APULUM
APULUM (
Ἄπουλον,
Ptol. 3.8.8; Orell.
Inscr. Nos. 3563, 3826; in all the other inscriptions the name is abbreviated AP. or APUL., Nos. 991, 1225, 2171, 2300, 2695, 3686), or APULA (
Tab. Peut.), or COLONIA APULENSIS (Ulpian.
de Censibus, Dig. 1. tit. 15.1), an important Roman colony, in Dacia, on the river Marissa (
Marosch), on the site of the modern
Carlsburg or
Weissenburg, in
Transylvania, where are the remains of an aqueduct and other ruins. If the reading of one inscription given by Gruter,--Alba Julia,--be correct, the place has preserved its ancient name,Alba=
Weissenburg. [
P.S]