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A grave of an unknown Croatian prince from the 8th century is discovered
I don’t know if it was posted but someone started this thread on another forum. They didn’t post a link but this is the summary:
Very little is known about Croatia before the 9th century, so every earlier discovery is an archaelogical sensation.
In the summer of 2015. a grave of an unknown prince was discovered, not far from Bojna, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. It became clear from the rich funeral gear that came out. Some of the other 36 found and investigated graves of the deceased on that location were richly equipped, but the grave of a prince was unique in this part of Croatia. An unknown magnate was buried with luxurious silver and golden plated spurs, gold-plated pendants, gold solid of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine V. Coprones, and golden threaded garments.
At the end of the 20th century at the Crkvina area in Biskupija (near Knin), a prince was found, buried in the basilica of St. Mary, in the sarcophagus of Roman origin and with a medieval cover. He had almost identical funeral equipment like this one from Bojna. The only other spurs are found there in Croatia, which with their rich decoration and burial place, are fully in line with a prince grave from Bojna. And with this prince there was a pendant with a stone crystal as well as a solid of Constantine V. Because of these and similar finds it was known that the Knin area was one of the centers of the early Croatian state. The discovery of the Prince from Bojna indicates the existence of an equally strong political center in the area of today's Banovina, which opens a new chapter in the knowledge of the earliest Croatian history.
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Originally Posted by Faklon
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