The Brnjica culture is an archaeological culture in present-day Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

 dating from 1400 BC.

The cultural group formed out of this culture are the Moesi

Moesi

The Moesi were a Daco-Thracian tribe who inhabited present day Serbia and Bulgaria, part of the then Roman province of Moesia, which was named after them in 87 AD by the Romans after the Romans under Crassus defeated them in the 29 BC.- History :...

, a Daco-Thracian tribe formed in the Roman province

Roman province

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 of Moesia

Moesia

Moesia was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube River. It included territories of modern-day Southern Serbia , Northern Republic of Macedonia, Northern Bulgaria, Romanian Dobrudja, Southern Moldova, and Budjak .-History:In ancient...

 (ethnonym) of present-day central Serbia. It is also the non-Illyrian

Illyrians

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 component in the Dardanian

Dardani

Dardania was the region of the Dardani .Located at the Thraco-Illyrian contact zone, their identification as either an Illyrian or Thracian tribe is uncertain. Their territory itself was not considered part of Illyria by Strabo. The term used for their territory was , while for other tribes had...

 ethnogenesis.

The culture is characterized by several groups:

• Kosovo with Raska and Pester
• South and West Morava confluence zone
• Leskovac-Nis
• South Morava-Pcinja-Upper Vardar

Brnjica type pottery has been found in Blageovgrad, Plovdiv, and a number of sites in Pelagonia

Pelagonia

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, Lower Vardar, the island of Thasos and Thessaly

Thessaly

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 dating to 13th and 12th century BC.

Hisar

Hisar is a multi-periodal settlement.

Traces of life of the Brnjica culture (8th century BC) is seen in the plateau that was protected by a deep moat with a palisade on its inner side, a fortification similar to that of another fortification on the Gradac

Gradac

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 site in Lanište

Lanište

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 in the Velika Morava

Velika Morava

The Great Morava is the final section of the Morava , a major river system in Serbia.- Length :...

 basin.

A later Iron Age settlement existed at Hisar dating from the 6th century BC until the 4th century BC. Besides Greek fibulae and pottery, Triballi

Triballi

The Triballi were an ancient tribe whose dominion was around the plains of southern modern Serbia and west Bulgaria, at the Angrus and Brongus and the Iskur River, roughly centered where Serbia and Bulgaria are joined....

(Thracian) tombs have been excavated in 2005.