Trajan’s Wall

A line of fortifications stretching acro the Dobrudscha from Czernavoda, where the Danube bends northwards, to a point of the Black Sea coast near Kustendji. It consists of a double, and in some places a triple, line of ramparts of earth, from 8 3 ⁄ 4 to 11 feet in height on the average (though occasionally it attains an altitude of 19 1 ⁄ 2 feet), bounded along its north side by a valley, which being generally marshy, and abounding in small lakes and pools, serves admirably the purpose of a fo e. During the war of 1854, Trajan’s wall became an important line of defense on the invasion of the Dobrudscha by the Ru ians, and the invaders were twice defeated in their attempts to pa it,—at Kostelli, (April 10), and Czernavoda (April 20-22).