Archaeological Sites in Croatia
City/town/settlement in Croatia (37)
Andautonia
Andautonia was a Roman settlement located on the southern bank of the river Sava, located in the modern-day village of Šćitarjevo, southeast of the city of Zagreb. Andautonia was…
Aquae Iasae
Aquae Iasae was the Roman settlement and Roman bath in the area of present city Varaždinske Toplice. In the 3rd century BC, in this area lived the Illyrian tribe Jasi, whose name…
Asseria
Asseria was an ancient settlement located at Podgrađe, Benkovac around 30 kilometres east of Zadar in Croatia. In pre-Roman times Asseria was an important centre in south Liburnia…
Bribir, Šibenik-Knin County
Bribir is a village in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia, near Skradin. The site was the Roman town Varvaria, later becoming in medieval times an important settlement with a stronghold…
Burnum
Burnum was a Roman Legionary fortress, later converted to a town. It is located 2.5 km north of Kistanje, in inland Dalmatia, Croatia. The remains include a principia, the…
Caska, Croatia
Caska is a village on the Croatian island of Pag. Archaeological excavations from 2003 to 2007 uncovered 44 cremation graves dating to the 1st-4th centuries AD, while underwater…
Cerna, Croatia
Cerna is a village and municipality in eastern Croatia, situated between Vinkovci and Zupanja on the rivers Bidj, Bosut, Berava, and Bitulja. A Scordisci archaeological site…
Crikvenica
Crikvenica was developed on the site of a Roman era settlement and military base called Ad Turres. A Roman ceramic workshop was discovered at Crikvenica, in an archaeological site…
Dalj
One Scordisci archaeological site in Dalj dating back to late La Tène culture was excavated in the 1970s and 1980s as a part of rescue excavations in eastern Croatia. The…
Danilo, Croatia
Danilo is a village near Sibenik, Croatia, and the eponymous type site of the Neolithic Danilo culture. Excavations revealed pits and post holes, with distinctive pottery…
Epidaurum
Epidaurus or Epidauros was an ancient Greek colony founded sometime in the 6th century BC and renamed to Epidaurum during Roman rule in 228 BC, when it was part of the province of…
Fulfinum
Municipium Flavium Fulfinum was an old Roman settlement on the island of Krk just a few kilometres from the town of Omišalj. Archaeological findings show the first traces of…
Halikan
Halikan is an ancient Roman municipium located in present-day Croatia. Founded in the 1st century AD, the municipium had an area of about 3 square kilometres and was a square in…
Jadranovo
Jadranovo is a coastal settlement on Croatia's northern Adriatic coast, situated approximately 8 km from Crikvenica and 26 km from Rijeka.
Knin
The area consisting of today's Knin, or more specifically, the Spas hill, has been inhabited since the Stone Age. Knin is first mentioned in the 10th-century work De Administrando…
Markušica
Markusica is a village in Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern Croatia, located south of the river Vuka and northwest of Vinkovci. A Scordisci archaeological site dating to the Late…
Miholjanec
Miholjanec has been settled since at least the Iron Age. During the late Iron Age, the so-called bini populi lived in the area that would eventually become Miholjanec. Historians…
Nakovanj
Nakovana is an archaeological site on the Peljesac peninsula in southern Dalmatia, Croatia, serving as the type-site for the East Adriatic Early Copper Age. Excavations revealed…
Narona
Narona was an Ancient Greek trading post on the Illyrian coast and later Roman city and bishopric, located in the Neretva valley in present-day Vid, Croatia. Narona became the…
Nesactium
Nesactium was an ancient fortified hill town and the political capital of the Histri tribe in pre-Roman Istria, located in southern Istria, Croatia, between the villages of Muntić…
Orolik
A village in the Stari Jankovci municipality of eastern Croatia's Vukovar-Syrmia County, containing an archaeological site dating to the Iron Age. The site was excavated during…
Osijek
Human habitation in the Osijek area dates to the Neolithic period. During the second half of the 4th century BC, the settlement was attacked and subsequently captured by the…
Otišić
Otišić is a small village in the Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia, situated in inland Dalmatia south of Vrlika on the State route D1 between Sinj and Vrlika. The area holds…
Požun, Croatia
Požun is a small settlement on the left bank of the Kupa river, opposite Ozalj Castle in Karlovac County, Croatia. The museum in Ozalj Castle holds a stone axe found at Požun from…
Privlaka, Vukovar-Syrmia County
Privlaka is a village in eastern Slavonia, Croatia, located 12km south of Vinkovci in Vukovar-Syrmia County. A Scordisci archaeological site dating to the late La Tene culture…
Pula
Pottery from the Neolithic period (6000–2000 BC), indicating human settlement, has been found around Pula. The town was elevated to colonial rank between 46 and 45 BC as the tenth…
Pyrri
Pyrri was an ancient Roman settlement in the Roman province of Pannonia, situated along a road connecting Poetovio (modern Ptuj, Slovenia) in the north to Siscia (modern Sisak,…
Roman City Ruins of Salona
Salona was an ancient Roman city and capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia, located near modern Split. Originally settled by the Illyrian Dalmati tribe, it flourished under…
Salona
Salona was an ancient city and the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia near Split. The ruins of Salona are located in the modern town of Solin, around six kilometres from…
Sarvaš
Sarvas is a village in eastern Slavonia, Croatia, east of Osijek, containing a Scordisci archaeological site dating to the late La Tene period. Excavated during rescue operations…
Siscia
Siscia is described by Roman writers as a great town in the south of Upper Pannonia, on the southern bank of the Savus, on an island formed by that river and two others, the…
Solin
Solin developed on the location of ancient city of Salona, which was the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia and the birthplace of Emperor Diocletian. After the arrival of…
Sotin
In Sotin, there is an archaeological site with a settlement of the Pannonian Kornakata tribe. Archaeological finds speak of life in the Sotin area from the Copper Age to the…
Stari Mikanovci
Stari Mikanovci is a village in eastern Croatia, situated in Slavonia near the western part of Srijem.
Trogir
Trogir is a historic town and harbour on the Adriatic coast in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. The historic part of the city is situated on a small island between the Croatian…
Vučedol
Vučedol became the eponym of the eneolithic Vučedol culture. It is estimated that the site had once been home to about 3,000 inhabitants. Some of the most important archaeological…
Zadar
Zadar is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Croatia. Located on the Adriatic Sea in the northwestern Ravni Kotari region, it serves as the seat of Zadar County and the…
Gate/archway/bridge in Croatia (8)
Arch of the Sergii
Roman triumphal arch in Pula, Croatia, erected by Salvia Postuma Sergia to honor three relatives, notably Lucius Sergius Lepidus, a tribune in the legion that fought at the Battle…
Bronze Gate - Diocletian's Palace
The southern gate (Latin: Porta Meridionalis) of Diocletian's Palace in Split, Croatia, built around AD 295-305 as a sea gate through which the emperor entered by boat. Unlike the…
Gate of Hercules
The Gate of Hercules is a Roman-era gateway in Pula, Croatia, dating to approximately 47–44 BC. It is situated between two medieval towers and constructed from uncarved stone…
Golden Gate - Diocletian's Palace
The Golden Gate, or "the Northern Gate", is one of the four principal Roman gates into the stari grad of Split. Built as the main gate of Diocletian's Palace, it was elaborately…
Iron Gate - Diocletian's Palace
The Iron Gate, or 'the Western Gate,' is one of four principal Roman gates into Diocletian's Palace in Split. Originally a military gate for troop entry, it is the only gate of…
Porta Gemina
The Dvojna vrata (Porta Gemina) is a Roman city gate located in Pula, Croatia. Porta Gemina is a double arched gate. The Dvojna vrata, or Porta Gemina, was named after its two…
Silver Gate - Diocletian's Palace
The Silver Gate, or "the Eastern Gate", is one of the four principal Roman gates into the stari grad of Split that was once Diocletian's Palace. The gate faces east towards the…
Twin Gates of Pula
The Dvojna vrata (Twin Gates), also called Porta Gemina, is a Roman double-arched city gate in Pula, Croatia. Built during the late 2nd century, it was one of the ten city gates…
Cave Structures in Croatia (5)
Grapčeva Cave
A Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological site on Hvar Island, Croatia, near the village of Humac at 225 metres elevation. Excavations from 1912 to 1952 by archaeologist Grgo…
Krapina Neanderthal Site
Krapina Neanderthal site, also known as Hušnjakovo Hill is a Paleolithic archaeological site located near Krapina, Croatia. Krapina represents the largest known recovery of human…
Romuald's Cave
Romuald's Cave is located on the eastern slopes of the Lim channel, at an altitude of 106 m. Beginning with the end of 19th century, it was excavated multiple times by various…
Vela Spila Cave
The Vela Spila cave is situated above the town of Vela Luka on the island of Korčula, in Croatia on Pinski Rat hill at an elevation of approximately 130 m. The cave consists of an…
Vindija Cave
A major Palaeolithic cave site in northern Croatia containing over 200,000 years of occupation layers. Systematic excavations by Mirko Malez (1974-1987) unearthed at least 85…
Castle/palace in Croatia (3)
Cellars of Diocletian's Palace
The Cellars of Diocletian's Palace, sometimes referred to as the "basement halls", is a set of substructures, located at the southern end of Diocletian's Palace (now the…
Diocletian's Palace
Diocletian's Palace is an ancient Roman palace and fortress complex in Split, Croatia. It was built at the end of the third century AD by the Roman Emperor Diocletian as his…
Vestibule, Split
The Vestibule is a circular entrance hall within Diocletian's Palace in Split, built in the early 4th century AD as the formal passage from the Peristyle courtyard to the…
Fortification in Croatia (2)
Monkodonja
Monkodonja is a Bronze Age hillfort located near the city of Rovinj in the Croatian region of Istria. It was occupied between about 1850/1750 and 1500/1450 BC. Monkodonja lies on…
Pannonian Limes
The Pannonian Limes is part of the old Roman fortified frontier known as the Danubian Limes that runs for approximately 420 km from the Roman camp of Klosterneuburg in the Vienna…
Amphitheatre in Croatia (1)
Church/cathedral in Croatia (1)
Fortress/citadel in Croatia (1)
Mound/tumulus in Croatia (1)
Natural feature in Croatia (1)
Reservoir/aqueduct/canal in Croatia (1)
Residence/villa/farmhouse in Croatia (1)
Other sites in Croatia (3)
Amfiteatar Salona
The ruins of a Roman amphitheatre in ancient Salona (modern Solin, Croatia), erected in the latter half of the 2nd century CE (c. 170 AD). The arena could accommodate…
Temple of Augustus, Pula
The Temple of Augustus is a well-preserved Roman temple in the city of Pula, Croatia. Dedicated to the first Roman emperor, Augustus, it was probably built during the emperor's…
Temple of Jupiter, Split
The Temple of Jupiter is a temple in Split, Croatia dedicated to the Ancient Roman god Jupiter. It is located in the western part of Diocletian's Palace near the Peristyle, the…
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