Epidaurus Illyria ( Greek Επίδαυρος , lat. Epidaurum or Epitaurum ) - an ancient Greek colony in Dalmatia on the territory of modern Croatia .
History
The Epidaurus of Illyria was founded around the VI century BC. e. [1] [2] natives of Epidaurus in the Peloponnese [3] . In the Roman era in 228 BC. e. the name of the city was changed to Latinized, and it was known as Epidaurum or Epitaurum [3] . During the civil war in ancient Rome in 47 BC. e. Marc Octavius besieged the city, but was defeated by the fleet of Publius Vatinius , who arrived from Brindisi , in a naval battle near the island of Tauris, now Schedro [4] .
Destroyed as a result of lowering the earth to the bottom of Tikhaya Bay in the 360s [3] . Jerome Stridonsky in The Life of Hilarion the Great describes a powerful earthquake and flood of 363 years at Epidaurus [5] . The Avars and Slavic invaders finally destroyed Epidaurus around 615 [6] [7] . Refugees from Epidaurus fled to Ragusa - the current city of Dubrovnik [8] .
It is known that the Illyrians called the city of Zaptal. In the Middle Ages, the city of Cavtat arose on the territory of the ancient ruined Epidaurus, which exists to this day. Several archaeological sites of the early Roman era in Cavtat are protected by the state, excavations continue.
Notes
- ↑ Pseudo-Caesar . Notes on the Alexandrian War . XIV
- ↑ "... dates back to the sixth century Bc, when the Greeks founded here Epidaurus", James Baker. Austria: Her People & Their Homelands .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Razumov G.A. The Mediterranean - the cradle of civilization // Sinking Cities / Razumov G.A., Khasin M.F .. - 2nd ed., Rev. and additional .. - M .: Stroyizdat, 1991. - S. 47-50. - 256 s. - ISBN 5-274-00973-5 .
- ↑ Pseudo-Caesar . Notes on the Alexandrian War . 44–47
- ↑ The Life of our Reverend Father Hilarion the Great / Transl. I. Pomyalovsky . - SPb. : V. Kirshbaum Printing House. Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society, 1893. - ( Palestinian Patericon . Issue Four).
- ↑ M. Zaninović. Epidaurum (Cavtat) Croatia, Yugoslavia // The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites / Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. - Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976 .-- 1048 p. - ISBN 978-0691035420 .
- ↑ Andrew Archibald Paton. Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic; or, Contributions to the Modern History of Hungary and Transylvania, Dalmatia and Croatia, Servia and Bulgaria . - Leipzig: FA Brockhaus, 1861. - Vol. I. - P. 247.
- ↑ Sir John Gardner Wilkinson. Dalmatia and Montenegro . - London: John Murray, Arbemarle Street, 1848. - Vol. I. - P. 275.