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Episcopus Cessensis and the Castellum in Madona Bay on the Brioni Islands, Croatia

The available archaeological evidence to date strongly indicates that the church of St. Mary on the Brioni islands in Istria(Roman Istria) was for a period of time the episocopal church of the bishops Vindemius(6thc.) and Ursinus(7th c.), named in historical sources as episcopus Cessensis and Cesensis respectively. M. Suić argued that the name Cessensis derived from the toponym Cissa Pullaria, given for the Brioni islands by Pliny the Elder in his description of the Adriatic islands(Plin., Nat.3, 151). The same toponymic designation features in the 5th c. Notitia Dignitatum, where it is used for the baphium cissense, the imperial fullonica for Venetia and Histria, which Suić also locates on the Brioni islands. The fifth and sixth centuries in Histria should be seen in the light of major geopolitical and cultural changes in the Mediterranean. That was the time of intensive militarization of the Adriatic region and consequently of restructuring and fortification of the coastal and islad settlements. Power, practical and spiritual, shifted to Christian authorities, and the surge in church building was a consequence. On Brioni the civic and ecclestic innovations centered on Madona bay, a large and protected bay with an agglomerated settlement, which grew around a villa rustica and recieved fortifications in Late Antiquity.

Byzantine period, 6th and 7th century, castellum, Episcopus Cessensis, Brioni islands, Histria

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