Intercisa [antikvár]

PARENTIBUS CARISSIMISIntercisa in the 1st and 2nd CenturiesA Roman thoroughness, caution and circumspection were the characteristics of the expansionist policy of the Emperor Augustus. The strategic objective was always the complete conquest of a territory that could be demarcated economically and geographically as well as ethnically, though this latter was a condition of secondary importance only. Pannónia was also conquered with a view to expanding the Empire as far as the Danube, although it was not so much creating river boundaries but rather solving the question of river transport that Roman leaders had in mind. Owing to the lack of roads and the slowness of land transport the Danube and the Rhine were the routes both for transport and for commerce which connected the internal regions of Europe with the seas.According to the most recent research on the period of more than halfa century following the conquest, the Roman forces were mostly stationed in interior areas, where they had to solve the problems of internal policy too. The communities of the natives were organized into civitates under military leadership. This enabled the tribal aristocracy to rise and rendered a gradual adoption of Roman achievements in economic life possible. Our sources do not mention any movement against Rome in the territories north of the river Drava so it may be assumed that the annexation of this part of the province took place under peaceful conditions.During the greater part of the first century A.D. the state of foreign policy had also taken a favourable turn. No hostile raids need be feared. Treaties of alliance had been signed both with the Germanic peoples living north of the Danube and with the Sar-matians who had settled down in the Great Hungarian Plain about the beginning of our era, which ensured peaceful connections for several decades.The Eravisci, a Celtic people, were the original inhabitants of the area of Dunaújváros. The centre of the tribe may be assumed to have been on Gellért Hill in the Budapest of today, whereas the frontier of the civitas the Romans had organized stretched from the bend of the Danube to Lake Balaton and, running as far as the middle of the present Tolna County, it reached the Danube again. Although we know of several Celtic settlements in the region ofh