Road station

Daseusa

wohl bei Pağnik

Daseusa is a medieval slip: a copyist read a small c as an e, and the place was really Dascusa, on the Euphrates where the river has broken through the Antitaurus. The Roman writer Pliny made it a landmark: under Claudius the length of Armenia was measured from here, thirteen hundred miles to the Caspian Sea, and from here the river was navigable. Around 400 a cavalry regiment, the ala Auriana, held its fort near Pağnik, built from the stones of an older camp; an inscription of 82 AD found there names the governor Caesennius Gallus, who directed great road-building projects.

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