- Department of History and Archaeology
Faculty of Arts
25 Wally’s Walk
Macquarie University
North Ryde, NSW 2109
Australia
Danijel Džino
Macquarie University, History and Archaeology, Faculty Member
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology. Medieval Archaeology, Anthropology, Social Identities, Material Culture, Artefact Studies, Diaspora Studies, Trade and Exchange, Archaeology of Identity, History of the Adriatic, Balkan History, Balkan Studies, and 95 moreBosnia, Post-Colonial Theory, Early Medieval Studies, South East European Studies, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Archaeology of ethnicity, Balkan archaeology, Iron Age (Archaeology) (Archaeology), Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmatian history, Roman History, Cross-cultural interaction (Archaeology), Croatian History, Balkan prehistory, Race and Ethnicity, Medieval Croatian History, Croatian Archaeology, Central European history, Archaeology of Croatia, Slavic Archaeology, Slavic Studies, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Ancient Illyricum, Carolingian Studies, History, Nationalism And State Building, Nationalism and Archaeology, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Bosnian History, Serbian history, History and geography of the Adriatic, Medieval Balkans, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Southeastern Europe, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Romanisation, Romanization, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Ethnography of Balkans, Western Balkans, Perceptions of the Past, Ancient History, Spatantike, Barbarians, The Roman Empire, Etnogenesis, Slaves, Byzantine history and archaeology, Early medieval Bulgaria, Kievan Rus', Byzantine historiography, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Eurasian Nomads, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Barbarians societies, Late Antiquity, Ethnogenesis, Funerary World, Goths, Vandals, Sueves, Alans, Barbarian societies, Barbarians Perception, Illyrian History, Illyrians, Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Dalmacija, Classical Archaeology, The Adriatic Sea in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Povijest, Hrvatska povijest, Iron Age, Archaeology, Roman Provincial Art, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Roman imperialism, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Viking Age Archaeology, Church History, Latin Epigraphy, Celtic Archaeology, Viking Age Scandinavia, Early Christian Architecture, Dark Ages History, Archaeological Excavation, Early Christian Archaeology, Christian Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Balkan Medieval History and Archaeology, Diplomatic History, and Byzantine Archaeology edit
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I am a kind of Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University. My research in... moreI am a kind of Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University.
My research interests are focused on the region of ancient and early medieval Illyricum. My particular research passions are the issues related to the identity of the pre-Roman indigenous population and their identity-transformations in the Roman and post-Roman periods. The other area of interest is the modern perception of those identities and their role in the construction of ethnic identities in post-Yugoslav spaces.
If interested, you can check my list of publications (including forthcoming) and the other details such as conference presentations from uploaded CV. edit
This book explores social transformations which led to the establishment of medieval Hum (future Herzegovina) and Bosnia in the period from ca. 450 to 1200 AD using the available written and material sources. It follows social and... more
This book explores social transformations which led to the establishment of medieval Hum (future Herzegovina) and Bosnia in the period from ca. 450 to 1200 AD using the available written and material sources. It follows social and political developments in these historical regions from the last centuries of Late Antiquity, through the social collapse of the seventh and eighth centuries, and into their new medieval beginnings in the ninth. Fragmentary and problematic sources from this period were, in the past, often used to justify modern political claims to these contested territories and incorporate them into the ‘national biographies’ of the Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), or to support the ‘Yugoslavizing’ and other ideological discourses.
The book goes beyond ideological and national mythologemes of the past in order to provide a new historical narrative that brings more light to this region placed on the frontiers of both the medieval West and the Byzantine empire. It provides a new views of the period between ca. 450 and 1200 for the parts of Western Balkans and Eastern Adriatic, brings the most recent local historical and archaeological research to the Anglophone readership, and contributes to the scholarship of the late antique and early medieval Mediterranean with study of very poorly known area.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Setting the stage
2 (A long overdue) essay on historiography and archaeology of late antique and early medieval Hum and Bosnia
3 The Prelude: Making of imperial society
4 ‘Long’ Sixth century (ca. 450-630)
5 The Dark Age Interlude (ca. 630-800)
6 "The Force Awakens": The Ninth Century
7 The Lords of Hum
8 "Good ol’ days of ban Kulin": The birth of Bosnia
https://www.routledge.com/Early-Medieval-Hum-and-Bosnia-ca-450-1200-Beyond-Myths/Dzino/p/book/9781032047928
The book goes beyond ideological and national mythologemes of the past in order to provide a new historical narrative that brings more light to this region placed on the frontiers of both the medieval West and the Byzantine empire. It provides a new views of the period between ca. 450 and 1200 for the parts of Western Balkans and Eastern Adriatic, brings the most recent local historical and archaeological research to the Anglophone readership, and contributes to the scholarship of the late antique and early medieval Mediterranean with study of very poorly known area.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Setting the stage
2 (A long overdue) essay on historiography and archaeology of late antique and early medieval Hum and Bosnia
3 The Prelude: Making of imperial society
4 ‘Long’ Sixth century (ca. 450-630)
5 The Dark Age Interlude (ca. 630-800)
6 "The Force Awakens": The Ninth Century
7 The Lords of Hum
8 "Good ol’ days of ban Kulin": The birth of Bosnia
https://www.routledge.com/Early-Medieval-Hum-and-Bosnia-ca-450-1200-Beyond-Myths/Dzino/p/book/9781032047928
Research Interests:
Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, and 15 moreCroatian History, Serbian history, Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages (History), Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Balkans, Bosnian History, early Middle Ages, History of the Balkans, medieval Bosnia, Historija srednjovjekovne Bosne, Bosna I Hercegovina, and Balkan Studies
Liburnians and Illyrian Lembs: Iron Age Ships of the Eastern Adriatic explores the origins of two types of ancient ship which appear in the written sources connected with the protohistoric eastern Adriatic area: the ‘Liburnian’ (liburna... more
Liburnians and Illyrian Lembs: Iron Age Ships of the Eastern Adriatic explores the origins of two types of ancient ship which appear in the written sources connected with the protohistoric eastern Adriatic area: the ‘Liburnian’ (liburna or liburnica) and the southern Adriatic (Illyrian) ‘lemb’. The relative abundance of written sources suggests that both ships played significant roles in ancient times, especially the Liburnian, which became the main type of light warship in early Roman imperial fleets and ultimately evolved into a generic name for warships in the Roman Imperial period and Late Antiquity. The book provides an extensive overview of written, iconographic and archaeological evidence on eastern Adriatic shipbuilding traditions before the Roman conquest in the late first century BC / early first century AD, questioning the existing scholarly assumption that the liburna and lemb were closely related, or even that they represent two sub-types of the same ship. The analysis shows that identification of the Liburnian liburna and Illyrian lemb as more or less the same ship originates from the stereotypical and essentially wrong assumption in older scholarship that the prehistoric indigenous population of the eastern Adriatic shared the same culture and, roughly, the same identities. The main point made in the book is that two different terms, liburna and lemb, were used in the sources depicting these as two different kinds of ship, rather than being interchangeable terms depicting the same ship type.
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History, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology, Naval History, and 13 moreRoman Republic, Mediterranean Underwater Archaeology, Iron Age, Ancient Shipwrecks, Ancient Illyricum, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, History of the Adriatic, Ancient naval warfare, Illyrian Archaeology, Graeco-Roman Shipbuilding, Ancient Ships, Illyrians, and Ancient and Medieval Shipbuilding
Please follow the link to the publisher's page for more details
https://www.routledge.com/From-Justinian-to-Branimir-The-Making-of-the-Middle-Ages-in-Dalmatia/Dzino/p/book/9780367280048
https://www.routledge.com/From-Justinian-to-Branimir-The-Making-of-the-Middle-Ages-in-Dalmatia/Dzino/p/book/9780367280048
Research Interests:
History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Medieval History, and 15 moreMedieval Studies, Late Antique Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History, Byzantine Archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Povijest, and Balkan Medieval History and Archaeology
Research Interests:
Roman History, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Roman Religion, and 47 moreBosnia, Central Europe, Central European history, Perceptions of the Past, Croatian History, Ethnography of Balkans, Roman military history, Roman Army, Southeastern Europe, Roman Empire, Augustan Principate, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Dalmatian history, Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Iron Age, Central and Eastern Europe, Ancient Illyria, Balkans, Roman imperialism, Adriatic Sea, Illyrian Wars, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian History, Serbia, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Dacians, Western Balkans, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Iron Age Europe, Croatia, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, History of the Adriatic, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Illyrian Archaeology, Serbian Archaeology, Roman Dalmatia, Illyrians, Iliri, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Roman Illyria, Illyrian History, Illyria, and Illyrian History and Archaeology
Late antique identities from the Western Balkans were transformed into new, Slavic identities after c. 600 AD. It was a process that is still having continuous impact on the discursive constructions of ethnic and regional identities in... more
Late antique identities from the Western Balkans were transformed into new, Slavic identities after c. 600 AD. It was a process that is still having continuous impact on the discursive constructions of ethnic and regional identities in the area. Building on the new ways of reading and studying available sources from late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the book explores the appearance of the Croats in early medieval Dalmatia (the southern parts of modern-day Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina). The appearance of the early medieval Croat identity is seen as a part of the wider process of identity-transformations in post-Roman Europe, the ultimate result of the identity-negotiation between the descendants of the late antique population and the immigrant groups.
Research Interests:
History, Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Balkan Studies, and 43 moreBalkan History, Late Antique Archaeology, Bosnia, Croatian, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, National Identity, Late Antiquity, Migration History, Early Medieval And Medieval Settlement (Archaeology), 1st Millennium AD (Archaeology), Yugoslavia (History), Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Early Medieval Studies, Dalmatian history, Early Medieval Europe (Archaeology), Archaeology of Identity, Slavic, Historia, Adriatic Sea, Slavic Studies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Storia medievale, Bosnian History, Croatian Archaeology, Croatia, Bosna, Slavic Archaeology, History of the Adriatic, Russian and Slavonic Studies, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, medieval Bosnia, Bosna and Herzegovina, Ethnicity and National Identity, Early Medieval Period, The Adriatic Sea in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, and Early Medieval Times
Illyricum, in the western Balkan peninsula, was a strategically important area of the Roman Empire where the process of Roman imperialism began early and lasted for several centuries. Dzino here examines Roman political conduct in... more
Illyricum, in the western Balkan peninsula, was a strategically important area of the Roman Empire where the process of Roman imperialism began early and lasted for several centuries. Dzino here examines Roman political conduct in Illyricum; the development of Illyricum in Roman political discourse; and the beginning of the process that would integrate Illyricum into the Roman Empire and wider networks of the Mediterranean world. In addition, he also explores the different narrative histories, from the Romanocentric narrative of power and Roman military conquest, which dominate the available sources, to other, earlier scholarly interpretations of events.
Research Interests:
History, Ancient History, Roman History, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, and 20 moreRoman Republic, Roman Army, Roman Empire, Augustan Principate, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Dalmatian history, Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Late Roman Republic, Roman imperialism, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Greco-Roman World, History of the Adriatic, Illyrian Archaeology, Illyrians, and Illyrian History
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ECEE collection Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire off ers insights into the Carolingian southeastern frontier-zone from historical, art-historical and archaeological... more
ECEE collection Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire off ers insights into the Carolingian southeastern frontier-zone from historical, art-historical and archaeological perspectives. Chapters in this volume discuss the significance of the early medieval period for scholarly and public discourses in the Western Balkans and Central Europe, and the transfer of knowledge between local scholarship and macro-narratives of Mediterranean and Western history. Other essays explore the ways local communities around the Adriatic (Istria, Dalmatia, Dalmatian hinterland, southern Pannonia) established and maintained social networks and integrated foreign cultural templates into their existing cultural habitus.
Research Interests:
Christianity, History, Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and 86 moreMedieval History, Medieval Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Historiography, Bosnia, Croatian, Yugoslavia, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, Medieval Europe, Byzantine History, Viking Age Archaeology, Byzantine Archaeology, Historical Migrations, Carolingian Studies, Early Medieval And Medieval Settlement (Archaeology), History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Medieval Art, Early Middle Ages (History), Southeastern Europe, Yugoslavia (History), Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Early Medieval Studies, Dalmatian history, Slovenian History, Medieval Christianity, Former Yugoslavia, Balkans, Dark Ages History, Historia, Arheology, Adriatic Sea, Istrian history, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Archeologia medievale, Storia medievale, Geschichte, Pannonia, early Middle Ages, Histoire Médiévale, Middle Ages, Slavs, Southeast Europe, Dalmatian hinterland, História, Croatia, Historia Medieval, Istorie, Arheologie, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, medieval Bosnia, medieval Bosnia; medieval Dalmatia, medieval Dalmatia, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Dalmacija, Arheologija, Archaeology Of The Migration Period And The Early Middle Ages, Istorija, Bosna and Herzegovina, Christianization in Medieval Europe, Superstition, Germany and Eastern Europe countries, Histoire Medievale, Carolingian History, Early Medieval Period, The Adriatic Sea in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Povijest, Balkan Medieval History and Archaeology, Early Slavs, Mare Adriatico, Historija, Srednjovjekovna Arheologija, Hrvatska povijest, Historija srednjovjekovne Bosne, History of the (Early) Middle Ages, Srednjovjekovna Bosna, Carantania, Archeology Slavs, Povijest Dalmacije, and Avars Gepids Suebs Slavs Longobards
Research Interests:
History, Ancient History, Intellectual History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and 37 moreMedieval History, Byzantine Literature, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Bosnia, Early Medieval History, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, History of Florence, Egypt, Byzantine History, Byzantine Architecture, Byzantine Archaeology, Ancient Persia, Late Roman Empire, History of Historiography, Late Antique Art and Archaeology, Balkan archaeology, Euripides, Medieval Balkans, Byzantine historiography, Procopius, Thracian provinces of the Roman Empire, Slavic Studies, Croatian Archaeology, Justinian I, Emperor, Slavic Archaeology, Byzantine art, History of the Adriatic, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Antiquite Tardive, Renaissance Florence, Justinian, Byzantine history and archaeology, Ancient Ethnicity and Identity, and Byzantine Diplomatics (Imperial and Patriarchal Chancellery)
This book is a collection of papers which are the result of a conference on Power and Emotions in Antiquity, which was held at the University of Adelaide in December 2008, on the occasion of the retirement of Dr. Ron Newbold. The main aim... more
This book is a collection of papers which are the result of a conference on Power and Emotions in Antiquity, which was held at the University of Adelaide in December 2008, on the occasion of the retirement of Dr. Ron Newbold. The main aim of this collection is to explore the issues of power and emotions and their relationships with the ancient world, using written sources such as personal letters, speeches, philosophical or historical writings. The book explores different aspects in which power and emotions co-existed in the Roman Imperial and Late Antique world, in the time span stretching from the High Empire of Marcus Aurelius to the post-Roman world of Gregory of Tours and the Frankish kings.
The papers in this book explore topics such as: self-addressing in the works of the emperor Marcus Aurelius; the struggle for control in the writings of St. Jerome; the consequences of the riot of the statues in 4th century Antioch; the place of rage as a virtue in the literature of the fourth century; insult and rage in the work of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus; love and grief in the letters of the Austrasian Frankish queen Brunhild; and the more global problems of power relations and identity transformations occurring in the world of late antiquity.
The papers in this book explore topics such as: self-addressing in the works of the emperor Marcus Aurelius; the struggle for control in the writings of St. Jerome; the consequences of the riot of the statues in 4th century Antioch; the place of rage as a virtue in the literature of the fourth century; insult and rage in the work of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus; love and grief in the letters of the Austrasian Frankish queen Brunhild; and the more global problems of power relations and identity transformations occurring in the world of late antiquity.
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History, Archaeology, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Migration, and 10 moreLate Antiquity, Migration Studies, Balkan archaeology, Medieval Balkans, Middle Ages, Archaeology Of The Migration Period And The Early Middle Ages, Istorija, Medieval Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Povijest, and Historija
Research Interests:
History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Balkan History, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Croatian History, and 12 moreByzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History, Balkan archaeology, Dalmatian history, early Middle Ages, Middle Ages, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Dalmatia, Istorija, Povijest, and Historija
This paper analyses the available evidence for habitation of the ancient Dalmatian capital Salona during the seventh and eighth centuries. The existing scholarship, with few exceptions, accepts that Salona was taken by the Slavs and Avars... more
This paper analyses the available evidence for habitation of the ancient Dalmatian capital Salona during the seventh and eighth centuries. The existing scholarship, with few exceptions, accepts that Salona was taken by the Slavs and Avars before mid-seventh century, probably within the decades of 620s or 630s. However, the lack of archaeological evidence proving the destruction of the city creates space for arguments that the city did not meet a violent end, but rather that it slowly died out, as argued in the works of Rapanić, Goldstein, Budak and the present author. The paper argues that Salona did not meet a violent end in seventh century, but that some kind of habitation existed until eighth century. One plausible possibility could be that some traumatic event happened in eighth century, ending continuity of life within the city-walls.
Research Interests:
History, Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Medieval History, and 14 moreMedieval Studies, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Archaeology, Early Middle Ages (History), Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Slavic Studies, Slavic Archaeology, and Dalmatia
Research Interests:
Roman History, Hellenistic History, Naval History, Roman Republic, Balkan prehistory, and 15 moreNautical Archaeology, Iron Age, Roman Republican History, Late Roman Republic, Adriatic Sea, Greek and Roman History, Ancient Illyricum, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, Ancient Seafaring, Ancient naval warfare, Roman navy, Ancient Ships, Ancient Shipbuilding, and Illyrian History
Research Interests:
History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Roman History, Imperial Rome, and 14 moreRoman Empire, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Archeologia, Romanization, Historia, Roman imperialism, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Imperialism, Ancient Rome, Histoire, Arqueología romana / Roman archeology, Ancient Greece and Rome, Histoire Ancienne, and Roman Archaeology
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History, Archaeology, Roman History, Croatian History, Roman Empire, and 15 moreAugustan Principate, Balkan archaeology, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Empire, Iron Age (Archaeology), Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Iron Age, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Borders and Frontiers, Ancient Illyricum, Arqueología romana / Roman archeology, Illyrian Archaeology, and Roman Archaeology
Research Interests:
History, Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Balkan History, Yugoslavia, and 15 moreEarly Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, Carolingian Studies, Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Geschichte, Croatia, Slavic Archaeology, Istorija, Povijest, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, and Hrvatska povijest
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History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Early Medieval Archaeology, and 15 moreEarly Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, Byzantine History, Carolingian Studies, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Early Medieval Period, Povijest, Balkan Medieval History and Archaeology, Byzantine history and archaeology, and Hrvatska povijest
Research Interests:
History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Roman History, Roman Historiography, and 99 moreBalkan History, Roman Republic, Croatian History, Empires, History of the Mediterranean, History And Geopolitics In The Balkans, Imperial Rome, Roman military history, Roman Army, Republican Rome, Roman Empire, Augustan Principate, Balkan archaeology, Roman Frontiers (Archaeology), Frontier Studies, Empire, Dalmatian history, Mediterranean archaeology, Rome and Foreign Interactions, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Roman imperial history, Roman Republican History, Rome, Roman provinces, Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Greek and Roman historiography, Late Roman Republic, Early Roman Empire, Roman imperialism, Adriatic Sea, Greek and Roman History, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Geschichte, Ancient Rome, Storia Romana, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Dalmatian hinterland, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Roman expansion, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Histoire, Croatia, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Istorija balkana, Römische Kaiserzeit, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, Imperio romano, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Império Romano, Ancient Greece and Rome, Pannonia Inferior, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Ancient Greece, Ancient Illyria, Anient Rome, Istorija, History and geography of the Adriatic, Roman Dalmatia, Römische Republik, Illyrians, Iliri, Alte Geschichte, Povijest, Histoire Ancienne, Augustus Caesar, History of Southeastern Europe, Roman Expansionism, Ancient States and Empires, Histoire Romaine, Storia Greca E Romana, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Roman Illyria, Archäologie der römischen Provinzen, The Roman Empire, Ancient Roman Imperialism, Ancient History; Greek and Roman Historiography, Hrvatska povijest, Nature of Roman Imperialism, Imperio Romano De Occidente, Illyrian History, Illyrian History and Archaeology, Ilirik, Hisotry of Ancient Empires, Storia Dell'impero Romano, Roman Conquest, Roman Pannonia, Ancient History Roman Empire, Roman Conquest of Illyricum, History of Illyricum, Histoire Ancienne jusqu'à César, Classical Studies, Rome's Foreign Relations, Rimska Zgodovina, Ancient Empire, Histoire et archéologie romaines, Alto Imperio romano, and Ideology of Roman Conquest
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History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Classics, and 83 moreRoman History, Historical Archaeology, Balkan History, Croatian, Central European history, Croatian History, Imperial Rome, Roman provincial administration, Roman Army, Roman Empire, Augustan Principate, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Empire, Dalmatian history, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Romanization, Historia Antiga, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Barbarian societies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romanización, Ancient Rome, Pannonia, Storia Romana, Roman Urbanism, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Provinces, Roman Architecture and Urbanism, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Roman municipal administration, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Acculturation and romanization, Historia Antigua Clásica, Dalmatia, Imperio romano, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Império Romano, Arqueología romana / Roman archeology, Archeologia Romana, Carpathian-Pannonian region, Ancient Greece and Rome, Tiberius (Emperor), Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Istorija, Historia Antigua, Bosna and Herzegovina, administrative geography of the Roman empire, Roman Local Administration, Roman Dalmatia, Archologie, Danube region, Illyrians, Administración Provincial Romana, Iliri, Provincial Roman Archeology, Histoire de l'art et archéologie de l'Antiquité grecque et romaine, Klassische Archäologie, Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empire, Povijest, Romanization of Europe, Ethnography of the Balkans, Roman Administration, Roman Danube provinces, Roman Archaeology, Histoire Romaine, Archäologie der römischen Provinzen, Historija, Bosnian-Herzegovinian Archaeology, Hrvatska povijest, Illyrian History, Illyrian History and Archaeology, Bosna I Hercegovina, Ancient and Roman Roads, Roman Pannonia, and Classical Studies
This paper will deal with several instances of reclaiming the past using the example of the use of Iron Age Iapodean stone cinerary urns in Roman times. While only a few examples of this practice/phenomenon are known, the reuse and... more
This paper will deal with several instances of reclaiming the past using the example of the use of Iron Age Iapodean stone cinerary urns in Roman times. While only a few examples of this practice/phenomenon are known, the reuse and reinvention of these urns provides at least some insight into strategies of the construction of individual identities through self-presentation in this part of the Roman world.
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History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, and 62 moreBalkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Bosnia, Bosnian, Croatian History, Social History, Roman Empire, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Roman burial practices, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Social memory; social experience and uses of the past, Romanization, Identity, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Historia, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Adriatic Sea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romanización, Bosnian History, Roman Funerary World, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Provinces, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Barbaricum, Historia Antigua Clásica, Dalmatia, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ancient Identity, Arqueología romana / Roman archeology, Roman Funerary Art, Illyrian Archaeology, Istorija, Historia Antigua, Prehistoria e Historia Antigua, Roman Dalmatia, Roman tombs and burial customs, Construction of the Past, Illyrians, Provincial Roman Archeology, Povijest, Romanization of Europe, Roman Funerary Commemoration, Roman Archaeology, Identity Inside Networks In the Ancient Mediterranean, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Roman Illyria, Historija, Bosnian-Herzegovinian Archaeology, Hrvatska povijest, Illyrian History, Ancient Ethnicity and Identity, Illyrian History and Archaeology, Roman Death and Burial, Ancient Identity Studies, Rimska Dalmacija, and Integration Romanisation
The hinterland of the eastern Adriatic suffered a great injustice in Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. The great historian repeatedly sees this region as backward and poor, and its... more
The hinterland of the eastern Adriatic suffered a great injustice in Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. The great historian repeatedly sees this region as backward and poor, and its society as timeless and unchanging. This „barbarism“ of the hinterland is sharply juxtaposed with distinctive civilization he attributes to the Dalmatian coast and its cities. Braudel did not invent this dichotomy, but rather drew on the existing discourse in travelling and scholarly literature. The roots of this discourse can be traced to two centuries earlier, to the influential travel diaries of Venetian Alberto Fortis (Viaggo in Dalmazia [Venice 1774]). In his narrative Fortis constructed the inhabitants of the Dalmatian hinterland as the Morlacchi – exotic „noble savages“ of early modern Europe.
This paper engages with this discourse on civilizational inequality and the cultural dichotomy between the eastern Adriatic coast and its hinterland. Subversion of Braudel is best done using Braudelian tools, so the paper presents a longue-durèe examination of interaction between the Dalmatian coast and its hinterland from the Late Iron Age to the end of antiquity. The focus of enquiry is placed on tracing cultural mediation and exchange of ideas in the domain of religion through several different periods. The paper presents the eastern Adriatic hinterland as a distinct space of invention and interaction, where local traditions are continuously combined with outside influences in an original and unique fashion.
Two chronologically distinct examples are analysed. First is the negotiation of Graeco-Mediterranean and La Tène cultural influences in a late Iron Age indigenous religious context. Particular focus is placed on material finds from an indigenous sanctuary in Gorica near Grude in Herzegovina, dated from ca. seventh to first century BC. A second example is the use of ‘global’ cults, such as those of Silvanus and Diana, as an interface for communicating and displaying local and imperial Roman identity during the second and third century AD.
This paper engages with this discourse on civilizational inequality and the cultural dichotomy between the eastern Adriatic coast and its hinterland. Subversion of Braudel is best done using Braudelian tools, so the paper presents a longue-durèe examination of interaction between the Dalmatian coast and its hinterland from the Late Iron Age to the end of antiquity. The focus of enquiry is placed on tracing cultural mediation and exchange of ideas in the domain of religion through several different periods. The paper presents the eastern Adriatic hinterland as a distinct space of invention and interaction, where local traditions are continuously combined with outside influences in an original and unique fashion.
Two chronologically distinct examples are analysed. First is the negotiation of Graeco-Mediterranean and La Tène cultural influences in a late Iron Age indigenous religious context. Particular focus is placed on material finds from an indigenous sanctuary in Gorica near Grude in Herzegovina, dated from ca. seventh to first century BC. A second example is the use of ‘global’ cults, such as those of Silvanus and Diana, as an interface for communicating and displaying local and imperial Roman identity during the second and third century AD.
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History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, and 59 moreBalkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Mediterranean prehistory, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Roman Religion, Bosnia, Mediterranean Studies, Croatian History, Mediterranean, Ethnography of Balkans, 1st Millennium AD (Archaeology), 1st Millennium BC (Archaeology), Southeastern Europe, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Dalmatian history, Mediterranean archaeology, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Archaeology of Identity, Fernand Braudel, Historia Antiga, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Balkans, Historia, Adriatic Sea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Storia Romana, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Dalmatian hinterland, Pre-Roman Balkans, Balkanism, Roman, Late Antique and Medieval archaeology in the Balkans, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Historia Antigua Clásica, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Historia Antigua, Bosna and Herzegovina, Prehistoria e Historia Antigua, Roman Dalmatia, Illyrians, Prehistory of the Balkans, Braudel, Herzegovina, Roman Archaeology, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Arheologija Bosne I Hercegovine, Hrvatska povijest, Illyrian History, Illyria, Illyrian History and Archaeology, and Fernand Braudel. El Mediterráneo y el mundo mediterráneo en la época de Felipe II
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History, European History, Intellectual History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and 76 moreMedieval History, Medieval Studies, Byzantine Literature, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Nationalism, Bosnia, Croatian, Perceptions of the Past, Early Medieval History, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, National Identity, Medieval Europe, Byzantine History, Ethnography of Balkans, Early Middle Ages (History), Ethnicity, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Dalmatian history, Byzantium, Byzantine historiography, European Archaeology, Slavic, Balkans, Adriatic Sea, Slavic Studies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Storia medievale, Bosnian History, early Middle Ages, Croatian Archaeology, Byzantine History,Literature, Archeology, Croatia, Bosna, Historia Medieval, Istorija balkana, Etudes byzantines, Slavic Archaeology, History of the Adriatic, Edad Media, Dalmatia, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Histoire et archéologie du haut Moyen-âge, medieval Bosnia; medieval Dalmatia, medieval Dalmatia, Ethnogenesis, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Istorija, Bosna and Herzegovina, Vizantija, Early Medieval Period, Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, The Adriatic Sea in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Povijest, Balkan Medieval History and Archaeology, Istorija Vizantije, Storia dell'arte bizantina, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Storia bizantina, Storia culturale e sociale del Medioevo, Byzantine history and archaeology, Mare Adriatico, South Slavic Medieval history, Hrvatska povijest, Bosna I Hercegovina, South Slavs, Povijest Dalmacije, De Administrando Imperio, Histoire de Byzance, South Slavic and Balkan political, diplomatic, social and cultural history, Nationalism and identity construction, and Breakup of the former Yugoslavia
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History, Ancient History, Intellectual History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and 30 moreMedieval History, Medieval Studies, Byzantine Literature, Balkan History, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Egypt, Byzantine History, Ancient Persia, Roman Epigraphy, Late Roman Empire, Euripides, Medieval Balkans, Persian Culture, Byzantium, Byzantine historiography, Procopius, Slavic Studies, Justinian I, Emperor, Later Roman Empire, Byzantine art, Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Istorija, Renaissance Florence, Balkan Medieval History and Archaeology, Istorija Vizantije, Byzantine history and archaeology, and Ancient Ethnicity and Identity
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Ancient History, Roman History, Historical Archaeology, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Balkan Studies, and 62 moreBalkan History, Bosnia, Croatian History, Ethnography of Balkans, History of the Mediterranean, Imperial Rome, Roman provincial administration, Roman Empire, Augustan Principate, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Dalmatian history, Mediterranean archaeology, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Romanization, Historia Antiga, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Balkans, Early Roman Empire, Adriatic Sea, The Early Principate, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ancient Rome, Storia Romana, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Provinces, Dalmatian hinterland, Western Balkans, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Bosna, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Acculturation and romanization, Römische Kaiserzeit, Historia Antigua Clásica, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Arqueología romana / Roman archeology, Historia de Roma, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Historia Antigua, Bosna and Herzegovina, Roman Dalmatia, Illyrians, Iliri, Provincial Roman Archeology, Römische Geschichte, Roman Administration, Roman Archaeology, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Archäologie der römischen Provinzen, Hrvatska povijest, Illyrian History, Illyrian History and Archaeology, Archeology, Storia Dell'impero Romano, and Historical Archaeology
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Ancient History, Roman History, Historical Archaeology, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Balkan Studies, and 43 moreBalkan History, Bosnia, Roman Republic, Ethnography of Balkans, Southeastern Europe, Roman Empire, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Empire, Dalmatian history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Archaeology of Identity, Romanization, Iron Age, Historia Antiga, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Roman imperialism, Imperialism, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Storia Romana, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Western Balkans, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Acculturation and romanization, Istorija balkana, Greco-Roman World, Historia Antigua Clásica, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, Historia de Roma, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Ancient Greece, Ancient Illyria, Anient Rome, Historia Antigua, Roman Dalmatia, Illyrians, Roman Archaeology, and Illyrian History
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History, Ancient History, Roman History, Historical Archaeology, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), and 54 moreBalkan Studies, Balkan History, Identity (Culture), Bosnia, Croatian, Central European history, Colonialism, Croatian History, Ethnography of Balkans, Roman provincial administration, 1st Millennium AD (Archaeology), 1st Millennium BC (Archaeology), Roman Empire, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Empire, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Romanization, Barbarians Perception, Historia Antiga, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Barbarians, Roman provinces, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Imperialism, Barbarian societies, Romanización, Storia Romana, Bosnian History, Prehistory in the Balkans and eastern mediterranean, Ancient Illyricum, Archaeology of Roman Provinces, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Pre-Roman Balkans, Western Balkans, Barbaricum, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Römische Kaiserzeit, Historia Antigua Clásica, La Tene Period in Middle Europe, La Tene culture, Illyrian Archaeology, Ancient Greece, Ancient Illyria, Anient Rome, Historia Antigua, Prehistoria e Historia Antigua, Illyrians, Provincial Roman Archeology, Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empire, Roman Archaeology, Archäologie der römischen Provinzen, and Ancient Ethnicity and Identity
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Ancient History, Roman History, Roman Historiography, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, and 30 moreRoman Republic, Croatian History, Roman Army, Balkan prehistory, Dalmatian history, Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Historia Antiga, Roman Republican History, Ancient Illyria, Late Roman Republic, Storia Romana, Ancient Illyricum, Greco-Roman World, Historia Antigua Clásica, History of the Adriatic, Historia de Roma, Dalmacija, Ancient Greece, Ancient Illyria, Anient Rome, Istorija, Historia Antigua, Römische Republik, Illyrians, Iliri, Römische Geschichte, Povijest, Illyrian History, Ilirik, Iliria, and Roman Conquest of Illyricum
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History, Ancient History, Roman History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and 28 moreBeer (Alcohol Studies), Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, Ancient Historiography, Late Antiquity, History of Alcohol and Drug Use, Archaeology of Beer and Cereal Fermentation, Late Roman Empire, Anthropology of Alcohol, Barbarians Perception, Historia Antiga, Barbarians, Historia, Beer, Pannonia, Storia Romana, Late Antiquity and Byzantium (History and Art), Ammianus Marcellinus, Barbaricum, Cultural history of beer, Istorija, Beer and Brewery History, Historia Antigua, Barbarians and Romans in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Spätantike, Povijest, Spatantike, and History of Alcohol
This paper discusses the problem of the appearance of the Serb ethnonym in the Balkans, as evidenced in the ninth-century Frankish Royal Annals and the mid-tenth-century Byzantine treaty De Administrando Imperio. Written evidence is... more
This paper discusses the problem of the appearance of the Serb ethnonym in the Balkans, as evidenced in the ninth-century Frankish Royal Annals and the mid-tenth-century Byzantine treaty De Administrando Imperio. Written evidence is analysed together with available archaeological information in order to criticize currently dominating ideas concerning the Serb migration in the seventh century, as well as to offer different perspectives on the origins of the early medieval Serb ethnonym in the Balkans.
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Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Serbian, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Byzantine Studies, and 15 moreSerbian history, Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages (History), Balkan archaeology, Medieval Balkans, Byzantine historiography, Slavic, Medieval Serbia, Slavic Archaeology, History of the Balkans, Ethnogenesis, Early Medieval Period, Povijest, Српска историја (Serbian History), and Early Medieval Balkans
Periodisation of historical periods is a way to divide the past into well-defined, mutually different periods of time, such as for example: Antiquity, Late Antiquity, Middle Ages, etc. While it is clear that these historical periods are... more
Periodisation of historical periods is a way to divide the past into well-defined, mutually different periods of time, such as for example: Antiquity, Late Antiquity, Middle Ages, etc. While it is clear that these historical periods are modern constructs, they still provide useful templates against which historians and archaeologists interpret the past in more successful ways. This paper focuses on the territory of the late antique Roman province of Dalmatia, mapping, through the archaeological record from the sixth to ninth century, the social change which brought in the transition from the 'ancient' to 'medieval' era. This reassessment of the transition from the ancient world into Middle Ages, while specific to Dalmatia, provides material for comparative analyses with the other regions of southeastern Europe and the Balkans, which went through comparable processes of transition after the Byzantine evacuation of this region in c. 620.
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Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Balkan History, Late Antique Archaeology, and 15 moreEarly Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Early Medieval Europe (Archaeology), Bosnian History, Croatian Archaeology, Slavic Archaeology, Dalmatia, and Early Medieval Period
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Albanian Studies, Albanian Nationalism, Albania, Kosova, Storia, and 12 moreIllyrian Archaeology, History of Albania, Illyrians, Albanian Culture, Arkeologjia Shqiptare, Albanian History, Illyrian History, Ese Per Shqiptaret, Histori Shqip, Historia e popullit shqiptar, Histori e Shqiperise, and Historia e Shqipërisë
U tekstu su analizirani objavljeni rezultati nedavnih iskapanja starokršćanskoga bazilikalnog kompleksa i ranosrednjovjekovnih grobova u tumulima kod Ljupča pored Nina. Originalna interpretacija pripisuje uništenje kompleksa i... more
U tekstu su analizirani objavljeni rezultati nedavnih iskapanja starokršćanskoga bazilikalnog kompleksa i ranosrednjovjekovnih grobova u tumulima kod Ljupča pored Nina. Originalna interpretacija pripisuje uništenje kompleksa i ranosrednjovjekovne grobove doseljenim Slavenima. Analizirajući postojeće informacije u širem kontekstu, tekst nudi alternativnu interpretaciju nalaza, kojom se ukazuje na metodološke probleme s kojima se često u hrvatskoj arheologiji susreću pokušaji identificiranja ranosrednjovjekovnih Slavena u Dalmaciji.
In this paper are analysed published results of recent excavations of early Christian complex and early medieval graves in burial mounds in the area of Ljubač near Nin. The original interpretation ascribed the destruction of the early Christian basilical complex and the appearance of early medieval graves to recently migrated Slavic groups. By analysing the existing information in a wider context, this paper offers alternative interpretation of the finds, discussing methodological problems encountered by the Croatian archaeologists attempting to identify early medieval Slavs in Dalmatia.
In this paper are analysed published results of recent excavations of early Christian complex and early medieval graves in burial mounds in the area of Ljubač near Nin. The original interpretation ascribed the destruction of the early Christian basilical complex and the appearance of early medieval graves to recently migrated Slavic groups. By analysing the existing information in a wider context, this paper offers alternative interpretation of the finds, discussing methodological problems encountered by the Croatian archaeologists attempting to identify early medieval Slavs in Dalmatia.
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History, Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Medieval History, and 99 moreMedieval Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Late Antique Archaeology, Early Christianity, Bosnia, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Funerary Archaeology, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Byzantine Archaeology, Early Medieval And Medieval Settlement (Archaeology), Death and Burial (Archaeology), Early Middle Ages (History), Southeastern Europe, Late Antique Art and Archaeology, Burial Practices (Archaeology), Balkan archaeology, Antiquity and Late Antiquity, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Dalmatian history, Burial mounds (Archaeology), Slavic, Arheology, Archaeology of burials, Slavic Studies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Early Christian Archaeology, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Paleochristian and Late Antique Archaeology, Dalmatian hinterland, Archaeology of death and burial, Roman, Late Antique and Medieval archaeology in the Balkans, Croatia, Istorija balkana, Slavic Archaeology, Arheologie, History of the Adriatic, Cemeteries, Dalmatia, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, medieval Bosnia, medieval Bosnia; medieval Dalmatia, medieval Dalmatia, Dalmatian History and Art, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Arhitectura, istorie, arheologie, Dalmazia, Early Medieval Burials, Dalmacija, Arheologija, Istorija, Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Archaeology, Slav Archaeology; Archaeology of Dark Ages Southeastern Europe, History and geography of the Adriatic, Hrvatska, Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Mittelalterarchäologie, Antiquité tardive, Early Medieval Period, North Adriatic history, Archäologie des Mittelalters, Arheologia, The Adriatic Sea in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Povijest, Dark Ages, Balkan Medieval History and Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology, Architecture and History of Art, Rani srednji vijek, Herzegovina, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Early Slavs, Mare Adriatico, Rites Funéraires, Céramiques, Antiquité Tardive, Srednjovjekovna Arheologija, South Slavic Medieval history, Arheologija Bosne I Hercegovine, Hrvatska povijest, Archaiology, Arhaeology, Arheologie Medievală, Tradition (Archaeology) X Death and Burial (Archaeology) X Burial Practices (Archaeology) X Burial (Ritual) X Archaeology of Burials X Archaeology of Death and Burial X Burial Customs (Ancient World), South Slavs, Archeology Slavs, Povijest Dalmacije, Antiquité Tardive (54 Followers), Croats, Kasnoantička Arheologija, Ancient and Medieval Balkan History, Early Medieval Balkans, srednjevjekovna Bosna i Hercegovina, Hercegovina, and Ravni kotari
Caius Iulius Solinus, Latin grammarian and compiler from the third century AD, wrote a curious sentence in his work Collectanea rerum memorabilium or Pol-yhistor. Solinus in 2.51 called the Liburni, indigenous group that inhabited part of... more
Caius Iulius Solinus, Latin grammarian and compiler from the third century AD, wrote a curious sentence in his work Collectanea rerum memorabilium or Pol-yhistor. Solinus in 2.51 called the Liburni, indigenous group that inhabited part of the northeastern coast of the Adriatic – " Asiatic people " (… per Liburnos, quae gens Asiatica est). The scholarship never took this statement seriously as its historical inaccuracy is beyond any doubt in both written and material evidence. However, the very same historical inaccuracy prevented a more substantial analysis of this statement in the scholarship, making it just one of (quite a) few of Solinus' bizarre statements. The paper will use available written sources to explore the reasoning behind this statement. The analysis will show that Solinus was not inventing fairy tales but was utilizing existing Graeco-Roman ethnographic 'knowledge' about this part of the world, and the Liburni in particular. This 'knowledge' was in its essence inter-textual and orientalizing, combining descriptive literary techniques and information gathered through different phases of cultural contact with indigenous population in order to construct a 'barbarian other'. The statement about Asian origins of the Liburni does not have factual accuracy but is still extremely useful as it reveals insight into some of the ways indigenous communities from the eastern Adriatic coast were perceived by the ancient Greek and Roman intellectual elite.
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Ancient History, Roman History, Roman Historiography, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), History and Classical tradition studies, and 76 moreBalkan Studies, Balkan History, Croatian, Ancient Ethnography, Croatian History, Ancient Geography, Ethnography of Balkans, History of the Mediterranean, Imperial Rome, Greek Myth, Roman Empire, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Classical Mythology, Greco-Roman Mythology, Dalmatian history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Pliny the Elder, Barbarians Perception, Historia Antiga, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Barbarians, Ancient Illyria, Greek and Roman historiography, Gender and sexuality in the ancient world, Adriatic Sea, Greek mythology, Ancient Sexuality, Barbarian societies, Greek and Roman History, Ancient Rome, Storia Romana, Ancient Greek Mythology, Ancient Geography and the Representation of Space, Ancient Illyricum, Classical Literature, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Barbaricum, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Cultural history of the Ancient world, Greco-Roman World, Classical history, Historia Antigua Clásica, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, Solinus, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, History, and Archaeology, Ancient Greece, Ancient Illyria, Anient Rome, Istorija, Historia Antigua, Roman Geography, Storia Antica, Greek and Roman Mithology, Roman Dalmatia, Roman Liburnia, Illyrians, Amazons, Liburni, Liburnia, Ancient Amazons, Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology, Roman Archaeology, Histoire Romaine, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Mare Adriatico, Hrvatska povijest, Classical Geo-Cosmography and Ethnography, Illyrian History, Ancient Ethnicity and Identity, Ancient Mediterranean Society, Povijest Dalmacije, Liburnija, and Classical Studies
Appian's Illyrian book (Illyrike) was originally intended to be just an appendix to his Macedonian book and today remains the only extant ancient work dealing with the early history of Illyricum which is preserved in its entirety. In this... more
Appian's Illyrian book (Illyrike) was originally intended to be just an appendix to his Macedonian book and today remains the only extant ancient work dealing with the early history of Illyricum which is preserved in its entirety. In this short work Appian puts together different local and regional histories in order to create a unified historical narrative and determines the historical and mythological coordinates of Illyricum inside the ancient world. This paper will discuss Illyrike in the context of the Roman construction of Illyricum as a provincial space, similar to some other regions in continental Europe such as, for example, Gaul or Britain. They were all firstly created through the needs of Roman political geography and later written into literary knowledge through the works of ancient history and ethnography. This paper will argue that Appian's Illyrike represented the final stage of the Roman construction of Illyricum from an imaginary to a provincial space, which was the point of its full coming of age as an integral part of the ancient world and the Roman Empire.
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History, Ancient History, European History, Classics, Greek Literature, and 143 moreRoman History, Roman Historiography, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Romanian History, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Historiography, Imperial History, Croatian History, Ancient Historiography, Empires, History of Geographic Thought, History of Ancient Geography, Ancient Geography, Ancient Ethnic Historiography, Ethnography of Balkans, History of the Mediterranean, Imperial Rome, Imperial ideology and representation, Roman provincial administration, History of Imperialism, Greek/Roman History, History of Historiography, Ancient Greek Historiography, Southeastern Europe, Roman Empire, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Romanisation, History of geography, Empire, Dalmatian history, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Roman imperial history, Romanization, Barbarians Perception, Historia Antiga, Barbarians, Roman Imperial Ideology, Roman provinces, Ancient Illyria, Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Balkans, Historia, Greek and Roman historiography, Early Roman Empire, Roman imperialism, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Adriatic Sea, Imperialism, Barbarian societies, Greek and Roman History, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romanización, Ancient Rome, Storia Romana, Ancient Geography and the Representation of Space, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Greek and Roman Imperial Literature, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Ancient Roman History, Ancient Greek Literature, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, História, Croatia, Barbaricum, Bosna, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Archaeology, Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman history, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Material Culture Studies, Funerary Archaeology, Acculturation and romanization, Istorija balkana, Römische Kaiserzeit, Cultural history of the Ancient world, Historia Antigua Clásica, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, Ancient Greek and Roman History and Archeology, Appian, Roman Literature, Historia de Roma, Ancient Greek and Roman History, Cultural Imperialism, Ancient Greece and Rome, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, History, and Archaeology, Ancient Greece, Ancient Illyria, Anient Rome, Istorija, Historia Antigua, Roman Geography, Bosna and Herzegovina, Western Roman Provinces, Prehistoria e Historia Antigua, Serbian Archaeology, Roman Dalmatia, Historiographie, Ancient Greek geographical writings, Ancient Roman Topography, Illyrians, Iliri, Histoire de l'art et archéologie de l'Antiquité grecque et romaine, Ancient Literature, Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empire, Greek and Roman studies, Povijest, Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, publicum portorii Illyrici, Antička filozofija i književnost, Histoire Ancienne, History of Southeastern Europe, Ancient States and Empires, Impero Romano, Ancient Greek Geography, Roman Archaeology, Storia Greca E Romana, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Roman Illyria, Archäologie der römischen Provinzen, The Roman Empire, Appian of Alexandria, Roman imperial historiography, Hrvatska povijest, Roman Imperial period literary culture, Illyrian History, Illyria, Ancient Ethnicity and Identity, Illyrian History and Archaeology, Rimsko Carstvo, Ilirik, Appianus, Ancient Mediterranean Society, Bosna I Hercegovina, Storia Dell'impero Romano, Roman Pannonia, Colonialism and Imperialism, Rimljani U Hrvatskoj, Povijest Dalmacije, Antika U Dalmaciji, Rimska Dalmacija, and Classical Studies
The label ‘Illyrians’ was used in different contexts, probably developing as an ethnographic generalisation of foreigners related to similar indigenous language(s). In all certainty it developed in the sixth century BC but the evidence we... more
The label ‘Illyrians’ was used in different contexts, probably developing as an ethnographic generalisation of foreigners related to similar indigenous language(s). In all certainty it developed in the sixth century BC but the evidence we have appears only in the fifth century. Later perceptions of ‘Illyrians’ are related to political and territorial contexts, first to the political alliance of the Hellenistic-era Illyrian kingdom, and after that to the Roman use of this term in the context of early imperial expansion.
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History, Ancient History, Greek History, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Balkan Studies, and 59 moreBalkan History, Bosnia, Croatian, Ancient Ethnography, Croatian History, Ancient Historiography, History of Ancient Geography, Ancient Geography, Greek Historiography, Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek Historiography, Southeastern Europe, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Ancient Greece (History), Iron Age, Barbarians Perception, Historia Antiga, Barbarians, Ancient Illyria, Balkans, Greek and Roman historiography, Adriatic Sea, Greek mythology, Barbarian societies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ancient Greek Mythology, Ancient Geography and the Representation of Space, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Ancient Greek Literature, Croatia, Balkan History and Culture, Barbaricum, Historia Antigua Clásica, History of the Adriatic, Ancient Geography, Illyrian Archaeology, Ancient Greece, Ancient Illyria, Anient Rome, Istorija, Historia Antigua, Ancient Greek geographical writings, Illyrians, Iliri, publicum portorii Illyrici, Épire et Illyrie méridionale, Ancient Greek Geography, ANCIENT GEOGRAPHERS, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Mare Adriatico, Illyrian History, Illyria, Ancient Ethnicity and Identity, Illyrian History and Archaeology, Ancient Geography and Cartography, Ancient Geography and Ethnography, and Greek and Roman Geography
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History, Archaeology, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Balkan Studies, and 80 moreBalkan History, Late Antique Archaeology, Bosnia, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History, Byzantine Archaeology, Ethnography of Balkans, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Late Roman Empire, Southeastern Europe, Late Antique Art and Archaeology, Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Late Antique Religion, Dalmatian history, Archeologia, Early Medieval Europe (Archaeology), Archaeology of Identity, Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Historia, Arheology, Adriatic Sea, Slavic Studies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Archeologia medievale, Storia medievale, Early Christian Archaeology, Bosnian History, Late Antiquity and Byzantium (History and Art), Croatian Archaeology, Slavs, Dalmatian hinterland, Western Balkans, Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, Croatia, Bosna, Slavic Archaeology, Arheologie, Early medieval, History of the Adriatic, History of Bosnia and Herzegowina, Dalmatia, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Histoire et archéologie du haut Moyen-âge, medieval Bosnia, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Alto Medioevo, Istorija, Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Archaeology, Medioevo, Bosna and Herzegovina, Storia E Archeologia Medievale, Antiquite Tardive, Late antiquty, Barbarians societies, Late Antiquity, Ethnogenesis, Funerary World, Goths, Vandals, Sueves, Alans, Early Medieval Period, Post-Roman Europe, The Adriatic Sea in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Povijest, History of Southeastern Europe, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Early Slavs, Byzantine history and archaeology, Mare Adriatico, Srednjovjekovna Arheologija, Arheologija Bosne I Hercegovine, Hrvatska povijest, Historija srednjovjekovne Bosne, Bosna I Hercegovina, Arheologie Medievală, Povijest Dalmacije, Kasnoantička Arheologija, and South Slavic and Balkan political, diplomatic, social and cultural history
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Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Late Antique Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, and 6 moreByzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Byzantine Archaeology, Byzantium, Barbarians, and Barbarians societies, Late Antiquity, Ethnogenesis, Funerary World, Goths, Vandals, Sueves, Alans
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History, Ancient History, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Ethnic Studies, and 102 moreArchaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Mediterranean prehistory, Albanian Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Historiography, Nationalism, Bosnia, Bosnian, Croatian, Central Europe, Central European history, Yugoslavia, Early Modern Europe, Perceptions of the Past, Ancient Ethnography, Croatian History, Modern Croatian History, Ethnic and Racial Studies, National Identity, Venetian History, Ethnography of Balkans, History of the Mediterranean, Archaeology of ethnicity, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, History of Historiography, Albanian Nationalism, Southeastern Europe, Yugoslavia (History), Ethnicity, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, History of Archeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, History of Race and Ethnicity, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Dalmatian history, Archeologia, Mediterranean archaeology, Early Modern Balkan history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Former Yugoslavia, Iron Age, Barbarians Perception, Historia Antiga, Albania, History of Archaeology, Central and Eastern Europe, Barbarians, Ancient Illyria, Balkans, Historia, Adriatic Sea, Albanian archaeology, Slavic Studies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, History of Yugoslavia, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Western Balkans, Early Modern, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Bosna, Bosnian cultural heritage, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, History of the Adriatic, History of Bosnia and Herzegowina, Dalmatia, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Istorija, Bosna and Herzegovina, Serbian Archaeology, Roman Dalmatia, Illyrians, Ethnicity and National Identity, Iliri, Ethnic politics, Povijest, History of Southeastern Europe, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Illyrian History, Illyria, Ancient Ethnicity and Identity, Illyrian History and Archaeology, Ilirik, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Bosna I Hercegovina, Mediterrranean Archaeology, South Slavs, Ethnicity and Nationality, Venice and Its Maritime Empire, South Slavic and Balkan political, diplomatic, social and cultural history, Nationalism and identity construction, and Breakup of the former Yugoslavia
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Ethnic Studies, Archaeology, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Museum Studies, Balkan Studies, and 66 moreBalkan History, Contemporary History, Nationalism, Bosnia, Bosnian, Yugoslavia, History of Museums, Perceptions of the Past, Ethnic and Racial Studies, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Ethnic Identity, Balkan Politics, Ethnography of Balkans, Museums and Identity, Archaeology of ethnicity, History And Geopolitics In The Balkans, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Southeastern Europe, Yugoslavia (History), Nation Branding, Ethnicity, Balkan archaeology, Nations and nationalism, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Museums, Former Yugoslavia, Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Arheology, National identities, Post-yugoslav politics, Post-socialism and EU integration, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nationality, History and Cultural Politics of the former Yugoslavia and its successor states, Bosnian History, Western Balkans, History and archaeology, Bosna, Bosnian cultural heritage, History of Bosnia and Herzegowina, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Arheologija, Bosna and Herzegovina, Alternative Science, Breakdown of Yugoslavia, Ethnicity and National Identity, Ethnic politics, Ex Yugoslavia, Bosnian Pyramids, Sarajevo, History of Southeastern Europe, Nacionalizam, Nacionalni Identitet, Pseudo-Archaeology, Arheologija Bosne I Hercegovine, Bošnjaci, Izgradnja Nacije, Ethnicity and Identity Politics, Bosna I Hercegovina, Ethnicity and Nationality, South Slavic and Balkan political, diplomatic, social and cultural history, Nationalism and identity construction, and Breakup of the former Yugoslavia
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Religion, History, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, and 92 moreBalkan Prehistory (Archaeology), History of Religion, Material culture of religion, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Roman Religion, Bosnia, Croatian, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Archaeology of Religion, Croatian History, Ancient Religion, Ethnography of Balkans, History of the Mediterranean, Imperial Rome, Roman Epigraphy, Landscape, 1st Millennium AD (Archaeology), Roman Empire, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Romanisation, Dalmatian history, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Mediterranean archaeology, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Religion, European Archaeology, Romanization, Historia Antiga, Identity, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Historia, Religions of the Roman Empire, Arheology, Roman imperialism, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Greek and Roman Epigraphy, Pre-roman religions, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romanización, Storia Romana, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Croatia, Archaeology of Roman Provinces, Roman Sculpture, Dalmatian hinterland, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Roman Provincial Art, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Acculturation and romanization, Greco-Roman World, Roman Art, Ancient Religions, Ancient Roman Religion, Historia Antigua Clásica, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, Imperio romano, GRAECO-ROMAN RELIGIONS AND CULTS, Greco-Roman Religions, Greek and Roman religions; Ancient Polytheism, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Arheologija, Istorija, Bosna and Herzegovina, Epigrafía romana, L'origine delle formule con demonstratio nel processo formulare romano, Roman Dalmatia, Illyrians, Romanizacion, Provincial Roman Archeology, Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empire, Povijest, Romanization of Europe, Impero Romano, Greek and Roman Social History, Roman Archaeology, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Mare Adriatico, Illyria, Graeco-Roman Religion, Storia Dell'impero Romano, and Mediterrranean Archaeology
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Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Identity (Culture), and 46 moreNationalism, Bosnia, Croatian, Central European history, Eurasian Nomads, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, National Identity, Serbian history, Late Antiquity, Medieval Europe, Ethnography of Balkans, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Early Middle Ages (History), Southeastern Europe, Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Dalmatian history, Archaeology of Identity, Byzantine historiography, Balkans, Slavic Studies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian History, Croatian Archaeology, Western Balkans, Istorija balkana, Slavic Archaeology, History of the Adriatic, Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, Kievan Rus', Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Istorija, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Early medieval Bulgaria, Croatian Studies, Povijest, Byzantine history and archaeology, Hrvatska povijest, South Slavic and Balkan political, diplomatic, social and cultural history, Nationalism and identity construction, and Breakup of the former Yugoslavia
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History, European History, Eastern European Studies, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, and 89 moreAustria (European History), Museum, South East European Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Contemporary History, Identity (Culture), Identity politics, Nationalism, Bosnia, Bosnian, Central European history, Eastern European history, Yugoslavia, Habsburg Studies, Eurasian Nomads, History of Museums, Perceptions of the Past, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Ethnography of Balkans, Museums and Identity, Nationalism and Archaeology, History And Geopolitics In The Balkans, Imperial ideology and representation, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Central European Studies, Cultural History of Central Europe, Southeastern Europe, 19th Century Central Europe, Balkan archaeology, Nations and nationalism, Medieval Balkans, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Empire, Byzantine historiography, European Imperial and Colonial History, Museums, Former Yugoslavia, Austro-Hungary, History of Archaeology, Serbian Politics, Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Historia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, History and Cultural Politics of the former Yugoslavia and its successor states, Bosnian History, Conflict and security, Western Balkans, History and archaeology, Bosna, Bosnian cultural heritage, History of Bosnia and Herzegowina, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, medieval Bosnia, Kievan Rus', Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Patareni, Bosna and Herzegovina, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Early medieval Bulgaria, Bosnian Pyramids, Post Colonial Theory, Sarajevo, Povijest, Archaeology of Colonialism, History of Southeastern Europe, Nacionalni Identitet, Byzantine history and archaeology, Historija, Communism and national question, Bosna I Hercegovina, Srednjovjekovna Bosna, Governance and Democracy, Colonialism and Imperialism, Nationalism and Decolonization, Belonging and Citizenship, Ethnicity and Nationality, Nation building and State making, Bogumili, Crkva, Bosanska, Stecak, Stecci, South Slavic and Balkan political, diplomatic, social and cultural history, and Nationalism and identity construction
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Ancient History, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Celtic Studies, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), and 64 moreMediterranean prehistory, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Bosnia, Croatian History, Serbian history, Mediterranean, Greek Colonisation, Iron Age (Archaeology) (Archaeology), Ethnography of Balkans, Archaeology of ethnicity, Celtic Archaeology, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Prehistoric Europe (Archaeology), Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Dalmatian history, Iron Age (Archaeology), Mediterranean archaeology, European Prehistory (Archaeology), Prehistory, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Iron Age, Barbarians Perception, Barbarians, Ancient Illyria, Arheology, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iron Age archaeology, Prehistoric Archeology, Bosnian History, Prehistory in the Balkans and eastern mediterranean, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Croatia, Dalmatian hinterland, Pre-Roman Balkans, Western Balkans, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Barbaricum, Bosna, Arheologie, History of the Adriatic, La Tene Period in Middle Europe, La Tene culture, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Illyrian Archaeology, Arheologija, Ancient Greece, Ancient Illyria, Anient Rome, Istorija, Bosna and Herzegovina, Serbian Archaeology, Late Iron Age, Illyrians, Arheologia, Povijest, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Mare Adriatico, Illyrian History, Illyria, Illyrian History and Archaeology, Bosna I Hercegovina, and Illyrian Religion
This paper is focusing on the use of motifs from Croatian early medieval history in Nazor’s topical collection of poetry entitled Hrvatski kraljevi (The Kings of the Croats). Hrvatski kraljevi functions perfectly within its Zeitgeist, as... more
This paper is focusing on the use of motifs from Croatian early medieval history in Nazor’s topical collection of poetry entitled Hrvatski kraljevi (The Kings of the Croats). Hrvatski kraljevi functions perfectly within its Zeitgeist, as Nazor’s way to re-create Croatian historical memory and distribute it as ‘poetical knowledge’ to the readers. The metaphor of blut und boden, strongly showing throughout this topical collection of poetry, constructs and embodies continuity with the past, and boosts the sense of national unity in Nazor’s present(s). For Nazor’s generation of Croatians, medieval Croats were tremendously important symbols used to draw and develop a Croatian historical ‘genealogy’ in order to position the Croatians amongst European nations of the time.
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History, European History, Slavic Languages, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, and 36 moreIdentity (Culture), Nationalism, Bosnia, Croatian, Central European history, Historical memory, Perceptions of the Past, Croatian History, Modern Croatian History, History of Croatian Literature, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Ethnography of Balkans, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian literature, Nations and nationalism, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Historia, Slavic Studies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Western Balkans, Croatia, Istorija balkana, Istorija, Slavic Languages and Literatures, South Slavic Languages and Literatures, Croatian Literature, Povijest, Croatian Language and Literature, Hrvatska povijest, Ethnicity and Nationality, and Hrvatska Knjizevnost
"Indigenous communities of the western and central Balkan Peninsula and the 21st century: methodological problems This paper discusses current perceptions and methodologies of research into the identity of pre-Roman Iron Age indigenous... more
"Indigenous communities of the western and central Balkan Peninsula and the 21st century: methodological problems
This paper discusses current perceptions and methodologies of research into the identity of pre-Roman Iron Age indigenous communities from the western and central Balkan peninsula, still popularly known as “Illyrians”. The debate about the identity of these communities in the 1990s and 2000s was usually limited to restating the current views and methodological approaches. More serious discussion about the existing theoretical approaches was avoided in both, local and international, scholarship. The introduction of contemporary scholarly views, rooted in post-modern and post-structuralist discourse, to the identity-debate is very scarce and inadequate, resulting in a slowly widening divide between local archaeological research and theoretical interpretation in international scholarship.
Current methodological approach is based on three main aspects: the analysis of Iron Age material culture, paleolinguistical research, mainly based on indigenous anthroponymy (onomastics), and the testimony of ancient written sources. In addition, it isworth noting that protohistorical periods have been usually anachronically connected by researchers with the Roman provincial archaeology of Dalmatia and Pannonia into a single narrative. Special importance is given to the taxonomisation of the indigenous population, defining the ethnic groups (peoples, tribes) and placing them in space. In this view, ethnic groups are formed in a never-sufficiently-explained process of ethnogenesis (nothing to do with Wenskus-Wolfram-Pohl ethnogenesis model of Viennese school!), from amorphous, culturally akin communities into “more coherent” ethnic units. Finally, strong presence of resistance-narrative in current research overemphasizes indigenous opposition towards mediterranean world (political and cultural) and overlooks their interaction, thus constructing the perception of indigenous “conservativeness”.
The paper concludes that current methodological framework is inadequate, as it is still firmly rooted within a culture-history paradigm, which does not sufficiently take into account the fluidity and contextual nature of group identities, or the impact of power-structures within the society. Such an approach ethnicizes the past, anachronically projecting the contemporary significance of ethnic identity on the world of late Iron Age communities, where ethnicity was only one imortant identity-narrative, side by side with regional, social, or political identities. The paper concludes that further debate is necessary and unavoidable, in order to integrate research on those communities into more general current scholarly debates about Iron Age communities in temperate Europe."
This paper discusses current perceptions and methodologies of research into the identity of pre-Roman Iron Age indigenous communities from the western and central Balkan peninsula, still popularly known as “Illyrians”. The debate about the identity of these communities in the 1990s and 2000s was usually limited to restating the current views and methodological approaches. More serious discussion about the existing theoretical approaches was avoided in both, local and international, scholarship. The introduction of contemporary scholarly views, rooted in post-modern and post-structuralist discourse, to the identity-debate is very scarce and inadequate, resulting in a slowly widening divide between local archaeological research and theoretical interpretation in international scholarship.
Current methodological approach is based on three main aspects: the analysis of Iron Age material culture, paleolinguistical research, mainly based on indigenous anthroponymy (onomastics), and the testimony of ancient written sources. In addition, it isworth noting that protohistorical periods have been usually anachronically connected by researchers with the Roman provincial archaeology of Dalmatia and Pannonia into a single narrative. Special importance is given to the taxonomisation of the indigenous population, defining the ethnic groups (peoples, tribes) and placing them in space. In this view, ethnic groups are formed in a never-sufficiently-explained process of ethnogenesis (nothing to do with Wenskus-Wolfram-Pohl ethnogenesis model of Viennese school!), from amorphous, culturally akin communities into “more coherent” ethnic units. Finally, strong presence of resistance-narrative in current research overemphasizes indigenous opposition towards mediterranean world (political and cultural) and overlooks their interaction, thus constructing the perception of indigenous “conservativeness”.
The paper concludes that current methodological framework is inadequate, as it is still firmly rooted within a culture-history paradigm, which does not sufficiently take into account the fluidity and contextual nature of group identities, or the impact of power-structures within the society. Such an approach ethnicizes the past, anachronically projecting the contemporary significance of ethnic identity on the world of late Iron Age communities, where ethnicity was only one imortant identity-narrative, side by side with regional, social, or political identities. The paper concludes that further debate is necessary and unavoidable, in order to integrate research on those communities into more general current scholarly debates about Iron Age communities in temperate Europe."
Research Interests:
History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Mediterranean prehistory, and 40 moreBalkan Studies, Balkan History, Bosnia, Croatian, Croatian History, Serbian history, Ethnography of Balkans, Southeastern Europe, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Dalmatian history, Mediterranean archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Archaeology of Identity, Iron Age, Identity, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Istorija balkana, History of the Adriatic, La Tene Period in Middle Europe, La Tene culture, Illyrian Archaeology, Arheologija, Istorija, Serbian Archaeology, Illyrians, Iliri, Povijest, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Arheologija Bosne I Hercegovine, Hrvatska povijest, Ilirik, Iliria, and Prapovijesna Arheologija
This paper re-examines the sources reporting on the campaigns of Asinius Pollio in 40/39 BC, and reviews the scholarly debate about the targets and aims of his campaigns. In the debate a new source is introduced, the passage on Pollio’s... more
This paper re-examines the sources reporting on the campaigns of Asinius Pollio in 40/39 BC, and reviews the scholarly debate about the targets and aims of his campaigns. In the debate a new source is introduced, the passage on Pollio’s conquest of Salona, from the medieval Historia Salonitana of Thomas the Archdeacon of Spalatum (Split). The analysis shows that the passage from Thomas does not correspond with any known source and it suggests that he used a more substantial report on the siege and capture of Salona, probably from the textual tradition of the Vergilian scholia, which sprung from the lost commentary of Aelius Donatus. The existence of this textual tradition about Pollio’s campaign in central Dalmatia in the Vergilian scholia and the epitomes of Florus, in conjunction with Horace’s mention of Pollio’s Dalmatian triumph, makes it more certain that Pollio campaigned in central Dalmatia.
Research Interests:
History, Ancient History, Roman History, Medieval History, Balkan Studies, and 34 moreBalkan History, Roman Republic, Croatian History, Roman provincial administration, Roman Army, Republican Rome, Civil Wars (Roman Republic), Medieval Croatian History, Dalmatian history, Roman Republican History, Roman provinces, Late Roman Republic, Greek and Roman History, Ancient Rome, Storia Romana, Ancient Illyricum, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Istorija balkana, Historia Antigua Clásica, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, Historia de Roma, Dalmacija, Arheologija, Istorija, Historia Antigua, Roman Dalmatia, Povijest, Histoire Romaine, Storia Greca E Romana, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Historija, Illyrian History, and Storia Dell'impero Romano
""Telling the stories: Ideological-narrative discourses on the Croat migrations in De administrando imperio Modern historical scholarship has always accepted, more or less suspiciously, the stories of the arrival of the Croats, and... more
""Telling the stories: Ideological-narrative discourses on the Croat migrations in De administrando imperio
Modern historical scholarship has always accepted, more or less suspiciously, the stories of the arrival of the Croats, and more generally, the arrival of the Slavs in post-Roman Illyricum in the treatise De administrando imperio, as codified reflections of historical realities. Criticised and praised, they have never been fully rejected. The stories of Constantine Porphyrogenitus simply appear too good to be rejected, taking into account the lack of written sources which deal with this region between the 7th and 9th centuries. Therefore, it is not surprising that generations of archaeologists and historians have put valiant efforts in order to “prove” and “illustrate” them in the positivist framework. However, analysis of the narratives reveals Constantine’s stories of the Croat arrival as nothing but a hi-stories, pseudohistorical narrative constructions, based upon historical memories manipulated through oral tradition by certain social groups from the region. These were inserted into the manual on foreign politics and geography, which was developed in the framework of Byzantine high culture of the 10th century. We cannot claim that there is no historical reality in those hi-stories of the arrival from the DAI. Unfortunately, it is even more difficult on the basis of the existing sources to claim that one might have a key for their deciphering and distillation from the identity- and narrative-discourses and memories of the past, in which are they embedded.""""
Modern historical scholarship has always accepted, more or less suspiciously, the stories of the arrival of the Croats, and more generally, the arrival of the Slavs in post-Roman Illyricum in the treatise De administrando imperio, as codified reflections of historical realities. Criticised and praised, they have never been fully rejected. The stories of Constantine Porphyrogenitus simply appear too good to be rejected, taking into account the lack of written sources which deal with this region between the 7th and 9th centuries. Therefore, it is not surprising that generations of archaeologists and historians have put valiant efforts in order to “prove” and “illustrate” them in the positivist framework. However, analysis of the narratives reveals Constantine’s stories of the Croat arrival as nothing but a hi-stories, pseudohistorical narrative constructions, based upon historical memories manipulated through oral tradition by certain social groups from the region. These were inserted into the manual on foreign politics and geography, which was developed in the framework of Byzantine high culture of the 10th century. We cannot claim that there is no historical reality in those hi-stories of the arrival from the DAI. Unfortunately, it is even more difficult on the basis of the existing sources to claim that one might have a key for their deciphering and distillation from the identity- and narrative-discourses and memories of the past, in which are they embedded.""""
Research Interests:
History, Intellectual History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Byzantine Literature, South East European Studies, and 25 moreBalkan Studies, Balkan History, Bosnia, Croatian, Central European history, Eurasian Nomads, Perceptions of the Past, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Ethnography of Balkans, Medieval Balkans, Early Medieval Studies, Dalmatian history, Byzantine historiography, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Medieval Serbia, Kievan Rus', Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Early medieval Bulgaria, Byzantine history and archaeology, South Slavic and Balkan political, diplomatic, social and cultural history, Nationalism and identity construction, and Breakup of the former Yugoslavia
Research Interests:
History, Ancient History, Cultural Studies, Classical Archaeology, Classics, and 39 moreRoman History, Romanian History, Epigraphy (Archaeology), Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Identity (Culture), Race and Ethnicity, Ethnography of Balkans, Latin Epigraphy, Archaeology of ethnicity, Latin, Roman Army, Roman Epigraphy, Southeastern Europe, Roman Empire, Dalmatian history, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Romanization, Historia, Early Roman Empire, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Romanización, Storia Romana, Ancient Illyricum, Epigraphy, Inscriptions, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Dalmatia, Epigrafia, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Roman navy, Roman Dalmatia, Illyrians, Imperial Roman Army, Epigrphy, Roman Archaeology, Illyrian History, and Iscrizioni
""The Daesitiates: The identity-construct between contemporary and ancient perceptions This paper discusses the ancient identity known from the sources as the Daesitiates. The crucial question that this paper raises is: what is hidden... more
""The Daesitiates: The identity-construct between contemporary and ancient perceptions
This paper discusses the ancient identity known from the sources as the Daesitiates. The crucial question that this paper raises is: what is hidden behind the term Daesitiates? Is this term a construct of the ancient sources and modern interpretations, or did it exist once as a historical “reality”, and whose reality did that term represent? Currently the prevailing scholarly opinion is that the Daesitiates represented an ethnic or proto-ethnic community, which developed through different stages of social organisation from the late Bronze Age throughout the Iron Age to the arrival of the Romans in the first century BC, ultimately becoming a “people” or a “people-making community”.
The existing sources are analysed against the contexts in which they existed: the pre-Roman Iron Age arhaeological culture (Central-Bosnian culture) and the written and epigraphic sources. The archaeology shows the existence of a specific kind of regional identity, but it does not provide evidence for the assumption that a unified identity-discourse existed in the pre-Roman era. Although the region is insufficiently explored, a few things might be deducted from the existing knowledge. The settlement pattern of known hillforts (gradine) shows a few different zones of habitation positioned around arable land and natural communications – usually the valleys of the rivers. Burial customs are partially known only from the Visoko-Breza sub-region and do not necessarily reflect the whole region, which is ascribed to this archaeological culture. The earlier dated Vratnica-Donji Skladovi necropole presents an inhumated group burial of warriors without visible social differences, while in the recently published and later dated Kamenjača-Breza necropolis it is possible to detect gradual social differentiations.
The written sources, Appian, Strabo, Velleius Paterculus and Cassius Dio, mention a group called the Daesitiates in relation to the events from the time of the Roman conquest in the late 1st century BC and early 1st century AD. Appian mentions a group of the Daisioi (Desii) in the context of Octavian's expedition into Illyricum in 35-33 BC, as one of his most formidable opponents. Although the scholarship assumes links between the Daisioi and Daesitiates which were known from the later bellum Batonianum, from this mention it is impossible to determine with absolute certainty whether these Daisioi were related to the later Daesitiates. The other sources mention a group of the Daesitiates in regards to the events from the bellum Batonianum of AD 6 – 9. Dio notes that one of the leaders of the uprising, the Dalmatian Bato was “of Daesitiates”, Velleius Paterculus knew that the Daesitiates and Pirustae were located in the central part of the Dalmatian province, while Strabo saw the Daesitiates as one of the Pannonian ethne whose leader was Bato. It cannot be concluded from the works of Velleius or Dio who were the Daesitiates they mentioned: including the people, family, class, or regional identity. Strabo on the other hand saw the Daesitiates as a political identity, one of the barbarian ethne from central Dalmatia. Finally, the Daesitiates were mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Roman administrative peregrine civitates in the Naronitan conventus of the Dalmatian province.
The epigraphic evidence mentioning the Daesitiates exists in a few different contexts. Dollabela's inscription from Solin dated AD 19/20 mentions (He)dum castellum Daesitiatum, indicating the existence of the central stronghold of this group. Other inscriptions mention individuals carrying administrative functions inside Roman civitas: the Roman military praefect and indigenous princeps. Finally, one military diploma from Herculaneum and a tombstone from the military camp in Tilurium (Gardun) record the administrative identities of soldiers, in accordance with the prevailing custom of the Roman army.
This paper concludes that the earlier scholarship used contextually and chronologically different clusters of sources in order to construct the ethnicity of the Daesitiates. The archaeological evidence shows an indigenous Iron age culture. The written sources reflect the perception of the barbarian “other” from outside observers who are not concerned with establishing an “objective” ethnographic taxonomy. Finally, the epigraphic evidence mostly reflects the existence of the Roman peregrine civitas mentioned in Pliny, not ethnicity.
From the other comparative studies of similar communities in continental Europe it is possible to establish a new view on the origins and different aspects of this identity. The Daesitiates were probably one of the political alliances that were formed from the local communities in the future province of Dalmatia as a reponse to Roman imperialism in the late 2nd or 1st century BC, which initially had no sense of a common identity. The existence of these political alliances influenced Roman perception and written sources to etnicise them, assuming that those identities existed in a timeless and ahistoric vacuum of “barbarian” societies. The establishment of a peregrine civitas institutionalised the perception of Daesitiate ethnicity inside provincial structures. After a certain time these changes resulted in the establishment of the Daesitiate identity, which was in later antiquity transformed into municipal identitites and a provincial Dalmatian identity.""
This paper discusses the ancient identity known from the sources as the Daesitiates. The crucial question that this paper raises is: what is hidden behind the term Daesitiates? Is this term a construct of the ancient sources and modern interpretations, or did it exist once as a historical “reality”, and whose reality did that term represent? Currently the prevailing scholarly opinion is that the Daesitiates represented an ethnic or proto-ethnic community, which developed through different stages of social organisation from the late Bronze Age throughout the Iron Age to the arrival of the Romans in the first century BC, ultimately becoming a “people” or a “people-making community”.
The existing sources are analysed against the contexts in which they existed: the pre-Roman Iron Age arhaeological culture (Central-Bosnian culture) and the written and epigraphic sources. The archaeology shows the existence of a specific kind of regional identity, but it does not provide evidence for the assumption that a unified identity-discourse existed in the pre-Roman era. Although the region is insufficiently explored, a few things might be deducted from the existing knowledge. The settlement pattern of known hillforts (gradine) shows a few different zones of habitation positioned around arable land and natural communications – usually the valleys of the rivers. Burial customs are partially known only from the Visoko-Breza sub-region and do not necessarily reflect the whole region, which is ascribed to this archaeological culture. The earlier dated Vratnica-Donji Skladovi necropole presents an inhumated group burial of warriors without visible social differences, while in the recently published and later dated Kamenjača-Breza necropolis it is possible to detect gradual social differentiations.
The written sources, Appian, Strabo, Velleius Paterculus and Cassius Dio, mention a group called the Daesitiates in relation to the events from the time of the Roman conquest in the late 1st century BC and early 1st century AD. Appian mentions a group of the Daisioi (Desii) in the context of Octavian's expedition into Illyricum in 35-33 BC, as one of his most formidable opponents. Although the scholarship assumes links between the Daisioi and Daesitiates which were known from the later bellum Batonianum, from this mention it is impossible to determine with absolute certainty whether these Daisioi were related to the later Daesitiates. The other sources mention a group of the Daesitiates in regards to the events from the bellum Batonianum of AD 6 – 9. Dio notes that one of the leaders of the uprising, the Dalmatian Bato was “of Daesitiates”, Velleius Paterculus knew that the Daesitiates and Pirustae were located in the central part of the Dalmatian province, while Strabo saw the Daesitiates as one of the Pannonian ethne whose leader was Bato. It cannot be concluded from the works of Velleius or Dio who were the Daesitiates they mentioned: including the people, family, class, or regional identity. Strabo on the other hand saw the Daesitiates as a political identity, one of the barbarian ethne from central Dalmatia. Finally, the Daesitiates were mentioned by Pliny the Elder as one of the Roman administrative peregrine civitates in the Naronitan conventus of the Dalmatian province.
The epigraphic evidence mentioning the Daesitiates exists in a few different contexts. Dollabela's inscription from Solin dated AD 19/20 mentions (He)dum castellum Daesitiatum, indicating the existence of the central stronghold of this group. Other inscriptions mention individuals carrying administrative functions inside Roman civitas: the Roman military praefect and indigenous princeps. Finally, one military diploma from Herculaneum and a tombstone from the military camp in Tilurium (Gardun) record the administrative identities of soldiers, in accordance with the prevailing custom of the Roman army.
This paper concludes that the earlier scholarship used contextually and chronologically different clusters of sources in order to construct the ethnicity of the Daesitiates. The archaeological evidence shows an indigenous Iron age culture. The written sources reflect the perception of the barbarian “other” from outside observers who are not concerned with establishing an “objective” ethnographic taxonomy. Finally, the epigraphic evidence mostly reflects the existence of the Roman peregrine civitas mentioned in Pliny, not ethnicity.
From the other comparative studies of similar communities in continental Europe it is possible to establish a new view on the origins and different aspects of this identity. The Daesitiates were probably one of the political alliances that were formed from the local communities in the future province of Dalmatia as a reponse to Roman imperialism in the late 2nd or 1st century BC, which initially had no sense of a common identity. The existence of these political alliances influenced Roman perception and written sources to etnicise them, assuming that those identities existed in a timeless and ahistoric vacuum of “barbarian” societies. The establishment of a peregrine civitas institutionalised the perception of Daesitiate ethnicity inside provincial structures. After a certain time these changes resulted in the establishment of the Daesitiate identity, which was in later antiquity transformed into municipal identitites and a provincial Dalmatian identity.""
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History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Roman History, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), and 30 moreBalkan Studies, Balkan History, Identity (Culture), Bosnia, Serbian history, Ethnography of Balkans, Archaeology of ethnicity, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Bronze And Iron Age In Mediterrarranean (Archaeology), Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Iron Age, Barbarians Perception, Barbarians, Ancient Illyria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Late Iron Age/Roman transition, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Illyrian Archaeology, Illyrians, Iliri, Illyrian History, and Illyria
"""New methodological approaches to the study of early medieval Croat identity This paper discusses new methodological approaches to the study of group identities in the past, focusing on the question of Croat identity. It is pointed... more
"""New methodological approaches to the study of early medieval Croat identity
This paper discusses new methodological approaches to the study of group identities in the past, focusing on the question of Croat identity. It is pointed that research into early medieval Croat identity is slowly reaching its post-modern and poststructuralist phase, and is about to confront the existing metanarratives on the ‘arrival of the Croats’ and ‘arrival of the Slavs’ in the seventh century, post-Roman Dalmatia.The arrival of the Croats in the seventh century is chiefly postulated through the testimony of Constantine’s De Administrando Imperio (DAI) and interpretation of the archaeological evidence from the period. DAI reflects three narratives: the writer’s own, the narrative of the ‘Romans’ from the Dalmatian cities and the narrative of the group calling themselves Croats. The problem with DAI remains that we are not able today to decipher the contexts in which these narratives were communicated to the intended audience. The archaeology of the period assumes that the grave goods, evidence of incineration and the absence of Christian imagery in the graves show the paganism of the arrived Slavs in Dalmatia. The problem with an archaeological interpretation is that it accepts the dichotomy of opposed values, i.e. ‘Christian’ and ‘pagan’, and does not provide a place for hybrid forms of Christianity which developed in some regions of the post-Roman world in this period.In addition to recent studies, such as Florin Curta’s Making of the Slavs, which views the ‘Slavic migrations’ as chaotic population movements of smaller groups, which did not share a common origin or common identity, the evidence for the Croat arrival in the seventh century becomes inadequate and difficult to maintain. Thus, the identity-shift from pre-Slavic to Slavic identities is seen as the key to understanding the appearance of early medieval Slavic identities in the region. This process consisted of different inter-lapping processes that required separate attention, thus diminishing the need for a single grand-narrative in this period.The ninth century expansion of ideological Christianity, the imperialism of the Carolingian empire and the recovered Byzantines caused the appearance of new political identities and new ideological discourses. The evidence from this period shows the abundance of different identities in the region, such as the Guduscani or Arentani, (whether they were the consequence of the ninth century migration, or were the indigenous population and ‘Slav’ immigrants) fighting for political domination inside the Carolingian cultural and political templates, and only one of them – the Croats – managed to get established as the dominant identity-discourse in the later period.The appearance of the earliest Croat identity is still a controversial and exciting topic for research, despite numerous debates in the past. Now, historians need to ask themselves: how much do we know of the past, how good is our knowledge, and how we gain new knowledge of the past?"""
This paper discusses new methodological approaches to the study of group identities in the past, focusing on the question of Croat identity. It is pointed that research into early medieval Croat identity is slowly reaching its post-modern and poststructuralist phase, and is about to confront the existing metanarratives on the ‘arrival of the Croats’ and ‘arrival of the Slavs’ in the seventh century, post-Roman Dalmatia.The arrival of the Croats in the seventh century is chiefly postulated through the testimony of Constantine’s De Administrando Imperio (DAI) and interpretation of the archaeological evidence from the period. DAI reflects three narratives: the writer’s own, the narrative of the ‘Romans’ from the Dalmatian cities and the narrative of the group calling themselves Croats. The problem with DAI remains that we are not able today to decipher the contexts in which these narratives were communicated to the intended audience. The archaeology of the period assumes that the grave goods, evidence of incineration and the absence of Christian imagery in the graves show the paganism of the arrived Slavs in Dalmatia. The problem with an archaeological interpretation is that it accepts the dichotomy of opposed values, i.e. ‘Christian’ and ‘pagan’, and does not provide a place for hybrid forms of Christianity which developed in some regions of the post-Roman world in this period.In addition to recent studies, such as Florin Curta’s Making of the Slavs, which views the ‘Slavic migrations’ as chaotic population movements of smaller groups, which did not share a common origin or common identity, the evidence for the Croat arrival in the seventh century becomes inadequate and difficult to maintain. Thus, the identity-shift from pre-Slavic to Slavic identities is seen as the key to understanding the appearance of early medieval Slavic identities in the region. This process consisted of different inter-lapping processes that required separate attention, thus diminishing the need for a single grand-narrative in this period.The ninth century expansion of ideological Christianity, the imperialism of the Carolingian empire and the recovered Byzantines caused the appearance of new political identities and new ideological discourses. The evidence from this period shows the abundance of different identities in the region, such as the Guduscani or Arentani, (whether they were the consequence of the ninth century migration, or were the indigenous population and ‘Slav’ immigrants) fighting for political domination inside the Carolingian cultural and political templates, and only one of them – the Croats – managed to get established as the dominant identity-discourse in the later period.The appearance of the earliest Croat identity is still a controversial and exciting topic for research, despite numerous debates in the past. Now, historians need to ask themselves: how much do we know of the past, how good is our knowledge, and how we gain new knowledge of the past?"""
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History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, South East European Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, and 27 moreNationalism, Bosnia, Central European history, Eurasian Nomads, Early Medieval History, Croatian History, National Identity, Carolingian Studies, Archaeology of ethnicity, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Early Medieval Studies, Dalmatian history, Byzantine historiography, Slavic Studies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian History, Western Balkans, Bosna, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, medieval Bosnia, Kievan Rus', Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Bosna and Herzegovina, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Early medieval Bulgaria, and Byzantine history and archaeology
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Ancient History, Cultural Studies, Classical Archaeology, Roman History, Material culture of religion, and 47 moreBalkan Studies, Balkan History, Identity (Culture), Roman Religion, Bosnia, Archaeology of Religion, Croatian History, Ancient Religion, Latin Epigraphy, Roman provincial administration, Roman Epigraphy, 1st Millennium AD (Archaeology), Roman Empire, Balkan archaeology, Romanisation, Dalmatian history, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Religion, Romanization, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Religions of the Roman Empire, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romanización, Storia Romana, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Provinces, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Acculturation and romanization, Roman Art, Ancient Roman Religion, Dalmatia, GRAECO-ROMAN RELIGIONS AND CULTS, Greco-Roman Religions, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Roman Dalmatia, Illyrians, Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empire, Roman Archaeology, The Roman Empire, and Graeco-Roman Religion
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Ancient History, Roman History, Roman Historiography, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, and 24 moreBosnia, Perceptions of the Past, Croatian History, Roman military history, Roman Provincial, Roman Army, Roman Empire, Augustan Principate, Romanisation, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Romanization, Barbarians Perception, Roman provinces, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romanización, Ancient Illyricum, Acculturation and romanization, History of the Adriatic, Illyrian Archaeology, Illyrians, Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empire, and Illyrian History
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Ancient History, Intellectual History, Archaeology, Balkan linguistics, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), and 38 moreBalkan Studies, Balkan History, Identity (Culture), Bosnia, Croatian History, Ethnography of Balkans, Archaeology of ethnicity, Southeastern Europe, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Dalmatian history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Iron Age, Barbarians Perception, Barbarians, Ancient Illyria, Balkans, Barbarian societies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Barbaricum, Greco-Roman World, Dalmatia, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Ancient Greece, Ancient Illyria, Anient Rome, Istorija, Illyrians, Povijest, Hrvatska povijest, Illyrian History, and Roman and Barbarian Archaeology
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Ancient History, Classics, Roman History, Roman Historiography, Balkan Studies, and 26 moreBalkan History, Bosnia, Croatian History, Ancient Historiography, Ancient Geography, Strabo, Roman Empire, Augustan Principate, Dalmatian history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Barbarians Perception, Ancient Geography and the Representation of Space, Ancient Illyricum, Barbaricum, Greco-Roman World, History of the Adriatic, Illyrian Archaeology, Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, History, and Archaeology, Istorija, Roman Geography, Ancient Greek geographical writings, Illyrians, Povijest, publicum portorii Illyrici, Illyrian History, and Illyria
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History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Byzantine Literature, and 49 moreBalkan Studies, Balkan History, Nationalism, Bosnia, Eurasian Nomads, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Croatian History, Byzantine Studies, National Identity, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History, Carolingian Studies, Early Middle Ages (History), Balkan archaeology, Medieval Balkans, Dalmatian history, Early Medieval Europe (Archaeology), Byzantine historiography, Barbarians Perception, Barbarians, Historia, Slavic Studies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Medieval Serbia, Bosnian History, Bosna, History of the Adriatic, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Histoire et archéologie du haut Moyen-âge, medieval Bosnia, Kievan Rus', Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Bosna and Herzegovina, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Barbarians and Romans in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Early medieval Bulgaria, Eastern Adriatic, Barbarians societies, Late Antiquity, Ethnogenesis, Funerary World, Goths, Vandals, Sueves, Alans, Ethnicity and National Identity, Early Medieval Period, Slaves, The Adriatic Sea in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, The Roman Empire, Byzantine history and archaeology, Historija srednjovjekovne Bosne, Spatantike, and Etnogenesis
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Ancient History, Archaeology, Celtic Studies, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Balkan Studies, and 44 moreBalkan History, Identity (Culture), Bosnia, Ancient Ethnography, Croatian History, Ancient Historiography, Celts (Archaeology), Ancient Geography, Strabo, Ethnography of Balkans, Celtic History, Celtic Archaeology, 1st Millennium BC (Archaeology), Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), European Prehistory (Archaeology), Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Archaeology of Identity, Iron Age, Barbarians Perception, Barbarians, Balkans, Barbarian societies, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian History, Celts, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Croatia, Barbaricum, Greco-Roman World, Late Iron Age/Roman transition, La Tene Period in Middle Europe, La Tene culture, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Illyrian Archaeology, Roman Geography, Illyrians, Illyrian History, Illyria, Archeology, and La Tene
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History, Ancient History, Classics, Roman History, Augustan Poetry, and 16 moreBalkan Studies, Balkan History, Roman poetry, Propertius, Roman provincial administration, Roman Empire, Dalmatian history, Roman provinces, Storia Romana, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Römische Kaiserzeit, Dalmatia, Dalmacija, Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, History, and Archaeology, Roman Dalmatia, and Histoire Romaine
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History, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Eurasian Nomads, Slavic Historical Linguistics, and 14 moreMedieval Balkans, Byzantine historiography, Slavic, Slavic Studies, Slavic Archaeology, Russian and Slavonic Studies, Archaeology and history of Early medieval Nomads, Old Rus an Slavic archaeology, Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, Kievan Rus', Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Slavic and Balkan Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Early medieval Bulgaria, and Byzantine history and archaeology
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Ancient History, Archaeology, Classics, Celtic Studies, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), and 25 moreHellenistic History, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Croatian History, Archaeology of ethnicity, Celtic History, Celtic Archaeology, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Iron Age (Archaeology), Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, History of Ancient Macedonia, Iron Age, Balkans, Pannonia, Ancient Illyricum, Celtic, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Illyrian Archaeology, Serbian Archaeology, Illyrians, Illyrian History, and Ancient Migrations
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Dalmatian history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, and 19 moreIstorija balkana, Dalmatia, Illyrian Archaeology, Arheologija, Istorija, Bosna and Herzegovina, Illyrians, Iliri, Povijest, Herzegovina, Arheologija Bosne I Hercegovine, Illyrian History, Illyria, Ilirik, Bosna I Hercegovina, Iliria, Rimska Dalmacija, Prapovijesna Arheologija, and Antička arheologija
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History, Ancient History, Historical Geography, Classics, Roman History, and 42 moreBalkan Studies, Balkan History, Ancient Ethnography, Croatian History, Ancient Historiography, History of Ancient Geography, Ancient Geography, Strabo, Roman Empire, Balkan prehistory, Dalmatian history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Barbarians Perception, Barbarians, Roman provinces, Ancient Illyria, Historia, Barbarian societies, Greek and Roman History, Storia Romana, Ancient Geography and the Representation of Space, Ancient Illyricum, Barbaricum, Istorija balkana, Greco-Roman World, History of the Balkans, Pre-Roman Iron Age, Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, History, and Archaeology, Istorija, Roman Geography, Ancient Greek geographical writings, Illyrians, Iliri, Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empire, Povijest, Prehistory of the Balkans, Ancient Greek Geography, Illyrian History, Illyrian History and Archaeology, Ilirik, Ancient Geography and Cartography, and Strabon Geografia
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Ancient History, Classics, Roman History, Roman Historiography, Balkan Studies, and 24 moreBalkan History, Bosnia, Croatian History, Ethnography of Balkans, Roman military history, Roman Army, Roman Empire, Augustan Principate, Balkan archaeology, Dalmatian history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Greek and Roman historiography, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Storia Romana, Velleius Paterculus, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Ancient Demography, Illyrian Archaeology, Istorija, Illyrians, Povijest, and Storia Dell'impero Romano
""The Delmatae, wine and formation of ethnic identity in pre-Roman Illyricum This paper deals with the lack of archaeological finds that confirm wine-drinking habits amongst the Delmatae in Illyricum. The thesis of Dietler, that the... more
""The Delmatae, wine and formation of ethnic identity in pre-Roman Illyricum
This paper deals with the lack of archaeological finds that confirm wine-drinking habits amongst the Delmatae in Illyricum. The thesis of Dietler, that the demand for goods is not an automatic response but rather something that should be understood in regional political and cultural relationships, is used to link the absence of wine and the construction of Delmataean ethnic identity.
Focusing on the wider clash of drinking ideologies in ancient (and modern) Europe, this paper suggests that the change in alcohol-consumption habits from Continental beer/mead/cider-drinking to Mediterranean wine-drinking amongst the neighbours of the Delmatae is the consequence of wider socio-political transitions and the establishment of the core-periphery model of exchange in pre-Roman Illyricum, after Greek penetration into the Adriatic in the 4th century BC. The foundation of the Delmataean alliance in c. 3rd century BC is considered to be an attempt to redistribute the networks of exchange in Illyricum that were controlled by its Delmataean neighbours, who were strongly impacted by Mediterranean ‘globalisation’. At the same time the Delmataean political alliance was recognised as the core of the Delmataean ethnic identity, further strengthened through the conflicts with their neighbours such as the Liburni, Illyrians, Issaean commonwealth and certainly, the Roman Republic.
Differences in consumption of alcoholic beverages are essentially a part of Bourdieu’s social habitus, and Barthian “cultural stuff ”, that is not directly involved in the process of construction of identities. However, in the background of the Delmataean conflicts with their neighbours who accepted some elements of Mediterranean culture, including consumption of wine, the choice of alcoholic beverage becomes an “ethnic boundary” that significantly influences the construction of ethnic identity. This paper concludes that the newly-formed identity of the Delmatae, amongst other things, incorporated a strong anti-Mediterranean sentiment that draw the Delmatae closer to their northern neighbours, the Pannonii, and that sentiment is visible through their unity in the bellum Batonianum, but can be assumed even earlier in the bellum Pannonicum jointly fought against the Romans.
Thus, lack of evidence for consumption of wine amongst the Delmatae is the fact that reveals a complex regional process of formation and transition of ethnic identities in pre-Roman Illyricum. This process was caused by wider ‘tectonic’ historical movements that corresponded with the formation of the ‘global’ Mediterranean world and the incorporation of Illyricum and its heterogeneous ethnic communities in that world."""
This paper deals with the lack of archaeological finds that confirm wine-drinking habits amongst the Delmatae in Illyricum. The thesis of Dietler, that the demand for goods is not an automatic response but rather something that should be understood in regional political and cultural relationships, is used to link the absence of wine and the construction of Delmataean ethnic identity.
Focusing on the wider clash of drinking ideologies in ancient (and modern) Europe, this paper suggests that the change in alcohol-consumption habits from Continental beer/mead/cider-drinking to Mediterranean wine-drinking amongst the neighbours of the Delmatae is the consequence of wider socio-political transitions and the establishment of the core-periphery model of exchange in pre-Roman Illyricum, after Greek penetration into the Adriatic in the 4th century BC. The foundation of the Delmataean alliance in c. 3rd century BC is considered to be an attempt to redistribute the networks of exchange in Illyricum that were controlled by its Delmataean neighbours, who were strongly impacted by Mediterranean ‘globalisation’. At the same time the Delmataean political alliance was recognised as the core of the Delmataean ethnic identity, further strengthened through the conflicts with their neighbours such as the Liburni, Illyrians, Issaean commonwealth and certainly, the Roman Republic.
Differences in consumption of alcoholic beverages are essentially a part of Bourdieu’s social habitus, and Barthian “cultural stuff ”, that is not directly involved in the process of construction of identities. However, in the background of the Delmataean conflicts with their neighbours who accepted some elements of Mediterranean culture, including consumption of wine, the choice of alcoholic beverage becomes an “ethnic boundary” that significantly influences the construction of ethnic identity. This paper concludes that the newly-formed identity of the Delmatae, amongst other things, incorporated a strong anti-Mediterranean sentiment that draw the Delmatae closer to their northern neighbours, the Pannonii, and that sentiment is visible through their unity in the bellum Batonianum, but can be assumed even earlier in the bellum Pannonicum jointly fought against the Romans.
Thus, lack of evidence for consumption of wine amongst the Delmatae is the fact that reveals a complex regional process of formation and transition of ethnic identities in pre-Roman Illyricum. This process was caused by wider ‘tectonic’ historical movements that corresponded with the formation of the ‘global’ Mediterranean world and the incorporation of Illyricum and its heterogeneous ethnic communities in that world."""
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History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, and 28 moreBosnia, Beer (Alcohol Studies), Croatian History, History of Alcohol and Drug Use, Ethnography of Balkans, Archaeology of ethnicity, Drinking practices (Anthropology), Archaeology of Beer and Cereal Fermentation, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Dalmatian history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Iron Age, Croatian Archaeology, Istorija balkana, Dalmatia, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Arheologija, Istorija, Beer and Brewery History, Illyrians, Povijest, Historija, Illyrian History, Povijest Dalmacije, and Antika U Dalmaciji
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Ancient History, Military History, Balkan History, Naval Warfare, Naval History, and 27 moreCroatian History, Roman military archaeology, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Dalmatian history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Ancient Warfare, Adriatic Sea, Ancient Rome, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Western Balkans, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Dalmatia, Ancient Weapons and Warfare, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Roman navy, Roman Dalmatia, Illyrians, Ancient Warships, Ancient Shipbuilding, Roman Imperial Navy, Hrvatska povijest, Greek and Roman Warships, Illyrian History, and Illyria
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This paper discusses two Roman reliefs from the Dalmatian hinterland, one of the goddess Diana from Proložac near Imotski, the other of the girl Lupa from Sovići near Grude in Herzegovina. Earlier scholarly discussions ascribed artistic... more
This paper discusses two Roman reliefs from the Dalmatian hinterland, one of the goddess Diana from Proložac near Imotski, the other of the girl Lupa from Sovići near Grude in Herzegovina. Earlier scholarly discussions ascribed artistic values to the portrait of Lupa, while the relief of Diana was considered as superb crafstmanship, but artistically inferior to Lupa’s portrait. Using these two portraits as a case study, the paper will question the existing approaches to Dalmatian provincial art, in particular the notion that Graeco-Roman visual rhetoric was artistically superior to local, provincial interpretations.
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History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, and 85 moreClassics, Roman History, Art History, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Roman Religion, Croatian History, Imperial Rome, Roman Epigraphy, Roman Empire, Balkan archaeology, Archeologia, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Religion, Romanization, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Historia, Early Roman Empire, Cultural Change and Political Dominance (Hellenization, Romanization), Roman literature and culture, Greek and Roman History, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art and Archaeology, Romanización, Storia Romana, Roman and Byzantine art, iconography, and visual communication, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Provinces, Roman Sculpture, Dalmatian hinterland, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Roman Provincial Art, Greek and Roman Art Society Anthropology Visual Studies, Archaeology, Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman history, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Material Culture Studies, Funerary Archaeology, Acculturation and romanization, Römische Kaiserzeit, Roman Art, Roman Civilization - Visual Studies - Anthropology - Semiotics, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, Imperio romano, Ancient Identity, Klassische Archaeologie, Illyrian Archaeology, Arheologija, Istorija, Roman Dalmatia, Illyrians, Romanizacion, Römische Geschichte, Povijest umjetnosti, Istorija Umetnosti, Greek and Roman Sculpture, Klassische Archäologie, Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empire, Povijest, Romanization of Europe, Roman tombstones, Roman acculturation, Roman visual culture, Herzegovina, Roman Archaeology, Identity Inside Networks In the Ancient Mediterranean, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Roman Illyria, Archäologie der römischen Provinzen, Mare Adriatico, Illyrian History, Ancient Ethnicity and Identity, Illyrian History and Archaeology, Graeco-Roman Religion, Archaiology, Storia Dell'impero Romano, Greek and Roman Art, Ancient Identity Studies, Religion Roman Colonization, Acculturation In Roman World, Population Mobility In Roman World, Classical Studies, Romanizzazione, Roman relief sculpture, and römische Kunst
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Humanities, Slavic Languages, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Croatian, and 28 moreCentral European history, Australian multiculturalism, Croatian History, National Identity, Migration Studies, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian literature, Slavic Linguistics, Dalmatian history, Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Slavic Studies, Western Balkans, Croatia, Dalmatia, History of Croatian Language, linguistics and literacy, Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, Dalmacija, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ethnicity and National Identity, Slavonic Literatures (Russian & Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian), Croatian Studies, Croatian Language, Croatian Language and Literature, South Slavic and Balkan political, diplomatic, social and cultural history, Nationalism and identity construction, and Breakup of the former Yugoslavia
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Ancient History, Archaeology, Roman History, Roman Historiography, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), and 46 moreBalkan Studies, Balkan History, Bosnia, Colonialism, Croatian History, Ancient Historiography, Ethnography of Balkans, Roman provincial administration, Roman military history, Roman Army, Roman Empire, Augustan Principate, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Empire, Dalmatian history, Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Roman imperial history, Iron Age, Historia Antiga, Central and Eastern Europe, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Roman imperialism, The Early Principate, Imperialism, Pannonia, Storia Romana, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Historia Antigua Clásica, Historia de Roma, Tiberius (Emperor), Illyrian Archaeology, Istorija, Historia Antigua, Illyrians, Histoire Romaine, Illyrian History, Storia Dell'impero Romano, and Roman Pannonia
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Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Archaeobotany, Balkan Studies, Late Antique Archaeology, and 19 moreEarly Christianity, Early Medieval Archaeology, Byzantine Architecture, Byzantine Archaeology, Balkan archaeology, Early Christian Art, Dalmatian history, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Early Christian Architecture, Church architecture, Roman ceramics, Early Christian Archaeology, Ostrogoths, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Medieval church architecture, Ceramica Romana, Late Antique and Christian archaeology, Byzantine history and archaeology, and BYZANTIUM AND THE WEST
Ovaj rad sadrži preliminarno izvješće o drugoj sezoni iskapanja na Bribirskoj glavici u okviru međunarodnog arheološkog projekta Varvaria / Breberium / Bribir. U tekstu se prezentira pregled terenskog rada, njegovi rezultati te arheološki... more
Ovaj rad sadrži preliminarno izvješće o drugoj sezoni iskapanja na Bribirskoj glavici u okviru međunarodnog arheološkog projekta Varvaria
/ Breberium / Bribir. U tekstu se prezentira pregled terenskog rada, njegovi rezultati te arheološki predmeti pronađeni i izučavani u ovoj sezoni. Obrađeni materijal se odnosi na bribirsku rotundu i arhitektonske strukture oko nje.
/ Breberium / Bribir. U tekstu se prezentira pregled terenskog rada, njegovi rezultati te arheološki predmeti pronađeni i izučavani u ovoj sezoni. Obrađeni materijal se odnosi na bribirsku rotundu i arhitektonske strukture oko nje.
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Archaeology, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Balkan Studies, Early Medieval Archaeology, and 17 moreEarly Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Viking Age Archaeology, Church History, Latin Epigraphy, Celtic Archaeology, Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Dalmatian history, Viking Age Scandinavia, Early Christian Architecture, Dark Ages History, Archaeological Excavation, Early Christian Archaeology, Christian Archaeology, and Roman Archaeology
The present paper contains the interim report on the second season of fieldwork carried out at Bribirska Glavica by the Varvaria / Breberium / Bribir Archaeological Project. The text gives an overview of the field operations undertaken,... more
The present paper contains the interim report on the second season of fieldwork carried out at Bribirska Glavica by the Varvaria / Breberium / Bribir Archaeological Project. The text gives an overview of the field operations undertaken, their results and the archaeological finds excavated
and studied during this season. This material relates both to the rotunda church and to built structures postdating it.
and studied during this season. This material relates both to the rotunda church and to built structures postdating it.
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Archaeology, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Balkan Studies, Early Medieval Archaeology, and 17 moreEarly Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Viking Age Archaeology, Church History, Latin Epigraphy, Celtic Archaeology, Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Dalmatian history, Viking Age Scandinavia, Early Christian Architecture, Dark Ages History, Archaeological Excavation, Early Christian Archaeology, Christian Archaeology, and Roman Archaeology
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Macquarie University excavations at Bribirska glavica in Croatia.
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Archaeology, Balkan History, Late Antique Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, and 10 moreCroatian History, Late Antiquity, Balkan archaeology, Church Archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Dalmatian history, Croatian Archaeology, Croatia, and Archaeology of Adriatic Area
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Peace and Conflict Studies, Balkan Studies, Post-conflict Reconstruction and Development, Bosnia, Balkan Politics, and 10 moreEthnic Conflict and Civil War, Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Western Balkans, Bosna, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, USA Foreign Policy, Bosna and Herzegovina, Bosna Hersek, and Dayton Agreement
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Archaeology, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, and 39 moreCroatian, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Medieval Europe, Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Dalmatian history, Slavic Studies, Bosnian History, Croatian Archaeology, Croatia, Istorija balkana, Slavic Archaeology, Dalmatia, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, medieval Bosnia, medieval Dalmatia, Arheologija, Istorija, Medival History, Early Medieval Period, Povijest, Balkan Medieval History and Archaeology, Srednji vijek, Rani srednji vijek, Historija, Srednjovjekovna Arheologija, Early Croatian graves, coins ; archaology, Arheologija Bosne I Hercegovine, Hrvatska povijest, Historija srednjovjekovne Bosne, Starohrvatsko Groblje, Povijest Dalmacije, Medieval Bosnian History, Ancient and Medieval Balkan History, Hrvatski srednji vijek, and Medieval History of Balkans
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European History, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Bosnia, Bosnian, and 46 moreEastern European history, Yugoslavia, Croatian History, Balkan Politics, Ottoman Balkans, Ethnography of Balkans, History And Geopolitics In The Balkans, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, Yugoslavia (History), Modern European History, Former Yugoslavia, Balkans, Orientalism, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian History, Western Balkans, Balkanism, Bosna, Ottoman Empire, Bosnia under Ottoman rule, Bosnian cultural heritage, History of Bosnia and Herzegowina, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, medieval Bosnia, Bosnian Language, Ottoman times in Bosnia, Bosna and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina History, Bosnia and Islam, Bosnian war, Sarajevo, Bosnia Hercegovina, History of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Croats outside Croatia, History of Southeastern Europe, Yugoslav Studies, Herzegovina, Medieval Bosnia (XIV-XV Century), Bosnian Conflict, Jugoslavija, Roman Catholics In Bosnia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bosna I Hercegovina, Srednjovjekovna Bosna, and Breakup of the former Yugoslavia
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.09.49
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Christianity, History of Christianity, Early Christianity, Anthropology of Christianity, Late Antiquity, and 11 morePaganism, Early Middle Ages (History), Late Antique Religion, Barbarians, Pagan/Christian Relations in the Early Middle Ages, Arianism, Paganism and Christianism, Barbarians and Romans in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Barbarians societies, Late Antiquity, Ethnogenesis, Funerary World, Goths, Vandals, Sueves, Alans, Early Medieval Period, and Ancient Germans
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History of Religion, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Bosnia, Croatian, and 30 moreEarly Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Croatian History, Balkan archaeology, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Early Medieval Art, Dalmatian history, Central and Eastern Europe, Slavic, Balkans, Slavic Studies, Pagan/Christian Relations in the Early Middle Ages, Bosnia and Herzegovina, early Middle Ages, Croatian Archaeology, Christianization of Lithuania, Conversions to christianity of European countries, relicts of ancient religion, Croatia, Paganism and Christianism, Slavic Archaeology, Early medieval, Dalmatia, Slavs pagan studies, Christianisation of Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages, Dalmacija, Roman Dalmatia, Slavic Mythology, Early Medieval Period, Slavic Paganism, and Hrvatska povijest
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Racial and Ethnic Politics, Race and Racism, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Race and Ethnicity, and 23 moreNationalism, Bosnia, Croatian, Yugoslavia, Fashion History, Croatian History, Modern Croatian History, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Yugoslavia (History), History of Race and Ethnicity, Former Yugoslavia, Balkans, Race, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Western Balkans, Croatia, Cultural History of Habsburg Empire 1800-1918, History of clothing and fashion, Fashion and Culture, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Zagreb, Fashion, and Croatians
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Classical Archaeology, Balkan History, Roman Epigraphy, Roman Empire, Balkan archaeology, and 11 moreRoman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Montenegro, Archaeology of Roman Provinces, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Roman municipal administration, Roman municipal life, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Roman Dalmatia, Provincial Roman Archeology, and Roman Archaeology
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European History, Intellectual History, Eastern European Studies, Travel Writing, Italian Studies, and 34 morePostcolonial Studies, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Contemporary History, Historiography, Bosnia, Croatian, Yugoslavia, Italian Literature, Croatian History, Modern Croatian History, Balkan Politics, Social History, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, 20th Century Italian Literature, Southeastern Europe, Yugoslavia (History), Dalmatian history, Former Yugoslavia, Serbian Politics, Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Orientalism, Bosnia and Herzegovina, History of Yugoslavia, Western Balkans, History of the Adriatic, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Communism and national question, Jugoslavija, Jugoslavia, South Slavic and Balkan political, diplomatic, social and cultural history, Nationalism and identity construction, and Breakup of the former Yugoslavia
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Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Bosnia, Croatian History, Latin Epigraphy, and 15 moreRoman Army, Roman Epigraphy, Balkan archaeology, Dalmatian history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Illyrian Archaeology, Roman Dalmatia, Roman Archaeology, and Roman Legios
Check out my review of great Olujić's book in English
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Archaeology, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Croatian History, and 11 moreBalkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Dalmatian history, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Iron Age, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Illyrian Archaeology, and Illyrians
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About the Episode August 7, 2021-In 6 CE, inhabitants of the Province of Illyricum rebelled against Roman rule, resulting in a four-year war, known as the Batonian War (6-9 CE). Danijel Džino, Senior Lecturer, Department of History and... more
About the Episode August 7, 2021-In 6 CE, inhabitants of the Province of Illyricum rebelled against Roman rule, resulting in a four-year war, known as the Batonian War (6-9 CE). Danijel Džino, Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University, returned to the Ithaca Bound podcast to explain what's known about the uprising. The episode is entitled, Batonian War w. Dr Danijel Džino.
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An episode of Ithaca Bound podcast series, available for free on website Ithaca Bound, Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple podcast - see the document for links.
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History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Albanian Studies, Hellenistic History, and 14 moreCroatian History, Mediterranean, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Dalmatian history, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Ancient Illyricum, History of the Adriatic, Illyrian Archaeology, Istorija, Illyrians, Povijest, and Illyrian History
U rimskim narativima osvajanja Ilirika, Segestika i njezin rimski alter ego Siscija igraju značajno mjesto. Za Apijana to je mjesto gdje Oktavijan August nakon stoljeća i pol osvećuje poraz rimskog vojskovođe Kornelija. Za Veleja... more
U rimskim narativima osvajanja Ilirika, Segestika i njezin rimski alter ego Siscija igraju značajno mjesto. Za Apijana to je mjesto gdje Oktavijan August nakon stoljeća i pol osvećuje poraz rimskog vojskovođe Kornelija. Za Veleja Paterkula, bezuspješan napad na Sisciju je narativna točka gdje se preokreće ratna sreća panonskih pobunjenika u Batonskom ratu, navještavajući njihov neumitni poraz. Literarne Segestika i Siscija iz povijesnih narativa poprište su katarzičnih epizoda ugrađenih u diskurzivnu sliku rimskog ovladavanja prostora buduće Dalmacije i Panonije, koja je nezaobilazni temelj suvremenim interpretacijama ovih događaja.
Ovaj referat razmatra makropovijesnu i mikropovijesnu sliku prostora na ušću Kupe u Savu, u periodu njegovog umrežavanja u strukture globaliziranog mediteranskog imperija, koji se najčešće identificira sa svojom metropolom – Rimom. Promjene u strukturi odnosa među elitom imperijalne metropole u 2. st. pr. Kr., prenose se na imperijalne periferije i pogranične zone gdje se imperijalna politička moć počinje projicirati direktno, radije negoli posredno. Pomicanje pogranične zone imperija u Panoniju izaziva restruktuiranje lokalnih političkih arhitektura moći, što se najbolje vidi kroz uništenje indigenog političkog saveza predvođenog Segestikom, i uspostavom vojnog logora Siscije. Indigena politička infrastruktura modificira se vojnom silom, a Siscija postaje fizičko uporište iz kojeg se vojna sila imperija projicira dalje u panonsku nizinu, preobražavajući pograničnu zonu u imperijalni artefakt.
Ovaj referat razmatra makropovijesnu i mikropovijesnu sliku prostora na ušću Kupe u Savu, u periodu njegovog umrežavanja u strukture globaliziranog mediteranskog imperija, koji se najčešće identificira sa svojom metropolom – Rimom. Promjene u strukturi odnosa među elitom imperijalne metropole u 2. st. pr. Kr., prenose se na imperijalne periferije i pogranične zone gdje se imperijalna politička moć počinje projicirati direktno, radije negoli posredno. Pomicanje pogranične zone imperija u Panoniju izaziva restruktuiranje lokalnih političkih arhitektura moći, što se najbolje vidi kroz uništenje indigenog političkog saveza predvođenog Segestikom, i uspostavom vojnog logora Siscije. Indigena politička infrastruktura modificira se vojnom silom, a Siscija postaje fizičko uporište iz kojeg se vojna sila imperija projicira dalje u panonsku nizinu, preobražavajući pograničnu zonu u imperijalni artefakt.
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Urednik i voditelj Dario Špelić u studiju razgovara s prof. dr. sc. Danijelom Džinom s Macquarie University, Sydney. O ovoj temi kroz emisiju govore i prof. dr. sc. Domagoj Tončinić s Odsjeka za arheologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu... more
Urednik i voditelj Dario Špelić u studiju razgovara s prof. dr. sc. Danijelom Džinom s Macquarie University, Sydney. O ovoj temi kroz emisiju govore i prof. dr. sc. Domagoj Tončinić s Odsjeka za arheologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu te dr. sc. Ivan Radman - Livaja, viši kustos Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu.
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Roman History, Bosnia, Croatian History, Roman Army, Augustan Principate, and 14 moreBalkan prehistory, Roman provinces, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, History of the Adriatic, Illyrian Archaeology, Ancient Greece, Ancient Illyria, Anient Rome, Illyrians, Iliri, Roman Archaeology, and Illyrian History
Sugovornicu u studiju urednika i voditelja Darija Špelića su dr. sc. Danijel Džino s Macquarie Universityja u Sidneyu i dr. sc. Alka Domić Kunić, HAZU Odsjek za arheologiju. U ovoj temi kroz emisiju govore i Marjeta Šašel Kos iz Slovenske... more
Sugovornicu u studiju urednika i voditelja Darija Špelića su dr. sc. Danijel Džino s Macquarie Universityja u Sidneyu i dr. sc. Alka Domić Kunić, HAZU Odsjek za arheologiju. U ovoj temi kroz emisiju govore i Marjeta Šašel Kos iz Slovenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti iz Ljubljane, prof. dr. sc. Marin Zaninović, dr. sc. Dino Demicheli i dr. sc. Domagoj Tončinić s Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu Odsjek za arheologiju te dr. sc. Ivan Radman-Livaja, viši kustos u Arheološkom muzeju u Zagrebu.
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Roman History, Roman Historiography, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Balkan Studies, Bosnia, and 19 moreCroatian History, Roman Army, Southeastern Europe, Balkan archaeology, Dalmatian history, Archaeology of Roman Pannonia, Thracian And Illyrian And Early Eurasian Peoples Art And Archaeology, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Croatian Archaeology, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Bosna, Illyrian Archaeology, Bosna and Herzegovina, Illyrians, Roman Archaeology, and Bosna I Hercegovina
Becoming Roman in Ancient Dalmatia. The lecture organised by Archaeon: Arheološki portal BiH and Museum of Herzegovina in May 2014. You can see the lecture (in Croatian) and subsequent discussion. Many thanks to Archaeon and the Museum... more
Becoming Roman in Ancient Dalmatia. The lecture organised by Archaeon: Arheološki portal BiH and Museum of Herzegovina in May 2014. You can see the lecture (in Croatian) and subsequent discussion.
Many thanks to Archaeon and the Museum for perfect organisation.
Many thanks to Archaeon and the Museum for perfect organisation.
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Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Balkan Studies, Bosnia, Croatian History, Roman Empire, and 23 moreBalkan archaeology, Romanisation, Dalmatian history, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Romanization, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Roman provinces, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian History, Ancient Illyricum, Dalmatian hinterland, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Acculturation and romanization, Dalmatia, Illyrian Archaeology, Dalmacija, Bosna and Herzegovina, Roman Dalmatia, Illyrians, Roman Archaeology, and Hrvatska povijest
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During the month of December 2016 an online group debate was held between different voices on the Bosnian Pyramid phenomenon. The aim was to broaden the ... more
During the month of December 2016 an online group debate was held between different voices on the Bosnian Pyramid phenomenon. The aim was to broaden the discussion from its scientific debate towards the role of (pseudo)archaeology in a contemporary Bosnia-and-Herzegovina. The discussion was moderated by Thomas Nolf, visual artist and included in his book 'Peculiar Artifacts in Bosnia and Herzegovina - an imaginary exhibition'.
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Catalogue for the exhibition Australian Experiences of the Croatian Past: Macquarie University's archaeological mission Bribirska glavica 2014-2017, opened by H.E. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of Croatia
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European History, Archaeology, Medieval History, Cultural Heritage, Balkan Studies, and 45 moreBalkan History, Early Christianity, Croatian, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Croatian History, Late Antiquity, Balkan archaeology, Balkan prehistory, Medieval Croatian History, Medieval Balkans, Dalmatian history, Australian archaeology, Roman Provincial Archaeology, Balkans, Adriatic Sea, Storia medievale, Early Christian Archaeology, Middle Ages, Croatian Archaeology, Dalmatian hinterland, Archaeology of Roman Dalmatia, Croatia, Istorija balkana, History of the Adriatic, Dalmatia, History of the Balkans, medieval Dalmatia, Dalmacija, Istorija, History and geography of the Adriatic, Roman Dalmatia, Roman Liburnia, Hrvatska, The Adriatic Sea in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Povijest, Balkan Medieval History and Archaeology, Late Roman Dalmatia, Roman Archaeology, Archaeology of Adriatic Area, Early Medieval Croatia, Mare Adriatico, Hrvatska povijest, and Povijest Dalmacije
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How to write history of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Early Middle Ages?
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Bosnia, Early Medieval History, Croatian History, Serbian history, Early Middle Ages (History), and 15 moreMedieval Croatian History, Dalmatian history, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Medieval Serbia, Bosnian History, early Middle Ages, Croatia, Dalmatia, History of Bosnia and Herzegovina, medieval Bosnia, Christianisation of Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages, Archaeology Of The Migration Period And The Early Middle Ages, Bosna and Herzegovina, Српска историја (Serbian History), and Historija srednjovjekovne Bosne
- Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire, Series East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 50 (eds. Danijel Dzino, Ante Milošević, Trpimir Vedriš),... more
- Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire, Series East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 50 (eds. Danijel Dzino, Ante Milošević, Trpimir Vedriš), Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018.
- Corpus of Early Medieval Sculpture, vols. 1-3.
- Corpus of Early Medieval Sculpture, vols. 1-3.
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Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Croatian History, Carolingian Studies, Early Middle Ages (History), and 15 moreMedieval Croatian History, Early Medieval Art, Early Medieval Studies, Dalmatian history, Carolingian Art, Carolingians, early Middle Ages, Croatian Archaeology, Croatia, Dalmatia, medieval Dalmatia, Archaeology Of The Migration Period And The Early Middle Ages, Carolingian art and architecture, Carolingian History, and Romanesque and pre-Romanesque sculpture
Introduction to the papers collected in the volume - Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire. Ed. Danijel Dzino, Ante Milošević and Trpimir Vedriš. Leiden: Brill, 2018., 1-14.... more
Introduction to the papers collected in the volume - Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the Southeastern Frontier of the Carolingian Empire. Ed. Danijel Dzino, Ante Milošević and Trpimir Vedriš. Leiden: Brill, 2018., 1-14. discussing the establishment of the Carolingian frontier zone in central Europe and the Eastern Adriatic region.