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What Lies Beneath: Revealing the Liburnian Character of a Roman Townscape in Northern Dalmatia

Croatia’s Ravni Kotari has been described as the most urbanized region of Dalmatia in antiquity. It supported the Roman colony of Iader (present-day Zadar) and a suite of municipia that included Aenona, Asseria, Corinium, Nedinum, and Varvaria. Although the distribution of settlements during Antiquity was certainly pronounced, the historical, epigraphic, and archaeological records make it clear that the Ravni Kotari had already experienced a period of intense urbanization during the preceding Iron Age. Yet, as with most ruined cities and towns, unraveling their millennial-scale histories has proven difficult due to the sheer volume of the archaeological deposits and the palimpsestic nature of urban records. However, recent collaborative work at Nadin-Gradina (Nedinum) is beginning to expose the ways in which the Iron Age settlement beneath continued to shape the local character of the town during the Roman era. With an explicit focus on urbanization and landscape change, the Nadin-Gradina Archaeological Project has documented a remarkable continuity expressed in the urban built environment from the early first millennium BCE into the sixth century CE. In this paper, we propose that the greatest factor in shaping the character of Antique Nedinum stemmed from its local roots in a Liburnian hillfort a millennium earlier.

Nadin, Liburnia, Iron Age, Antiquity, urbanization

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