City
Napoca
Cluj-Napoca · Klausenburg
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Napoca lay on the site of an older Dacian settlement, and its name is apparently Dacian too; the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca still carries it. After Trajan conquered Dacia early in the second century AD, the town grew quickly and was soon counted among the most flourishing cities of the province. It became a municipium, a self-governing town, around the time of Hadrian, and a Roman colony under Marcus Aurelius. In the third century it housed the governor of Dacia Porolissensis, probably because the frontier post of Porolissum lay in more dangerous country, while Napoca sat in a busy but sheltered region.