🏛️ Ad Drinum-Aquae Sulphurae
Roman settlement and thermal springs in central Bosnia
📌 Fast Facts
- Located near modern Sarajevo in central Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Roman settlement dating to the 1st–4th centuries CE
- Associated with sulfurous thermal springs exploited in antiquity
- Archaeological remains largely unexcavated and scattered
Ad Drinum-Aquae Sulphurae was a small Roman settlement in the province of Dalmatia, situated along the Drina River valley in what is now central Bosnia and Herzegovina. The site was occupied during the Imperial period, from approximately the 1st to 4th centuries CE. The settlement's name reflects its dual significance: a location on the Drina waterway and access to naturally occurring sulfur-rich thermal springs, which the Romans valued for both medicinal and bathing purposes ...