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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2027096, member: 42773&quot;]The Roman provincial city of Marcianopolis was located in Thracia, just west of modern-day Devnya, Bulgaria.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]368202[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="http://www.stilus.nl/oudheid/wdo/GEO/M/MARCIAN.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stilus.nl/oudheid/wdo/GEO/M/MARCIAN.html" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]368203[/ATTACH]</p><p>Marcianopolis was originally the city of Parthenopolis. Trajan renamed it after his sister Ulpia Marciana, at the conclusion of the Second Dacian War, in 106 AD. The city flourished under the Severan Dynasty, but suffered from barbaric invasions in the mid-3rd Century.&nbsp; The Goths were repulsed by Gallienus, and the city continued to prosper through the reign of Diocletian, during which it became the hub of Moesia Inferior.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]368204[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Ruins at Marcianopolis, <a href="http://www.ivargault.com/mynter/romerske/europa_no.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ivargault.com/mynter/romerske/europa_no.html" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The city continued to grow in importance, and became the temporary capitol of the Empire during Valens’ conflict with the Goths (366-369). After that, its history becomes a roller-coaster ride: destroyed by Atilla the Hun in 447, rebuilt by Justinian I, sacked by the Avars, retaken by the Byzantines, and finally destroyed by the Avars in 615.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very little remains of Marcianopolis today. Ruins of the Roman amphitheater…</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]368205[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="http://amphi-theatrum.de/1534.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://amphi-theatrum.de/1534.html" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A visitor to the Museum of Mosaics in Devnya can view a number of lovely pieces...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]368206[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]368207[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]368208[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1303" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1303" rel="nofollow">Source</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Roman provincial coinage of Marcianopolis is rich and varied, spanning a period of almost 250 years. Much of it is affordable and easy to collect. For a broad overview of this coinage, click on <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/moesia/markianopolis/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/moesia/markianopolis/t.html" rel="nofollow">this Wildwinds page</a>. Here is a coin from the heyday of the city during the reign of Septimius Severus.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Moesia Inferior, Septimius Severus, Marcianopolis, AD 193-211</b></p><p>AE26, 9.1g; struck under legate Julius Faustinianus</p><p><i>Obv.</i>: AV Λ CEΠTI CEVHPOC; Draped, cuirassed, laureate bust right, seen from behind.</p><p><i>Rev.</i>: YI ΦAYCTINIANOY MARKIANOΠOΛI//TΩN; Homonoia, diademed, in long double chiton and mantle, wearing kalathos, stg. r., holding cornucopia in l. arm and in extended r. hand patera.</p><p>Reference: AMNG 568.2; Varbanov 796; Hristova/Jekov (2013) No. 6.14.36.9.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]368216[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post <b>only</b> your coins of Marcianopolis, and if you don&#039;t have any, don&#039;t you think it&#039;s about high time you did? Go buy some. And post them in this thread. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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