Delminium
Delminium /dælmɪinəm/ was an ancient Illyrian city.[1] It was the capital of the Dalmatae which was in today's Tomislavgrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2] People lived in The area of Tomislavgrad even before the Illyrians arrived. This is shown by a few polished stone axes from the Neolithic (4000 BC – 2400 BC) period.[3]
Delminium Media
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Territory of the Iron Age Liburnians in period of the Roman conquest (1st century BC - 1st century AD), based on source: S. Čače, Broj liburnskih općina i vjerodostojnost Plinija(Nat. hist. 3, 130; 139-141), Radovi Filozofskog fakulteta u Zadru, 32, Zadar 1993., pages 1-36
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The tombstone of the soldier Caius Longinus from Amblada who died in Delminium. The tombstone is now located in a museum in Split, Croatia
References
- ↑ Danijel Dzino, Illyricum in Roman Politics, 229BC–AD68 (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 40
- ↑ John Wilkes,The Illyrians (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995), p. 188
- ↑ Ivo Bagarić, Duvno: povijest župa duvanjskog samostana : prigodom 150. obljetnice današnje župe Duvno: 1839-1989 (Duvno: "Sveta baština", 1989.)
