Original scientific paper
The Building of the City Fortifications in Trogir from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century
Irena Benyovsky Latin
; Croatian Institute of History
Abstract
City walls represented an essential element of security during the medieval period, and their widening demonstrates distinctive phases of territorial expansion of a settlement. The borgo (the part of the town outside the city walls) had a different development from that of the core, which was determined by its gradual settlement process. The borgo that developed in the thirteenth century, on the western part of the island on which Trogir was founded, only became an integral part of the city as late as the first decades of the fifteenth century, when it was encompassed by the wall and reached a level of urbanisation equal to that of the core (becoming the New City). Even though the greatest part of the borgo was in the thirteenth century in the hands of the nobility and the chapter, commoners were buying or taking into lease parcels in it. That influenced both the later character of the borgo and the building of the edifices there. In the fourteenth century that part of the island was covered by residential buildings, but they were at that time still mostly wooden. The population living there also built many buildings with economic functions.
Keywords
Trogir; Dalmatia; urban development; city walls; the Middle Ages
Hrčak ID:
62611
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2010.
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