In July of the year 518, a great army of Dardani (today Kosovo) destroyed 24 cities, including Dardania’s headquarters, Skupo (today’s Skopje). After the earthquake, Justinian, emperor of Illyrian blood, raised three new towns: Justiniana Prima near Tauriti, now Taor village, not far from Skopje, Justiniana Sekunda near Ulpiana, today Pristina and Justinopolis, in Bederian, today Beder village, east of Taorit.
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11 March 1851, was played for the first time the opera “Rigoleto”
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11 March 1911, was published in Bulgaria the first number of the newspaper “Liri e Shqipërisë”
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11 March 1920, The French military units gave Shkodra to the Albanian national force
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11 March 1923, was held in Korça the hunger demonstration
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11 March 1933, was born the Albanian actor Vangjel Heba