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Ptuj
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Treasury
of the millenniums
It
is much easier to describe Ptuj's location between Slovenske
gorice and Haloze and between Dravsko polje and Ptujsko
polje than to write a short history of the city. Its
history is rich and the
city
has numerous monuments to prove it. Its history reaches
back to the Stone Age, but the city experienced its
greatest flowering in the Roman period.
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name originates in the
times
of Emperor Trojan, who granted the settlement city status and
named it Colonia Ulpia Traiana Poetovio. In 69 A.D., Emperor Vespasian
was elected in Ptuj, and the first written mention of the city
of Ptuj is from the same year. Roman Poetovio developed into an
important military,
commercial,
customs, and administrative center.
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Forty
thousand people lived in the Ptuj area in this period,
a number never since reached. It was later burned by the
Huns and occupied by the Avars and the Slavs. In the period
of the Slav prince Pribina, it was incorporated into the
Frankish state. Later, it became the property o f the
Salzburg archdiocese and experienced the Hungarian attacks.
The city recovered and when city rights were granted,
it was able to build a wall around the city.
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The
first city statutes from 1376 provided the legal regulation
of the city and contributed to its economic power. Sadly, this
declined under the pressure of Turkish attacks and major fires,
floods, and epidemics.
Today,
this important economic center of the lower Podravje region
is a city of fairs, a city of excursions into unspoiled nature,
a city with a rich culinary offer, and a city of wine cellars
and thermal springs.
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