Category: Fort
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Roman Imperial Palace Sarkamen
The Imperial Guard of Tsar Daja, near Negotin The Roman site of Vrelo is located on the left bank of the Vrel River, 6 km west of the village of Šarkamen near Negotin. This locality was first noted by Felix Kanic in 1889, and the architect Đurđe Bošković sketched the visible objects in 1947: a…
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Fortress Diana
Roman fortress near Karataš, Djerdap Castrum Diana was built on the very bank of the Danube, on a hill near the village of Sipa. The construction of the earliest earthen and wooden fortifications is related to the arrival of the first military formations on the Danube at the beginning of the 1st century. The stone…
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Viminatium
Kostolac, a Roman town and port, found boats a few years ago The remains of the Roman city and the legionary camp are located in the immediate vicinity of the village of Stari Kostolac, 12 km from Požarevac. As the capital of the province of Upper Moesia, it was an important military and administrative center.…
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Castellum Onagrinum
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…
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Rakovac
In the period from 1888 to 1889, the foundations of a stone-built Roman camp and brick-built tombs were discovered at the “Stručica” site. Based on the marks on the bricks, it was established that the VI Legion of Herculia and the III Cohort of Apinorum equitata resided here. In 1909, a hoard of Roman bronze…
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Bononia
The favorable geographical position of Banoštor on the northern slopes of Fruška Gora, at a place where there is a favorable crossing over the Danube, made it an important strategic place in all periods. Thus, in Banoštra, the Romans built the Bononia camp with a dock which, together with the Onagrinum fortress in Begeč on…
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Cusum
Kuzum, an ancient settlement located in the area of today’s Petrovaradin. As later archaeological excavations showed, R. Schmidt correctly assumed that the Romans built the fortress on the prehistoric hillfort, which they occupied, expanded and named Kuzum (Cuzum). This fortification is depicted in the ancient itinerary of the Tabula Peutingeriana. The Cusum camp is mentioned…
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Čerević
On Anton Kern’s estate, which was 200 m from the Danube bank, the remains of a Roman necropolis and the discovery of a tombstone with an inscription about a late Roman soldier who served in the II cohort Alpinorum were recorded. On the Gradac hill, halfway between Banoštor and Čerević, during reconnaissance in 1963, a…
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Ad Herculem
The remains of a late antique fortification at the site of Prisjanica, on the part of the Mihaljevačka forest near Čortanovaci, where sounding tests were carried out in the 1960s. On that occasion, the southeastern corner of the tower with a diameter of 13 m, thickness of walls 1.20 m and a preserved height of…