Maps of Power

Dragnitza

Δράγνιτζαν

Begin between 01.01.1290 and 31.12.1320
End between 01.01.1570 and 31.12.1573

Properties

ID 118482
System Class Place
Case Study Byzantino-Serbian Border Zones in Transition (1282–1355) , Historical Region of Macedonia TIB 16
Evidence History
Place Village
Historical place Byzantine Empire
Administrative unit Bulgaria

Description

The nun Annesia donated in the late 13th or in the beginning of the 14th century in memory of her deceased husband Theodoros Komenos Kantakuzenos, who lived in the Monastery of the Holy Mother of God Spelaion near Melnik, a ground with a mill in the lower town of Melnik and a vineyard in the village Dragnitza to the Monastery of the Holy Mother of God Spelaion near Melnik (ἐπιδίδωμι αὐτῆ τῆ θεῖα μονῆ τῶ ἐν τῶ ἐμπορίω Μελενίκου γονηκῶθεν προσὃν ἡμῖν μυλωνοτόπιον, καὶ εἰς τὸ δια θείου καὶ σεπτοῦ χρυσοβούλου χωρίον ἡμῶν τῆν Δράγνιτζαν ἀμπέλιον ἐξαλιματικὸν).The village of Dragnitza is probably identical with the Mezra Draganova, which is mentioned in the Defters for the Sanjak Küstendil between the year 1570 and 1573.

Relations

Sources (1)
Name Class Description
Deed of donation of the nun Annesia for the Monastery of the Holy Mother of God Spelaion near Melnik Source The nun Annesia donated In the late 13th or in the beginning of the 14th century in memory of her deceased husband Theodoros Komenos Kantakuzenos, who lived in the Monastery of the Holy Mother of God Spelaion near Melnik, a ground with a mill in the lower town of Melnik and a vineyard in the village Dragnitza to the Monastery of the Holy Mother of God Spelaion near Melnik.