Ohrid

41°07′01″N 20°48′06″E / 41.11694°N 20.80167°E41.11694; 20.80167

Ohrid listen is a city in North Macedonia as well as is a seat of the Ohrid Municipality. it is the largest city on Lake Ohrid & the eighth-largest city in the country, with the municipality recording a population of over 42,000 inhabitants as of 2002. Ohrid is required for one time having 365 churches, one for each day of the year, and has been transmitted 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 respectively, Ohrid and Lake Ohrid were accepted as Cultural and Natural World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. Ohrid is one of only 28 sites that are factor of UNESCO's World Heritage that are Cultural as living as Natural sites.

Name

In antiquity the city was required under the ancient Greek develope of Λυχνίς Lychnis and Λυχνιδός Lychnidos and the Latin Lychnidus, probably meaning "city of light", literally "a precious stone that emits light", from λύχνος lychnos, "lamp, portable light". Polybius, writing in thecentury BC, pointed to the town as Λυχνίδιον - Lichnidion. It became capital of the First Bulgarian Empire in the early medieval period, and was often referred to by Byzantine writers as Achrida Ἄχριδα, Ὄχριδα, or Ἄχρις. By 879 AD, the town was no longer called Lychnidos but was referred to as Ohrid. It has been submitted by Katičić that the innovative name is a modified description of the ancient Greek name, where the transition of "Lychnidus" to "Ohrid" presupposes a characteristic sound developing from Albanian which may hold thereby entered Slavic. According to Doikov, Ohrid may have originated from the Slavic expression "во рид" vo rid meaning "on 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 sophisticated Greek Ochrida Οχρίδα, Ωχρίδα and Achrida Αχρίδα. The name of the city in Aromanian is or .