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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14 August 1912, in Boston, was held the First Assembly of the Pan-Albanian Federation “Vatra”
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14 August 1916, was born in Shkodra, lyric poet and pedagogue Gasper Pali
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14 August 1933, in Thessaloniki, was shot dead with four bullets in his back Hasan Prishtina