Breaking News: Several NGO organization are planning to revive this year's summer idea (mass gathering of signatures was organized) that a city in FYROM should be renamed Alexandria. The most likely candidate is "Sun's city" (Sončev grad), a projected satellite town of Skoplje whose future is bleak due to technical and economical aspects. __________________ By Vasco Source: MOTW

The inscribed stone of Thessalonike has been discovered in August 1907 in the excavations of the northern courtyard of the kasimie mosque, which is the former temple of St Demetrios. The inscribed stone has to do with the emperor Justinian II who granted it to the church of St Demetrios along with gifts, in Thessalonica ...