Justiniana Prima

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Justiniana Prima

Justiniana Prima (Serbian

Serbian language

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: ??????? ????/Caricin Grad) was a Byzantine

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
city. Its location is not known: it could have been in today southern Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
near today's Leskovac

Leskovac

Leskovac is a city and municipality located in southern Serbia at 43.00? North, 21.95? East. It is the administrative center of the Jablanica District of Serbia....
, or near Skopje

Skopje

Republic of Macedonia

The Republic of Macedonia , , often referred to simply as Macedonia, is a landlocked country on the Balkans in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west....
.

After being founded by emperor Justinian I

Justinian I

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Justiniana Prima (Serbian

Serbian language

Byzantine Empire

Serbia

Leskovac

Leskovac is a city and municipality located in southern Serbia at 43.00? North, 21.95? East. It is the administrative center of the Jablanica District of Serbia....
, or near Skopje

Skopje

Republic of Macedonia

Justinian I

Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus , AD 482 or 483 ? 13 or 14 November 565, was the second member of the Justinian Dynasty and List of Roman Emperors from 527 until his death....
it existed from the 530s to 615 and was designed as a splendid bishop's seat. The city was a completely new foundation in honour of the nearby village of Tauresium (could be today's village Taor in the Republic of Macedonia, near Skopje), the birthplace of Justinian. The city planning combined classical and christian elements: thermae

Thermae

The terms balnea or thermae were the words the Ancient Rome used for the buildings housing their public baths.Most Roman cities had at least one, if not many, such buildings, which were centers of public bathing and socialization....
, a forum

Forum (Roman)

The Forum was the public space in the middle of a Ancient Rome city.A gathering place of great social significance, it was often the scene of diverse activities, including political discussions, meetings, et cetera....
, streets with colonnades as typical mediterranean features went along with numerous churches.

The suggested location of Justiniana Prima in Caricin is not completely proven but based on some evidence, mainly its dating in the 6th century and its geographical setting. Alternative locations such as today's Skopje

Skopje

Skopje is the Capital of and List of cities in the Republic of Macedonia by population in the Republic of Macedonia, with more than a quarter of the population of the country, as well as its political, cultural, economic, and academic centre....
have been suggested, too. Contemporary sources are rare which makes it difficult to gain a definitive answer.

Justinian himself ordered the foundation of the city by law in 535 making it at the same time the capital of the prefecture of Illyricum

Illyricum (Roman province)

The Roman province of Illyricum replaced the formerly independent kingdom of Illyria. It stretched from the Drin River river in modern Albania to Istria in the west and to the Sava river in the north....
instead of Thessalonike

Thessalonike

Thessalonike, may refer to:* Thessalonike of Macedon, a daughter of king Philip II of Macedon* Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, named after Thessalonica of Macedon...
. It also was chosen as the seat of the dacian diocese

Diocese

In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglicanism, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a bishop. It is also referred to as a bishopric or Episcopal Area or episcopal see, though strictly the term episcopal see refers to the domain of ecclesiastical authority officially held by the bi...
. It has to be said though that Thessaloniki actually didn't lose much of its administrative functions during the short livetime of Justiniana Prima. Still the new foundation was not without effect and Justinian made sure that this city, that was one of his favourite projects, received all the necessary promotion. In 545 Justinian published another law underlining the episcopal rights and status of Justiniana Prima which is also confirmed by letters that were exchanged between Justinian and pope Gregory at the end of the 6th century. In 615 the city suddenly was destroyed be invading Avars

Avars

Avars may refer to:* Eurasian Avars, a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 6th Century AD* Uar * Caucasian Avars, a modern people of the Caucasus...
coming from north of the Danube.