Roman legionary camp discovered in Northern Poland

"We have evidence that Roman legionaries were present in Kuyavia", say archaeologists:

http://naukawpolsce.pap.pl/aktualno...cnosc-rzymskich-legionistow-na-terenie-polski





Evidence of Roman presence between the 1st and 4th centuries AD was found in Kuyavia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuyavia

"Based on the writings of Cassius Dio, Emperor Domitian sent 100 cavalry as support for the Lugii in their war against the Suevi. We cannot exclude the possibility that some of discovered items were parts of equipment of those soldiers." - say archaeologists.

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Edit:

This discovery was made as part of this research project:

http://www.mpov.uw.edu.pl/en/project

Poland in 1st - 2nd centuries AD based on Roman sources, but exact locations of towns and tribes are often speculative. Leukaristos was a Roman camp (rather than a Barbarian town), but nobody knows where exactly was it located. Many speculated, that it was in Upper Silesia, which is how this map shows it - but maybe it was located more to the north, in Kuyavia (or perhaps Kuyavia had another camp?):

https://i.imgur.com/86sT5R1.png

Speculations about the exact location of Leukaristos in Poland:

Aldrajch: *Leuco-ristus, czyli szukajcie obozu legionowego pod Opolem

Rzymianie w Polsce. Obóz legionów rzymskich w Leucaristo ko?o Leszna | merkuriusz.wieczorna.pl

But some scholars see Leukaristos in Slovakia (modern Trencin).

The idea that Leukaristos = modern Trencin was born when a Roman inscription mentioning Leukaristos was discovered in Trencin. However, just because one text about Leukaristos was found in Trencin, doesn't mean that this is where Leukaristos was located. That inscription was written by some former Roman officer from Leukaristos. He could write it on his way back from Leukaristos to the Empire.

I tried to find something in English but it is "fresh news" so probably nobody wrote about it in English so far.

Try using free website translation: http://free-website-translation.com/?pl

Kuyavia was northern territory of the Przeworsk Culture, associated with the Lugian Federation. Northern borders of the Przeworsk Culture were along the Vistula and Noteć (Netze) rivers. Kuyavia was endangered by hostile Suevi to the west, and by hostile Goths to the north.

When Domitian sent 100 cavalry to support the Lugians, it would make sense to send them to Kuyavia.

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Archeologist dr Bartosz Kontny from Warsaw University said:

"Among many discovered metal items, there were also numerous hardware fittings made of copper alloys. It turns out, that these are unique embellishments which were part of Roman equestrian equipment and of uniforms of Roman legionaries.

Many of these findings are unique discoveries in this part of Europe [Barbaricum]."

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During Emperor Nero's reign, there was Roman expedition to the Baltic Sea for amber:

"There is still living a member of the equestrian order, who was sent thither by Julianus, the manager of the gladiatorial exhibitions for the Emperor Nero, to procure a supply of this article. Traversing the coasts of that country and visiting the various markets there, he brought back amber, in such vast quantities, as to admit of the nets, which are used for protecting the podium against the wild beasts, being studded with amber."

Source: Pliny XXXVII, 45. They crossed the area of modern Poland on their way there.

Amber was available mainly on the Baltic coasts of Eastern Pomerania and Prussia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Road

Tomenable said:

Poland in 1st - 2nd centuries AD based on Roman sources, but exact locations of towns and tribes are often speculative. Leukaristos was a Roman camp (rather than a Barbarian town), but nobody knows where exactly was it located. Many speculated, that it was in Upper Silesia, which is how this map shows it - but maybe it was located more to the north, in Kuyavia (or perhaps Kuyavia had another camp?):
https://i.imgur.com/86sT5R1.png

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Who draws these bad maps ...........you know as well as I that the Veleti ( veltae as in many ) came from the area called the Upper Vistula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veleti
They where the first "slavs" and the only ones the germans called wends ..............see also articl on the wendish crusades.
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another error
Truso was the capital of the venedi....near the big town of Elblag , capital of the warmians .........all agree by polish historians, Okulitz 1986, Pleterski 1995 ans Buko 2008 , in their papers of the area.
there was no veneti/venedi on the vistula river, they where on the nogat river which pours into the venedic lagoon and also passes the town of Elblag and truso area

Sile said:

Who draws these bad maps ..........

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Tomenable himself made it. I don't know why he poses as it is map from some legit source and uses it as proof for his statements