{"slug": "castra", "label": "Castra", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castra", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88205", "qid": "Q88205", "description": "ancient Roman fortification", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-30, 775], "span_label": ["31 BCE", "775 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "romania", "label": "Romania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "attila", "label": "Attila", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "market-place", "label": "Market (place)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bonn", "label": "Bonn", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charlemagne", "label": "Charlemagne", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "saxons", "label": "Saxons", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "saxon-wars", "label": "Saxon Wars", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-saxony", "label": "Old Saxony", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -30, "year_label": "31 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Antony, alerted by Octavian's presence, sets up camp on the southern shore, at the promontory of Actium. He dispatches a force to isolate the camp of Octavian in the valley of Louros.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371049882#Roman_Republic", "title": "31 BC", "revid": 1371049882, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -10, "year_label": "11 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May", "text": "May – Drusus secures the Rhine frontier and builds Roman fortresses near Bonn, Dorsten, Haltern, and Oberaden.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372852967#Roman_Empire", "title": "11 BC", "revid": 1372852967, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 54, "year_label": "54 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Corbulo recruits Syrian auxiliary units in the region and stations them in border forts, with orders from Nero not to provoke the Parthians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Syrian", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 54 AD › Syrian"}}, {"year": 83, "year_label": "83 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Roman fort Inchtuthil is built in Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371506430#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 83", "revid": 1371506430, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 441, "year_label": "441 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Huns, led by Attila, attack Constanţa (modern Romania), one of the few remaining Roman forts on the northern bank of the Danube, and designated as a secure trading post. On a crowded market day, the Huns take the town by surprise and slaughter the garrison.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339010572#Byzantium", "title": "441", "revid": 1339010572, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantium"}}, {"year": 775, "year_label": "775 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Saxon Wars: King Charlemagne holds a major assembly at Quierzy (Northern France). He leads a Frankish army into Saxony to retake the castrum of Syburg (near Dortmund), then rebuilds and garrisons fortified Eresburg. He reaches the Weser at a place called Braunsberg, where the Saxons stand for battle, but are defeated when Frankish troops cross the river.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848014#Europe", "title": "775", "revid": 1340848014, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}