The first settlements in Brod area

From the chapters on pre-history of the Brod region it is obvious that it was inhabited in the old times. The first settlements on this territory have heen known since Neolithic. The Starčevo culture on mount Igrač beyond village Tomica indicates that on this site people lived in sod-houses and that they practiced hunting and hoe-farming. In the times of the Sopot culture settlements near villages Donja Bebrina and Klokočevik were known. They consisted of simple wooden houses with a single room. The Eneolithic settlement near Donja Bebrina showed a significant improvement: the houses had a regular rectangular foundation, two rooms and a porch.

In the Bronze Age there were several settlements in the environs of Brod, which is proved by the presence of Bronze-Age objects. During the Hallstatt the Brod region saw the process of ethnogenesis of Illyrians from Pannonia. At the same time traffic connections with distant regions were developping. Trading caravans, passing through this region, brought their goods from Alpine regions on the west, a wide circle of the Danube countries on the north and east, and from the Adriatic ports on the south.

In the age of La Tene the Brod region was invaded by Celts who brought their knowledge of iron. Celts did not drive Pannonian and Illyrian natives back from the Brod region, but only imposed themselves as the ruling population. It seems that it was Celts who founded, at the mouth of the Sava, a fortress with a settlement which got the name Marsonia after the river with the same name. Therefore, Marsonia could be dated back to 300 BC, which means that Brod has existed as long as 2.300 years.


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22.08.2002