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| THE LATEST MACEDONIAN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES ABOUT JUSTINIANA PRIMA
The question of the location of the birth place of the czar Justinian is still of interest, as well as the question about the location of the city Justiniana Prima where the Archbishopric was placed. This place hasn’t been found yet, and in the world’ s science there is no final proof that it has ever been found. In FR Yugoslavia, near Lebane, there is a locality called the Czarina’s Town (Caricin grad), dating from the sixth century, but the Serbian archaeologists haven’t found the final proof, some sort of an inscription that will decidedly say that it was Justiniana Prima. We, in Macedonia, think it is possible to find the city within our limits, because this place is related to his birth place, that is with two historical sources: the writings of the chronologist Prokopius and the novel number 11, czaric decree signed personally by the czar , where it stands that Justinian was born in the place Tavresion, which was near Bederiana, the birth place of his mother’s brother, the great czar Justin I. There isn’t a similar coincidence anywhere on the Balkan, where two names from the past are connected to the names of two villages in the area of Skopje, Taor and Badar
| The Rotunda in Konjuh, near Kumanovo
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Both these places have localities that can be identified with the mentioned places. As a possible spot for the fortress is mentioned the neighbouring village Kozhle, where a cultural horizon from the sixth century has been found. An interesting date is the existence of a large sixth century city, on a ground of about 10 – 17 acres, in the village Konjuh, where a rotundal early-Christian basilica has been discovered, typically Justinianian, and found on no other location in the Balkans. We have been working there for only two years, and there is a need to continue with the work, to research the localities in Taor, The Marco’s Towers on Vodno, and if the political circumstances allow it, to continue the work in Davina’s Tower (Davina Kula) – Chucher. The ideas about the Kale (Fortress) in Skopje, remain only ideas, for there hasn’t been found any sort of moveable findings which date from the sixth century” – says the archaeologist Lilchik in his interview for the daily newspaper Utrinski vesnik. |
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