The Dacians and their allies were repulsed after two battles in Moesia, at Nicopolis ad Istrum and Adamclisi. |
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On the lower Danube, which was given priority over the upper Danube, this required the annexation of Moesia. |
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To counter them, Legio V Macedonica, a veteran of the Parthian campaign, was moved from Moesia Inferior to Dacia Superior, closer to the enemy. |
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The Iazyges defeated and killed Claudius Fronto, Roman governor of Lower Moesia. |
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In 238, the Goths invaded across the Danube into the Roman province of Moesia, pillaging and exacting payment through hostage taking. |
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Uldin crossed the Danube and captured a fortress in Moesia named Castra Martis, which was betrayed from within. |
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Crassus followed them closely into Moesia but they would not be drawn into battle, withdrawing beyond the Tsibritsa. |
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The strategic result of Crassus' campaigns was the permanent annexation of Moesia by Rome. |
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A possible alternative name would be MONT identifying the recipient's home as Montana in Moesia inferior,' but they offer no further details. |
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He divided the province into Lower Moesia and Upper Moesia, and transferred three additional legions to the Danube. |
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The barbarians sailed along the Black Sea coast to Tomis in Moesia Inferior, which they tried to take by assault without success. |
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Trajan continued Domitian's policy and added two more units to the auxiliary forces of Upper Moesia, and then he used the build up of troops for his Dacian wars. |
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The southern fringe of the basin was in Dalmatia and Moesia. |
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Roman power in Thracia rested mainly with the legions stationed in Moesia. |
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Thracians in Moesia and Dacia were Romanized, while those within the Byzantine empire were their Hellenized descendants that had mingled with the Greeks. |
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In approximately 84 or 85 the Dacians, led by King Decebalus, crossed the Danube into the province of Moesia, wreaking havoc and killing the Moesian governor Oppius Sabinus. |
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When Diocletian redivided the Empire, Crete was placed, along with Cyrene, under the diocese of Moesia, and later by Constantine I to the diocese of Macedonia. |
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The main regional effort of urbanization was concentrated by Trajan at the rearguard, in Moesia, where he created the new cities of Nicopolis ad Istrum and Marcianopolis. |
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Its subsequent long-lived Roman occupation as part of Lower Moesia and Scythia Minor eventually dissolved into Byzantine, then Ottoman, imperialism. |
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Strictly speaking, Pontus is in Moesia rather than Scythia, but Scythia, stereotypically distant and savage, has much more resonance for his Roman readers. |
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