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Calisia

Calisia was a "station” on so-called "Amber Trail", mentioned by Ptolemy, formerly universally identified with Kalisz. Superficially, the results of new research - especially acceptance of the identity of Ptolemy's Leukaristos and Laugaritio / Leugaritio - do not have much evidence for this hypothesis. The name is well-known, firstly from his Geography as an important communication node on grounds north of the limes, and secondly from an inscription which a Roman squadron under the command of M. Valesius Maximianus spending the winter 179/180 near Trencin (Slovakia) left on a rock and from a biography that this commander engraved on a monument in Diana Veteranorum (Algeria). Calisia, according to Ptolemy, was situated on almost the same latitude as Leukaristos. The second argument is the location by the ancient geographer of the place known in Dacian as Setidava north of Calisia, which would be acceptable in Slovakia, but not in Central Poland.



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