one city to another, Hence, Viminacium's thermae may also be singled out not only because of their lunury, but because of their specific architecture. The long period of time during which they were in use (ist — 4th century AD) makes possible a clear distinction bereen individual stages in their construction. The thermae were already in use in the 80S AD and during the excavations on the site, archaeologists found fragments of an amphora wth a preserved seal IMP DOMITIANL which unequivocally points to the younger Vespasian’s son, emperor Domitian (81-96 AD) and his involvement in this territory in the fighting of 85, 86 and 88 AD, when the Dacians overran the Moesian region. Taking into account the fact that the area of Virinacium is most ideally placed for troop regroupings at the entrance of Berdap section, it is possible that it was Viminacium vere Domitian stationed his lagions. tt is known that Dorritian also subdivided administratively the province of Moesia into Upper, which he referred to as Moesia Superior, and Lower, Moesia Inferior. Archacological oxcavations registored a total of S conchae of which 4 served as topidaria (warm water pools), whereas the fifth vas a frigidarium (cold water pool). The thermae were preserved at the hypocaust level, which reflects several stages of construction, Remnants of frescoplastering and marble tiling indicate that the thermae were lupuriously decorated. The flooring at the old thermae, vihich was placed on the small brick pillars, was covered with mosaics. A large number of discovered candles testify to the fact that the thermae were certainly used also at night Northern Gate (PORTA PRAETORIA) ny TT, scold ‘The Roman camp (castrum) at Viminacium was built in the first decades of the 1st century AD. The existence of an earthwork fortification, although not archaeologically confirmed, was very likaly built as early as the baginning of that century, and is a oe