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Skopje Fortress

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tall city, of a shedadovska construction and five-sided shape. The walls, that surround the city from all sides, reach the height of around fifty arshini. The city is protected by seventy bastions and three demir gates on its southeast side, and there are many guards in the entrance hall. The door and walls of the entrance hall are decorated with different arms and tools needed for the arms. There is no site or location that can dominate the city. It lies on tall rocks, so that one can see the whole plain. The river Vardar flows on its western side. On the same side of the city, there is a road that leads through the caves towards the water tower located at the riverbank. Since there is an abyss at this side of the city, as scary as the depths of hell, there are no trenches, nor there can be one. On the east, southeast and north side of the city, there are deep trenches. On that side, in front of the gate, there is a wooden bridge that lies over the trench. The guards used to lift the bridge using a windlass, which provided for defense of the gate. Above the gate, there is an inscription, giving more information about the reparations of the gate that took place in the past. The inscription reads:
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was resumed after it was officially halted by the government. The construction workers were removed from the building site by the Macedonian police. According to media footage, high-ranking ethnic Albanian ministers and members of DUI leadership were among the crowd. Two weeks prior to the event, DUI spokespeople had demanded the termination of the project. During the next two days, Macedonians on
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working on the steel church museum. When questioned who ordered the construction the workers refused to answer but revealed that they were instructed to start building from 10:00 PM over the night. Some of the crowd proceeded to destroy and vandalize parts of the scaffolding, the same day restoration
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It is a fortified city, a very strong and sturdy fortress with double walls. The city gate and the walls are built from chipped stone that shines as if it were polished. One can not see so much refinement and art in the construction of any other city. The city lies in the middle of Skopje. It is a
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called on each other to converge on the site and protect the site and its workers. Members of both groups arrived almost simultaneously on February 13 and a violent clash erupted, leaving around 10 injured, including 2 policemen.
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structure, and that by virtue of their claimed Illyrian ancestry, the site should be theirs. The dispute revolved around competing claims to the area as being either Christian or Muslim and Macedonian or Albanian.
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ornaments dating as far back as 3000 BC. Excavation of the main fortress also revealed houses below the fortress' visible level. The discoveries are believed to have belonged to inhabitants of
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were found within the complex, the Cultural Heritage Protection Office actioned a project to restore it in the form of a church museum. Ethnic Albanian groups, with
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On February 10, 2011, late at night, a crowd of about 100 ethnic Albanians converged on the site to find over 50 construction workers from
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fortress which may have been destroyed due to a number of wars and battles in the region. The city was capital of the
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In May 2010, archeologists unearthed the largest stash of Byzantine coins ever found in Macedonia at the fortress.
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pays special attention to preserving and protecting the cultural heritage that is left in Macedonia from the
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fortress apart from a few documents which outline minor characteristics in the fortress' appearance.
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claimed that the incident was orchestrated by the Macedonian and Albanian governing parties, namely
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also reacted that "they should not destroy the future of the country by focusing on its past". The
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for creating inter-ethnic tensions and called on the government to take responsibility for it. The
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and constructed further during the 10th and 11th centuries over the remains of emperor Justinian's
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In late 2006 and early 2007, research and excavation of the Skopje Fortress funded by the
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on the appearance of the fortress while traveling through the territories of the Empire:
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The first fortress was built in 6th century AD on a land that was inhabited during the
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on which the fortress was built. Archaeological excavations continued in 2009.
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The fortress is thought to have been built during the rule of
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and situated on the highest point in the city overlooking the
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Natalija Matić Zrnić, Jill A. Irvine, Carol S. Lilly (2008).
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Natalija Matić Zrnić, Jill A. Irvine, Carol S. Lilly (2008).
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between 992 and 1015, and was center of the uprising of the
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inscriptions. Material for the fortress originated from the
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government had finally commenced. Researchers discovered
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at the forefront, claimed the site contained an older
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View of the Skopje Fortress (right-center) from Vodno
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The fortress was partially destroyed yet again by an
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Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia
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Index

Skopje
North Macedonia

tautological
Macedonian
Albanian
Turkish
Skopje Fortress is located in North Macedonia
42°00′00″N 21°26′04″E / 42°N 21.4344°E / 42; 21.4344
Macedonian
romanized
Albanian
Turkish
kale
old town
Skopje
North Macedonia
Centar municipality
Vardar River
Neolithic
Bronze Ages
limestone
travertine
Latin
Roman
Skupi

Justinian I
Byzantine Emperor
emperor

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