Rimske komunikacije na prostoru Bosne i Hercegovine u delima francuskih i engleskih putopisaca XIX veka
Roman Roads in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Works of French and English travelers XIX century

Summary/Abstract: In the XIX century, some of the French and English citizen traveled in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to describing the geographical areas, folk costumes, myths, and legends, some travelers in their works also mention the remains of Roman roads. Chaumette Des Fosses and James Henry Skene describe one new, previously not know, the Roman road on Mount Majevica, in southeastern Bosnia. Roman roads are also mentioned in the works of John Gardner Wilkinson, Pierre David and George Arbuthnot. However, in the case of the Massieu de Clerval, we can see that not all information in the works of French and English travelers is authentic and reliable. Namely, Clerval not only did not see the remains of the Roman road which he mentions in the Bosnian part of Posavina, but did not even travel to that part of Ottoman Bosnia. Despite all the weaknesses, information on Roman roads in the works of French and English travelers through Bosnia and Herzegovina in the XIX century is important for studying Ro - man communications in the inland of the Roman province of Dalmatia.

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