Decebalus' sculpture- Romania
The rock sculpture of Decebalus is a 42.9 m in height and 31.6 m in width carving in rock of the face of Decebalus, the last king of Dacia, who fought against the Roman emperors Domitian and Trajan to preserve the independence of his country, which corresponded to modern Romania. The sculpture was made between 1994 and 2004, on a rocky outcrop on the river Danube, at the Iron Gates, which form the border between Romania and Serbia. It is located near the city of Orșova in Romania.
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- Europe (3777)
- Eastern Europe (448)
- Romania (94)
- Exact location (22.4387 E, 44.7129 N)
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4037 × 2348 px;
image/jpeg; 2.3 MB
Submitted on 24 February 2017
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Credit
Cristina Nicolaita (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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