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Nauportus
Coordinates: 45°58′10.78″N 14°18′10.91″E

Nauportus (Navport, Navportus) (Ancient Greek: Ναύπορτον),[1] was an ancient Roman town
in Pannonia Superior (later 10th Italian region) on the road from Aquileia to Emona with a port at
the Nauportus river, now the Ljubljanica River, Slovenia.

Strabo wrote that near the Nauportus was a river, called Corcoras (Ancient Greek: Κορκόρας),
which received the cargoes.[1]

According to historian Pliny the Elder, the name was derived from the legendary landing of the
Argonauts at the river, where they are said to have founded the town.

Tacitus reports that in year 14, the town was plundered by mutinous Roman forces that has been
sent to build roads and bridges.[2]

Remains of Nauportus were found in present-day Vrhnika in central Slovenia. A Late Roman
emporium with warehouses and a central market was located and excavated at riverbanks. Traces
of the defense system of Claustra Alpium Iuliarum, a guard tower, and a Late Roman castellum
can be seen in Vrhnika and in vicinity.[3]

References
1. Strabo, Geography, §7.5.2 (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg
0099.tlg001.perseus-grc1:7.5.2)
2. Tacitus Annales, 1.20: Interea manipuli ante coeptam seditionem Nauportum missi ob itinera et
pontes et alios usus, postquam turbatum in castris accepere, vexilla convellunt direptisque
proximis vicis ipsoque Nauporto, quod municipii instar erat, ...
3. Horvat, Jana. "Nauportus" (http://www.dedi.si/dediscina/110-nauportus). DEDI - enciklopedija
naravne in kulturne dediščine na Slovenskem (in Slovenian). Retrieved 8 April 2014.

External links
Nauportus - an Early Roman trading post at Dolge njive in Vrhnika (http://av.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/58/
AV_58_Music_Horvat.pdf)

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