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Storgozia is a late antique and early Byzantine fortress and settlement, the remains of which are in today's Kailaka Park in the town of Pleven in Central Northern Bulgaria.
The ancient settlement of Storgozia originates from a road station in the Roman Empire, built and functioning on a terrain today in the center of modern Pleven, and probably built on the site of an older Thracian settlement. There is a garrison in Storgozia composed of the Italian Legion, subdivision I, stationed in Nova (near present-day Svishtov). Better business conditions attract settlers from the surrounding small settlements to the station.
From 238 onwards, the Gothic tribes began raiding the Balkan territories of the Roman Empire, thus opening up an era of attacks aimed at changing the ethnic and political picture of the area. The repeated invasions over several years forced the Roman authorities to take measures to protect the population by reorganizing the settlement system and infrastructure of the provinces. The population of the road station moves south to the naturally fortified terrain of the Tuchenica River Gorge, part of which is Kailaka Park today.
