Pelagonia

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Pelagonia is a historical and geographical region in the Balkans, spanning parts of present-day North Macedonia and Greece, known for its fertile plain and significant cultural heritage.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Pelagonia region 6
Pelagonia canonical 5

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region
historical region
battleOccurredIn 1259
borderedBy Baba Mountain
Kozjak Mountain (Pelagonia region)
Nidže Mountain
linked to: Kozuf Mountain
climateType Mediterranean influences
continental climate influences
contains Pelagonia plain
crossedBy Crna River
economicActivity crop farming
livestock breeding
hasCharacteristic significant cultural heritage
hasCity Bitola
linked to: Monastir

Florina
Prilep
Resen
hasCulturalHeritageSite Heraclea Lyncestis
Marko’s Towers near Prilep
traditional stone architecture villages
hasFeature fertile plain
hasSoilType alluvial soils
hasSubregion Bitola plain
Florina plain
Prilep plain
historicallyInhabitedBy Ancient Macedonians
linked to: Macedon

Paionians
Slavic peoples
linked to: Slavs
historicallyPartOf Byzantine Empire
Kingdom of Macedon
linked to: Macedon

Ottoman Empire
knownFor agriculture
fertile agricultural land
languageHistoricallySpoken Ancient Greek
Church Slavonic
Greek
Macedonian
locatedIn Balkans
locatedWithinModernRegion Pelagonia Statistical Region
overlapsWith Devol (historical region)
linked to: Debar

Lyncestis
partlyLocatedIn Greece
North Macedonia
partOf Macedonian geographic regions
religionHistoricallyPresent Eastern Orthodoxy
Islam
siteOf Battle of Pelagonia
timePeriodInUse Antiquity to present
usedFor grain production
tobacco cultivation

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Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Monastir locatedInRegion Pelagonia
Heraclea Lyncestis regionToday Pelagonia region
linked to: Pelagonia
Baba Mountain partOf Pelagonia region
linked to: Pelagonia
Dragor River locatedIn Pelagonia region
linked to: Pelagonia
Dragor River region Pelagonia
Prilep locatedIn Pelagonia region
linked to: Pelagonia
Manastır locatedIn Pelagonia region
linked to: Pelagonia
Pelagonian Zone namedAfter Pelagonia
Lynkestis borderedBy Pelagonia
Crna River locatedIn Pelagonia region
linked to: Pelagonia
Crna River region Pelagonia