Kreševo

Kreševo (Croatian pronunciation: [krêʃeʋo]) is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is located in the Central Bosnia Canton, a unit of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Kreševo is a mountainous town, located in a narrow valley of the river Kreševica in the slope of the Bitovnje mountain.

History

Antique period

The area of Kreševo was inhabited since the Neolithic. Various material remains are indicating that a life in Kreševo was intensified during the Roman Empire, when the municipality was part of the Roman province of Illyrcicum, as well as during the Migration Period. Reason for this are the subsoil assets of the Kreševo Municipality area, where gold, silver, copper, iron and mercury where exploited.

A number of the Roman aqueducts can be found on the area of the Kreševo Municipality, as well as remains of the Roman settlement near the village of Zid. During the destruction of the old Kreševan church in 1964, a number of the romanesque capitals were found in its walls from the period of 11th and 12th century. A Roman epigraphic monument was also found, in which an anonymous Roman municipium is mentioned. During the Roman period, there were two connection roads to the Via Argentaria, one of them led to an area near Sarajevo, and the other led towards the Visoko area.