🏛️ Minnodunum-Petinesca
Roman military settlement in the Jura foothills, now an archaeological site
📌 Fast Facts
- Located near Nidau in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Occupied from approximately 15 BCE to the early 1st century CE
- Strategic Roman fort protecting the Jura Pass and controlling trade routes
- Excavated intermittently since the 19th century; remains largely unexcavated beneath modern settlement
Minnodunum-Petinesca was a Roman military fort established during the early Imperial period to secure territorial control along the ...