Byzantine Heritage of Skopje - Guidebook

Byzantinoslavica 69/1-2 (2011): 219-266, 2011

The parallel existence of several centers as the generators and recipients of architectural influence in the wider region of Byzantine Macedonia, such as Thessaloniki and Ohrid, obscured the significance of the city of Skopje, which flourished as a short-lived imperial city for almost 50 years (1346-1392). In this paper a number of post-1330 churches from the region of Skopje, F.Y.R. of Macedonia: St. Nicholas in Ljuboten; the Holy Saviour (later the Presentation of the Virgin) in Kuceviste; St. Nicholas in Sisevo; the Assumption of the Virgin in Matejic; St. Demetrios at Markov Manastir, in Susice; Assumption of the Virgin in Matka; St. Andrew on the Treska; and now ruined churches at Devic and Modriste on the Treska -- are grouped because of related stylistic features and proportions. The churches comprise an overlooked paradigmatic building school significant for further understanding of questions of style and building workshops in the regional developments of Late Byzantine architecture (ca. 1261-1453) and, especially after the 1330s, marked by a building decline in Constantinople. Contextualizing this "building school" locates the path of the development of the so-called "Morava School" (ca. 1370s-1459), the final phase of Byzantine architecture, through Skopje.

In this paper, we will discuss our project, entitled as " Ottoman Monuments in Macedonia " , supported by Scientific Research Projects of MSGSU. This field work Project we undertook in the months of Julyand September 2014. Many structures were identified as a result of field work. We have gathered many data in this field work that will be presented with an assessment over all. In this context, we will study Ottoman Monuments previously listed as an inventory work by the Macedonian State Ministry of Culture in 1991. In this Project we verified the list of Ottoman structures in Macedonia taken from the Macedonian State Ministry of Culture. Also we found recently identified Ottoman structures which are not in this list. Also the structures in this list which are in existentor repairs performed will be discussed. Emergency repairs, maintenances tageand their latest state of the structures will be examined. Ottoman monuments that stil preserve the original characteristics of these structures will be highlighted. Ottoman structures that we have identified will be informed with their over all architectural features.

Proceedings of the23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 2016

Located in what has been described as the core area of the Ottoman realm in Europe, a region once known as Rumelia or " Rûm‐İli, " the modern Republic of Macedonia is a country relatively privileged in its share of well‐preserved monuments from the more than five centuries of Ottoman rule (ca. 1385‐ 1912). Ottoman‐Islamic culture being largely one of cities, it was in this period that a number of urban settlements were revived and incorporated into a regional network of administrative and economic centres. They were equipped with an infrastructure that included large and small houses of worship, educational institutions, water supply systems, public bathhouses, bridges, hostels and hospices for merchants, travellers, and dervishes, and sometimes also clock towers. The vast majority of these structures were not built by the Ottoman sultan or the state he represented but by military and civil administrators, theologians, affluent women, local strongmen, craftsmen, and merchants. They chose to invest in the construction of monuments and infrastructures for reasons that were – as far as we are able to reconstruct them – as varied as the group of patrons. This survey seeks to contextualize formal phenomena with broader developments in Ottoman society and the architecture it produced. It also suggests a system of presentation along four broad periods, however uneven. It seeks to identify and analyse their characteristics and the position of individual monuments in them. Notwithstanding its incompleteness and the gravity of certain omissions, I hope that the resulting narrative is conclusive enough to bring forth a more nuanced understanding of this architectural heritage – not as a the quasi‐automatic product of an essentialized 'culture' present in a given area at a given time, but as the consequence of a complex set of interactions between people and groups with different interests, agendas, and points of reference. It is the logic of their resolution to alter, through sponsoring architecture, Macedonian cities' monumental topography that I shall seek to reconstruct.

This book includes the most significant monuments of ottoman architecture and art, buildings whose special feature is their monumentality, sense of space and beauty. The book includes texts on both sacral and profane buildings that still stand in this region and which, with their artistic expression, convey the achievements of those who built and decorated them.

Çorum , Amasya , Tokat , SAmsun , Girasun gümüşhane ve Trabzondaki evliya çelebi alıntılarına göre eski köy ve yerleşke adları , eski roma hristiyan tarihi eserleri . kelkit nehri kıyısı olan tarihi belgeler

The International scientific symposium "Days of Justinian I" is an annual interdisciplinary scholarly forum aimed at the presentation of the latest research followed by discussions on various aspects of Byzantine and Medieval Studies before 1500; this includes the treatment and interpretation of cultural, historical and spiritual heritage in contemporary modern Europe. The Symposium is dedicated to Emperor Justinian I with the aim to bring together scholars from around the world to address a broad range of issues related to Byzantium and the European Middle Ages, comprising the exploration of the cultural and historical legacy as an integrative component of the diversities and commonalities of Europe and wider. This year special thematic strand Heritage marks the 10th jubilee edition of the ISBMS “Days of Justinian I”, symbolizing the main idea in exploring the multitude historical and cultural legacies of the Byzantine and Medieval Western worlds. Topics discussed will range from the reception of the Classical traditions and Roman heritage in the Eastern Roman Empire and Medieval West, to the changing attitudes and later claims towards its legacy. Various fundamental issues will be investigated in defining how the material remains and immaterial traditions were perceived, cultivated, reconfigured and appropriated in the changing contexts from the medieval to the modern period, comprising the enduring and profound cultural and historical legacy. This will encompass the ways in which exchanges and interactions between Byzantium, Latin Western Europe and Islamic Orient have influenced the transmission of the heritage. The symposium will address varieties of notions and perspectives on the political, ideological, religious, cultural traditions that produced the multiple legacies of the Eastern Roman Empire and Medieval Western Europe.

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