The Last Roman City: Justiniana Prima

Justiniana Prima (Caričin Grad, Serbia) was a planned city constructed in the mid-sixth century near the birthplace of Justinian.
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[@paulatreides6779]

Excellent presentation, thank you! You definitely need a small drone for aerial shots that would be so useful in cases like this.

[@hmao4466]

This is brilliant.

[@Poohze01]

I adore these tour-guide videos! Were basilicas still being used for secular purposes in this period, or were they purely religious? 'Cause that's a lot of basilicas!

[@scenicroutestothepast]

All of those were churches! The local priests were very busy

[@stepps511]

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[@ricksteves1973]

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[@lesliea7394]

I wish I could more fully envision what the city looked like in its prime.

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[@edoardodipaolo370]

Gorgeous video and excellent job as always. It would be amazing if you could cover Alba Fucens (in modern day Abruzzo, Italy), explaining also the Italic wars and the Roman colonies system. It features also the stunning church of San Pietro in Albe (constructed in a former temple) and the alleged final resting place of Perseus, last king of Macedonia. Not to talk about the nearby Fucinus lake, that you already covered in one of your earlier works. Thanks for your excellent work!

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[@CarthagoMike]

beautiful images as always

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Very nice

[@maydanlex]

Wonderful information as per usual. Many thanks!

[@josephtrahan8045]

Amazing

[@LauraS1]

It's amazing to me how degraded these ruins are despite being so much younger than older ruins elsewhere. The construction materials look more coarse and the masonry appears to be a poorer quality than masonry in older parts of the Empire.

[@barrymoore4470]

In addition to possibly poorer materials with which to work, much of the sixth century was fraught with difficulty for the people then living, with skewed climactic conditions (now believed to have been caused by vulcanism) and what was apparently the first outbreak of bubonic plague blighting much of Justinian's reign. The labor pool, and skilled labor, might have become attenuated.

[@goranmarinic2923]

Justiniana Prima, or in Serbian "Caričin grad"(City of Empress).

[@samurguybriyongtan146]

Was the word basilica used only for religious structures at this time or were they also like older basilicae, having administrative uses?

[@paulkoza8652]

If it was never completed, then are these ruins or the remnants of uncompleted buildings? I see lots of brick and stone, but no marble. Who lived there, or was supposed to live there? Where did they come from? How do we know the purpose of the buildings? There must have been some documentation that described the layout and the purpose of the structures.

[@T_Mo271]

Any sort of worked stone was valuable and tended to be moved and re-used to other locations.

[@mortenjohansen4120]

Where have all the stones gone?

[@snotnosewilly99]

They were probably used to build new buildings and new towns somewhere else. There were many Old West mining towns in the US in the 1800s. These were 'Boomtowns' made mostly out of wood that would happen overnight when rich mine opened. When the ore was depleted the town died and became a 'Ghost Town'. The ghost towns were torn down and the wood was removed to be used in another "Boomtown', so all that is left are the stone foundations.

[@temistogen]

People took them to build homes. That went on with even the churches in the Balkans(some mosques were built with it).Many stones from the churches/temples or castles were taken as nobody cared at some point.

[@ernshaw78]

I just have a hard time seeing certain rocks as complete buildings and fields as cities.

[@theprotector1234567]

Who actually constructed the aqueducts? Were they built by urban laborers brought to to construction site for the purpose, or were they built by locals, perhaps in the process of being "Romanized"?

[@dchila7320]

gradili su ih vjerovatno većinom robovi i legionari a bilo je valjda i slobodnih ljudi majstora građevinara