Category: Rome
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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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Vicus Josista
Beočin Vicus Josista village, villa rustica and tower In the atar of the village at the beginning of the 20th century, several finds from the Roman period were discovered, the most important of which is a stone find – međajash, on which is carved the inscription of the Roman name of the village – Josista.…
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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…
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Acumincum
Acuminkum (lat. Acumincum, in Serbian Gradina) is an ancient fortress and a medieval fortress located on the banks of the Danube, on a loess plateau. The name Acuminkum itself is originally a Celtic word. The Roman fort was built on the dominant hill “Gradin”, above the present-day Stari Slankamen, on the right bank of the…
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Bassianae
The remains of the Roman city of Bassianae are located north of the village of Donji Petrovci, along its outskirts, in the village pasture. It is situated on a raised plateau, which rises above the level of the surrounding terrain by 1.5 to 3 m. The Međeš stream flows from the western side of the…