407 / 530
406
pottery workshops, metalworking from Praetorium (Mehadia) fort. Late Roman
coins presence on the area of some urban settlement in a relatively large number
suggests the economic integration of that space. First two decades untill the
establishment of Tetrarchy are important in understanding the evolution of the
relations between the empire and the territory of former Dacia province; local
Dacian Roman population having an important veteran and local Dacian input as
owners of imobiliary goods received through Roman current legislation (owned
plots). Roman forts abandoned by the Roman army remained untouched. They
could be used in case of danger and if necessary by the inhabitants of neighboring
areas. The fact that inside Roman fortifications few trace of habitation can be
found, except for late type ceramics, may constitute a clue that they were not used
only if necessary. Otherwise, the population lived in the settlements found around.
This is, subsequently what followed after the military reformation accorded by
Septimius Severus a few decades before allowing the soldiers to live with their
families, and only by day to be present inside the fort. Few generations after, this
became an usage.
Final considerations
. The
establishment of a Roman Empire defensive line
on the Danube resulted in the formation of new political and economical relations
between the former territory of Dacia and south Danube provinces.
Throughout new administrative and military reforms, the south west of
ancient Dacia (ancient Banat within its geographical limits between Tisza, Mureş
and the Danube) was divided in the two Roman provinces:
Moesia prima
that
comprises the plane of Banat and
Dacia Ripensis
which corresponds to the eastern
area of hills and mountains until the time of Aurelian comprised in the former
province of Dacia. This situation reflects – in my opinion a different development
under certain aspects, either of military, economical or spiritual organization. Even
in terms of monetary supply Moesia Prima was under the monetary center from
Siscia
, while Dacia Ripensis under the
Sirmium
center, which apparently means
that the territories north of the Danube (Banat) were in direct dependence with the
provinces from the Empire that were using the respective mints. The territory of
ancient Banat as geographical unit was in direct contact with the Roman Empire.
After the proclamation of Diocletianus in 284 and then the establishment of
Tetrarchy as a form of government, the Empire will try through punitive actions in
barbaricum
not only to repel any incursions, but rather to seek to clear through
peace treaties the danger on the Danube line.
These related mainly to the territories East and West of the former Dacia
province inhabited in turn by free Dacians, Carps, as newly arrived – the Goths,
and in the plain situated between Tisza and Danube, by Sarmatian Iazyges and
other Germanic tribes who entered this corridor. The frequent military campaigns
undertaken by Galerius as
Caesar
, from his capital city of Sirmium, against
Sarmatian Iazyges in the years 285, 289, 294, 299 and after this date are a proof in
this respect.
The Tetrarchy emperors ferm policy will continue in the coming decades in
order to ensure stability of the Roman borders. It became evident that the center of