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Encyclopedia Britannica



USKUB

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 811 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
USKUB , Uscup, or SKOPIA (anc. Scupi, Turk. Ushkiib, Slay. Skoplye), the
capital
  of the vilayet of
Kossovo
 , European
Turkey; on the left bank of the river Vardar, and at the junction of the railways from Nigh and Mitrovitza to Salonica. Pop. (1905) about 32,000, consisting chiefly of Slays (Serbs and Bulgars), Turks, Albanians and a few
gipsies
 . Uskub occupies a picturesque and strategically important position at the foot of a valley which severs two mountain ranges, the Shar Planina and Kara Dagh. Main roads radiate N.W. to Prizren, W. to Gostivar, an important centre of distribution, E.N.E. to Kumanovo, and thence into Bulgaria, and S. to Kopriilii and Monastir. The city is the headquarters of an army corps, and the see of an Orthodox Greek archbishop, of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Albanians and of a Bulgarian
bishop
 . Its
principal
  buildings are the citadel, the palace, of the vali or provincial
governor
 , the Greek and Bulgarian schools, numerous churches and mosques and a Roman aqueduct. The
industries
  include dyeing, weaving, tanning and the manufacture of metal-
work
 , wine and flour, but Uskiib is chiefly important as the commercial centre of the whole vilayet of
Kossovo
  (q.v.). The Imperial Ottoman Bank and the Banque de Salonique have branches in the city, and French is to a remarkable extent the language of commerce. Uskub retains in a modified form the name of Scupi, one of the
chief
  cities of northern Macedonia. A few unimportant ruins mark the ancient site, about 11 m. N.W. Scupi was destroyed by an
earthquake
  in A.D. 518, but was rebuilt by Justinian under the name of Justiniana Prima. Up to the 14th century it was at times the
capital
  of the Servian tsars.


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