Brigetio őrtorny, Limes
Slovakia
The name is older than Rome. Brigetio is Celtic, built on the root brig, a word related to the German Berg, meaning mountain, and the Old Church Slavonic breg, meaning a bank or hillside. Before the legions came, this stretch of the Danube's right bank, now Szőny on the edge of Komárom, was home to a settlement of the Celtic Azali tribe. A watchtower on the frontier line, the limes, is what draws you here, but be clear about one thing from the start: the source behind this chapter describes the great fortress and town of Brigetio, not the tower itself, so its exact age and form go unrecorded here. What can be told is the story of the place it guarded.
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