1700 YEARS OF THE EDICT OF MILAN:

THE JUBILEE CELEBRATION IN VIMINACIVUM

Olivera Ilić PhD

Institute of Archaeology

Belgrade, Serbia

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Viminacium - Domus Scientiarum

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• President Tomislav Nikolic opened the exhibition Constantine the Great and the Edict of Milan.

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At the exhibition: President Tomislav Nikolić and his wife, Miomir Korać, director of Archaeological Park Viminacium and Bojana Borić-Brešković, director of National Museum in Belgrade.

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• Visitors in the atrium of Domus Scientiarum.

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• President Tomislav Nikolic, Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic ministers in the Serbian government and the diplomatic corps .

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• Representative of the Catholic Church.

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• Silver dishes and spoons with Christian features.

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• Roman imperial coins.

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Luxuriously decorated helmets encrusted with gold foil from Berkasovo in the province of Vojvodina.

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Junior visitors of the exibition.

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• Senior visitors of the exibition .

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• Opera Aida performed in the reconstructed Roman amphitheatre of Viminacium.

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• Scene of the opera Aida.

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• Scene of the opera Aida.

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• Reconstructed Roman amphitheatre.

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• Roman amphitheatre before reconstruction.

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• Natural, civilisational, cultural and historical factors of the landscape.

• a. Open pit “Drmno“. • b. Buildings in the

Archaeological park of Viminacium and the open pit “Drmno”.

• c. Archaeological park of Viminacium, the power plant “Kostolac B”, the rivers Mlava and Danube and the village of Stari Kostolac.

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• Natural factors of the landscape

• а. Agricultural lands of the village of Stari Kostolac.

• b. The River Mlava in the village of Stari Kostolac.

• c. Agricultural lands of the village of Stari Kostolac.

• d. The Sand Martin, protected species of the area.

• e. Sunflower fields in the village of Stari Kostolac.

• f. The River Danube near Kostolac. • g. Goats in the fields of the villages

surrounding Viminacium. • h. A view from the hill above the

village of Stari Kostolac. • i. A plateau on the hill above the

village of Stari Kostolac. •

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• Cultural and historical factors of the landscape.

• b. Viminacium amphitheatre. • c. Detail of a fresco from the 4th

century found in a tomb in Viminacium.

• d. Archaeological research of medieval Braničevo.

• e. Main administrative building of the old mine in the village of Stari Kostolac.

• f. Entrance to the old mine in the village of Stari Kostolac.

• g. Family villa of the river captain. on the hill above the village of Stari Kostolac.

• h. The church from 1924, on the hill above the village of Stari Kostolac.