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Naissus fu una città romana, situata lungo il fiume Nišava, nell'attuale Serbia, dove oggi sorge la città di Niš. Fu anche fortezza legionaria al tempo di Augusto. Fu la città natale dell'imperatore Costantino I.
- Costantino I
Flavio Valerio Aurelio Costantino, conosciuto anche come...
- Costantino I
Niš (pronuncia [ˈniʃ]; in serbo Ниш?; talvolta italianizzata in Nissa o, seguendo il toponimo in latino Naissus, Naisso; in greco antico: Ναισσός?, Naissós) è una città della Serbia, attraversata dal fiume Nišava. La popolazione censita nel 2011 ammontava a 260 237 abitanti.
Niš ( / ˈniːʃ /; Serbian Cyrillic: Ниш, Serbian pronunciation: [nîːʃ] ⓘ; names in other languages ), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in the southern part of Serbia.
Flavio Valerio Aurelio Costantino, conosciuto anche come Costantino il Vincitore, Costantino il Grande e Costantino I (in latino Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus; in greco antico: Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ Μέγας?, Konstantînos o Mégas; Naissus, 27 febbraio 274 – Nicomedia, 22 maggio 337), è stato un imperatore ...
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Niš (Serbian Cyrillic: Ниш, pronounced [nîːʃ] ⓘ) was built on the ruins of Roman Naissus. The Late antiquity town was known as Naissus, Νάϊσσος, Ναϊσσός (Naissos), Naessus, urbs Naisitana, Navissus, Navissum, Ναϊσσούπολις (Naissoupolis).[a] It originated as a hydronym (the Nišava river), either of Celtic or Paleo-Balkan linguistical origin.[b] Niš ...
Neolithic sites in the Niš area include "Čardak" in Donja Vrežina, "Velika česma" in Vrtište, "Kovanluk" in Malča, "Ciganski ključ" in Trupale, "Bubanj" in Niš, "Čivlak" in Gornja Toponica, and others. The Vinča culture which flourished in the 5th–4th millennia BC included over 18 sites in the Niš area. 31 sites in the Nišava basin are dated to the...
The Niš area was inhabited by the Triballi, a tribe described as a specific people by ancient writers. Their ethnic affiliation is unknown, as linguistical research is inconclusive, while it is known that their territory was recognized in antiquity as Thracian, their relation to Thracians were older and stronger than that to Illyrians, and that the...
In the early Roman period, Naissos (as Naissus) was viewed of as Dardanian territory, while onomastics show that the population was predominantly Thracian. The Romans occupied the town in the period of the "Dardanian War" (75-73 BC), and set up a legionary camp. The city (called refugia and vici in pre-Roman relation), because of its strategic posi...
Early Middle Ages
The latter half of the 6th century AD saw the first major migrations of Slavs and Avars. During the 6th and 7th century, Slavic tribes made eight attempts to take Niš. In 551, the Slavs crossed Niš initially headed for Thessalonica, but ended up in Dalmatia. By the 580s the Slavs had conquered Serbia to much of northern Greece. During the final attack in 615 the invaders took the city, and most of the Roman and Romanized Daco-Thracianpopulation fled, perished, or became assimilated. The Slavs...
High Middle Ages
In 1018, the Theme of Bulgaria was established by Emperor Basil II, who had conquered Bulgaria and Serbia. Niš was one of its main cities. Prince Constantine Bodin was crowned Emperor of Bulgaria in 1072, amid a Bulgarian revolt against the Byzantine Empire. Bodin conquered Niš, but was later captured. During the People's Crusade, on July 3, 1096, Peter the Hermit clashed with Byzantine forces at Niš, losing a quarter of his men, but managed to march on to Constantinople. The Byzantine Empero...
Late Middle Ages
In 1375, the Ottoman Turks captured Niš for the first time. After a 25-day-long siege, the city fell to the Turks. The fall of the Serbian state decided the fate of Niš as well. After the Battle of Kosovoin 1389, even though Serbia existed much weakened as a semi-independent state for another 70 years, the Constantinople-Vienna road grew deserted. In 1443, Niš fell into the hands of Ludanjin. The town itself was given back to the Serbs, while Branković gave it over to Đorđe Mrnjavčević. In th...
Niš succumbed to Ottoman rule again in 1448 and remained thus for the following 241 years. During period of Ottoman rule, Niš was a seat of the Sanjak of Niš and Niš Eyalet. Niš Fortress, built in that period, still represents one of the most beautiful and best preserved edifices in the Balkans.The extant fortification is of Turkish origin, dating ...
The Serbian rebel leader Karađorđe, in his talks with the representatives of Russia, as well as in his talks with Napoleon and the Turks, pointed out that Niš had to belong to Serbia, stressing it crucial for the renewal of the Serbian state. The Serbian rebels headed towards Niš in order to take it over and continue towards their next goal, Old Se...
In the 19th century the area was one of the centres of Bulgarian National Revival. The French Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, when travelling across the Balkans in 1841, describes the population of the Sanjak of Niš as Bulgarians. In 1870, Niš was included in the Bulgarian Exarchate. The city was also stipulated as the area to be ceded to Bulgaria accordin...
In the first few years after the war, Niš was recovering from the damage. The tram system in Niš started to run in November 1930. The national airline Aeroputincluded Niš as a regular destination for the route Belgrade—Niš—Skopje—Thessaloniki in 1930. During the time of German occupation in World War II, the first Nazi concentration camp in Yugosla...
Skull Tower - A tower made out of Serbskulls decapitated by Turks in the 19th century.Niš Commonwealth Military Cemeterygraves of British soldiers or nurses of WWINarcissus L. è un genere di piante della famiglia Amaryllidaceae, diffuso in Europa e Asia. [1] Il suo nome deriva dal greco ναρκάω, narkào, «stordisco», e fa riferimento all'odore penetrante ed inebriante dei fiori di alcune specie.
The Battle of Naissus (268 or 269 AD) was the defeat of a Gothic coalition by the Roman Empire under Emperor Gallienus (or Emperor Claudius II Gothicus) and the future Emperor Aurelian near Naissus ( Niš ). The events around the invasion and the battle are an important part of the history of the Crisis of the Third Century .
