{"id":62116,"date":"2020-04-29T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T07:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=62116"},"modified":"2020-04-29T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T07:57:52","slug":"remains-of-the-deva-victrix-roman-camp-in-england","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/remains-of-the-deva-victrix-roman-camp-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Remains of the Deva Victrix &#8211; Roman camp in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Chester (northern England) there are remains (walls and towers) of the Roman military <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/roman-camp\/\">camp<\/a> Deva Victrix, which was founded around 70 CE. It was built by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/units-of-roman-army\/roman-legion\/\">Legion<\/a> II Adiutrix.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the name of the camp derives from the deity of the river Dee and the name of the legion, which then stationed here &#8211; the Legion XX Valeria Victrix.<\/p>\n<p>The fort controlled the bridge over the Dee River and had a typical rectangular shape with rounded corners. The camp (covering 25 ha) was surrounded by a 2-meter wide ditch. It was the largest military complex in Britain. The fort had barracks, granaries, workshops, bathhouse and headquarters &#8211; <em>principia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After 80 CE there was an expansion of the fort, which received massive walls, and a settlement began to shape around the camp, which over time had i.e. amphitheatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":62112,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[69,89],"class_list":["post-62116","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-monuments","kategorie_ciekawostek-places"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/62116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/62116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=62116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}