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OCHRIDA (also written OKHRIDA and ACHRIDA; Turkish Ochri)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 990 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OCHRIDA (also written OKHRIDA and ACHRIDA; Turkish Ochri) , a city of Albania, European Turkey, in the vilayet of
Monastir
 ; on the north-eastern shore of Lake
Ochrida
 , and at the eastern end of the Roman Via Egnatia. Pop. (1905) about 11,000, including Albanians, Turks, Greeks and Slays.
Ochrida
  occupies the site of the ancient Lychnidos, which was added to the Macedonian
empire
  by Philip II. (382336 B.C.), and destroyed by the Bulgarians in A.D. 861. It is the seat of Bulgarian and Greek bishops. From the creation of the Bulgarian patriarchate of Ochrida in 893 to its abolition in 1767 the city was the ecclesiastical headquarters of the Bulgarians in the west of the Balkan Peninsula. Lake Ochrida is 2260 ft. above sea-level, in a mountainous limestone region of
Karst
  formation. It
measures
  107 sq. m., and has a maximum depth of 938 ft. Its waters are supplied by subterranean streams. Its
chief
  outlet is the river Black Drin, on the north.
See Gelzer, Der Patriarchat von Achrida (
Leipzig
 , 1902) ; and " Dr Jovan Cvijic's Researches in Macedonia, &c.," in The Geographical
Journal
 , vol. xvi.. (London, 1900).


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