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Serdica (Sofia)

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Serdica: Roman town, modern Sofia.

Roman baths and Rotunda Church

Thracian town, named after the original inhabitants, the Serdi
After 342/341 BCE: briefly occupied by Philip II and Alexander the Great
29 BCE: occupied by the Romans
Rank of municipium during the reign of Trajan (r.98-117): Municipium Ulpia Serdica
Diocletian: capital of Dacia Mediterranea
311 Galerius ends the Diocletianic Persecution of Christianity.
343 Council of Serdica (site of Byzantine church St Sofia)
447 sacked by the Huns
Justinian: new wall, renamed Triaditsa
Byzantine until early ninth century

Serdica, Poster invitation for a venatio; Venus and Cybele

Serdica, Poster invitation for a venatio

Serdica, Poster invitation for a venatio: clowns imitating gladiators