Ratiaria
Ῥατιαρία
Ratiaria (Ῥατιαρία, Procop. de Aed. 4.6, p. 290; Ῥατιαρία Μυσῶν, Ptol. 3.9.4, 8.11.5; Ῥαζαρία, Hierocl. p. 655; Ῥατηρία, Theophylact. 1.8; Ratiaris, Geogr. Rav. 4.7), a considerable town in Moesia Superior on the Danube, and the head-quarters of a Roman legion; according to the Itinerary (p. 219), the Leg. xiv. Gemina, according to the Not. Imp. (100.30), the Leg., XIII. Gemina. It was also the station of a fleet on the Danube (ibid.). Usually identified with Arzar-Palanca.
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.