title: Naval Supply Lines for the Roman Army in Moesia Inferior – Basic Considerations for the Danube Underwater Heritage Project
abstract: Around the Black Sea significant settlements were created during the Greek colonization. Towards the middle of the 1 st century A.D. the area known as Moesia was stepwise developed into a province and equipped with fortifications, as the limes was following the Danube. Supplies and resources that could not be acquired locally, but were needed by the garrisons, had to be brought in, preferably by ship. Eventually, army camps were built along the last stretch of the Danube between the Yantra tribu