Sucidava

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Coordinates: 43°45′52″N 24°27′33″E / 43.76444, 24.45917

Sucidava is a Daco-Roman historical site, situated in Corabia on the north bank of the Danube. There can be found: the first Christian Basilica in Romania, the foot of a Roman bridge over the Danube built by Constantine the Great to link Sucidava with Oescus (in Moesia, today partially in Bulgaria), a secret underground fountain which flows under the walls of the town to capture a water spring situated outside, a museum were are exposed ancient relics and more.

[edit] References

• Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, "The Dacian Stones Speak", Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975. ISBN 0807812269

[edit] External links

• (Romanian) "Archaeological Excavation Report"
• Photo gallery
• Gabriel Vasile, "Analiza antropologică a unui schelet descoperit la Sucidava - Celei (judeţul Olt)", Cercetări Arheologice, 13/2006, at National Museum of Romanian History