Trilj

Trilj (In Italian "Treglia", in Latin "Pons Tiluri") is a town in inland Dalmatia, Croatia. It is located southeast of Sinj and northeast of Split. The total population of the municipality is 10,799, with 2,381 in Trilj itself and the rest in small villages, the most notable of which is Košute with 1,752 residents (census 2001).

At the top of the hill of Gardun, just 1 km south of Trilj, remains of legionary fortress at Tilurium can be found. Tilurium guarded the entrance to the Cetina valley from the south and the approach to the provincial capital at Salona. Smith, D., Gaffney, V., Grossman, D., Howard, A.J., Milosevic, A., Ostir, K., Podobnikar, T., Smith, W., Tetlow, E., Tingle, M., and Tinsley, H. 2006. Assessing the later prehistoric environmental archaeology and landscape development of the Cetina Valley, Croatia. "Environmental Archaeology" 11 (2): 171-186] .

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