Ohrid, MK
The town stopped being Lychnidos
Polybius, writing in the second century BC, called the town Lychnidion. By 879 AD it was no longer Lychnidos but Ohrid, a shift that required a long-standing period of Tosk Albanian and Eastern South Slavic bilingualism, or at least contact. The Ohrid Literary School followed in 886, established by Clement of Ohrid. In 1889 Gustav Weigand found the Codex Dimonie here, a collection of Aromanian-language religious texts. Ohrid was accepted by UNESCO as a Cultural World Heritage Site in 1979, the lake as a Natural one in 1980.
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