Sur un monticule funéraire préhistorique, l'église médiévale de Saint-Nicolas, près de Nin dans le comté de Zadar, Dalmatie du Nord, Croatie. L'église a été construite à la fin des années 1000 ou au début des années 1100, mais la tour de guet centrale a été ajoutée beaucoup plus tard, dans les années 1500, lorsque l'église a été fortifiée pendant le conflit entre le Royaume de Croatie et l'Empire ottoman.
2832 x 4256 px | 24 x 36 cm | 9,4 x 14,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
3 septembre 2007
Lieu:
Nin, Zadar County, North Dalmatia, Croatia
Informations supplémentaires:
Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
Nin, Zadar County, North Dalmatia, Croatia: fortress-like medieval coronation Church of Saint Nicholas. Originally built in the late 1000s / early 1100s AD on a prehistoric mound to a trefoil plan, the church is the only example of pre-Romanesque architecture in Dalmatia. It was fortified during a 100-year conflict between the Kingdom of Croatia and the Ottoman Empire (late 1400s - late 1500s) and the central battlemented watchtower was added in the 1500s. The stone rubble church stands on an earthen mound or tumulus containing an un-excavated prehistoric tomb in a field between the Adriatic lagoon settlement of Nin, Croatia’s oldest royal town, and the regional capital Zadar, the country’s oldest continuously inhabited city. According to legend, seven medieval Croatian kings were crowned in Nin. After their coronation, each king would ride to the Church of St Nicholas to present themselves to the Croatian people and to vow to defend their homeland. Nin was founded in the 9th century BC by the Liburnians or Liburni, an Illyrian tribe living on the Adriatic coast. Their walled settlement on the small island in the lagoon appears to have prospered and under later Roman rule Nin became an important sea port. In the 8th century AD, newly-arrived Croats formed their first kingdom and bishopric and the small town is today revered as the political, religious and cultural cradle of medieval Croatia. Its 10th century bishops included Grgur Ninski (Gregory of Nin), who strongly opposed the pope over the use of the Croatian language in religious services rather than Latin. D0947.B1387
