Big City – Island in Prespa Lake. It is located south of the village. Kones at a distance of 4.5 km from the coast. A large city is the largest island in the Republic of Macedonia with an area of 0,275 km². From all sides, it is enveloped with steep cliffs of 10 – 20 m, due to which it is inaccessible, except in one place from the northwest side. It is a horset with a romboid form that has a direction of stretching SSI-PJZ. The length is 900 m, and the width 600 m. The highest point on the island is 901 m. The island, as a lonely plate above the lake level, rises to 47 m. Geologically, the island belongs to the western Prespa coast and is separated from it. The island is an ancient settlement and a medieval monastery complex. The neighborhood in antiquity $ belonged to the Orestida area in Upper Macedonia. Research is carried out since 1967, and the settlement is confirmed by the detection of residential buildings from the Hellenistic and the Roman period, tank from ⅳ c. And three necropolises (ancient from ⅳ c. BC and from and-ⅶ c. and medieval from ⅹ-ⅹⅳ c.). From the sacred objects, three basilicas of V- В в. and four churches from ⅹⅰⅰⅰ-ⅹⅳ c. The one-preserved church “St. Peter, “painted in ⅹⅳ c., Where there is a rare illustration, a representation of the conquest of Constantinople, Openana in the song” Akatist of the Virgin “. Lit.: V. Bildkova-Grozdanova, excavations of large city, 1981-1986, MAA, 10, Skopje, 1989, 101-133; EADEM, Big City De Prespa, “Spartacus”, ⅱ, CSMPOSIUM 2002, Sandanski, Veliko Tarnovo, 2006, 11-20; Cv. Grozdanov, a composition besieged Customs U churches Hydur Petra of Prespa, Zul, 15, Novi Sad, 1979, 277-287. C. B.-R. ‡ T. And.
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