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Roman Slovenia: Emona, Poetovio, and the Roads of Empire

Roman Slovenia: Emona, Poetovio, and the Roads of Empire

Markham, Adrian E.

Paperback

Series: The Story of Slovenia

ArchaeologyAncient RomeGeneral European History

ISBN13: 9798245035130
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 22 2026
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Roman Slovenia: Emona, Poetovio, and the Roads of Empire by Adrian E. Markham traces how Rome's frontier transformed the landscapes of present-day Slovenia into a crossroads of power, culture, and endurance. From the founding of Emona under Augustus to the bustling legionary center of Poetovio on the Drava, the book follows the emergence of cities, roads, and faiths that bound the Alpine world to the Mediterranean. Drawing on archaeology, inscriptions, and classical sources, Markham reconstructs the daily life of soldiers, merchants, craftsmen, and freedmen who lived at the edge of empire.

He explores how Roman engineers carved stone highways through valleys and mountain passes, linking Aquileia to the Danube frontier, and how the Via Emona and Via Gemina shaped trade and settlement for two thousand years. The story moves through temples of Jupiter and Mithras, early Christian basilicas, and the fortified towns that withstood barbarian incursions, revealing a society that blended Roman order with local resilience. Sites such as Ajdovsčina, Ptuj, and Ljubljana come vividly to life, their ruins and artifacts forming a continuous thread from antiquity to the present.

Richly detailed and written with clarity, Roman Slovenia: Emona, Poetovio, and the Roads of Empire offers a sweeping yet intimate portrait of a land where the lines of Roman civilization still guide the contours of modern Europe.

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