Les sites de l’église Sainte-Cécile et de l’agglomération médiévale de Guran en Istrie (Croatie) : neuvième campagne de fouilles archéologiques

The main results of the 2011 excavations campaign on the site of the Guran in the south Istria are presented in this article. Theses concern the fortified early medieval settlement the origin of which is dated in the Carolingian period and which was abandoned in the late Middle Ages, and the church of St. Cecilia situated some few hundreds meters to the north of the settlement. Main objectives of this international project are the analysis of the origin and the architectural development of the church erected on the site of a roman villa, as well as that of the settlement, combined with the study of the territorial and ecclesiastic organisation of this part of Istria during the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.