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along with the ones from south Danube provinces. In south western Dacia,
Tibiscum and Dierna municipalities were constituted with their own territories
detached from that of Ulpia Trajana Sarmizegetusa. Also along the urban territories
in south western Dacia there was a mining district that probably gathered settlements
found in the mountain area of Banat with a distinct organisation, dependent on
central administrative authority of Dacia Apulensis. Its head office was in Moldova
Nouă judging by the discoveries made so far.
In Banat plain area we may notice at the debut of Commodus reign a transfer
from
barbaricum
of Dacian population ellements from the middle area of the
Danube, thus from a territory situated North of the river, where they inhabitated the
space alongside other populations. The decision taken by the management of the
province to bring some tribes having the same origin as the autochtonous populations
at the Dacian border is an indication of the protection intent. These populations
were regarded as a peaceful sedentary group designed to populate a territory partly
arid as it was the Banat Plain, maybe even that of Crişana, for a rigorous control by
the Tisza, but also likely to provide an important area for transhumance of the
cattle from Dacia or in the province. It outlines three inhabitated areas in the plain
of Banat:
1. Along the Danube in front of Moesia Superior, where civil constructions
made of stone and brick, some bearing the stamps of IIII Flavia and VII Claudia
legions, such as for example those from Pančevo, Kovin, Gaj, Banatska Palanka
Bela Crkva, Vrsač facing the second wave.
2. An area which extends from the sands of Deliblata to Mureş with rural
settlements dated in general in the 3
rd
–4
th
centuries. Their inventory consists of fine
grey hand made Dacian pottery having Latène tradition and imported Roman items.
On Romanian territory the settlements from Timişoara–Cioreni, Timişoara–Freidorf (I)
Dumbrăviţa must be mentioned, adding Liebling and in Serbia: Subotica, Becej,
Kovacica, etc.
3. The area around the old course of Mureş River, with the settlement in a
place called
Sălişte
from Sânnicolaul Mare.
These settlements found in this area we integrate into the Getae-Dacian
structures because of common elements found in their organisation and inventory,
rural settlements housing household linked arrangements (household pits, supply
pits) and crafts (pottery workshops discovered at Dolovo, Vrsač, Freidorf–Timişoara
(level I), Hodoni, Arad–Ceala etc.) Ceramic joint inventory of these settlements
largely suggests the sedentary rural character of this population. Too few clues on
some crafts such as metalworking appeared in the area in the form of blowing tubes
from iron reducing furnaces, probably (at Dragşina, Biled), or small melting pots
for bronze (Cioreni, Freidorf). Roman imports are of modest value, they relate
mainly to bronze ornaments (bracelets, fibulae), glass (beads) and in rare cases
Roman coins.
Over time in Banat plain some treasures have emerged such as those from
Biled (2000 pieces), Timişoara (two locations), Palanka, Recaş having a long
period of accumulation.