Poiana
Settlement on the left bank of the Siret near the mouth of the Trotuş, at the crossing of the commercial roads which connect the Danube Delta with Dacia and the Carpathian-Baltic north. The oppidum of Poiana, founded in the Bronze Age, survived into the Iron Age. From the beginning of the 4th c. B.C. until the 1st c. A.D. it was a Geto-Dacian center, and has been tentatively identified with Piroboridava, which Ptolemy placed near the Siret (Geog. 3.10.8). The site was fortified by a ditch and a vallum. The houses built of wood and adobe were rectangular. About 20 tumuli containing cremation graves of the Dacian period were found near the settlement.
Archaeological research has revealed pottery, tools, arms, and ornamental objects both local and imported. The settlement was abandoned at the end of the 1st c. A.D., most probably after Domitian's war against the Dacians.
BIBLIOGRAPHYR. Vulpe, “La civilisation dace à la lumière des fouilles de Poiana,” Dacia, NS 1 (1957) 143-64; id., “La Valachie et la Basse-Moldavie sous les Romains,” Dacia, NS 5 (1961) 365-93.
E. DORUTIU-BOILA