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Tricciana-park (római emlékhely)
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Tricciana-park (római emlékhely)

📍 Petőfi Sándor utca 34, Ságvár, 8654

Tricciana-park is a Roman memorial set in the village known in Latin as Ságvár—Tricciana. The name itself tells a layered story: local legends say the settlement was named after a pasha called Ság who had a castle here, and researchers link “Ság” to an older Hungarian personal name—where “ság” meant domb (“hill”) or erdős magaslat (“wooded heights”). The second part, “vár”—“castle”—points to Roman traces of a fortification in Ságvár, remembered in the very place-name. In the 18th century, László Szita describes the settlement as completely Hungarian, showing how a Roman military site’s legacy was absorbed into later local identity. Tricciana-park therefore belongs not just to village heritage, but to the broader story of the Pannonian limes—Ripa Pannonica—where the Roman border system shaped the landscape long before its names survived in memory.

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