Skopje, Upper Town, Cross-Shaped Church

Begin between 01.01.1300 and 31.12.1300
End between 01.01.2016 and 31.12.2016
Properties
ID 7324
System Class
Case Study Byzantino-Serbian Border Zones in Transition (1282–1355) , Historical Region of Macedonia TIB 16
Evidence Excavation — In Archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. , Archaeology — Archaeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
Place Abandoned Church palaioekklesia crkvište
Administrative unit Region of Skopje / Скопски регион , North Macedonia — The Prespa agreement, also known as the Prespes agreement, Prespa accord or Treaty of Prespa, is an agreement reached on 12 June 2018 between Greece and North Macedonia, under the United Nations' auspices, resolving a long-standing dispute over the latter's name. Signed beside Lake Prespa from which it took its name, and ratified by the parliaments of both countries by 25 January 2019, it went into force on 12 February 2019 when the two countries notified the UN of the deal's completion, following the ratification of the NATO accession protocol for North Macedonia on 8 February. It replaces the interim accord of 1995 and sees the country's constitutional name, then Republic of Macedonia, changed to Republic of North Macedonia erga omnes. The Prespa agreement cannot be superseded by any other agreements or treaties nor revoked, and its provisions are legally binding for both parties in terms of international law and will remain in force indefinitely.
Historical place Kingdom of Serbia , Serbian Empire , Second Bulgarian Empire , Byzantine Empire
Description

In systematic excavations in the Upper Town (Kale) from 2007 until 2012 a cross-shaped church (13th-14th cent.) was discovered in the south-eastern section of the Upper Town (i.e. excavation Kale VII). Perhaps these remnants are to be identified with the Church of the Holy Virgin, which is mentioned in the charter of the Serbian king Stefan Uroš II Milutin to the Monastery of St. George-Gorg near Skopje in the year 1300 (вьнѹтрь града скопиꙗ при вратѣхь великыхь полата и црьквь светаа богородица еже ѥсть придаль монахь ксенофонть). This church was documented by Mihailo Popović during his survey in Skopje from 13 June 2016 until 30 June 2016.

Literature
Mitrevski 2015 — 29

Relations

Sources (1)
Name Class Description
Survey of the Long-Term Project Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) in the (Former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia in June 2016 Source From 13 June 2016 until 30 June 2016 the scholars of the Long-Term Project Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, namely Mihailo St. Popović (Project Leader Balkans of the TIB) and Peter Soustal, conducted a survey in the (Former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia.