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Gardun

Gardun is a at the top of the hill of Gardun, just 1 km south of . In the 1997, excavations of the remains of legionary fortress of started on the southern outskirts of the village.
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Photo: Ante Perkovic, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tilurium (centuriae) and Fort Nutjak.

Archaeological site
Photo: Ante Perkovic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tilurium was an ancient settlement and military site located at Gardun above the modern town of in Croatia. Originally an Illyrian hill-fort of the Delmatae tribe, it later became a major Roman legionary fortress and continued as a fortified post into Late Antiquity.

Ruins
Photo: Bane77, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a late medieval fortress overlooking the canyon of the Cetina River, about 3 km downstream from the town of , Croatia, where the river leaves the plateau of Sinjsko Polje and continues its winding path through the canyon to the confluence in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trilj and Vojnić Sinjski.

Town
Photo: Lovrepalos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town and settlement in inland , . It is located northeast of Split. In 2021, its population was 8182. was a traffic hub in Roman times, when a stone bridge Pons Tilurium was built on the Cetina River.

Village
is a settlement in the City of in . In 2021, its population was 433.

Village
is a settlement in the City of in . In 2021, its population was 328.

Gardun

Latitude
43.60996° or 43° 36′ 36″ north
Longitude
16.71396° or 16° 42′ 50″ east
Population
83
Elevation
411 metres (1,348 feet)
Open location code
8FMRJP57+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 560783992
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3282032
Wiki­data ID
Q2794247
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In Other Languages

From Bosnian to Ukrainian—“Gardun” goes by many names.
  • Bosnian: “Gardun”
  • Catalan: “Gardun”
  • Croatian: “Gardun”
  • Dutch: “Gardun”
  • Hungarian: “Gardun”
  • Irish: “Gardun”
  • Polish: “Gardun”
  • Serbian: “Гардун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gardun”
  • Slovenian: “Gardun”
  • Ukrainian: “Гардун”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gardun”. Photo: Ante Perkovic, CC BY-SA 3.0.