Malvesa was a town founded by the

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in the extreme northeastern part of the province of Dalmatia in the 2nd century AD. It was a new town in a relatively remote area intended principally as a mining center. It was located in vicinity of

Skelani Skelani (Serbian Cyrillic: Скелани) is a village in the municipality of Srebrenica, in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Location Altitude: 242 m According to the 1991 census the population of the town was 1123 - 95 ...

on the

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.Wilkes, Joh
The Illyrians
Blackwell Books, 1992 , page 257. Other towns were also established around the same time in northeast Dalmatia, also as mining colonies, including Domavia (now Gradina), Argentaria (

Srebrenica Srebrenica ( sr-cyrl, Сребреница, ) is a town and municipality located in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a small mountain town, with its main industry being salt mining and a nearby ...

near a

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mine), and the municipium S. (the name survives only as an abbreviation) near what is now Pljevlja in northern

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Populated places established in the 2nd century Roman towns and cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina Former populated places in the Balkans {{BosniaHerzegovina-geo-stub