Mursa
Mursa was a Roman city, and is today the town of Osijek in Croatia
It is an antique Roman colony of Pannonia lower, founded under Trajan or Hadrian.
Its situation on the Drave, and near its confluence with the the Danube, locates it on at the crossroads of the Roman strategic ways: one comes from Italy of North by the valley of Drave, the other skirts the course of the Danube since the Rhétie, and the meeting of both continues on Sirmium, Naïssus, the Thrace and Asia. It supervises the territory of the Iaziges wedged between Pannonia and the Dacie, and constitutes a link of the Danubian Limes.
In September 351, Mursa saw the confrontation of the armies of Constance II and Magnence for the control of the Roman empire. At this same time, Mursa lines up with its Valens bishop on the side of the Arianisme.
In spite of its ancient past, Osijek, current Mursa, shelters few archaeological vestiges, apart from the foundations of a basilica épicopale.
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