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Topographies of Power on the Borders – A Case Study of 9th Cenutry Architectural Complexes in the Vicinities of Zadar, Trogir and Split

The architectural complexes in Galovac, Bijaći, and Rižinice certainly rank among the most important early Pre-Romanesque sites in Croatia. Galovac is a case of an Early Christian church adapted sometime around the year 800, with another installment of church furniture just a few decades later. Bijaći present a more complex case with a completely new Pre-Romanesque church built at about the same time, together with a larger architectural complex, and on the site of a former Early Christian church and other late antique architecture. Its new church furniture witnesses changes at least two times within only a few decades. At Rižinice there are two buildings with apses and remains of a larger late antique architectural complex, adapted and reused in the Early Middle Ages. It also yielded finds of two different sets of Pre-Romanesque church furniture from the first half to the middle of the 9th century. All three sites are connected with the ruling class of the Dalmatian hinterland of the time, whether indirectly through employment of a specific Pre-Romanesque workshop and distinguished burials in sarcophagi, or more directly by mention in documents of Croatian dukes. Therefore their location on the edges of municipal territories of the Dalmatian coastal towns mainly under Byzantine authority can by no means have been accidental. This paper will thus explore these circumstances in more detail, discussing the role of the sites in the wider network of places of power, and in the power relations of coastal towns and the Slavic hinterland, of Byzantium and the Croats and Franks.

pre-Romanesque ; churches ; church furniture ; early medieval Croatia ;

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