Taliata

Taliata

Taliata

Roman town and fort in eastern Serbia

Taliata was a Roman town and fort[1] located near the present town of Donji Milanovac in eastern Serbia. It is included in the Tabula Peutingeriana.

Western Moesian/Dacian forts
Forts on western Moesian Limes
Taliata plan

The fort of 134 × 126 m[2] was built as part of the Roman Moesian Limes frontier system of linked forts along the Danube. Domitian replaced the wood and earth walls by stone walls in 87 AD before Domitian's Dacian War.

It was completely restored in the second half of the 3rd century. In the 4th c. protruding semicircular corner-towers were added.[3]

An early Christian basilica was discovered on the site.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Taliata (Donji Milanovac) https://www.trismegistos.org/place/29655
  2. [2]
    M. Vasić, Le limes protobyzantin dans la province de Mésie Première, Starinar 45–46, 1994–1995, 41–53.
  3. [3]
    Constantin Bajenaru, Minor Fortifications in the Balkan-Danubian Area from Diocletian to Justinian, Editura Mega Cluj-Napoca 2010 ISBN 978-606-543-114-0
  4. [4]
    G. Jeremić, O. Ilić, Evidence of Early Christianity on the Danube Limes, from Singidunum to Aquae, in: Vivere militare est. From Populus to Emperors – Living on the Frontier, Volume I, Institute of Archaeology Monographies No. 68/1, eds. S. Golubović, N. Mrđić, Belgrade 2018, 197–246.

Sources

  • V. Popović, Donji Milanovac–Veliki Gradac (Taliata), rimsko i ranovizantijsko uvrdenje, Starinar 33–34, 1982–1983, 265–282.
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