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HISTORY<br />

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ily to the Tri ba ls, that stability of the crown<br />

cannot be jeopardized and that it would not<br />

be taken lightly.<br />

1 st century BC. In the middle of this century,<br />

Romans arrive to the area of what is today<br />

Ti moč ka kra ji na and come in contact with<br />

Meze, then dominant ethnic group in this<br />

region.<br />

28 BC. After two and a half decades of Meze’s<br />

bravely resisting the attacks of numerous Roman<br />

campaigns, Roman general Mar ko Kras<br />

conquered them. Becoming a part of the powerful<br />

empire brought big (mostly very positive)<br />

changes in life and history of this city.<br />

250. Galerius, the future Roman general, Caesar<br />

and August was born at a country estate in<br />

today’s Gam zi gra d, near Zaječar.<br />

293 AD. Galerius gained the title of Caesar,<br />

and Diocletian called him “new Ro mu lus”.<br />

297. Galerius won a big battle against Persian<br />

emperor Narsej, and in later iconography this<br />

victory was compared with Alexander’s victory<br />

over Darius and with Dionysus’ victorious<br />

campaign to India.<br />

298. In his hometown, in the territory of today’s<br />

Gam zi gra d, Caesar Galerius begins the<br />

construction of the first (older) fortification<br />

and palace in the complex that would later<br />

become known as “Felix Romuliana”.<br />

305 AD. Galerius becomes one of the two Augustus,<br />

and the following year, after sudden<br />

death of Constantius Chlorus (the second Augustus)<br />

in Britain, and the most powerful man<br />

in the Roman Empire.<br />

306. Construction of younger fortification in<br />

“Felix Ro mu li ja na” began, and it was finally<br />

transformed in a luxurious city-palace, where<br />

Galerius planned to withdraw in 312, after<br />

leaving its throne to Caesars – successors at<br />

Hercules’ head, Gam zi grad, about 310<br />

the 20 th anniversary of his reign, in accordance<br />

with Diocletian’s tetrarchy program.<br />

The place where this astounding city was built<br />

in a short time is the place where the emperor<br />

was born and consecrated.<br />

311. Emperor Galerius, already worn by severe<br />

illness, dies on the road to Ser di ka (Sofia).<br />

He did not live to withdraw from power<br />

and move into “Felix Ro mu li a na”.<br />

306. Felix Romuliana is mentioned in Epi tomae,<br />

a work written by anonymous author,<br />

ascribed to Aurelius Victor. Emperor Galerius,<br />

it says, “was born and buried In Coastal<br />

Dacia, in the place that he called Romuliana,<br />

after his mother Romula”.<br />

4 th century. Roman emperors in this century<br />

left Felix Romuliana to Christian church, and<br />

temples with crosses on top sprout in this pagan<br />

imperial city.

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