Pest, Hungary (redirect from Contra-Aquincum)
According to Ptolemy the settlement was called Pession in antiquity (Contra-Aquincum).[citation needed] Alternatively, the name Pest may have come from...
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Aquincum (Latin: [aˈkᶣɪŋkũː], Hungarian: [ˈɒkviŋkum]) was an ancient city, situated on the northeastern borders of the province of Pannonia within the...
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(Tolna) Aquincum (Óbuda, Budapest) Arrabona (Győr) Brigetio (Szőny) Caesariana (Baláca) Campona (Nagytétény) Cirpi (Dunabogdány) Contra-Aquincum (Budapest)...
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the name derives from Roman times, since there was a local fortress (Contra-Aquincum) called by Ptolemy "Pession" ("Πέσσιον", iii.7.§ 2). Another has it...
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superior). Advance defences were provided by bridgehead camps (e.g. Castra Contra Aquincum or Celemantia) and military stations on main transport routes in the...
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garrisons, and bases. Some of the most notable were: Transaquincum, Contra Aquincum (Pest) Matrica (Százhalombatta) Gorsium (Tác) Vetus Salina (Adony)...
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promenade is the Március 15 Square, where the remains of a Roman bastion, Contra-Aquincum, are displayed, The Inner City Parish Church’s simple exterior conceals...
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Downtown Parish Church is located adjacent to the walls of the Roman Contra-Aquincum Fortress and the Elisabeth Bridge. The earliest features of the church...
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Archiepiscopalis Víziváros (today a part of Esztergom) Contra-Aquincum Budapest (Pest) Contra Constantiam Dunakeszi Gorsium, Herculia Tác Intercisa Dunaújváros...
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Ginsium Mosonmagyaróvár Ad Flexum Nagytétény Campona Óbuda Aquincum Pécs Sopianae Pest Contra Aquincum Sopron Scarbantia Százhalombatta Matrica Szeged Partiscum...
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1st C. CE - Romans found the settlements known as Aquincum, Contra-Aquincum and Campona. Aquincum becomes the largest town of the Danubian region and...
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1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 71–72 Cicero, De Lege Agraria contra Rullum ii. 13 Plautus, Poenulus Prolog. 49 Cicero, Philippics, xi. 12, xiv...
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(Sisak), Aquincum (Budapest) and Brigetio (Komárom). The floor of a room of the palaestra and in the amphitheater of the civil city of Aquincum, on the...
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The old Legio II Adiutrix, part of which had always been stationed at Aquincum (modern Budapest), is divided into two comitatenses, and shipped to Britannia...
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Gothic incursions. This created a Transdanubian buffer zone, extending from Aquincum (Budapest) all the way to the Danube delta, obviously contradicting the...
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