SALSOVIA
(Mahmudia) Dobrudja, Romania.
A Roman-Byzantine city on the right bank of the Danube 25 km E of Aegyssus. It is mentioned by the ancient
itineraries on the road from Aegyssus to Histria (
Tab.
Peut. 8.4;
Ant. It. 226.3;
Geog. Rav. 4.5.14). It was built
of stone and covered an area 150 by 120 m. An inscription of A.D. 322 documents a castrum at the beginning of
the 4th c. and a vexillatio commanded by a praepositus,
belonging probably to Legio I Iovia with headquarters
at Noviodunum. During the Late Empire Salsovia was
a garrison for milites quinti Constantiani (
Not. Dig. or.
39.26) and in the 6th c. an episcopal residence (De Boor,
Not. Episc. 532).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. Pârvan,
Salsovia (1906); J. Weiss,
Die Dobrudscha im Altertum (1911) 54-55; R. Vulpe,
Histoire Ancienne de la Dobroudja (1938) 301, 345.
E. DORUTIU-BOILA