Aedava

Aedava

File:Teritoriul onomastic al elementului dava - Sorin Olteanu.jpg Map of Dacian settlements.
Alternative name	Aedeva, Aedabe, Aedeba, Aedadeba
Location	Bulgaria
Coordinates

Aedava (also known as Aedeva, Aedabe, Aedeba, Aedadeba) was a Dacian settlement located south of the Danube in Moesia (present-day northern Bulgaria). In his De Aedificiis, the 6th century AD historian Procopius placed Aedava on the Danubian road between Augustae and Variana. He also mentioned that Emperor Justinian (r. 527–565) restored the damaged portion of the town defenses.

See also

• Dacia
• Moesia
• List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia

References

Ancient

• Procopius (550). De Aedificiis [The Buildings of Justinian] (in Ἀρχαία ἑλληνικὴ).

Modern

• Grumeza, Ion (2009). Dacia: Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe. Lanham, Maryland: Hamilton Books. ISBN 978-0-7618-4465-5. South of Danube (in what are now Bulgaria and Serbia) the names of other Dacia settlements were well known, including Aedava/Aedadeba...
• Olteanu, Sorin. "Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum - Toponyms Section". Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum (in română). Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
• Velkov, Velizar Iv (1977). The cities in Thrace and Dacia in late antiquity: (studies and materials). Hakkert. ISBN 90-256-0723-3.

External links

• File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to Dacia and Dacians at Wikimedia Commons