giustendil

Updated: August 24, 2026

Under the name of Justiniana prima, the obscure village of Tauresium became the seat of an archbishop and a præfect, whose jurisdiction extended over seven warlike provinces of Illyricum; and the corrupt apellation of Giustendil still indicates, about twenty miles to the south of Sophia, the residence of a Turkish sanjak.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4