„The history of the Roman auxilia was for the first time closely examined by C. Cichorius. An early attempt to discuss various topics and aspects related to the place and role of the auxiliary units in the Roman army belongs to G. L. Cheesman. For the study herein, of great significance are the studies of W. Wagner and K. Kraft4, who tackle, others also the units active on the territory of Moesia Superior. J. Beneš approaches the issue of auxiliaries from the two Moesiae and the Dacian provinces, initially in a 1970-study and then in a monograph issued in 1978.

In 1980, P. A. Holder also contributed an article to the basic reference work on the topic of Roman auxilia and their history in the Roman empire during the 1st century AD at a time when the evidence was limited (to some degree represented by military diplomas) and difficult to interpret together with our knowledge on the history auxiliary units known later to be stationed in the mentioned provinces. The special importance of the study consists in the attempt to equate the units recorded in the 1st century with those attested with certainty through 2nd century-military diplomas. The approach has been recently furthered by the publication of two overviews on the displacement of the auxiliaries under Trajan and Hadrian.” Introduction

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„The frontiers of the Roman Empire, over 5000 km long, stretch from the Atlantic coast of Scotland, along the Rhine and the Danube, also enclose the Banat region and Transylvania, then going down along the Oriental Carpathians to the Black Sea; from the southern coast of the Black Sea they continue towards the Near East until the Red Sea; then, in North Africa, they line the edge of the Sahara desert until the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Over this entire area, visible traces of fortifications, roads and settlements are still preserved, but numerous monuments still lay hidden underneath the earth. Despite the fact that the Roman frontiers crossed regions with different relief and climate, they constitute a whole in that they were designed to protect Roman territories. The research of these monuments and the preservation policy regarding them was and is unequal in the various presentday states on whose territory traces of the Roman frontier are to be found. Consequently, in the ‘80s of the 20th century, the idea of globally protecting the Roman frontiers, viewed as a unitary monument, was met. In 1987, Hadrian’s Wall in United Kingdom was declared a UNESCO monument. It was followed in 2005 by the German-Raetian sector, on which occasion the UNESCO committee decided to set up the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ site. (...)

This project through its complexity generated an interdisciplinary approach of the proposed subject stimulating such future attempts in the archaeological research field. By using the latest technical methods of non-destructive investigation the project did not damage the stratigraphy of the archaeological site obtaining instead a high amount of data otherwise time consuming judging from the archaeological excavations perspective contributing also to the preservation of the cultural heritage.” - Introduction

Istoria Regimentului al II-lea român de graniţă, cu statul major la Năsăud (1763–1851), din cadrul structurilor militare imperiale austriece, este cunoscută, atât ca urmare a rolului avut în unele evenimente istorice care i-au definit existenţa, cât şi datorită studiilor şi scrierilor istoriografice, mai vechi sau de dată mai recentă. Mult mai puţine date au fost publicate despre Batalionul I Grăniceresc de Gardă (1933–1940) – destinat, inițial, pentru a fi cantonat în Năsăud, dar instalat efectiv în garnizoana Bistriţa – înfiinţat de regele Carol al II-lea, menit a fi continuatorul vechiului regiment năsăudean, şi care a avut ca areal geografic de recrutare locuitorii din fostele comune grănicereşti. Tocmai de aceea, lucrarea de faţă îşi propune să ofere cititorilor un corpus documentar privitor la acest batalion prin publicarea sau reluarea unor materiale scrise, provenite din mai multe surse: Serviciul Judeţean Bistriţa-Năsăud al Arhivelor Naţionale, Muzeul Grăniceresc Năsăudean, Arhivele Militare Piteşti, presa vremii, însemnări memorialistice etc. (Editorii)