Halmyris (Ancient Greek: Ἁλμυρίς) [1] was a Roman and Byzantine fort, settlement and naval port, located 2.5 km west of the village of Murighiol at the mouth of the Danube Delta in Romania. Its name in Roman times was probably Almyridensium.[2]
Halmyris occupied a key location in antiquity and is included in no less than eight important Greek and Latin sources, including the Itinerarium Antonini[3] and Notitia Dignitatum.[4]
Halmyris served as a depot for supplies, colonisation and cultural exchange in the region for 1,100 years from the Iron Age to the Byzantine period.
Eastern Moesia and Limes Moesiae, and Ancient towns and colonies in Dobruja (modern coastline shown by a dashed line)
Plan HalmyrisWest gate
The fort was strategically placed on the Danube River and also at the mouth on the Black Sea. It was at the most easterly point of the Danubian border in Roman times and probably served as a supply centre for the fleet.
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and sack Halmyris. A series of earthquakes in the 4th century and later that altered the course of the Danube led to the silting up of Halmyris' harbour...
Danube Delta – UNESCO World Heritage Centre "The Danube Delta – Halmyris". www.halmyris.org. Archived from the original on 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2017-12-18...
for continuing to teach his distinctive doctrines, by banishing him to Halmyris in Scythia Minor. He afterwards resided at Chalcedon and at Caesarea in...
mean "violet lake". The archaeological site of Halmyris is located near the village of Murighiol. Halmyris was a Roman legionary fort from the 1st–4th centuries...
Crișan, Caraorman, Chilia Veche. The city of Tulcea. The Roman fort of Halmyris. The Tulcea County Council, renewed at the 2020 local elections, consists...
Valentin; Topoleanu, Florin. "A New Relief of the Thracian Horseman from Halmyris". In: Peuce (Serie Nouă) - Studii şi cercetari de istorie şi arheologie...
(kelivanon) being introduced around 520 AD as evidenced at the fort of Halmyris in Romania. More than a dozen individual lamellar cuirasses are known from...
the indigenous population and the Greeks appeared on the shore of the Halmyris Gulf (now the Sinoe Lake). In 657/656 BC ancient Greek colonists from Miletus...
Istros, which has a length of 32m and a displacement of 125 tonnes; and Halmyris, a laboratory boat bridge of 32 meters long and a displacement capacity...
A.-T. de & J. Mabille, 1885 Photinula depressa Preston, 1913 Photinula halmyris Rochebrune, A.-T. de & J. Mabille, 1891 Photinula solidula Cooper & Preston...
1885: synonym of Photinastoma taeniatum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) Photinula halmyris Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885: synonym of Margarella violacea (P. P. King...
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