Frontiers of the Roman Empire: Slovakia

David J. Breeze has been Chair of the International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies and President of several archaeological societies in the UK. He was Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments for Scotland from 1989 to 2005, and subsequently led the team which successfully nominated the Antonine Wall as a World Heritage Site in 2008. David has excavated on both Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall and written several books on these frontiers, on frontiers elsewhere in the Roman Empire and on the Roman army.Dr Sonja Jilek has acted since 2005 as coordinator of three multinational EU projects regarding the development of the UNESCO "Frontiers of the Roman Empire" World Heritage Site.

• Foreword ; FRONTIERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE ; Common cultural heritage of the Roman empire ; The proposed World Heritage Site "Frontiers of the Roman Empire" ; History and extent of frontiers ; The army and frontiers ; Research on Roman frontiers ; SLOVAKIA ; Roman Frontiers and Slovakia ; Bratislava Castle - The first Roman monumental architecture from the 1st century BC ; Devín ; Roman military camp Gerulata ; in Bratislava–Rusovce ; Roman fort at Iža ; The Roman marching camps ; from the times of the ; Marcomannic Wars 100 ; The Roman buildings in the limes forefield ; Further Reading ; Illustration acknowledgements

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