Germisara - Principia - Plan
Germisara may refer to: * Germisara (ancient city), an ancient Dacian and Roman settlement located in Hunedoara County, Romania * Germisara (castra), a Roman fort in Geoagiu, Hunedoara County, Romania * a walnut A walnut is the edible seed of a drupe of any tree of the genus ''Juglans'' (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, '' Juglans regia''. Although culinarily considered a "nut" and used as such, it is not a true ...

Germisara (ancient City)
Geoagiu ( hu, Algyógy, german: Gergesdorf) is a town in Hunedoara County, in the historical region of Transylvania, Romania, located on the Mureș River at an altitude of 217 metres above sea level. The river with the same name (Geoagiu) flows in this place into the Mureș. The town has a population of 5,049. It administers ten villages: Aurel Vlaicu (until 1925 ''Binținți''; ''Bencenc''), Băcâia (''Bakonya''), Bozeș (''Bózes''), Cigmău (''Csigmó''), Gelmar (''Gyalmár''), Geoagiu-Băi (''Feredőgyógy''), Homorod (''Homoród''), Mermezeu-Văleni (''Nyírmező''), Renghet (''Renget'') and Văleni (''Valény''). History The first settlements in the area can be found in the time of the Dacians, in the 1st century BC, as shown by archeological discoveries. After the Roman conquest, the Romans built the fort of Germisara in the 2nd century, however, it kept the original Dacian name. Germisara was defended by the Legio XIII Gemina. The name of ''Germisara'' meant "hot wa ...
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Germisara (castra)
It was a fort in the Roman province of Dacia, in modern day Romania, in the village area of Cigmău, in the municipality of Geoagiu, Hunedoara county in the Romanian region of Transylvania. Location In today's settlement, the ground monument is located almost two kilometres east of the village Cigmău and two kilometres south-west of the small town of Geoagiu in the undeveloped, agriculturally used or wasteland "Cetatea uriasilor" (fortress of the giants) or "Progadie". Topographically, it lies on a high terrace on the northern bank of the Mureș, about two and a half kilometres below the confluence of the Geoagiu River. In ancient times, the fort probably had the tactical task of monitoring the valley of Mureș and the strategic function of controlling an area in which numerous Dacian fortresses had been located before the Roman occupation. Administratively it was first located in the province of Dacia superior, later in the Dacia Apulensis. The Roman health resort Germis ...
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