Castra of Sărățeni

Castra of Sărățeni
Location within Romania
Abandoned	4th or 5th century AD
Place in the Roman world
Province	Dacia
Administrative unit	Dacia Porolissensis
Administrative unit	Dacia Superior
Limes	Porolissensis
Structure
— Stone[1] structure —
Size and area	112 m × 148 m (1.6 [1] ha)
Stationed military units
— Cohorts —
I Alpinorum equitata[1][2] I Ubiorum[2]
Location
Coordinates	46.56270°N 25.01481°E / 46.56270; 25.01481
Place name	Castru
Town	Sărățeni
County	Mureș
Country	Romania
Reference
RO-LMI	MS-I-m-B-15416.01[3]
RO-RAN	114907.01[3]
Site notes
Recognition	National Historical Monument
Condition	Ruined

It was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia, at modern Sărățeni, Mureș County, Romania.

See also

• List of castra

External links

• Roman castra from Romania - Google Maps / Earth Archived 2012-01-17 at the Wayback Machine

Notes

1. "Sărățeni". Archived from the original on 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2012-12-07.
2. Ureche, Petru (2009), Tactică, strategie și specific de luptă la cohortele equitate din Dacia Romană [Tactics, strategies and fighting specific of the cohortes equitatae in Roman Dacia] (PDF) (in Romanian), Bucharest: Near and Beyond the Roman Frontier. Proceedings of a colloquim held in Târgoviște, 16–17 October 2008, pp. 329–338
3. "National Archaeological Record (RAN)". ran.cimec.ro. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2012.

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  Map of the Limes in Dacia. The Castra of Sărățeni is located in the upper right corner.