Editing Maribor (section)

=== Antiquity ===
With the [[Iron Age]] and the [[Hallstatt Culture]], new settlements began to appear on hills. One of them was [[Poštela]] in the [[Pohorje]] Mountains. Poštela was an old town that was abandoned in the 6th century BC and inhabited again in the 2nd century BC.<ref name="Cresnar"/>

During [[Roman times]], the area where Maribor later developed was part of the province of [[Noricum]], right on the border with [[Pannonia]]. During that period, Roman agricultural estates known as ''[[villa rustica|villae rusticae]]'' filled the area around [[Radvanje]], [[Betnava]], [[Bohova, Hoče–Slivnica|Bohova]], and Hoče. The best-known of them was in today's [[Borova Vas]] neighborhood of Maribor.<ref name="Cresnar"/> An important trade route was also established in the area, connecting [[Celeia]] and [[Flavia Solva]] in one direction with [[Poetovio]] and central Noricum on the other.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kratka zgodovina mesta Maribor |url=https://www.visitmaribor.si/si/odkrij/maribor/pretekli-casi/ |website=Pretekli časi |publisher=TIC Maribor |access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref>