FK Ohrid

GFK Ohrid Lihnidos (Macedonian: ГФК Охрид Лихнидос) is a football club from the city of Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. They playing in blue and white jerseys at the SRC Biljanini Izvori football complex and its currently playing in the OFS Ohrid league.

History

The club was created back in the year 1921 under the name OSK Ohrid. It started competing under the name FK Ohrid in 1946 by uniting all the Ohrid football clubs (OSK, FK Ohridski Branovi, FK Jugoslavija, FK Rashanec and FK Gragjanski). They played in the old Macedonian Republic League in 1948 where they finished in 8th place. Perhaps, the most influential person for the rise in popularity of football in Ohrid was Boško Simonović, who was the teams coach at the time.

Supporters

Ohrid Lihnidos supporters were called Ribari, which means Fishermen.

Honours

Macedonian Second League:

Macedonian Republic Cup:

Managers

Zdravko Cvetanoski (July 2011–Aug 11)

Dragan Antić (Sept 2011–Dec 11)

Ohrid

Coordinates: 41°07′01″N 20°48′06″E / 41.11694°N 20.80167°E / 41.11694; 20.80167

Ohrid (/ɒx.rid/, Macedonian: Охрид [ˈɔxrid]) is a city in the Republic of Macedonia and the seat of Ohrid Municipality. It is the largest city on Lake Ohrid and the eighth-largest city in the country with over 42,000 inhabitants as of 2002. Ohrid is notable for once having had 365 churches, one for each day of the year, and has been referred to as a "Jerusalem (of the Balkans)". The city is rich in picturesque houses and monuments, and tourism is predominant. It is located southwest of Skopje, west of Resen and Bitola. In 1979 and in 1980, Ohrid and Lake Ohrid were accepted as Cultural and Natural World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. In fact, Ohrid is one of only 28 sites that are part of UNESCO's World Heritage that are both Cultural and Natural sites.

Name

In antiquity the city was known under the ancient Greek name Λύχνιδος (Lychnidos) and Latin Lychnidus, probably meaning "city of light", from λυχνίς (lychnis, gen. lychnidos), "a precious stone that emits light", from λύχνος (lychnos), "lamp, portable light". By 879 AD, the town was no longer called Lychnidos but was referred to by the Slavs as Ohrid, possibly from the Slavic words vo hrid, meaning "on the hill", as the ancient town of Lychnidos was at the top of the hill. In Macedonian and the other South Slavic languages, the name of the city is Ohrid (Охрид). In Albanian, the city is known as Ohër or Ohri and in modern Greek Ochrida (Οχρίδα, Ωχρίδα) and Achrida (Αχρίδα).

Ohrid (disambiguation)

Ohrid is a city in the Republic of Macedonia.

Places

Other uses

See also

Ohrid, Bulgaria

Ohrid (Bulgarian: Охрид, also transliterated as Okhrid) is a village (село) in northwestern Bulgaria, located in the Boychinovtsi municipality (община Бойчиновци) of the Montana Province (Област Монтана).

References

Coordinates: 43°27′00″N 23°23′00″E / 43.4500°N 23.3833°E / 43.4500; 23.3833