The Roman frontier in Dobrudja: 12. Dinogetia

The late Roman fortification is very well preserved, it has a surface of 1.2 ha and a trapezoidal shape, with 14 towers (horseshoe/ U and fan-shaped), a monumental gate to the east and secondary ones to the north, west (the latter later decommissioned). The exterior of the enclosure is mostly excavated, entirely on the south, west and northwest sides. Streets, housing complexes (among which a domus of 28 x 19 m, which must have belonged to the garrison commander from the 6^th century), deposits, praetorium / a late Roman principia – edifice with unclear functionality and moment of building, basilica from the 5^th – 6^th centuries AD, thermae from the 3^rd – 4^th centuries (25×15 m), located 100 m south of the fortress were identified, researched and preserved. Several constructive phases were documented for the Dominate period: 1. end of the  3^rd – end of Valens’ reign (378) with important reconstructions at the end of Constantine the Great’s reign, continued by Constantius II; 2. end of the 4^th – end of the 5^th centuries (the first part concluded before the middle of the 5^th century) ; 3. the era of the emperors Anastasius-Justinian (491-565), until the invasion of the Kutrigs (559); 4. the last decades of the 6^th – beginning of the 7^th century, without a violent end (abandonment). During the middle-Byzantine period, a settlement of hovels that overlapped the Roman fortress was observed, it also had a small church in the centre of the fortification.