Istoria Banatului Antichitatea

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shock, mantained a direct relationship with the south of the Danube Roman world –

seriously affected and dispersed in politico-military terms by the Christian church,

dependant on consecrated bishopric centers.

In the fifth century the Roman Empire collapses by deep inner decay, towns

disappear, and among their ruins we encounter an impoverished population, living

in huts.

A long time ago, H. V. Petrikovits, a rigorous analyst of these late Roman

phenomena by comparing the urban settlements on the Rhine and middle Danube

in the fifth century, observed the disappearance of urban civilization. For the

Lower Danube area that also includes ancient Banat until the time of Justinian

(527–565) archaeologically, and literary information are few are extremely difficult

to reconstruct. Returning to the period proposed for analysis, that of the 3

and

centuries it is necessary to remark the opportunities that history provides by

moving the center of gravity of the Roman Empire in the new capital of the Empire

at Constantinople. As a result, the north Danubian space regardless of its extent

(the former Dacia province, eastern and western area and beyond) constituted the

first territory outside its borders, approx. 480 km from the capital, Rome. It had to

be defended and therefore any movement in the north Danubian barbarian world

would be neutralized and carefully controlled.