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MONUMENTET KISHTARE TË DRISHTIT NË MESJETË
ECCLESIASTICAL MONUMENTS OF DRIVASTO DURING THE MlDDLE AGE

Author(s): Edmond Malaj
Subject(s): History
Published by: Qendra e Studimeve Albanologjike
Keywords: ECCLESIASTICAL MONUMENTS ; DRIVASTO DURING ; MlDDLE AGE

Summary/Abstract: Before the Ottoman conquest, the Diocese of Drishti (Drivasto) had many churches and chapels and the researchers qualified it as a nursery of Albanian Catholic clergy in the Middle Age. The churches of Drishti were thick-walled and so far we know this city had these cathedrals and churches: St. George’s Cathedral, Cathedral of St. Mary with chapter, the church of St. Francis, St. Salvador’s church, the church of St. Cross, the church of Sancta Maria Veteris, St. Stephen’s Church, the Church of St. Veneranda, and the church of St. Nicholas. The incomes of these churches were, among others, testaments left by clerics and others who donate different amounts to them for the salvation of their own souls. Besides the aforementioned churches, I have also idcntified ruins of four other churches, which may have been even any of those mentioned above, but it cannot be confirmed yet, because the churches mentioned by name cannot be localized, where they were in the city.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 01-02
  • Page Range: 033-052
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Albanian
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