Mursa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Šašel Kos, P. Kos Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Šašel Kos, P. Kos Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 30, 2021 05:52 PM
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History
Mursa was an ancient city on the Drava river and the site of a colonia Aelia Mursa, likely founded by Hadrian in AD 133. Traces of Neolithic and Iron Age cultures have also been discovered at the site.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/197389
45.560018, 18.675749
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 13832 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Mursa (30 BC - AD 640)
- Mvrsa maior (Mursa maior: Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Osijek (modern)
- Mursa connection Dravus (river) (unspecified date range)
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None
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 20 F4 Mursa
- Boatwright, M. T. 2000. Hadrian and the cities of the Roman empire. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. p. 172
- CIL III, 3279
- New Pauly, Mursa
- PECS (Perseus), MURSA (Osijek) Yugoslavia
- Pinterović 1978
- Smith 1854 (Perseus), MURSA
- Steph. Byz. 458 M
- TIR Aquincum 82
- TM GEO ID 19902
- Wikipedia (German) Kastell Mursa
- See Also:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 20 F4 Mursa
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Osijek CRO
M. Šašel Kos, P. Kos, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Mursa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/197389> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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