Lychnid (Luzonidáv, LSCHNDUS) – The city of Ohrid, on the shores of Ohrid Lake, mentioned by Diodeon (Diode. Ⅹⅴⅰ, 8), when Philip was won this area. The city is mentioned by Livius (Liv. Jeswi, 32, 9), when the local leader eroped him from the power of Philip V. One of the most famous settlements in Dosaretia (Upper Macedonia), which is mentioned in literary and epigraphic sources from Roman times. From the Roman period, 4 inscriptions were discovered with the name of the city and nine with the name of the dosarettes. In the middle of ⅱ c. BC It enters within the province of Macedonia. The oldest settlement dates back to the late electricity and early time and $ preceding the earlyoantic from ⅵ-c. BCE, located at the highest hill in Gorny Saraj. The settlement spreads to the south side of the western hill on Plato Playnik. Here is discovered a necropolis from Iron Age, Earlyenantic residential buildings, Roman palaces and cistern. In the early Christian period of Plaosnik, the urban core, the square of the city, with basilicas, as well, the polyconchal church., And the episcopal courtyard – all decorated with rich architectural plastics and polychrome mosaics with complex iconography, with numerous written and illustrated messages than The Bible. On the eastern slope of the hill in the late-oopenist time, the theater was built, which from the time of Hadrian is rearranged for amphitheater games, building a high firewall before the watching and by rearranging the orchestra in the form of arena with an elliptical basis. For the size of the city, the economic situation, the crafts and developed trade are known from the detected buildings, inscriptions, but also from the necropolis of the move Upper Gate – Deboy, the eastern hill of the city. Lichnidian masters in the end of ⅵ Iⅴv. They are buried with gold and weapons, which is identical to the customs in the whole ancient Macedonia (gold masks and funeral bracelets, jewelry – bracelets, rings and earrings, pungides, helmets, spears, bronze vessels, etc.). The epigraphic monuments, reliefs with mythological themes and sculpture speak of organized city life in the Roman to enter and its field. With a panorama of Plaoshnik, Ohrid (airline recording) epoch, with all distinctive institutions (municipality, gymnasium, theater amphitheater). With the early Christian period, a new time for the city, which is determined with the smooth walls cut with four gates (upper port, bottom port, iron door, eastern door), built in Opus Mod-Tum, like the walls of other major cities in the Balkans. Becomes an episcopal seat from ⅳ c. More early Christian buildings are built: the churches of Plaoshnik, the Basilica in Deboy, Basilica (at ul. Ilindenska), the circular church under Gorno Saraj. The city is defended by the Baravarian attacks, “set to the established MES, abounded with food and sources between the walls” – according to Malchus (Malzh. FR. 18, 128), and suffered from a major earthquake in the time of Justinian (ProC . An ag. 18, 42). Lit.: F. Papazoglu, Macedonian cities U Roman age, Skopje, 1957; C. Bildkova-Grozdanova – P. Kuzman, LSChnidos Dans La Howe Antijee: (Nouwelleles Strawen Archeology), June, Julvias, Maganosima Papazoglu, Skopje, 1997, 19-28; EAD., Old Christian monuments in Ohrid, Ohrid, 1975. V. B.-R. “Lychnid” – Periodical Proceedings, edition of the National Museum in Ohrid, and later on the Institute for the Protection of the Monuments of the Culture of Oh-Reed. So far, seven numbers have been issued (the first in 1957). The magazine discloses the activities of the activities of these institutions (archaeological, ethnological, historical and linguistic research). The last number 7 contains the papers of the scientific gathering “The late Antiquity of Yugoslavia”, held in 1987. in Ohrid. C. B.-R.
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