Atrans is the Roman

Ancient Rome

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 name for Trojane

Trojane

Trojane , is a settlement in the Municipality of Lukovica in central Slovenia. It lies on a hill near the border of two Slovene regions, Carniola and Styria. Until the freeway was finished in 2005, Trojane was on the main route from Ljubljana to Maribor.The Romans built a road on the route...

, a town in Central Slovenia

Slovenia

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. It was on the border between Italy

Italy

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 and the province

Roman province

In Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and, until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of Italy...

 of Noricum

Noricum

Noricum, in ancient geography, was a Celtic kingdom stretching over the area of today's Austria and a part of Slovenia. It became a province of the Roman Empire...

.

Ancient Romans

Roman Empire

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 built a road spanning Aquileia

Aquileia

Aquileia is an ancient Roman city in what is now Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about 10 km from the sea, on the river Natiso , the course of which has changed somewhat since Roman times...

, Emona

Ljubljana

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, Atrans and Celeia

Celje

Celje is a typical Central European town and the third largest town in Slovenia. It is a regional center of Lower Styria and the administrative seat of the Urban Municipality of Celje . The town of Celje is located under Upper Celje Castle at the confluence of the Savinja, Ložnica, and Voglajna...

. This was a very important road, military, post and market place, and the town was surrounded by a defensive wall.

The archaeological remains of Atrans can be still seen.

External links

• Občina LUKOVICA — has a short paragraph describing archeological finds at Atrans.