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.

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 Illyrik e 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.

It is very difficult to write a cultural history of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). The territory of modern-day B&H existed as a part of different imperial or quasi-imperial structures, and its formation and the present shape was affected by external rather than by internal developments. In antiquity there was neither Bosnia nor Herzegovina, but those areas belonged to the older imperial artefact of the Roman Dalmatian province. This spatial artefact in medieval times transformed into the frontier-zone between the Carolingian, Byzantine and Bulgar empires and its by-products – the kingdoms of Croatia and Serbia. Later, medieval barons of Bosnia and Hum (Chulmia, terra de Chelmo, Herzegovina/Hercegovina) were networked with their peers on the Dalmatian coast, as a southern part of the proto-imperial commonwealth known as the Hungarian arch-kingdom (Archiregnum Hungaricum). The Ottoman piecemeal conquest in the 15 and early 16 century ultimately resulted with political, cultural and population discontinuities, triggering consecutive waves of migrations. New empire created new imperial artefact – the province (eyalet, later pashaluk) Bosna in 1580. Reliquium reliquiaris of this frontier province, close to the shape of the present country, formed only after the Christian (Habsburg and Venetian) reconquista in the Great Turkish War (1683-1699) and its

This paper details the results of the first season of archaeological excavations at Bribirska glavica, carried out as part of the international archaeological project Varvaria/Breberium/Bribir, launched in 2014. The field operations took several directions: reexcavation of the multiapsed building situated in the local cemetery (partly cleared in the 1960s); analysis of the walls of the mausoleum with two sarcophagi in situ, located next to the multiapsed building; analysis of the walls of the early modern Orthodox church of Sts Joachim and Ann; geophysical survey of the unexcavated areas of Glavica; verification of the topographical map of the site; 3D reconstructions of major monuments of the site; establishment of archaeological databases; and processing of available archival documents about earlier excavations.

Developpee probablement comme une generalisation ethnographique sur des etrangers associes a une ou des langues indigenes similaires, l’etiquette “Illyriens” a ete utilisee dans differents contextes. Elle fait son apparition, de toute evidence, au VIe siecle av. J.-C., mais nos sources remontent a un siecle plus tard. Les perceptions ulterieures de cet ethnonyme dependent de contextes politiques et territoriaux, d’abord de l’alliance politique avec le royaume illyrien a l’epoque hellenistique, ensuite de l’usage qu’en firent les Romains dans le contexte de l’expansion imperiale de la premiere heure.

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