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OHRID (Town) NORTH MACEDONIA
Lychnidus (Luchnidos: Eth. Luchnidios, LWchnites, Steph. B.; Ptol.
iii. 13. § 32), the chief town of the Dassaretae in Illyricum. From its position
on the frontier it was always a place of considerable importance, and the name
frequently occurs in the wars of the Romans with Philippus V. and Perseus, kings
of Macedon. (Liv. xxvii. 32, xxxiii. 34, xliii. 9, 10, 21; Luchnis, Polyb. xviii.
30.) Afterwards it continued to be, as on the Candavian way described by Polybius
(Luchnidion, xxxiv. 12), one of the principal points on the Egnatian road. (Strab.
vii. p. 323; Itin. Anton.; Peut. Tab.; Itin. Hierosol.: in the Jerusalem Itinerary
the original reads Cledo.) Under the Byzantine empire it appears to have been
a large and populous town, but was nearly destroyed by an earthquake during the
reign of Justinian. (Procop. Hist. Arc. 18; Malch. Excerpt. p. 250, ed. Bonn;
Niceph. Callist. xvii. 3.) Lychnidus, which from the data of the Itineraries must
be placed near the S. extremity of the Lake Lychnitis, on its E. shores (Leake,
North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 281), was afterwards replaced by the more northerly
Achrida (sten Achrida, Ochrida, Achris, of the Byzantine writers; Anna Comn. xiii.
p. 371; Cedren. vol. ii. p. 468, ed. Bonn Cantacuzen. ii. 21), the capital of
the Bulgarian empire. Some geographers have supposed that Achrida is the same
as Justiniana; this identification, which is a mistake, has arisen from the circumstance
that the metropolitans of Achrida called themselves after the emperor Justinian.
Justiniana Prima is the modern town of Kostendil. (Schafarik, Slav. Alt. vol.
ii. p. 227.) The Slavonic name survives in the modern Akridha, on the NE. shores
of the lake.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
SKOPJE (Town) NORTH MACEDONIA
Scupi (Skoupoi, Ptol. iii. 9. § 6, viii. 11. § 5; Hierocl.; Niceph.
Bryenn. iv. 18; Geog. Rav. iv. 15; ta Skopia, Anna Comn. ix. p. 253; Skoupion,
Procop. de Aed. iv. 4; Orelli, Inscr. 1790: Uschkub), a town which, from its important
position at the debouche from the Illyrian into the plains of Paeonia and the
Upper Axius, was in all ages the frontier town of Illyricum towards Macedonia.
There is no evidence of its ever having been possessed by the kings of Macedonia
or Paeonia. Under the Romans it was ascribed to Dardania, as well in the time
of Ptolemy as in the fifth century, when it was the capital of the new diocese
of Dardania (Marquardt, in Becker's Rom. Alt. iii. pt. i. p. 110). The Roman road
from Stobi to Naissus passed by Scupi, which was thus brought into connection
with the great SE. route from Viminacium on the Danube to Byzantium. It was probably
seldom under the complete authority of Constantinople, though after the memorable
victory in which, under its walls, Basil, the Slayer of the Bulgarians , in the
beginning of the eleventh century, avenged the defeat he had suffered from Samuel,
king of Bulgaria, twenty-one years before, in the passes of Mt. Haemus, this city
surrendered to the Byzantine army (Cedren p. 694). In the reign of Michael Palaeologus
it was wrested from the emperor by the Servians, and became the residence of the
Kral (Cantacuzenus, p. 778.) Finally, under Sultan Bayezid, Scupi, or the Bride
of Rumili, received a colony of Ottoman Turks (Chalcondyles, p. 31). (Leake, Northern
Greece, vol. iii. p. 478.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
SKOPJE (Town) NORTH MACEDONIA
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