Gnatia

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Gnathia, also Egnatia, Ignatia, Egnatia Gnatia or ( Italian form ) was located on the Adriatic an ancient port city in the southern Italian Apulia countryside near the modern Fasano, between Bari and Brindisi. The place is eponymous for the gnathia ceramic.

Gnathia lay on the border of the settlement areas of Peucetians and Messapians. In 4 / 3 Century BC, the populated since the Bronze Age site was expanded urban. His heyday gnathia especially during the early Roman Empire, as it lay on the Via Minucia, an important road to Brundisium (Brindisi ), the ferry terminal for the ferry to Greece. The poet Horace came out in 38 BC on the journey to Brundisium by gnathia. The emperor Trajan had AD at the beginning of the 2nd century BC, the Via Minucia and at gnathia to this striking, coming from Bari coast road, side branches of the Via Appia, as Via Traiana to expand. In late antiquity was gnathia seat of a Christian bishop. In the Diocese of the titular Egnatia Appula goes back to the Roman Catholic Church. The city was destroyed by the Ostrogoth king Totila in 545; the inhabitants fled to Monopoli.

First archaeological excavations in gnathia found 1912/1913 instead; they continued with interruptions until recently. At the remains of the city wall, the Greek agora, the Roman forum, two Christian basilicas and numerous tombs are mentioned.

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