000 km long, which also protected the territory of the former Pannonia. The section of the land (limes) and river (border) defences along the borders, which currently belongs to Hungary, ran along the Danube. Along the defensive line were a rampart and a fence of hedge, in more developed form a stone wall, before which, or on both sides, was a ditch, sometimes accompanied by piles of palisades, and on some sections watchtowers. The defensive line was protected by legionaries quartered in camps \/ fortresses along the limes.<\/p>\n
We are in the second century after Christ, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (168\u2013180). The area north of the Danube was already inhabited by Germanic tribes \u2013 the Quadi and the Marcomanni \u2013 and therefore Pannonia played a key role in protecting the territories of the empire from attacks by barbarian tribes. For this reason the Danube line was protected by soldiers quartered in military camps. It was probably during this period that in the area near today’s I\u017ea, just a few kilometres from the former military camp of Brigetio and the civilian town (today in Kom\u00e1rno), a new military camp was founded in order to increase protection against the Marcomanni.<\/p>\n
The camp occupied an area of more than 3 hectares, surrounded by double ditches, earthen ramparts, and a wooden defensive wall. From the internal layout of the camp, the remains of 11 barracks were excavated, whose walls were built of sun-dried brick and clay. The buildings, 44\u201348 m long and 11\u201312 m wide, were divided into two parts by a thick partition, each of which had 3\u20133 rooms separated by a thin wall. Their furnishings were modest and simple. The connection of each room is indicated by openings in the wall (90\u2013100 cm wide). Along the outer walls drainage ditches were sunk, which then opened into larger collecting ditches.<\/p>\n
According to the excavations, the camp was in 179 the victim of a fire, probably set by Germanic troops. However, it was later rebuilt and fortified, so that the fortress could serve to protect the Roman Empire until the 4th century.<\/p>\n
The camp, with a ground plan of more than three hectares, had 3\u20135-metre stone walls with a gate in each direction. The construction of the fortress was a great challenge, as the material needed for construction \u2013 stone, lime, building timber, bricks \u2013 had to be transported by ship to the Roman soldiers. The structure of the camp was provided by the Legio I Adiutrix, whose units were stationed in Brigetio.<\/p>\n
The objects discovered during the excavations were primarily everyday military equipment. Many tools used at meals were found \u2013 jugs, pots, cups, dishes. Some of them were made in the pottery workshops in Brigetio, but quite a lot of so-called terra sigillata vessels, brought to the soldiers from German Gaul and Raetia, were found too. An interesting detail is that in the barracks there were separate small stoves where the soldiers prepared their own meals, except for baking bread, which was baked in a separate large oven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":362,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[],"kategoria-programov":[107,108],"obec":[113],"class_list":["post-1510","zaujimavost","type-zaujimavost","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategoria-programov-actively","kategoria-programov-with-culture","obec-iza"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zaujimavost\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zaujimavost"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/zaujimavost"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"kategoria-programov","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategoria-programov?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"obec","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obec?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}