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Copăceni

Copăceni (Praetorium I) is a Roman auxiliary fort on the Olt river, Vâlcea County, Romania, part of the limes Alutanus; built in 138, enlarged 140, now a UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia component, distinct from the Cluj village of the same name.

Cornillé, Cm. Chambourg-sur-Indre

Cornillé, Cm. Chambourg-sur-Indre: a lieu-dit in Indre-et-Loire, France, site of a Gallo-Roman villa (Corneliacus) with hypocaust, aqueduct, and 2nd-3rd century coin finds; attested as Cornilleum in 1213.

Cornucio

Cornucio is an ancient Roman villa in Gaul, attested AD 300–640 in the Vita Sancti Desiderii of Cahors, recorded as Pleiades place 138311 and tentatively identified with Cornus, Cenevières (Lot), France.

Cosgrove

Cosgrove: Roman villa and temple site at Cosgrove, Northamptonshire (Scheduled Monument 1003874), found in 1957 and excavated 1958-59 and 1969; mid-2nd-century bath-suite villa, later Romano-Celtic temple, published by Henrietta Quinnell in 1991.

Costa Murata archaeological area

The Costa Murata archaeological area is an excavated hilltop quarter of the ancient city of Vetulonia in Tuscany, first a sanctuary and later a Roman residential district.

Costești-Blidaru

Costești-Blidaru, a Dacian hilltop fortress in Romania's Orăștie Mountains (705 m), one of six UNESCO-listed Dacian fortresses (1999), built in murus dacicus with 17 isolated towers, guarding the road to Sarmizegetusa Regia.

Cowley Roundabout Roman Settlement

Cowley Roundabout Roman Settlement: Romano-British roadside settlement in Cowley parish, Gloucestershire, on Ermin Street between Glevum and Corinium; 2nd-4th century CE, with a possible mutatio, excavated in the 1990s and again during the A417 Missing Link scheme.

Cozzo Presepe

Cozzo Presepe: archaeological site at Montescaglioso, Basilicata, near Metaponto; an Iron Age indigenous village replaced around 600 BC by a Greek phrourion fortifying Metaponto's territory, abandoned by the mid-3rd century BC.

Crîmpoaia/Ghioca

Crîmpoaia/Ghioca is a Roman auxiliary fort on the Limes Transalutanus at Reduta Tătarilor, Olt County, Romania, one of the county's two certain Roman forts.

Crispiana

Crispiana, an ancient Roman road station in Pannonia Superior on the Antonine Itinerary between Cimbrianis and Arrabona, near modern Zirc, Hungary; namesake of the Crispinian Horse cavalry unit at Roman Doncaster.

Cristeşti

Cristeşti, also known as Cetatea de pământ, is a Roman settlement in Transylvania, Romania, occupied in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. In 2026, a cemetery was discovered.

Croy Hill

Croy Hill is a hill between Croy and Dullatur in Lanarkshire, Scotland, rising to about 120 m and crossed by the Antonine Wall, the Roman Empire's north-western frontier.

Dar Buk-Ammarah

Dar Buk-Ammarah (Dar Buc Ammera, Villa Zliten), a Roman coastal villa at Zliten, Libya, near ancient Sugolin and Lepcis Magna; discovered 1913, famous for gladiatorial and Four Seasons mosaics now in Tripoli's museum.

Davianum

Davianum (Mutatio Davianum), Roman road-changing station on the Valentia-Vapincum road in Gallia Narbonensis, 8 miles from Mons Seleucus; identified with Veynes, Hautes-Alpes, France.

Decaniacum

Decaniacum, also Decaniacus, an ancient Gallo-Roman estate name identified with Dégagnac in Lot, France; attested as the country estate of Ruricius, bishop of Limoges, in his late fifth-century letters.

Decennovium

Decennovium, Latin "nineteen-miler": the 19-mile Via Appia stretch between Forum Appii and Terracina across the Pontine Marshes, with its parallel towing canal, attested from Trajanic milestones and Theodoric-era inscriptions.

Dema wall

Dema wall (Τείχος Δέμα): 4th-century BC Athenian fortification, about 4.3 km long, across the Aigaleos-Parnes pass in Attica to delay invaders from the west; distinct from a Hellenistic Dema Wall near Butrint, Albania.

Desenzano

Desenzano (Villa Romana di Desenzano del Garda): late antique Roman villa on Lake Garda's southern shore, excavated from 1921, with over 240 square meters of polychrome mosaics and an on-site Antiquarium museum.

Didyma (Δίδυμα)

Didyma (Branchidai), Apollo's oracle sanctuary south of Miletus in Ionia; priestly Branchidae, destroyed by Darius I in 494 BC, refounded under Alexander, with the giant unfinished Hellenistic temple later converted to a Christian basilica.

Divorum

Divorum (Templum Divorum, Porticus Divorum): Domitian's sacred precinct in Rome's Campus Martius honoring deified Vespasian and Titus, with a 200 by 55 metre portico, two facing tetrastyle temples, and a triple-arch entrance, known from Severan Marble Plan fragments.

Dorticum

Dorticum (Vrav, Bulgaria): early Roman fort and vicus on the Danube in Moesia, Augustan or Tiberian founding, attested in the Peutinger map and Antonine Itinerary, garrisoned by cohors I Cretum, never excavated and heavily looted.

Dragoncello

Dragoncello: frazione of Rome (Municipio X) between Acilia and Ostia Antica, notable for Roman rustic villas including Villa A (late Republican, wine-producing), excavated since 2016 by the University of Milan.

Drajna de Sus

Drajna de Sus, a Roman fort (castrum) at Grădiște, Prahova County, Romania, occupied about 101-118 AD; garrison of legions I Italica, V Macedonica, XI Claudia, with hypocaust praetorium, now an archaeological park under restoration.

Drusiana Fossa

The Drusiana Fossa, or Fossa Drusiana, was a Roman canal dug by Drusus' troops around 12 BCE to move his fleet from the Rhine toward the North Sea.

Drususstein (Drususstone) at Mogontiacum

Drususstein (Eichelstein), Roman monument on Mainz's citadel at Mogontiacum, traditionally the cenotaph of general Drusus (died 9 BC); originally about 30 m tall, now a 20 m cast-masonry core, identification debated since 2021.

Duodea

Duodea (Greek Δυοδέα, Δουώδέα) was a Roman mutatio, a horse-change road station on the Via Egnatia about 13-14 Roman miles east of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, near Lake Koroneia, known from the Peutinger Table and Bordeaux Itinerary.

Duro(i)coregum

Duro(i)coregum (Duroico Regum), an unlocated Roman road station in Gallia Belgica on the Peutinger Table route from Cassel to Amiens; name probably corrupt, site proposed near Cramont or Domqueur, France.

Durotincum

Durotincum (Durotingum, Durotinco), Roman Alpine road station in Gallia Narbonensis near La Grave and Villar-d'Arène, Hautes-Alpes, France, on the Peutinger route between Cularo (Grenoble) and Brigantio (Briançon); distinct from the Lemovices capital of the same name.

Emilianus-Stollen

Emilianus-Stollen (Emilianus adit): Roman azurite mine at St. Barbara, Wallerfangen, Saarland, Germany, dated 2nd–3rd century AD, with the only known Roman mining occupation inscription; only visitor-accessible Roman adit in Germany.

Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč

The Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in Poreč, Croatia, is a UNESCO World Heritage site of 6th-century early Christian buildings built by Bishop Euphrasius.