Sarmizegetusa Regia was the capital and the most important military, religious and political centre of the Dacians before the wars with the Roman Empire. Built on top of a 1200 m high mountain, the fo
Ruins of Dacian temples
Sarmizegetusa Regia the great circular sanctuary (sacred area)
Dacia was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were locate
Sarmizegetusa Regia
…two smaller ones built very close together. There are only two circular sanctuaries. History Variants of the name of the city Zarmizegethusa Regia on Dacia's map from a medieval book made after Ptolemy's Geographia (ca. 140 AD). Historical records show considerable variation in the spelling of the name of…
A section of the Sarmizegetusa ruins.
Dacia cf. Strabo (c. 20 AD)
View of the sanctuary from Dacians' capital Sarmizegetusa Regia