Zbornik Radova: Geografski Fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu (Jan 2016)
'Limes route' the next world heritage site in Hungary
Abstract
The frontier of Pannonia, which stretched from Klostenburg to Belgrade, was one of the most important borderlines of the Empire. This is proved by the strong military power concentrated in Pannonia from the second half of the 1st century onwards. A 400-km-long section of it lies on the territory of present day Hungary. There is a large archaeological area in Budapest (Aquincum), with quite a few monuments, such as parts of the legionary fortress, the military amphitheatre and the whole quarter of a preserved civil town (Figure 2). The watch-towers are - especially from the late Roman period and around the Danube Bend - at a distance of 1 to 2 km apart from each other (ripapannonica.hu). During the first century AD some auxiliary forces were stationed along the main routes leading across the country to the fortifications at the Danube bank.
