Doclea

Historical names: Doclea/Dioclea/Diocleia/Domovianum

Doclea was the urban centre of an Illyrian tribe, the Docleates, built in the first decade of the Ist century AD.Doclea is first mentioned in Geography by Ptolemy¹. Pliny, among the inland cities of Dalmatia, but the inscriptions indicates that the town received municipal rights half a century earlier. Doclea was a Roman town, the seat of the Late Roman province of Praevalitana after the administrative division of the Roman Empire in 297. The Docleates, Pliny tells us,were one of the tribes who resorted to the conventus of Narona ². They were divided into thirty-three decuriae.The city was sacked by the Ostrogoths in 490 AD. Eventually was damaged by the earthquake 518.

Doclea is mapped on the Adriatic Trail of Roman Emperors and Danube Wine Route, which is a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe.

See:

1. Esq., M.A., F.S.A., W.C.F. Anderson, Esq., M.A., J.G. Milne, Esq., M.A., and F. Haverfield, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. J.A.R. Munro : On the Roman town of Doclea, in Montenegro, Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity Volume 55, Westminster 1896
2. Ptolemy,  Geography, published in English translation by Dover Publications, 1991, Book II, Chapter 15
3. Dragan Radović, Bibliografija antičke Dokleje. Bibliography of ancient Doclea, in:  Nova antička Duklja V - New Antique Doclea V, Podgorica 2014, pp.121-128 - https://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/725738.103._Klaudijeve_vojne_reforme._Mit_ili_realnost__Die_Heeresreformenpdf
4. 360-degree video of Doclea: https://youtu.be/m8f_ez7EHqc

References

1. ↑Ptolemy, Geography, Book II, Chapter 15
2. ↑Varro states that eighty-nine states used to resort thither, but now nearly the only ones that are known are the Cerauni10 with 24 decuries, the Daorizi with 17, the Dæsitiates with 103, the Docleatæ with 33,