Theranda

THERANDA

THERANDA a town, of Moesia, now Trenonitza (Geogr. Rav. 4.15; Tab. Peut. ).

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THERANDA (Prizren) Yugoslavia.

A Roman town ca. 76 km SW of Priština on the Bistrica river in the region of Kosovo and Metohija. It lay on the direct route from Lissos in Macedonia to Naissus in Moesia Superior. The town continued to exist during the 4th to 6th c. but was of far greater significance during the mediaeval period and was even capital of Serbia for a short time during the 14th c.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

E. Čerškov, Les romains en Kosovo et Metohija (1969).

J. WISEMAN