August
20
/ 2019
A tiny, rare and unique piece of a Roman military diploma has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Deultum near the village of Debelt in Bulgaria. Deultum was built in the 1st century AD during the reign of Emperor Vespasian in what is now the southern Bulgarian town of Debelt in the Sredets Municipality. In Roman times Deultum was known as ‘Colonia Flavia Pacis Deultensium’. Along with Ratiaria near Archar and Ulpia Oescus near Gigen, Deultum was a Roman colony of such great importance that Roman law gave the city equal status to that of Rome itself and this was the only colony of free Roman citizens on the present Bulgarian territory. The ancient city boasts a huge
