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Tavorь

Taor

Begin between 01.09.1258 and 31.12.1300
End between 01.01.1568 and 31.12.1569
GeoNames

Description

Probably identical with the village Taurision. The Byzantine Historian Prokopios of Caesarea relates that the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. was born in the village Taurision near the fortlet Bederiana in Dardania (Ἐν Δαρδάνοις που τοῖς Εὐρωπαίοις, οἳ δὴ μετὰ τοὺς Ἐπιδαμνίων ὅρους ᾤκηνται, τοῦ φρουρίου ἄγχιστα, ὅπερ Βεδερίανα ἐπικαλεῖται, χωρίον Ταυρίσιον ὄνομα ἦν, ἔνθεν Ἰουστινιανὸς βασιλεὺς ὁ τῆς οἰκουμένης οἰκιστὴς ὥρμηται). The Bulgarian Tsar Constantine I Asen donated the village of Tavorь together with a ruined fortress (apparently ruins of the fortified settlement near Taurision), meadows and hunting grounds to the Monastery of Saint George-Gorg near Skopje (Selo Tavorь, gradište i s polemь sь nivijemь, sь livadami, sь Ezeromь blatnimъ, sь zaběloï, sь lovišti zvěr’noïmi i roïbnimi, i sь vsěmi pravinami ih). The village of Tavorь is attested in the charter of the Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin for the Monastery of St George-Gorg (niže Tavora) from 1300. The village of Tavorь is mentioned in the boundary description of the property, which belonged to the chapel (kellion) of Saint Petka and was given by the Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin to the Hilandar Monastery (i na putь kako grede u Tavorь). Tavorь is registered in the Ottoman Defters for the years 1452/1453, 1467/1468 (as Tavore or Tavre), 1544/1545 and 1568/1569.

Relations

Events (1)
Name Class Begin End Description
Donation of Tavorь Acquisition Tsar Constantine I Asen donated the village of Tavorь to the Monastery of Saint George-Gorge.
Sources (2)
Name Class Description
Skopje Monastery of St. George 1 Source The Bulgarian Tsar Konstantin I Asen (reigned 1257-1277) confirmed previous donations of properties and people to the Monastery of St. George-Gorg near Skopje and added his own. The charter is dated to the years of his reign (1257/58-1277).
Tmorane Sveta Petka Source The Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin donated the kellion of St. Petka with its possessions to the Monastery of Hilandar on Mount Athos. According to Srdjan Pirivatrić King Milutin conquered the town of Skopje and its surroundings from the Byzantine Empire in the year 1282, but lost it to the Byzantines at some point between 1282 and 1298 and certainly reconquered it before 1298/99. That is why he issued his charter concerning the kellion of St. Petka after his reconquest, i.e. about 1299/1300.

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The Excavation on the Elevation Gradište above Today's Village of Taor (© Tabula Imperii Byzantini and Mihailo St. Popović, 2010)
The Excavation on the Elevation Gradište above Today's Village of Taor (© Tabula Imperii Byzantini and Mihailo St. Popović, 2010)