Sarmizegetusa Regia

Dacian · Romania

Field notes

civilizations

Dacian

types

City · Fortress · Temple

occupied

100 BCE — 106 CE

country

Romania

The site

Sarmizegetusa Regia was the capital and the most important military, religious and political centre of the Dacians before their wars with Rome. Built atop a 1,200-metre mountain in the Orăștie Mountains of Romania, its six citadels formed the core of a strategic defensive system. It should not be confused with the later Roman capital of Dacia built by Trajan some 40 km away.

Nearby sites

~155 km

Lepenski Vir

~373 km

Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak

~391 km

Aquincum

~450 km

Varna Necropolis