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Once Augustus had established himself as sole ruler of the Roman state in 30 BC after the battle of Actium, he took up Caesar's project and aimed to advance the empire's south-eastern European border from Macedonia to the line of the Danube.
Niš (Serbian Cyrillic: Ниш, pronounced ⓘ) was built on the ruins of Roman Naissus. The Late antiquity town was known as Naissus, Νάϊσσος, Ναϊσσός (Naissos), Naessus, urbs Naisitana, Navissus, Navissum, Ναϊσσούπολις (Naissoupolis).
The Antique Naissus, today’s city of Niš (SRB), flourished in the fertile valley of the river Nišava, in central parts of Moesia Superior. The settlement of the local people obtained the status of municipium in the 2nd century.
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Following a Roman victory over the Dardani who occupied the region, the town was founded in the late 1st c. B.C. as a central base for Roman legions. When the province of Moesia Superior was organized in A.D. 15, Naissus became an increasingly important commercial and military center.
Moesia, province of the Roman Empire, in the southeastern Balkans in what is now Serbia, part of Macedonia, and part of Bulgaria. Its first recorded people were the Moesi, a Thracian tribe.
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Known as 'Via Militaris' in Roman and Byzantine periods, or 'Constantinople road' in Middle Ages, these roads still represent major European traffic arteries. Niš thus stands at a point of intersection of the roads connecting Asia Minor to Europe, and the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
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May 19, 2023 · Published online: 07 March 2016. Extract. Naïssus (mod. Niš) in *Moesia (after *Diocletian in Dardania), first visited by Roman troops in 75/72 bce, was probably the earliest permanent military camp in Moesia. Though of great strategic importance, little is known of its history: it became a municipium under M. *Aurelius or later.
