Editing Tulcea (section)

===Roman period===
Aegyssus was built on a high hill, a strategic location for guarding the Danube particularly under the Romans.
The amphorae discovered from 1st century BC to 1st century AD suggest the town was an important trading centre of the period.

After the [[Getic]] raids from 12{{ndash}}15 AD<ref>Ovid Ex Ponto 4.9</ref> the [[Roman Empire|Romans]] conquered the town and soon after built a new city. 

After [[Trajan's Dacian Wars]] at the beginning of the 2nd century AD, the city was included in the [[Moesian Limes]] defensive frontier system as a military fort and port for a detachment of the ''[[Classis Flavia Moesica]]''.

The baths were built at the end of the 1st century AD and used until the beginning of the 5th century after several reconstruction phases, in the third of which a large ''[[palaestra]]'' was added on the north side.

In the second half of the 3rd century AD, the ''cohors II Flavia Brittonum'' (from Britain) was garrisoned here, and in the next century the ''[[vexillatio]] Aegyssensis'' of ''[[Legio I Iovia]]''. During the 4th-5th centuries, the city still preserved its military statute (headquarters of ''cuneus equitum armigerorum, praefectus ripae legionis primae ariae cohortium quinque pedaturae inferioris''). It was destroyed during the [[Hun]]'s invasions in the 5th century and rebuilt under [[Justinian I]] along with the monumental reconstruction of the Danubian limes.