Taor ( Macedonian : Таор ) is a village in North Macedonia . Administratively, Taor is in Zelenikovo Municipality and it is located some 20 km south-east of Skopje . Taor is on the left bank of the Vardar River.
7-549: The etymology of the village's name Taor derives possibly from the ancient name Tauresium , an ancient town and modern archaeological site near the village. According to the 2002 census, in Taor lived 152 people, all Macedonians . This Zelenikovo location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tauresium Tauresium ( Latin : Tauresium ; Ancient Greek Ταυρήσιον ; Macedonian : Тауресиум ), today known as Gradište ( Macedonian : Градиште ),
14-604: Is an archaeological site in North Macedonia , near the village of Taor . Tauresium is the birthplace of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (ca. 482) and King Theodahad of the Ostrogoths (480). According to other studies, Tauresium was located near the modern city of Niš , Serbia . Tauresium is located in Zelenikovo Municipality , near the village Taor , some 20 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Skopje. The site
21-559: The Latin tongue), thus paying a debt of gratitude to the home that fostered him..." The similarity in the names of Tauresium and Barderia as Taor ( Таор ) and Bader ( Бадер ) was brought to attention by Antun Mihanović , the First Austrian Konzul 1836–1858 and proposed to the writer Hun, who stopped on his journey to investigate the location, which is noted in the book Stara Srbija i Makedonija – Spiridion Gopčević . The stories from
28-401: The epicenter of the earthquake was in the nearby city of Skupi . As a gesture of gratitude to his birthplace, Justinian I rebuilt the city. According to the excavations that have been done so far , it is estimated that the oldest parts of Tauresium date from the 4th century, and this oldest part is a castle with four towers known as Tetrapirgia . Regarding Baderiana, Procopius states that it "is
35-495: The fortress which is called Bederiana, there was a hamlet named Taurisium, whence sprang the Emperor Justinian, the founder of the civilised world. He therefore built a wall of small compass about this place in the form of a square, placing a tower at each corner, and caused it to be called, as it actually is, Tetrapyrgia. And close by this place he built a very notable city which he named Justiniana Prima (this means "first" in
42-557: The local peasants and badly damaged Cyrillic script were not sufficient to prove the theory initially, but later in the Monastery of St. John in Veles , Cyrillic writings were presented to him after which he concluded that this was the same Byzantine City of Tauresium, birthplace of Justinian I , who laid the foundation for The First Golden Age of The Byzantine Empire . Tauresium and the castle Baderiana were destroyed in an earthquake in 518;
49-628: Was discovered by British archaeologist Arthur Evans in the late 19th century. According to Justinian 's biographer Procopius , the Emperor was born in Tauresium in 482, more precisely in the castle of Bederiana , which is near the modern city of Niš , Serbia . In the book De aedificiis , Procopius states: "...Among the Dardanians of Europe who live beyond the boundaries of the Epidamnians, close to
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