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Justiniana Prima

Justiniana Prima was an Eastern Roman city that existed from 535 to 615 CE, near modern Lebane in the Leskovac region, Serbia.

Justiniana Prima
Justiniana Prima · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Justiniana Prima was an Eastern Roman city that existed from 535 to 615 CE, near modern Lebane in the Leskovac region, Serbia. It is currently an archaeological site. Founded by Emperor Justinian I (527-565), it was the metropolitan seat of the newly founded Archbishopric of Justiniana Prima, which became the main church administrative body of the central Dardania with jurisdiction from Praevalitana to Dacia Ripensis. Justinian Prima was originally designed to become the capital of the prefecture of Illyricum, but for reasons likely related with its status near the Roman frontiers of the 6th century CE, Thessaloniki was preferred. It was abandoned less than 100 years after its foundation.

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Worth seeing in and around Justiniana Prima

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

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    Svinjarička Čuka

    Svinjarička Čuka is an archaeological site in southern Serbia, near the village of Štulac in the municipality of Lebane. Cultural deposits at the site date to the Neolithic, Copper, Bronze, and Early Iron Ages.

    2.2 km · neolithic site near Leskovac, Serbia · Wikipedia

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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Justiniana Prima. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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Around it

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Justiniana Prima is 52 km from Pristina, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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