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The two stone arches is all that still stands today of an ancient Roman military post some 20 kilometers from the town of Knin, Dalmatia. The Roman sources (Pliny the Elder) record its name as Burnum. The arches were part of a portico of the fort's headquarter's and much later came to be known as "šuplja crkva", Croatian for "hollow church". After losing its strictly military character towards the end of the 1st century, it expands into a civilian settlement. Remains of an amphitheater can be seen about 1 kilometer from here. During the Middle Ages its lost its importance and gradually disappeared, but some of the Roman grandeur can still be felt in these remains.