Sirmium

Sirmium (today Sremska Mitrovica), the glorious mother of cities, was an ancient city in Roman Pannonia. The present day region of Srem was named after this city.

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Sirmium originally was an Illyrian town conquered by the Romans in the 1st century BC. It was a very important town in the later Roman Empire, being the economic capital of Roman Pannonia and one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire. Also a mint was present.

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Sirmium was one of the oldest cities in Europe. Archaeologists have found a trace of organized human life dating from the 5000 BC.

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When the Romans conquered the city in the 1st century BC, Sirmium already was a settlement with a long tradition.

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In the 1st century AD, Sirmium gained a status of a Colony of the citizens of Rome, and became a very important military and strategic location. The war expeditions of Roman emperors Traian, Marcus Aurelius, and Claudius II, were prepared in Sirmium.

Sremska Mitrovica: Sremska Mitrovica (Serbian: ??????? ????????? or Sremska Mitrovica, Rusin: ??????? ?????????, Croatian: Srijemska Mitrovica, Hungarian: Sz?vaszentdemeter, German: Syrmisch Mitrowitz, Latin: Sirmium) is a city located in the Vojvodina province of Serbia and Montenegro at 44.98? North, 19.61? East. As...

Pannonia: Pannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia....

Srem: For the region in Europe, see Srem/SrijemFor the Polish city, see Śrem, Poland...