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ULPIANA DOCUMENTARY - author Arben Llapashtica

Arben Llapashtica - Author Ulpiana documentary "Some time ago there was an ancient town in Dardania, a town called Ulpiana. The walls of this almost lost town were rebuilt in their entirety by Emperor Justinian. After decorating it grandiosely and ornamenting it beautifully, this ancient town of Ulpiana was renamed to Justiniana Segunda". Ulpiana is one of the biggest ancient urban centers in Kosovo and is located approximately 7 km in the southeast to Prishtina, positioned in lands which today belong to villages of Gracanica, Ajvalija and Laplje Selo. The archeological site is located west to the Gracanica monastery, in an idyllic plane bordered on the north by the river Gracanka and the south by Drenoc hills. Ulpiana was one of the most important centers in the Balkans, and this is due to the enviable geostrategic position close to several sites rich with underground mines. As an ancient, Roman-Byzantine, site Ulpiana was discovered just by chance in 1953. According to archeologists and based on historical sources found in ecclesiastical-theological and epigraph letterings and archeological findings, we can say that Ulpiana was the main administrative, political religious and cultural centre of Dardania for centuries. But is Dardan Ulpiana treated properly by the respective institutions today?! In ancient Dardania there was a town of Ulpiana ... This town, covered by dirt and dust for centuries finally saw the sunlight. With better institutional care Ulpiana could become the biggest cultural tourism attraction in Kosovo. Various architectural and architectonic structures, military garrison, ceramics, monochrome and polychrome mosaics with different motives, cemetery, churches and belfries are a proof of an ancient civilization of great archeological value. We are leaving ancient Ulpiana hoping that this documentary will ring a bell in modern Prishtina.