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date: 18 May 2025

Grado 

Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Author(s):
Alexander KazhdanAlexander Kazhdan, Dale KinneyDale Kinney, Anthony CutlerAnthony Cutler

(Γράδον), late Roman city and fortress (castrum) on an island south of Aquileia, probably serving as its harbor. The first churches seem to have been built here in the 4th C. In the 5th and 6th C. Grado was used as a place of refuge; in ... ...

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