Limes Transalutanus

Limes Transalutanus[1] is the modern name given to a fortified frontier system of the Roman Empire, built on the western edge of Teleorman's forests as part of the Dacian Limes in the Roman province of Dacia, modern-day Romania.

[5][6] In first half of the 3rd century AD Septimius Severus advanced the province's eastern frontier by some 14 km (8.7 mi) east of the existing Limes Alutanus[7] although the road and many of the forts on the Limes date from the end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (c.106 AD).

[8] Between 244–247, after the Carpian and Getae (or Goths) attacks, Philip the Arab abandoned the limes for some time.

The Romans returned to the limes but closed the road to the Rucăr-Bran pass starting from the modern village of Băiculeşti.

The frontier system was composed of a road linking military forts and towers and in the southern, less mountainous, part a 3 m high vallum 10–12 m wide reinforced with wooden palisades on stone walls and also a ditch.