Sucidava

Sucidava was a Dacian and Daco-Roman city on the north bank of the Danube, in what is now Corabia in southern Romania. It began as a significant economic and military centre of the Dacian Suci tribe. From the 270s AD, when Rome withdrew from the province of Dacia, a large Roman fort was built over the older Dacian citadel to protect the pontoon bridge and road at the river, and after Constantine's Bridge was built in 328 the fort guarded its northern end, opposite the fort at Oescus in Bulgaria. The city grew up around the fort, and the walls of the late Roman town with eight towers can still be seen. Excavation shows that the Huns sacked the city and fort between 443 and 447, that it was restored under Justin I or Justinian I, and that around 600 the Roman garrison left. It holds the first Christian basilica found in Romania, and its coin finds run without interruption from Aurelian to Theodosius II.