LECTURE: Verena Vidrih Perko
Slovenia in the Roman Period: history seen through the amphora evidence

Tuesday 16 January
Lecture Room - 6 pm

Senior Curator, Regional Museum of Kranj and Adjunct Professor, University of Ljubljana

The lecture will sketch the end of the prehistoric period on the territory of modern Slovenia, describing the cultural groups that inhabited it before the arrival of the Romans. Vidrih Perko will trace the Romans' first commercial and military contacts in Istria and the foundation of military posts at Emona, Celeia and Poetovio along the Amber Route. She will contrast the decline and fall of Roman cities in Pannonia and Noricum with their continued existence and development in Istria and discuss the establishment of hilltop strongholds and the fortified line of the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum. The lecture concludes with the arrival of the Slavs.