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I would suggest that in the case of the second
group we háve a local style developing on the
basis of earliet attempts, and continuing by now
well-absorbed Catolingian practices even after the
Carolmgian overlordship and Aquileian ecclesiastic
preeminence were gone in the 870s. This group of
massive, vaulted churches with heavy rounded but-
tresses and westworks is probably Croatia's most
important contribution to the history of Pre-Ro-
manesque architecture A
The third group is represented by the large 9*
Century church being excavated at Lobor m north-
western Croatia [Fig. 12], to which one might add
an apparently similar church at Zalavár — Récéskut
[Fig. 13], the seat of Slavic princes of Lower Pan-
nonia, nowadays in Hungary. This is no surprise, as
the Pannonian Slavs to the north of the Drava were
certainly dosely related to those in the areas to the

"* As in the case of the hast group, the reader is referred to
relevant numbers and bibliographies in MILOSEVIC 2000
(see in note 16). See also BUŽANČIČ, R.: Nalaz Gospine
crkve iz starhorvatskog doba na groblju sela Blizna Gornja.
In: IVf/V, 10, 2001, pp. 5-7; GOSS 2006 (see in note 8), p.
186. In addition to "Voll-Westwerks" of St. Spas and St.
Cecilia, we encounter a tower in the width of the western
façade (Lopuška glavica, Blizna, and, possibly, Bukuroviča
podvornice), and a simple western tower (Biograd Cathédral).

south of the river, and, possibly in the course of the
9* Century, expericnced from time to time common
leadership."" What all the churches from Bijaci at the
coast near Split, through the Dalmatian Highlands, to
Lobor, and to Zalavár indeed share is that they were
related to the high society. St. Martha at Bijaci was
a church of a ducal twr/h, the churches at Biskupija
stood in a "Villa regale", the churches at Cetina and
Blizna were "župans"' not unlikely also
those at Koljani and Zažvič. Biograd was one of
royal résidences. Lobor, on a fortihed hill inhabited
at least from the Late Bronze Age, with now a well
estabiished Roman and Early Christian phases (large
basilica with a baptistery), was an important yet un-
identihed ruler's seat; dukes Pribina and Kozil called
Zaiavar (Blatnograd) their home. One needs to add
that along with the just mentioned stone church,
traces of a smaller church in wood were also found
The complex tripartitě westwork at Lobor is yet to be fully
explored. Westworks and western towers continued to be
built in Croatia m later centuries; in fact, they appear in village
churches down to the LA Century.
^ See note 18. Duke Braslav who was, according to sources, a
ruler of Western Pannonia (ancient Pannonia Savia) toward the
end of the 9* Century also ruled the Balaton/Blatnograd area.
See MILOŠEVIČ 2000 (see in note 16), Vol. 1, pp. 262-263.

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