Begeč:
It is one of the few Roman military camps built in Barbaricum, (contralimes), on the territory of Bačka. Its remains are located south of today’s settlement (on the banks of the Kuva and Atska), on an area of 40-50 ha, opposite Banoštor – the former Roman Bononia. It is recorded in ancient written sources (Ammianus Marcellinus: Reum gestarum libri XXXI; Fasti idatiani (for the year 294), and in Notitia dignitatum occ. XXXII 41 and 48 it is mentioned under its authentic ancient name: Contra Bononniam in castello Onagrinum).
The first field surveys of this locality were started at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century (1886 and 1902), and small-scale probing and protective archaeological excavations were carried out in 1967, 1974 and 1975. Architectural remains of the fortification were then found: parts of the southern rampart, towers and piers and mobile archaeological findings (settlement material remains: Roman-provincial and local pottery, remains of various iron objects, weapons, agricultural tools, and fragments of architectural stone elements, Roman bricks (with the mark of the Roman legion VI Herculia), tegula and imbrex. In addition to the remains of this important ancient fortification, archaeologists also found remains of burials from several periods: northeast of the castle, a Sarmatian, late antique necropolis was recorded, and in the area next to the southwestern part of the fortification, remains of burials from the early medieval (IX century) and late medieval (XVI-XVII centuries ) times.
According to written historical sources, the fortress was the seat of a prefect, the commander of the legion detachments Legio V Iovia and Legio VI Herculia and detachments of auxiliary troops auxillia Augustensia and eljuites Dalmatae.
