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Principia, but only has a depth of five metres. In the eastern part of the basilica, traces of walls were found that can be interpreted with reservations as the remains of a tribunal. The hall is closed by a 3.50 m deep escape from a total of six rooms. These rooms have different widths, so that despite the even number of rooms the flag sanctuary (aedes or sacellum) is located in the symmetry axis of the building complex (east of the aedes are two rooms, west three rooms). The cellar of the flag sanctuary, in which the troop treasury was traditionally kept, is still well preserved.
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bank of the Mureș, about two and a half kilometres below the confluence of the
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All the archaeological sites and in particular the castle and thermal baths are protected as historical monuments according to Act No. 422/2001, adopted in 2001, and are listed in the national list of historical monuments (Lista
Monumentelor Istorice) with the LMI code HD-I-s-A-03172.37] The Ministry
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Even though the site of the fort was known as such for a long time, Nicolae Gudea did not yet know any further details in his 1997 compendium on the forts of the Dacian
Limites Apart from the position of the camp, little was known about the military camp until the end of the 20th century. This only
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The excavations discovered of a stone fort with a trapezoidal ground plan and unusual axis lengths of 320 m by 120 m, corresponding to an area of 3.84 hectares. The irregular form is probably due to the fact that the topographical conditions of the high terrace had to be taken into account when the
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The fort is located almost two kilometres east of the village Cigmău and two kilometres south-west of the small town of
Geoagiu in the undeveloped, agriculturally used or wasteland "Cetatea uriasilor" (fortress of the giants) or "Progadie". Topographically, it lies on a high terrace on the northern
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The name
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Notwithstanding the unusual shape of the camp floor plan, the principia (staff buildings) have a regular, rectangular (approaching a square) and symmetrical floor plan with a north-south axis of 34 m and an east-west axis of 35 m length. This results in a building area of 1,190 sqm. The building
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