Baleci në Mesjetë
Balec in the Middle Ages

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the article is to give data on the history of Balec, a town lying a few kilometers to the Northwest of Scutari and existing from the Early Middle Ages to the beginning of the Late Middle Ages and its heyday should have been in the 14th century. We come across some data on this town by Ippen, Farlat, Jirecek, Sufflay, Schmitt etc. The first medieval source where the name of this town shows up is the Dioclea Presbyter’s writing about 1200. By this article based on the above mentioned authors or documentary sources we attempt to surpass what has been written so far on this town and to bring into light as much as possible the quite dark and enigmatic history of this medieval domicile about which we find almost no data at all in the whole Albanian historiography so far. The article is divided into two parts which deal with two different aspects of it: the secular world (data on the town, population and its economy), that is the first part and the religious world, that is the second part of the article, where the history of the diocese, of the Bishopric and of the clergy of medieval Balec is treated.

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