Osmakovo

Osmakovo
Village
Osmakovo
Coordinates: 43°16′56″N22°25′31″E / 43.28222°N 22.42528°E / 43.28222; 22.42528
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

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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.

43°16′56″N22°25′31″E / 43.28222°N 22.42528°E / 43.28222; 22.42528