Osmakovo
Osmakovo | |
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Village | |
Osmakovo | |
| Coordinates: 43°16′56″N 22°25′31″E / 43.28222°N 22.42528°E | |
| Country | Serbia |
| Region | Southern and Eastern Serbia |
| District | Pirot |
| Municipality | Pirot |
| Population (2002) | |
• Total | 292 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Osmakovo is a village in the municipality of Pirot, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 292 people.[1]
Archaeology
Osmakovo houses the earliest epigraphic monument to Sol Invictus found in the Central Balkans. According to the inscription, it was made by Valerius Iucundus.[2]
Paleontology
Osmakovo has yielded the first known dinosaur body fossils from Serbia, including a sauropod ulna and sixteen small teeth attributed to various theropods.[3]
References
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- ^ Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. ISBN 86-84433-00-9
- ^ Vitas, Nadežda Gavrilović (2021). Ex Asia et Syria: Oriental Religions in the Roman Central Balkans. Archaeopress. p. 145. doi:10.2307/j.ctv1gt94hj.17. JSTOR j.ctv1gt94hj.
- ^ Marković, Zoran; Milivojević, Miloš; Butler, Richard J.; Barrett, Paul M.; Wills, Simon; van de Weerd, Andrew A.; Wessels, Wilma; Radović, Predrag (December 2025). "First dinosaur remains from Serbia: Sauropod and theropod material from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Osmakovo". Cretaceous Research. 176 106177. Bibcode:2025CrRes.17606177M. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106177.