📷 Milan Stefanovic · Pexels
Where in the world
Hungary
Aquincum
Roman · Hungary
Field notes
- civilizations
- Roman
- types
- City
- occupied
- 41 CE — 400 CE
- country
- Hungary
The site
Aquincum is an ancient Roman city that once guarded the northeastern frontier of the province of Pannonia. Its ruins survive today in the Óbuda district of Budapest, occupied from the first century CE to around 400 CE. Field lore holds that Marcus Aurelius wrote at least part of his Meditations here, giving these frontier stones an unexpectedly philosophical pedigree.
