Emona or Aemona, short for Colonia Iulia (A)emona, was a Roman castrum founded in 14/15 AD, possibly by the XV Legio Apollinaris (theory proposed by the noted historian and epigraphy expert Balduin Saria), on a territory already populated by ancient settlers of uncertain origin. Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC The Latin word castra, with its singular castrum, was used by the ancient Romans to mean buildings or plots of land reserved to or constructed for use as a military Epigraphy (ἐπιγραφολογία from Greek ἐπιγραφή — "inscription" is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs engraved Its location overlaps with the SW part of the old nucleus of the modern city of Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, where numerous remains of Emona can still be seen today (substantial parts of the ancient city walls, most of which were destroyed in 1963, several mosaics, parts of the paleochristian baptistry, residential houses, statues, tombstones etc. Ljubljana ( is the largest and Capital city of Slovenia. It is located in the center of the country and is a mid-sized city of some 270000 inhabitants Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia (Republika Slovenija) is a Country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Art History Mosaics of the 4th century BC are found in the Macedonian palace-city of Aegae, and they enriched the floors of Hellenistic Early Christianity is commonly defined as the Christianity of the three centuries between the Crucifixion of Jesus ( c In Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry ( Latin baptisterium) is the separate centrally-planned structure surrounding the A statue is a Sculpture in the round representing a person or persons an animal or an event normally full-length as opposed to a bust, and at least close to life-size A headstone, tombstone or gravestone is a marker normally carved from stone, placed over or next to the site of a Burial ).
(A)emona was, along with Nauportus, Celeia and Poetovio, one of the main cities on the eastern coast of the Adriatic. Nauportus (Navport Navportus, ancient Roman town in Pannonia Superior (later 10th Italian region on road from Aquileia to Emona Ptuj (Pettau Latin: Poetovio) is a City and one of 11 urban municipalities in Slovenia. Formerly, it was assumed to have been a part of the Roman province of Pannonia. A province is a territorial unit almost always an Administrative division. Pannonia is an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, However, recent research seems to indicate that Aemona was actually the easternmost city of the Roman empire proper.
After few months of occupation in 388, citizens of Emona saluted Emperor Theodosius I entering the liberated city after the victorious Battle of the Save where Theodosius I defeated army of Roman usurper Magnus Maximus. Events By Place Roman Empire The rebellion of Magnus Maximus is put down at the Battle of the Save, and Valentinian II Flavius Theodosius (January 11 347 – January 17 395 also called Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great ( Greek: Θεοδόσιος Α΄ The Battle of the Save was fought in 388 between the forces of Roman usurper Magnus Maximus and the Eastern Roman Empire. Flavius Theodosius (January 11 347 – January 17 395 also called Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great ( Greek: Θεοδόσιος Α΄ Usurpers are individuals or groups of individuals who obtain and maintain the power or rights of another by force and without legal authority Magnus Maximus (ca 335&ndash August 28, 388) also known as Maximianus, was an Hispanic usurper of the Western Roman Empire
In 452, (A)emona was virtually destroyed by the Huns, led by Attila. Events By Place Western Roman Empire Attila, king of the Huns, invades Italy. The Huns were an early confederation of Central Asian equestrian nomads or semi-nomads with a Turkic core of aristocracy Its remaining inhabitants fled the city; some of them made it to the coast of Istria where they founded a "second Emona", Aemonia, now the town of Novigrad (meaning "New City"), in Croatia. This article is about a geographical region bordering the Adriatic Sea Novigrad can refer to Novigrad Istria, Croatia Novigrad Zadar County, Croatia Novigrad Podravski, Koprivnica-Križevci Croatia (Hrvatska ˈxȓvatska officially the Republic of Croatia ( Republika Hrvatska) is a southern Central European country at the crossroads between
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Legend or history?
According to Herodotus, Aemona was founded by Jason and named by him, in honour of his Thessalian homeland. Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( Greek: Hēródotos Halikarnāsseús) was a Greek Historian who lived in the 5th century BC ( 484 BC&ndash Jason ( Greek: Ἰάσων, Etruscan: Easun, Laz: Yason) was a late ancient Greek mythological Thessalia redirects here For the Butterfly Genus, see Thessalia (butterfly.
According to the 18th century historian Janez Gregor Dolničar, the original predecessor of (A)emona/Ljubljana was founded cca 1222 BC. The 18th century lasted from 1701 to 1800 in the Gregorian calendar, in accordance with the Anno Domini / Common Era numbering system (The date, although based on legend and poetic speculation, actually fits in both with Herodotus' account and the date of the earliest archeological remains found so far. Speculation, in a financial context is making an investment that increases the overall risk in a portfolio PeDRO es el patron )
Emona in literature
Emona is the setting of a popular novel by Mira Mihelič, Tujec v Emoni, Ljubljana, 1978. Mira Mihelič ( 14 April, 1912 - 4 September, 1985) was a Slovene Writer and Translator. .
Emona is also the city that Elizabeth Kostova's protagonist first travels to in the 2005 novel The Historian. Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author The Historian is a 2005 Novel by Elizabeth Kostova about a Quest, reaching through the past five centuries for the historical Vlad
References
- Ljudmila Plesničar Gec, Urbanizem Emone / The Urbanism of Emona, City Museum of Ljubljana, The Research Institute of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Ljubljana 1999.