Istvánovits Eszter (szerk.): A nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum Évkönyve 55. (Nyíregyháza, 2013)

A 2010. október 11-14. között Nyíregyházán és Szatmárnémetiben megtartott Vándorló és letelepült barbárok a kárpáti régióban és a szomszédos területeken (I-V. század) Új leletek, új értelmezések című nemzetközi régészeti konferencia anyagai - Sorin Bulzan: Császárkori (II-III. századi) telep a Berettyó völgyében Margine/Széltalló, "Valea Tániei-Tarina+ (Bihar megye, Románia)

Migration period finds from Margum: a possible interpretation

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The Roman town of Margum was founded in the 1st century AD at the place of an Iron Age settlement, at the confluence of the Morava and the Danube Rivers, on the Orasje site in the present-day Dubravica village. With the Roman conquest of Dacia the town lost some of its importance, as legio IV Flavia moved to Singidunum. From the times of Emperor Marcus Aurelius it was known as Municipium Aurelium Augustum Margum (cf. Mirkovic 1968.

50-51).

After abandoning province Dacia in 272, Roman strategy on the Danube frontier became defensive. In the times of the crisis of the Late Roman and Early Byzantine state, the strategic importance of the Margum stronghold was on the rise again. The function of the old Roman fort, of which we know almost nothing, was replaced with a system of at least two fortifications on both banks of the Danube - Margum and Contra Margum. The fortification Contra Margum is known by several names. In Notitia Dignitatum it was labelled as castra Augustoflaviensia and, most probably, Flaviana (Notitia Dignitatum 78.23, 77.b-78.3) Then it was mentioned under the name of Constantia by Priscus (Priscus frag. 1, p. 276,32-277,5) in the 5th century, and as Constantiola by Theophylact Simocatta in the 6th century (Theophylact Hist. VII 10.1). The idea that the Contra Margum fortification was at the Kulié site on the opposite bank of the Morava (Deroko 1950., Mirkovic 1968. 51, note 12, 13) has been discarded (Milinkovic 1998. 208), while some traces of the Roman fort in question were documented in present-day Kovin, on the dominating Grad site on which a Medieval fort was built as well (cf. Dordevic 2007. 100) (Fig. 1).

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