Mircea Vodă, Constanţa

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Mithraic relief from Mircea Vodă, 2nd century CE. Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest.
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Mithraic relief from Mircea Vodă, 2nd century CE. Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest.

Mircea Vodă is a commune in Constanţa County, Dobrogea, Romania. Settlement in the area dates back at least to the time of the Roman Empire. In a place that the local Turks called "Acşandemir Tabiasi", a 10th century castrum was found, which has a stone vallum. A Slavic inscription found in this place mentions a certain "Jupan Dimitrie" and the year 943.[1]

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  1. ^ Dicţionar de istorie veche a României, Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică (1976)
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