Burial mounds in Croatia
There are hundreds of more than 4000 years old burial mounds in Croatia . The systems, built from rubble, are called Gomila or Gromila in Croatian and are located in the karst areas on the Adriatic . In the hinterland of Poreč , in the area between Valkarin, Dracevac and Fuškulin, almost a dozen large hills are known.
Most of the prehistoric structures were built in the 2nd and 1st millennium BC. Built from the Middle Bronze Age to the end of the Iron Age , probably by the Illyrians and their predecessors. The burial of the Liburnian dead under burial mounds had been customary since the Copper Age . Smaller mounds were used as burial mounds, while some larger ones (up to 7 meters high and 60 meters long) were cenotaphs ( cenotaphs , empty graves) and places of worship.
In Maklavun in Istria , the Gromila (also called Maklavun Tholos) consists of a round hill surrounded by ramparts and ditches, in which there is an open oval area, which has an entrance at the narrowest point and is known as the "Istrian Stonehenge" . The plant is threatened by a quarry.