Upper Trajan's Wall

Roman Walls in Romania ("Greuthungi's Wall" -also called "Upper Trajan's Wall"- is in dark green)
Trajan's Moldova (in light brown) possibly protected in the north by the Upper Trajan's Wall

The Upper Trajan's Wall is the modern name given to a fortification located in the central area of modern Moldavia. Some scholars consider it to be of Roman origin, while others think it was built in the third/fourth century by the Germanic Greuthungi to defend their borders against the Huns.[1] It may also have been called Greuthungian Wall in later Roman accounts, but this is uncertain owing to a single polysemic manuscript occurrence in the works of Ammianus Marcellinus.[2]

  1. ^ Peter Heather, The Goths, Blackwell Publishing, 1998, p. 100
  2. ^ Herwig Wolfram; Thomas J. Dunlap (1990). History of the Goths. University of California Press. p. 407. ISBN 978-0-520-06983-1.

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