Redő Ferenc: Katonák Sallában (Zalalövő öröksége 1. Zalalövő, 2003)
can be attributed to the time of his reign. Thus the ala known from the stones at Peresznye left its unknown station for Arrabona. Others arrived to their yet unspecified Pannonian garrison at that time. This is important because it explains the changes observed in our site in the middle of the 1 st century. The withdrawal of a troop and the arrival of another one can be enough reason to rebuild a fort. Naturally, written sources would be necessary to unambiguously determine the garrison of a troop. Consequently, the following statements should be regarded only as a working hypothesis. The garrison troops of Salla could be the ala Pannoniorum in the first phase of the fort that is from the beginning of Tiberius reign until Claudius. This unit was organised at that time. Both the time of its foundation and its name suggest that the unit was intended to take part in the occupation of the new province. It was a mounted troop, the soldiers were recruited from a territory that had long been Romanized. It was moved to Arrabona during Claudius. After it had left Salla, another troop arrived of which we know even less. Of course there are many unsolved questions regarding the two phases of the fort period. The most important one is that only some features of the phases are known, the borders are not or not entirely We cannot determine their shapes or size. The fact that they not necessarily overlapped and even that their shapes were irregular was common in this period. The length measurement judged for the size of the earlier phase matches the values afforded by the analogues. The civilien development of Salla and the Markomann attack The flourishing town T he establishment of the auxiliary fort and its functioning through two generation was not the final and perhaps not even the most important event in Salla's development that effected the town from the regard of military policy. The soldiers left during Domitians Danubian wars to line up along the limes and the imperial policy deployed the greatest forces to organise the province during Traian. These decades marked a period of the most dynamic development in the settlement on the Zala. The zenith of this development was the donation of the municipium rank at the beginning of Hadrian's reign (Figs. 19-20).
