Coordinates | 20°35′45.90″N93°11′38.58″N |
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Name | Prilep |
Native name | Прилеп |
Nickname | "the city under Marko's Towers" |
Website | http://www.Prilep.gov.mk |
Pushpin map | Macedonia |
Pushpin map caption | Location in the Republic of Macedonia |
Coordinates display | inline,title |
Coordinates region | MK |
Subdivision type | Country |
Subdivision name | |
Subdivision type1 | Municipality |
Subdivision name1 | Prilep Municipality |
Leader title | Mayor |
Leader name | Marjan Risteski |
Area total km2 | 1194.44 |
Population as of | 2002 |
Population total | 66,246 |
Population metro | 79,834 |
Population density km2 | 64.27 |
Timezone | CET |
Utc offset | +1 |
Elevation m | +620 |
Postal code type | Postal codes |
Postal code | 7500 |
Area code | 389 048 |
Blank name | Patron saints |
Blank info | Saint Nicholas |
Footnotes | }} |
Prilep ( ) is the fourth largest city in the Republic of Macedonia. It has a population of 66,246 citizens. Prilep is known as "the city under Marko's Towers" because of its proximity to the towers of Prince Marko.
Tobacco is one of Prilep's traditional cash crops and prospers in the Macedonian climate. Many of the world's largest cigarette makers, such as Marlboro, West and Camel use Prilep's tobacco in their cigarettes after it is processed in local factories such as Tutunski kombinat Prilep. A ''Tobacco Institute'' is established in the city in order to produce new types of tobacco and it was the first example of applying genetics to agriculture in the Balkans..
Prilep was founded on the ruins of the ancient city of Styberra, first a town in Macedon and later incorporated into the Roman Empire. Styberra, though razed by the Goths in 268, remained partly inhabited. The town was first mentioned as Prilep in 1014, as the place where the Bulgarian Tsar Samuil allegedly had a heart attack upon seeing thousands of his soldiers had been blinded by the Byzantines after the Battle of Kleidion. Byzantium lost it to the Second Bulgarian Empire, but later retook it. Prilep was acquired in 1334 by Serbian King Stefan Uroš IV Dušan and after 1365 the town belonged to King Vukašin, co-ruler of Dušan's son Tzar Stefan Uroš V. After the death of Vukašin in 1371, his son Marko, who ''de facto'' controlled only a territory in western Macedonia, centered on Prilep. In 1395 it was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, of which it remained a part of until 1913, when it entered into the Kingdom of Serbia after the Balkan wars when the allied Balkan countries divided the territory among themselves. Prilep was part of Socialist Republic of Macedonia from 1944 to 1991, and since then of the Republic of Macedonia.
The main square in Prilep is called "Alexandria", in honor of Alexander the Great. The reconstruction of the square began in 2005 and it was completed in 2006. The reconstruction costed 700.000 Euros and its investor was the city of Prilep. During the reconstruction the monument of Alexander the Great was erected, among the other things.
There are several ancient sites in Prilep including one at Markovi Kuli, St. Nicola’s church from the 13th century, St. Uspenie church in Bogorodica, St. Preobrazenie church and the Tomb of the Unconquered, a memorial in honor of the victims of fascism located in Prilep's central park. A large Roman necropolis is known there and parts of numerous walls have been found; the settlement was probably the ancient Ceramiae mentioned in the Peutinger Table. Roman remains can also be found near the Varosh monastery, built on the steep slopes of the hill, which was later inhabited by a medieval community. A large number of early Roman funeral monuments, some with sculpted reliefs of the deceased or of the Thracian Rider and other inscribed monuments of an official nature, are in the courtyard of the church below the southern slope of Varosh. Some of the larger of those monuments were built into the walls of the church.
The most important ancient monument is the old city of Styberra situated on Bedem hill near Čepigovo, in the central region of Pelagonia. As early as the time of the Roman – Macedonian wars, this city was known as a base from which the Macedonian king Perseus of Macedon set out to conquer the Penestian cities. An important site in the area is Bela Crkva, 6 km west of Styberra, where the town of Alkomenai was probably located. It was a stronghold of the Macedonian kings after it was rebuilt in the early Roman period and was at the Pelagonian entrance to a pass leading to Illyria. Part of the city wall, a gate, and a few buildings of the Roman period were uncovered here in excavations. All recent finds from these sites are in the Museum of the City of Prilep.
The Treskavec monastery, built in the 12th century in the mountains about 10 km north of Prilep under Zlatovrv peak, at the edge of a small upland plain 1100 meters above sea level. Prilep has frescoes from the 14th and 15th centuries and is probably the site of the early Roman town of Kolobaise. The name of the early town is recorded on a long inscription on stone which deals with a local cult of Ephesian Artemis. The inscription was reused as a base for a cross on top of one of the church domes. Other inscriptions at Treskavec include several 1st century Roman dedications to Apollo. The old fortress was used by the Romans, and later the Byzantines. After all, even Tsar Samuil came here after the defeat at Belasica in 1014. During the Middle Ages, after 1371, Prince Marko rebuilt the citadel extensively, making it an important military stronghold.
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