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In terms of the actual Roman settlements and structures, continuity is nowhere easy to prove. Scarbantia-Sopron. Arrabona-Győr, Gorsium-Tác and Aquincum-Buda are some of the few sites which have had any detailed systematic study, but even here, despite some reuse of the Roman sites in the Magyar period, there is little to confirm survival of structures nor indeed of function beyond the 5th/6th century (Holl 1990, 96; Gabler et al. 1990, 21-22; Gerevich 1990, 40). Churches offer the best bet for following continuity, although church archaeology itself is as yet too little developed in Hungary. The excavations at Sopianae, however, combined with the evidence of the Carolingian period placename of Quinque Basilicae, do at least hint at the potential in church study. Nonetheless, the attested destructions and widespread dislocation of population caused by the raids and invasions of the pagan Magyars may have represented a decisive break in such ecclesiastical survival. The churches that arose after с 1000 nowhere appear to overlie late Roman antecedents. Thus, as in the case of Late Anglo-Saxon England, the reemergence of urban centres over former Roman sites relates not to the maintenance of structures nor to the survival of population nuclei, but rather signifies a renewed recognition of the strategic and economic logic of Roman settlement distribution (cf. Fügedi 1969, 103). Roads, rivers and ports were of far greater value to the budding Hungarian State than were the scattered heaps of collapsed Roman buildings of old Pannónia. 313