KONJIC
Bosnia-Hercegovina, Yugoslavia.
On
the upper Neretva river ca. 50 km SW of Sarajevo.
The mixed Illyrian-Celtic population of the area had
relations with the Greek Adriatic colonies in the 3d and
2d c. B.C. With the Roman occupation, the valley prospered agriculturally from the 1st c. A.D. through the 4th
and supported a large population: some 19 Roman sites
have been identified in the valley with Konjic as their
center. Grants of citizenship were first made in the 2d c.
A.D.
Konjic and its environs have been the object of intermittent archaeological investigation since the end of the
19th c. In Konjic itself a Roman necropolis and various
house remains have been found, and a Mithraeum excavated. Outside the settlement the principal remains are
those of villae rusticae; the most notable group of these
is located near the town of Lisičići. The finds from the
area are at the Zemaljski Muzej in Sarajevo.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
D. Basler, “Dolina Neretve od Konjica
do Rame,”
Glasnik Zemaljskog Museja u Sarajevo, NB
10 (1955) 219-29; I. Cremosnik, “Nova anticcaron;ka istraživanja kod Konjica i Travnika,” ibid., NB 10 (1955) 107-36; P. Andjelić, “Tragovi prehistorijiskih kultura u okolini
Konjica,” ibid., NS 12 (1957) 277-83; E. Pašalić,
Antička naselja i komunikacije u Bosni Hercegovini (1960);
J. J. Wilkes,
Dalmatia (1969)
M.
M. R. WERNER
