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 [1] [2] [3] [4]. 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 [4] [5] [6]. The suffix -dava means 'city' or 'fortress' in the Dacian language [3].