Ptuj (German Pettau, Latin Poetovio) is a town and one of 11 urban municipalities in Slovenia. It is situated in Styria (northeastern Slovenia), and has about 20,000 inhabitants.

It is one of the oldest towns in Slovenia. It dates back to the Stone Age, but the city was the most prosperous in the Roman period. The city of Poetovio was the base-camp of Legio XIII Gemina in Pannonia. The name originated in the times of Emperor Trajan, who granted the settlement city status and named it Colonia Ulpia Traiana Poetovio. In 69 AD, Emperor Vespasian was elected in Ptuj, and the first written mention of the city of Ptuj is from the same year. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Ptuj regained its city rights in the 10th century.

Ptuj is a very colorful and well organized city. There are a lot of parks and public spaces in the city itself as well as outside it.

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