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Ohrid

Town in Macedonia, near the Albanian border, situated on the shore of Lake Ohrid; population (1994 est) 44,000. It is on the site of an ancient Greek colony and is one of the oldest towns in the region. Its buildings include a 10th-century fortress and an 11th-century church. Sts Cyril and Methodius, creators of the Slavonic alphabet, are believed to have worked here.
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The Ochrid serial killer murdered three people [in 2007] but his victims were all street-based money exchangers and his motive was to rob them.
The shocking story of the newspaper crime reporter who knew too much by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
The Conclusion reviews her arguments but also makes particular use of the twelfth-century Defence of Eunuchs by Theophylact of Ochrid to support her case.
The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in ... by Tougher, Shaun / Journal of Social History
Or again, at the cathedral of St Sophia in Ochrid (the seat of an independent patriarchate from the 10th to the 18th centuries) both Catholic and Orthodox saints were painted around the altar in the mid-11th century - at the very time of the Schism between Eastern and Western Christianity in 1054.
Of saints and cement in Macedonia by Morpurgo, Horatio / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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