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The Walls, which, three metres in height and two meters in thickness, with broad outer fosse and many remains of forts, stretch in two almost parallel lines ... from the Pruth to the Dniester ... may be also
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huge size means the need of considerable material and human resources, a condition that could be met only by the Roman Empire ... the period of time when it was built stretched from
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rule from the Prut river to Tyras, even because it has a ditch facing north. He argues that later it was enlarged by Athanaric, but only until Sasyk lagoon.
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in "Etudes Roumaines et Aroumaines". Sociétés européennes, no. 8, Paris ; Bucharest : , pp. 130-133,
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and after that it enters Moldova. In southern Moldova, it stretches another 126 km from the village of
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Some historians think that the southern Trajan Wall reached the city of Tyras, when was annexed by emperor
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Some scholars, like Vasile Nedelciuc, argue that the turf Wall was built initially by the Romans during
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Lower Trajan's Wall (Athanaric's Wall on the map) was located just north of the Danube delta
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Some academics such as Dorel Bondoc think that the wall was built by the
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Old Russian map showing clearly the Lower Trajan Wall (in green color)
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Isaak Klejman. Defensive structures on the Territory of Tyras
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Roman castra and walls from Romania/Moldovia – Google Maps
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Emanuel Constantin Antoche, Marcel Tanasache, (1990)
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fortification line
Athanaric
Thervingi
Gerasius
Prut
Danube
Taifali
Oltenia
limes
Limes Transalutanus
Theodore Mommsen
Romans
Tyras

palisades
Buciumeni
Stoicani
Vadul lui Isac
Cahul District
Prut River
Lake Sasyk
Tatarbunar
Nero
coat of arms
Cahul
uyezd
Bessarabia
Russian Empire

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