Apulum
Ἄπουλον
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.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.