Nauportus

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Nauportus (Navport, Navportus), ancient Roman town in Pannonia Superior (later 10^th Italian region) on road from Aquileia to Emona with port at Nauportus river what is now Ljubljanica River.

According to histoirian Pliny the Elder the name was derived from the legendary landing of the Argonauts at river, where they are said to have founded the town.

Tacitus reports that in year 14 town was plundered by mutiny roman legion that has been sent to build roads and bridges.

Remains of Nauportus what is today Vrhnika, Slovenia were found. An Late Roman emporium with warehouses and a central market was located and excavated at river banks. Traces of Claustra Alpium Iuliarum system and of guarding tower and Late Roman castellum can be seen in Vrhnika and its vicinity.

[edit] References

• http://www.vrhnika.si/
• In the footsteps of Roman soldiers in Slovenia, 1993, (COBISS)
• http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/a01020.htm Tacitus: Annals Book 1 [20]
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137&query=head%3D%23140 Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, III, 128