Halikan

Halikan is an ancient Roman municipium located in present-day Croatia [1]. Founded in the 1st century AD, the municipium had an area of about 3 square kilometres and was a square in ground plan [1]. The wider area was already inhabited earlier by members of the Pannonian tribes, and on the Mura river there was a suitable crossing over that river from one bank to the other [1]. The Romans noticed this and established a military stronghold to monitor the river crossing [1]. Over the time, the settlement developed so much that it became some kind of commercial centre of the surrounding area [1]. The archeological research of Halikan was systematically started by archaeologists of the Međimurje County Museum from Čakovec in 1977 [1]. A pottery furnace and troughs for compacting clay were found among the first finds [1]. The Ara (altar) of the Roman benefactor consul Titus Cesernius Marcilinus, which was dedicated to the supreme god Jupiter, is among the most important discoveries in the territory of the municipium [1].