Durostorum
Δουρόστορον
Durostorum, DUROSTOLUM (Δουρόστορον, Δουρόστολον or--ος), a place of Lower Moesia, on the southern bank of the Danube. It was an important town and fortress, in which, according to Ptolemy (3.10.10), the legio prima Italica was stationed, while according to others, it was the headquarter of the legio XI. Claudia. Durostorum is also celabrated as the birthplace of Aëtius. (Jornand. Get. 43; comp. 115; Amm. Marc. 27.4; Procop. De Aed. 4.7; Hierocl. p. 636; Theophyl. 1.8, 6.6; Itin. Ant. 223; Geogr. Ray. 4.7.)
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.