Viminacium, one of the most important Roman towns and military camps in these parts, thrived between the 1st and 5th century, near the present-day town of Požarevac.
The city reached its peak in the 3th century CE, when it was declared one of the four capitals of the Roman Empire.
Emperor Trajan is known for his lasting and praiseworthy building feats.
The remains of the Roman city of Ulpiana were discovered at the Gradina archaeological site, a mere kilometre away from Gračanica monastery. It is the most important archaeological site of the Roman and Early Byzantine periods in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija.
Tabula Traiana, an inscription carved in a rock on the bank of the Danube, is one of the many building feats of Roman Emperor Trajan.
The remains of Trajan’s Bridge on the Danube and the Roman castrum Pontes, were built on the route which Roman soldiers traversed in ancient times in order to wage a war on the Dacians.
The mighty ramparts and towers of the imperial palace Felix Romuliana are evidence of the immense power wielded by its founder, Roman emperor Galerius Maximianus.
In the former Naissus, the birthplace of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, a luxury community named Mediana was built in the early 4th Century.
Roman Emperor Justinian I, born in the south of present-day Serbia, wished to build a city in his home region that would be named after him. Thus, in the 6th Century CE, Justiniana Prima was born and became one of the most important Byzantine cities in the Balkans.
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