Capidava fortified settlement is a tourist attraction in Dobruja area, next to Hârșova and Histria. It can be reached through the road from Hârșova ( E61 ), or the road from Cernavodă (Fetești-Cernavodă).

Ruins of the Geto-Dacian fortress Capidava. The village Capidava is the site of the fortified Geto-Dacian center with the same name, Capidava. After the Roman conquest of Dacia it became a Roman city and castra in the province of Scythia Minor (modern Dobruja).

‘At Capidava, there is a Getic settlement distinct than the late fortress …’, p. 131.^ Jump up to: a b Pop et al. ”Many, even the initially indigenous centers developed due to the presence of the Roman army.

Cetatea Capidava este situată pe malul drept al Dunării, la jumătatea distanței dintre Hârșova (Carsium) și Cernavodă (Axiopolis), fiind construită cu ajutorul detașamentelor Legiunilor V Macedonica de la Troesmis și XI Claudia de la Durostorum, la începutul secolului al II-lea. Alături de Capidava, din sistemul de fortificații ...

English: Capidava was a fortified Geto-Dacian center, on the right bank of the Danube. After the Roman conquest of Dacia it became a Roman city and castra in the province of Scythia Minor (modern Dobruja). It is located in the village with the same name, Capidava, in …

... by Emperor Trajan at the beginning of the second century, Capidava became an important Roman fortress on the Lower Danube frontier due to its strategic position on a natural hill guarding a...

Capidava. Capidava city is located on the right bank of the Danube, at half the distance between Harsova (Carsium) and Cernavoda (Axiopolis), and it was built with the help of Vth Macedonica legion from Troesmis and XIth Claudia legion from Durostorum at …

Capidava reprezinta astazi una dintre cetatile cu cea mai mare notorietate pentru frontiera romana a Dunarii de Jos, atat pe plan national, cat si international. Cercetat fara intreruperi majore incepand din 1924 sub conducerea lui Grigore Florescu, Radu Florescu (dupa 1960) si Ioan C. Opris (din 2004), monumentul se pastreaza perimetral.

The Getic toponym of Capidava - meaning the curve fortified settlement - confirms a pre-Roman dwelling, while the special geographic position explains the significance of the local settlement, a place that made possible the communication between the Dacians in Dobrudja and those in the Wallachian Plain.

Archaeology enthusiasts who use the Internet can take good advantage of the generosity of our host, CIMEC, that made available a selection comprising a part of the oldest images of Capidava preserved in the archive of the site: topographic surveys and planimetric surveys of the fortress, photographs from pre-war excavations (in part unpublished ...