Gračine Castle
The fort Gračine (in the literature as a fort Bigeste called) is a Roman military camp , which in the village Humac (municipality Ljubuški ) in Bosnia and Herzegovina is. Its crew consisted of auxiliary troops.
Location and research history
The fortification was built around 20 km north of the ancient city of Narona on a gentle hill on the left bank of the Trebižat in the Roman province of Dalmatia . Presumably the fort was a fort for auxiliary troops ( auxilia ) , which housed a partially mounted cohort of around 500 men. As early as the 19th century, researchers referred to the ruins as the Bigeste Fort . The fort has since been declared a National Monument of the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and the European Union is also financially involved in maintaining it.
Building history
It is assumed that the complex was built shortly before the turn of the century, but was completed in 14 AD at the latest.
Vicus and fire burial ground
The fort also became known in research for its early imperial tombstones, whose inscriptions name four cohorts . These were not stationed at this place at the same time.
literature
- August Friedrich von Pauly , Georg Wissowa: Paulys Real Encyclopedia of Classical Classical Studies . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1968, p. 1015
Remarks
- ↑ Radoslav Dodig: Ljubuško silo - Br. 4 , Grafotisak Grude, July 2008, p. 25.
- ^ Alan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott: The Cambridge ancient history - Vol. X - The Augustan Empire , 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-521-26430-8 , pp. 571-572.
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Coordinates: 43 ° 10 ′ 56 ″ N , 17 ° 31 ′ 44 ″ E
