Gârliciu

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Template:Infobox Romanian subdivision Gârliciu is a commune in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania, containing the village with the same name.

History

4.5 km south of Gârliciu is the site of the Roman fort Cius[1] located in the Roman province of Moesia in the 1st century AD and part of the defensive frontier system of the Limes Moesiae along the Danube.

It was built on a hill at the end of a narrow peninsula parallel to the Danube, today on the north-east side of Hisarlâk lake, although the river is today more than 4.5 km north-westwards. [2]

There were two stone forts with ditch and ramparts, one within the other of approximately 85 x 60 m and 120 x 120 m respectively.

The garrison of the early fort was cohors I Lusitanorum Cyrenaica, until its movement upstream to Nigrinianis (later Candidiana).

Reconstruction, ordered by emperor Valens, was done by milites primani headed by a tribunus Marcianus and a praepositus Ursicinus, supervised by provincial governor Flavius Stercorius, as described in an oration by Themistios before the emperor at Constantinople in early 370.[3]

Cius is included in the Itinerarium Antonini,[4] at 10000 feet from Carsium (Hârșova) and 14000 feet from Beroe (castrum) (Piatra Frecăței).

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Eastern Moesia and Limes Moesiae

Demographics

At the 2011 census, Gârliciu had 1,511 Romanians. No other ethnicities were recorded.[5]

References

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  1. Opriș, Ioan Carol. “Ioan Carol OPRIȘ, Rediscovering Roman Cius (Gârliciu, Constanța County, Romania). From Emperor Valens to Grigore Tocilescu, Theodor Mommsen and Beyond.” Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 7, no. 1 (2020): 5–18. doi:10.14795/j.v7i1.514.
  2. Opriș, Ioan Carol, Ovidiu Țentea, and Vlad-Nicolae Călina. “The Roman Frontier in Dobrudja. Several Fortifications Not Excavated or with Undetermined Planimetric Features.” Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 7, no. 4 (2020): 14–38. doi:10.14795/j.v7i4.582
  3. Or. X, Ἐπὶ τῆς εἰρήνης Oὐάλεντι/ On the Peace, 135-136/ 207- 208; 137/208-209
  4. Itinerarium Antonini Augusti 224.5
  5. Tab8. Populaţia stabilă după etnie – judeţe, municipii, oraşe, comune, 2011 census results, Institutul Național de Statistică, accessed 17 February 2020.

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