Dausdava

Dausdava (also spelled Dausadava) was a Dacian town in the Roman province of Moesia, situated between the Danube and the Balkan Mountains in the region between Nicopolis (modern Nikopol) and Abritus (modern Razgrad) in present-day northern Bulgaria. The settlement is recorded by Ptolemy in his Geographia (2nd century CE) and belongs to a group of ten Dacian -dava towns documented in Lower Moesia and Scythia Minor. The suffix -dava means 'city' or 'fortress' in the Dacian language, indicating Dausdava was a significant fortified tribal centre.