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| alternate_name = ''Aedeva'', ''Aedabe'', ''Aedeba'', ''Aedadeba''
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'''Aedava''' (also known as '''Aedeva''', '''Aedabe''', '''Aedeba''', '''Aedadeba''') was a [[Dacians|Dacian]] settlement located south of the [[Danube]] in [[Moesia]] (present-day northern [[Bulgaria]]).{{sfn|Grumeza|2009|p=14}}{{sfn|Velkov|1977|p=92}} In his ''[[De Aedificiis]]'', the 6th century AD historian [[Procopius]] placed Aedava on the [[Danubian road]] between [[Augustae]] and [[Variana]].{{sfn|Procopius|550 AD|loc=IV 2,6}}{{sfn|Olteanu|loc=Toponyms}} He also mentioned that Emperor [[Justinian]] (r. 527–565) restored the damaged portion of the town defenses.{{sfn|Procopius|550 AD|loc=IV 2,6}}
== See also ==
* [[Dacia]]
* [[Moesia]]
* [[List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia]]
== Notes ==
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== References ==
=== Ancient ===
{{refbegin}}
* {{cite book
|ref            = {{sfnRef|Procopius|550 AD}}
|last           = Procopius
|author-link     = Procopius
|title          = De Aedificiis
|trans-title=The Buildings of Justinian
|url            =  https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Buildings/
|year           = 550
|language       = grc
}}
{{refend}}
=== Modern ===
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* {{cite book
|last       = Grumeza
|first      = Ion
|title      = Dacia: Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe
|url        = https://books.google.com/books?id=07-RjGQajw0C
|publisher  = [[Hamilton Books]]
|year       = 2009
|location   = Lanham, Maryland
|isbn       = 978-0-7618-4465-5
|quote      = South of Danube (in what are now Bulgaria and Serbia) the names of other Dacia settlements were well known, including Aedava/Aedadeba...
}}
* {{cite web
|last=Olteanu
|first=Sorin
|title=Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum - Toponyms Section
|url=http://soltdm.com/geo/arts/categs/categs.htm
|language=ro
|work=Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum
|access-date=3 January 2010
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716103139/http://soltdm.com/geo/arts/categs/categs.htm
|archive-date=16 July 2011
|url-status=dead
}}
* {{cite book
|last       = Velkov
|first      = Velizar Iv
|author-link = Velizar Iv Velkov
|title      = The cities in Thrace and Dacia in late antiquity: (studies and materials)
|publisher  = [[Hakkert]]
|year       = 1977
|isbn       = 90-256-0723-3
}}
{{refend}}
== External links ==
* {{Commons-inline|Dacia and Dacians}}
{{Dacian cities|state=uncollapsed}}
{{Dacia topics}}
[[Category:Dacian towns]]
[[Category:Ancient Thrace]]
[[Category:Roman towns and cities in Bulgaria]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Bulgaria]]
[[Category:Moesia]]
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