danube provinces

[Michael Kerr]

Rome and the Nomads: The Pontic-Danubian Realm in Antiquity by Roger Batty is a good book covering mainly Moesia and a little bit of Hungary and some of the invasions from the Sarmatians to the Turks but it might pay to shop around as it is expensive on Amazon. However it does point out the difference between the northern and southern banks of the lower Danube as the northern side had extensive wetlands and drainage systems making it hard for farming etc in antiquity before damming and draining of wetlands in last 150 years unlike the southern bank which in most places was higher and why for this reason invaders always sought to cross the Danube for the richer lands of the south bank.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rome-Nomads-Pont...the+nomads


Another good book which has a few pages on the Danube is Rivers & the Power of Ancient Rome by Brian Campbell but it covers all the major river systems of the Roman empire and not just the Danube.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rivers-Ancient-S...cient+rome

Regards
Michael Kerr mile: