Turda

Turda is a town in Cluj County, Romania, situated at the Aries River. There is evidence of human agreement inside the region dating to the Middle Paleolithic, some 60,000 years in the past. The Dacians established a metropolis that Ptolemy in his Geography calls Patreuissa, which is probably a corruption of Patavissa or Potaissa, the latter being extra commonplace.

It became conquered through the Romans, who kept the call Potaissa, between AD one zero one and 106, throughout the rule of Trajan, collectively with components of Decebal's Dacia. The call Potaissa is first recorded on a Roman milliarium found in 1758 within the close by Aiton commune. Milliarium of Aiton is an ancient Roman milestone courting from 108 AD, shortly after the Roman conquest of Dacia, and showing the development of the road from Potaissa to Napoca, by way of demand of the Emperor Trajan. It suggests the space of 10,000 ft to Potaissa. This is the primary epigraphical attestation of the settlements of Potaissa and Napoca in Roman Dacia.