Zobor
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| height | 588 m nm | |
| location | Western Slovakia | |
| Mountains | Tribetz Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 20 ′ 40 " N , 18 ° 6 ′ 20" E | |
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 View from the rocks of Zobor to Nitra |
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The Zobor is the local mountain of the western Slovak city of Nitra . It dominates the cityscape - not only when looking north - with its height of 588 meters, which is about 450 meters higher than that of the city.
The summit, which is accessible by several hiking trails, can be climbed directly from the northern or northeastern outskirts. Towards the city it drops steeply with some imposing rock walls, from where you therefore have an impressive view of Nitra and the meander of the river of the same name .
There is a rampart on the mountain. Individual finds from the Roman Empire suggest that the mountain was settled at that time. The mountain also seems to have been inhabited in the early Slavic period. A notched silver fibula from the 7th century came to light on the south-eastern part of the castle ramparts . This is a bow or radiation primer. It is similar to other fibulae that were found together with Slavic ceramics of the Prague type or in an Avar grave near Kiskörös ( Pest county ). Brooches of this type are dated to the first half of the 7th century. There are also individual finds from the 8th and 9th centuries.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karol Pieta: hill settlements of the migration of peoples in the northern Carpathian basin (p. 472). In: Heiko Steuer , Volker Bierbrauer (Ed.): Hill settlements between antiquity and the Middle Ages from the Ardennes to the Adriatic. With the assistance of Michael Hoeper. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020235-9 , ( Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde supplementary volumes 58).