Castra Gerulata
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Gerulata was a Roman military camp located near today's Rusovce, a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia. It was part of the Roman province of Pannonia and was built in the 2nd century as a part of the frontier defence system. It was abandoned in the 4th century, when Roman legions withdrew from Pannonia.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in BL, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Archaeological sites in Slovakia, Buildings and structures in Bratislava and History of Bratislava.
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Key facts
- Limeskastell.Name
- Gerulata(Kastell Rusovce)
- Limeskastell.Antiker Name
- Gerulata, Gerulate
- Limeskastell.Bild
- Gerulata.jpg
- Limeskastell.Bildbeschreibung
- Gerulata
- Limeskastell.Limes
- Upper Pannonia
- Limeskastell.Abschnitt
- Section 2
- Limeskastell.Belegung von bis
- 1st to 4th century AD
- Limeskastell.Kastelltyp
- Cohort and Ala fort,square fort with rounded corners surrounded by a double ditch (Spitzgraben), Burgus of Late Antiquity
- Limeskastell.Truppenteil
- a) legio XV, b) cohors V Callaecorum Lucensium (?),c) ala I Canennefatum,d) equites Sagittarii
- Limeskastell.Abmessungen oder Fläche
- a) wood and earth fort, width: 113 mb) stone fort I, width: 133–166 m,c) burgus: 39 × 30 m
- Limeskastell.Verwendetes Material
- a) wood and earth designb) stone design
- Limeskastell.Kurzbeschreibung
- Nothing visible above ground, Foundation walls of the burgus were conserved and made accessible in a visitors' area
- Limeskastell.Heutiger Ortsname
- Rusovce
- Limeskastell.Nebenbox
- --
- Limeskastell.Region ISO
- SK-BL
- Limeskastell.Höhe
- 130
- Limeskastell.Im Limesverlauf vorher liegendes Kastell
- (northwest)
- Limeskastell.Im Limesverlauf nachfolgendes Kastell
- (Mosonmagyaróvár) (southeast)
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Pannonian Limes
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Bratislava
- Official website
- muzeumbratislava.sk/muzeum-anticka-gerulata
- Image
- Gerulata.jpg
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- Gerulata
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- Pauly–Wissowa
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Gerulata was a Roman military camp located near today's Rusovce, a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia. It was part of the Roman province of Pannonia and was built in the 2nd century as a part of the frontier defence system. It was abandoned in the 4th century, when Roman legions withdrew from Pannonia.
Today there is a museum, which is part of the Bratislava City Museum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Castra Gerulata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations