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Capidava

Καπίδαβα

Capidava (Καπίδαβα), a town in Moesia, where a garrison of Roman cavalry was stationed. It is perhaps to be identified with the modern Tschernawode. (Itin. Ant. 224; Notit. Imp. 100.28; Geogr. Rav. 4.5; Hierocl. p. 637.)

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.