Aleksinac
town and municipality in Serbia
Aleksinac (Serbian Cyrillic: Алексинац) is a town and municipality located in the Nišava District of southern Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the municipality has a population of 43,258 inhabitants.
History
Prehistory and Antiquity
The territory of the municipality of Aleksinac has been inhabited since the Neolithic age. Most of the settlements in the area belong to the Vinča cultural group, and are located on the western side of the South Morava river.
After the fall to the Romans this territory was included in the province of Upper Moesia and after 293 AD it was in the Mediterranean province of Dacia. A Roman military road (Via Militaris) was built in 1st century AD across the territory. There were also two stations for rest (mansio) and a change of horses (mutatio) along the road on the territory of Aleksinac: Praesidium Pompei and Rappiana.
Their location is still unknown, although there are a few candidates for this position. Also few fortresses (Castell) are known to exist in this period, but their names are not known, except for the Castell Milareca on Gradiste hill (228 m).
Middle Ages
From the year 476 this territory was under Byzantine rule.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Aleksinac” as town and municipality in Serbia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as town and municipality in Serbia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q966804. VIAF identifies the subject as 145616542. The Library of Congress control number is n2003040436. Authority coordinates are 43.538, 21.705. 5 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022.
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