Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient region of southeast Europe south of the Danube River in what is now Serbia and northern Bulgaria. Originally inhabited by Thracians, it was conquered by the Romans c. 29 BC and occupied by Goths in the fourth century AD.
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- proper noun geography, historical an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube Rive, mainly in what is now
Bulgaria andSerbia
Etymologies
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Tomyris crossed over into that part of Moesia which is now called Lesser Scythia -- a name borrowed from great
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes
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Located 100 kilometers southeast of Belgrade, this Roman military camp of 6000 soldiers was the capital of Roman province of Upper Moesia today's Serbia.
Sasa Milosevic: Viminacium - A New Life for Balkan Pompeii (PHOTOS) Sasa Milosevic 2011
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Located 100 kilometers southeast of Belgrade, this Roman military camp of 6000 soldiers was the capital of Roman province of Upper Moesia today's Serbia.
Sasa Milosevic: Viminacium - A New Life for Balkan Pompeii (PHOTOS) Sasa Milosevic 2011
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Nonetheless, there is currently stronger evidence that it is related to the ancient Dacian language spoken in Moesia and Dacia.
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Pannonia was overrun; Raetia, Noricum, and Moesia were invaded; and, in Italy, Aquileia was besieged.
145 2001
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Gaius Vibius Trebonianus GALLUS (b.c. 207) was proclaimed emperor by the army of Moesia.
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He abandoned trans-Danubian Dacia and settled its Roman inhabitants in a new Dacia carved out of Moesia.
270 2001
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When he marched against his successor in Moesia, the Moor M. Aemilius Aemilianus, his own troops slew him (before Oct. 253).
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Augustus's armies also fought along the Danube, creating four provinces: Raetia was formed by 16, Noricum in 16, Pannonia in 13, and Moesia by 6 C.E. 6
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His people were established in Moesia as foederati.
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