Monkodonja

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The walls of Monkodonja

Monkodonja is a mountain settlement near the town of Rovinj in the Croatian region of Istria , which was built during the Bronze Age from 1800 to 1200 BC. Was settled.

The fortified protourbane mountain settlement Monkodonja is about 250 m long, 155 m wide and has an oval shape. It consisted of three parts. The Acropolis was surrounded by a 1 km long, 3 m wide and over 3 m high protective wall on the summit . Remains of two gates were found on the wall: one in the west and one in the north. The gate in the west faced the coast and was greatly expanded and well fortified over time. The gate in the north was made simpler. Another gate is suspected to be in the south. Remains of complexly structured large stone and wooden buildings show that members of an upper class lived here. Outside the Acropolis were the upper and lower cities. There were craftsmen's houses and houses that were much simpler than the houses on the Acropolis. About 1000 people lived in the settlement. It was built and fortified for the first time in the developed Early Bronze Age and was abandoned before or during the beginning of the Urnfield Age .

Monkodonja had close ties with the Mycenaean culture of Greece, as evidenced by fragments of Mycenaean pottery found here. The settlement is one of the oldest urban complexes whose architecture was influenced by Greece .

literature

  • Bernhard Hänsel , Kristina Mihovilic, Biba Terzan: Monkodonja 1. Research on a protourban settlement from the Bronze Age of Istria. Habelt-Verlag, Pula 2015, ISBN 978-3-7749-3996-7 .
  • Hans-Dieter Kaspar, Elke Kaspar: Istria in prehistoric times. Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-9616-3 , pp. 154-167.

Web links

Commons : Monkodonja  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Monkodonja, building research on the Bronze Age protourban fortified settlement in Istria @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / baugeschichte.a.tu-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Institute for Prehistoric Archeology of the Free University of Berlin, Monkodonja research excavation @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de

Coordinates: 45 ° 4 ′ 14 "  N , 13 ° 41 ′ 53"  E