Pod, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Pod is an archeological site in the municipality of Bugojno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a prehistoric settlement and hill fort located about 40 m above the bed of the river Poričnica [sv], a tributary of the Vrbas, on a slope of Mountain Koprivnica above the main road leading from Bugojno to Gornji Vakuf, in the settlement of Čipuljić, today an integral part of Bugojno.
Gradina Pod | |
Location | near Bugojno |
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Region | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Coordinates | 44°03′14″N 17°25′26″E |
Type | Hillfort |
History | |
Periods | Bronze Age, Iron Age |
The fortified site was first inhabited in the early Bronze Age[1] and even eneolithic (2500 to 1700 BC).[2] After the Bronze Age it was uninhabited for four centuries, until repopulated in the early Iron Age (~700 BC)[3] till the turn of the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE.[2] Stratified materials from Pod defined Central Bosnian cultural group of the late Bronze Age. It was declared a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[4]