Gardun

For the village in Iran, see Gardun, Iran.

Gardun
Gardun
Coordinates: 43°36′42″N 16°43′05″E
Country	Croatia
County	Split-Dalmatia
City	Trilj
Area [1]
• Total	4.8 km^2 (1.9 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	68
• Density	14/km^2 (37/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Tilurium remains

Cemetery, detail

Gardun is a village at the top of the hill of Gardun, just 1 km south of Trilj.

In the 1997, excavations of the remains of legionary fortress of Tilurium started on the southern outskirts of the village.

Tilurium guarded the entrance to the Cetina valley from the south and the approach to the provincial capital at Salona.^[3]

References

1. Register of spatial units of the State Geodetic Administration of the Republic of Croatia. Wikidata Q119585703.
2. "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements" (xlsx). Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in 2021. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. 2022.
3. Smith, D., Gaffney, V., Grossman, D., Howard, A.J., Milosevic, A., Ostir, K., Podobnikar, T., Smith, W., Tetlow, E., Tingle, M., and Tinsley, H. 2006. Assessing the later prehistoric environmental archaeology and landscape development of the Cetina Valley, Croatia. Environmental Archaeology 11 (2): 171-186