Maps of Power

Biskupija, Church at Crkvina

Begin between 01.01.0850 and 31.12.0899

Description

The Church at Crkvina was built in the second half of the 9th century. It has inscriptions of an unknown duke, and houses the sarcophagus of a nobleman, who is believed to be Duke Branimir (reigned 879- ca. 892). This church is one of five churches found in Biskupija. During the Middle Ages it was the see of the Bishop of Knin. The church was restored in the 13th century after the Tatar invasion and destroyed during the civil wars in the late 14th and early 15th centuries or by the earliest Ottoman raids in the region.