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DigsSite Name: Bylazora
Country: North Macedonia
NOTE: This site is 25.436 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sveti Nikole  Nearest Village: Knezje
Latitude: 41.847278N  Longitude: 21.912531E
Condition:
5Perfect
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Ancient city going back to the seventh century BC in Macedonia and is currently under excavation.

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Archaeologists Confirm Location of Important Paeonic-Era Site in Macedonia by coldrum on Saturday, 03 October 2009
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Archaeologists Confirm Location of Important Paeonic-Era Site in Macedonia

Following two years of systematic excavations, archeologists were able to finally and definitely confirm the location of the site of Bilazora, which served as an important centre during Paeonic Macedonian times.

“We have expected for long to unearth and definitely confirm the location of Bilazora, one of the largest towns at the Paeonic Macedonian times,” archaeologist Stefan Danev, the head of the project, said at the presentation of the results of two-year exploration, recently quoted by the Dnevnik newspaper.

“After two years systematic archaeological excavations we can finally state that Bilazora, the main shield of Macedonia at the time was here, in the Gradiste site near the village of Knezje, four kilometres away of Sveti Nikole.” The town of Sveti Nikole, located in the central part of Macedonia, is surrounded by numerous archaeological sites dating to different time periods.

The unearthed finds point to the site's importance in Antiquity. “Evidence we have unearthed bears witness to a rich history among those valuable walls from seventh to the second centuries BC, or until 167 when the town was destroyed and afterwards the area fell under the Romans,“ Danev said.

According to the archaeologist, the excavations of the imposing town that is thought to have covered 20 hectares have shown the walls of an acropolis, defence towers, the gate, the town square, a temple and valuable movable material.

The project, which was supported by the Macedonian government and the Texas Archaeological and Historical Exploration Foundation, involved by thirty archaeologists, students and professors, from different countries.

The location of Bilazora has long puzzled archaeologists. In 1976, Ivan Mikulcic proposed that it was in Ovce Pole, near Sveti Nikole. Until then it was considered that the site's location coincided with that of the Veles historic fortress.

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    Re: Archaeologists Confirm Location of Important Paeonic-Era Site in Macedonia by Anonymous on Thursday, 17 November 2011
    I just want to know who said that the "Bylazora was the fabled CAPITAL CITY of the Paionians"?

    That identification stems, of course, from Ivan Mikulcic’s work in 1976 that is absolutely nonsense. The truth is, as the experts said "we have not found anything to date at the site that says *this is Bylazora* and consequently they are open to the idea that the Knezje site might be some city other than Bylazora.

    Bylazora or Vilazora is a Paeonian city that was located on the Axius River at Veles in the Republic of Macedonia. Polybius tells us that "King Philip V captured Bylazora, the largest town of Paeonia, and very favourably situated for commanding the pass from Dardania to Macedonia: so that by this achievement he was all but entirely freed from any fear of the Dardani, it being no longer easy for them to invade Macedonia, as long as this city gave Philip the command of the pass". In 219 BC, the Dardanians collected their forces for a raid into Macedonia and at that time must Bylazora already have been in their hands. Bylazora with its location at Veles commanded the entrance to a long defile and, no less important, a route southwestwards into Pelagonia via the Babuna Valley, or Raec Valley into Styberra and interior of the Macedonian Kingdom. One assumes that Bylazora as the largest Paeonian town must have been in Dardanian possession when Philip V captured it in 217 BC, and then garrisoning it with aim to end Dardanian raid. Bylazora is also mentioned by Livy in his "The History of Rome" when Perseus in 168 BC arranged military support from the Gauls who were camping in Desudaba, Maedica, requesting the Gaulish army to shift their camp to Bylazora, a place in Paeonia, and their officers to go in a body to him at Almana on the River Axius.
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