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To command and coordinate this long, exposed line, the Romans built a military camp called Aquincum, which became the home of some 6,000 soldiers, and in time spawned civilian suburbs that housed up to ten times that number.
Next to the church is all that remains of Contra-Aquincum — an excavated square with benches and a small display of tablets and reliefs found on the site.
The third and most important site is that of Aquincum, a civil town for the artisans, merchants, priests, and other non-military staff attached to the legion.
As the Roman empire began to crumble, however, Huns and Vandals swarmed over the river, and during the early fifth century Aquincum fell to the tribes of Attila.
In a.d. 106 Aquincum was made the capital of the Roman empire’s province of Lower Pannonia, and its amphitheatres, bathing complexes, aqueducts, and the sheer size and quality of the remains unearthed in present-day Obuda testify to its former importance.