Castra Acidava was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia,[2] The toponym is attested in the Peutinger Table.

It was part of the Limes Alutanus frontier system built under emperor Hadrian running north–south along the Alutus (Olt) river.

[4] The fort had a quadrangular shape with stone walls about one metre thick, which surrounded an area of 100 m2.

The fort housed auxiliary troops from the cohort I Flavia Commagenorum and the I Thracum.

The fort and the civil settlement functioned between the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.