A vicus of Nauportus held a key position at the junction between land routes leading from northeastern Italy and Istria and a water route leading eastwards to Pannonia. The settlement of the Augustan period was fortified with a defense wall and towers as well as a defense ditch. Large storehouses were constructed in rows around the central market place. It is clearly manifested in the architecture, that the settlement was a trade, traffic, storage and reloading post as well as a river port.
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Emona as a colonia Iulia was most probably founded by Octavian after Actium. From the very beginning the town must have belonged to Italy, as is indicated by the boundary stone between Aquileia and Emona. Nauportus was an important Aquileian emporium, and close contacts between Aquileia and Emona are documented from the later Republican period onwards. A world of gods at Emona is an interesting blend of various cults, as that of Carna, an old Italic divinity of hinges. The main divinity of the Emona area was from the 1st century BC on Aecorna.
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