Touristic information about Ohrid, Macedonia

[Thorn]

www.ohrid.com.mk

Ohrid – the old city of light

This is not a story,



But a reality, an eternal one, and one which so far no one has managed to retell. Probably no one hasn’t even tried. There are several places in this world which simply cannot be retold. When standing in front of their monuments, the remains of the civilization of old, and the temples where you forget your identity, the only thing your intellect allows you is respect and contemplation, thinking of the things that are yet to be discovered and explored.

Here in Ohrid the smartest and the wisest and the most powerful people throughout the centuries had only one goal – to leave at least their mark.

Ohrid simply couldn’t be conquered, but it would immediately become the seat of the most powerful men and it would continue to live its life where the conqueror entering the city wouldn’t charge in, but bow to the city.

Today it is the same,



In Biblical Macedonia, every path leads to Ohrid. The person coming to Ohrid is at first amazed, and afterwards, deep within his soul, bows to its marks, which simply encourage you to understand or maybe to wonder – why certain places have been chosen to be different, praised and unique in the whole world.



That’s what Ohrid is like,



The ancient Lihnidos, whose fortress is mentioned for the first time by the historian Livius, way back in the third century B.C. According to explorers, this is where apostle Paul has resided on his journey dedicated to teaching and spreading the faith in Christ.

Ohrid is the center of Christianity for all Slavs, an archbishopric seat, a seat of schools and universities, the first ones in this region, and even further. Today Ohrid remains a center of archaeological sites and discoveries. Ohrid is the city of 365 churches. One church for each day of the year.

This fact has been evidenced in the 14th century by Evliya Çelebi in his travel books, and in the Middle Ages Ohrid has been called the Slavic Jerusalem.

The city of the first cave-churches in this region, where one forgets time and space and receives unique answers. The city where monasticism laid its wisdom and God His divine wisdom.

Ohrid is the prize for Biblical Macedonia – can be said or thought of only by those who have seen and felt it. Feel Ohrid for once in your life and you already know why you will return and why it simply cannot be retold.

[airwings]

IN Ochrid was the seat of the Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid or Ohrid Archbishopric or Archbishopric of First Justiniana and all Bulgaria(the most known) was an autonomous Bulgarian Orthodox Church under the tutelage of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople between 1019 and 1767, seated in Ohrid.

The archbishopric was established in 1019 by lowering of the rank of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate and its subjugation to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Although the first appointed archbishop (John of Debar) was a Bulgarian, his successors, as well as the whole higher clergy, were invariably Greeks, the most famous of them being Saint Theophylact of Ohrid (1078-1107).

The Greek language quite early replaced Old Bulgarian as the official language of the archbishopric. All documents and even hagiographies of Bulgarian saints, for example the hagiography of Saint Clement of Ohrid, were written in Greek. Despite this, the Slavonic liturgy was preserved on the lower levels of the Church for several centuries.

The autocephaly of the Ohrid Archbishopric remained respected during the periods of Byzantine, Bulgarian, Serbian and Ottoman rule and the church continued to exist until its abolition in 1767. For more information about the Ohrid Archbishopric and other periods in the history of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church see the below links

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01103b.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03046a.htm

[Thorn]

You just can't keep your fingers away from the keyboard for just one time can you?

That is not what this thread talks about!

[airwings]

In Classical antiquity Ohrid was a Greek colony called Lykhnidos. Standing on a crag, it became by the 2nd century BC a post on the Via Egnatia to Bitola and Greece. It was rebuilt by the Romans after a devastating earthquake in 518.
Ohrid probably derives its name from Lykhnidos, via Slavic and Albanian.
At the summit is the ruined fortress dating chiefly from the late 10th and early 11th centuries, when Ohrid was the capital of a Bulgarian tsar.

abstract from:
October 25, 2007, Encyclopædia Britannica Online

[WisdomSeeker]

You just can't keep your fingers away from the keyboard for just one time can you?

That is not what this thread talks about!

Ok,lets talk about the topic:

What i have really enjoyed the most was this part:


Ohrid is the center of Christianity for all Slavs, an archbishopric seat, a seat of schools and universities,

:D And then Fyromians accuse Greeks of having complexes LOL.

and then this one:


In Biblical Macedonia, every path leads to Ohrid.

Oh yeah right every christian is aware of Apostle Paul's Letter to Ohridians:roll:

Ofc,what airwings posted is completely true.

Let alone the so called '' Macedonian orthodox church'' is the only '' orthodox'' church founded by communists. Thus it is NOT regarded orthodox under ecclesiastical terms.

Ah the joy of the irony:P:common051

[Izzie]

Thorn said it,you blew it

Man try for ONCE to keep your posts out of Macedonians threats,since you have nothing wise to say