Ohrid (Macedonian: Охрид) is a city in the Republic of North Macedonia. It is the largest city on Lake Ohrid and the eighth-largest city in the country with over 42.000 inhabitants as of 2002. Ohrid is notable for once having had 365 churches, one for each day of the year, and has been referred to as a “Jerusalem of the Balkans”. The city is rich in picturesque houses and monuments, and tourism is predominant.
Ohrid, North Macedonia
Ohrid, Nordmakedonien
Ohrid, Macedonia del Norte
Ohrid is located southwest of Skopje, west of Resen and Bitola. In 1979 and in 1980, Ohrid and Lake Ohrid were accepted as Cultural and Natural World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. In fact, Ohrid is one of only 28 sites that are part of UNESCO’s World Heritage that are both Cultural and Natural sites.
Охрид, Северная Македония
Ohrid, Macédoine du Nord
Ohrid, Noord-Macedonië
In antiquity the city was known under the ancient Greek: Λυχνίς (Lychnis) and Latin: Lychnidus, probably meaning “city of light”, from Greek λυχνίς (lychnis, gen. lychnidos), “a precious stone that emits light”, from λύχνος (lychnos), “lamp, portable light”. By 879 AD, the town was no longer called Lychnidos but was referred to by the assimilated native people as Ohrid, possibly from the Slavic words vo hrid, meaning “on the hill”, as the ancient town of Lychnidos was at the top of the hill. In Macedonian and the other South Slavic languages, the name of the city is Ohrid (Охрид). In Albanian, the city is known as Ohër or Ohri and in modern Greek Ochrida (Οχρίδα, Ωχρίδα) and Achrida (Αχρίδα).
Охрид, Северна Македонија
Ohri, Kuzey Makedonya
Οχρίδα, Βόρεια Μακεδονία
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