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OCHRIDA (also written OKHRIDA and ACHRIDA; See also:Turkish Ochri) , a See also:city of See also:Albania, See also:European See also:Turkey, in the vilayet of See also:Monastir; on the See also:north-eastern See also:shore of See also:Lake Ochrida, and at the eastern end of the See also:Roman Via Egnatia. Pop. (1905) about 11,000, including Albanians, See also:Turks, Greeks and Slays. Ochrida occupies the site of the See also:ancient Lychnidos, which was added to the Macedonian See also:empire by See also:Philip II. (382–336 B.C.), and destroyed by the Bulgarians in A.D. 861. It is the seat of Bulgarian and See also:Greek bishops. From the creation of the Bulgarian patriarchate of Ochrida in 893 to its abolition in 1767 the city was the ecclesiastical headquarters of the Bulgarians in the See also:west of the See also:Balkan See also:Peninsula. Lake Ochrida is 2260 ft. above See also:sea-level, in a mountainous See also:limestone region of See also:Karst formation. It See also:measures 107 sq. m., and has a maximum See also:depth of 938 ft. Its See also:waters are supplied by subterranean streams. Its See also:chief outlet is the See also:river See also:Black Drin, on the north.

See Gelzer, Der Patriarchat von Achrida (See also:

Leipzig, 1902) ; and " Dr Jovan Cvijic's Researches in See also:Macedonia, &c.," in The See also:Geographical See also:Journal, vol. xvi.. (See also:London, 1900).

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