Original scientific paper

Medieval Settlement Petrovac Near Virovitica

Robert Čimin orcid.org/0000-0001-5628-4135 ; Koprivnica Municipal Museum, Croatia

Abstract

Protective archaeological excavations were conducted in the northern part of Virovitica at the newly found site of Petrovac in the fall of 2016 as part of the Virovitica agglomeration on the route of the Collector South (FK-7). The works of the Koprivnica Town Museum provided information about the multi-layered settlement that was occupied during the Early Iron Age (1st century BC), at the beginning of the early Middle Ages (6th century) and then at the turn of the period from High to Late Middle Ages (13th - 14th centuries). The toponym of the missing settlement Petrovac (Petrowcz) in the medieval county of Virovitica has preserved on the Third Military Survey in the second half of the 19th century and contemporary through modern Croatian topographic maps. This situation makes it possible to equate the investigated part of the settlement with the historically recorded medieval settlement, which shows that during more than a century of their stay in Virovitica (1552 - 1684), the Ottomans did not significantly influence the memory of the former surrounding settlements.

Keywords

Virovitica; archaeology; topography; High Middle Age; settlement; ceramic finds

Hrčak ID:

268200

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/268200

Publication date:

1.6.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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