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A priceless gold wreath has been unearthed in an ancient city in northern Greece, buried with human bones in a large copper vase that workers initially took for a land mine.

Skopje, Macedonia - Nine people were wounded, several of them critically, in a gangland-style shootout in renewed violence in Macedonia, authorities in Skopje confirmed Friday. The drive-by attack from two cars, involving automatic weapons and shotguns, happened late Thursday in Radusa, a village in a tense section of Macedonia dominated by ethnic Albanians. The details remain sketchy and police said it was still investigating. One of the wounded men was Besfor Haliti, son of three-time lawmaker Rafiz Haliti, a prominent member of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI). In a telephone interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, the elder Haliti said...

Macedonian Army Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade, and a Ranger platoon stand at attention as they wait to hand over command to the incoming Macedonian unit during a Transfer of Authority ceremony at the Sgt. John M. Schoolcraft III Pavilion at Camp Taji, northwest of Bagdad, June 23. Photo by Pfc. Lyndsey Dransfield. CAMP TAJI — The Soldiers of 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Warrior,� 25th Infantry Division, bade farewell to their Macedonian partners and welcomed two new Macedonian platoons during a Transfer of Authority Ceremony at the Sgt. John M. Schoolcraft III Pavilion June 23....

A Macedonian journalist is currently in jail after police discovered he was behind a series of heinous murders. The murders involved three elderly women who were tricked by the journalist under the pretense to clean. When he was alone with them, he would kill, rape, and dispose of the body. Afterwards, he would follow the story and subsequent trial of the person police thought was responsible. This does not bode well for both Macedonian journalists and the police. Police began investigating journalist Vlado Taneski after they noticed his stories had more information than was publicly available. He is currently not...

Everyone was amazed at the incredible coverage journalist Vlado Taneski was giving to a series of brutal murders in Macedonia. His articles were amazingly detailed and many were following the cases of three murdered women and another missing female with rabid interest, hoping to read that cops had captured a killer. And now authorities say they have. It's the same man who was writing so ably about the case all these years. But Taneski will never stand trial for the brutal crimes. He was discovered dead in his cell late Sunday. The 56-year-old had been arrested and charged in two...

One dead, 8 injured during Macedonia voting 1 June 2008 | 11:04 -> 15:33 | Source: Beta SKOPJE -- An ethnic Albanian is dead after a shootout with police at a polling station in Macedonia, it has been confirmed. The man, identified as Naser Aivazi, 40, opened fire at police officers this morning in the village of Aracinovo near Skopje, Macedonia's MUP says. Naivazi is said to have been a Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) supporter. At least five others were injured during the incident, none of them police officers, spokesman Ivo Kotevski told a news conference in the Macedonian...

An error made too frequently is the misuse of the name, "Macedonia." Rather than referring to The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) by its formal name, too many journalists consistently report on events in FYROM as though "Macedonia" were its official name. I, myself, have been guilty of this by not clarifying to whose "Macedonia" I was referring when I wrote about wayward "smart" bombs hitting the wrong targets in my "Open Letter to Lieutenant General Michael Short," where I stated, "Besides hitting the Chinese Embassy, your not-so-smart bombs damaged the embassies of Italy, Switzerland, Pakistan, India, Libya, and...

Since yesterday, the Macedonian police is in action at various locations in Skopje, due to the tip it received for suspicious money transfer. Our sources confirm, a Macedonian bank had tipped off the Authorities since January 2007 of suspicious money transfers. An Albanian, Bekir Halimi has been receiving 2,115 euros payments from Kuwaiti Organization "Revival Islamic Heritage Society". "The Revival Islamic Heritage Society has been blacklisted by the United Nations because of their close ties to terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda", said Interior Ministry's spokesperson, Ivo Kotevski. The money transfer through a swift account was done via Kuwaiti and two...

Europeans have been hyperventilating over their self-perceived “victories” vis-à-vis the United States at the recent NATO Summit in Romania from April 2-4. “France and Germany Thwart Bush’s Plans,” ran a triumphant headline in the Hamburg-based Der Spiegel. “Europe Waits Out the Bush Administration,” read another. “Only One Lame Duck Here” said the London-based Guardian in commentary that waxes giddy about Russia’s growing stranglehold over Europe. “NATO Should Disappear” said the Madrid-based El Pais. But behind the spin, the 26-member NATO Summit (arguably the most important such gathering since the end of the Cold War) exposed a security-dependent Europe that is...

LAREDO, Texas — An immigrant smuggler who was leading authorities on a high-speed chase when his SUV slammed into a steel post in a wreck that killed five passengers was sentenced to 30 years in prison, officials said Tuesday. There is no possibility of parole for Fernando Lemus-Gonzalez, 33, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas. In February 2007 Border Patrol agents tried to stop Lemus-Gonzalez on suspicion of smuggling illegal immigrants. He led authorities on a chase through Hebbronville before losing control of the SUV and hitting the post. Five of the nine illegal...

The only true ethnic Macedonians are Greeks. Slavs who speak a Bulgarian dialect where told by the Communists that they were the ethnic kin of ancient Macednionans in the Cold War attempt to steal Greek land and create a warm water port for Stalin. I don't how the USA can justify once being against the creation of these fake Slavs called 'Macedonians' and now the USA supports them. That is why America is hated - she is not hated for her freedoms but for her tendency to be a 'two-faced' nation in diplomacy. To say one thing and do another....

What's in a Name? A challenge for regonal stability *Why is the Maredonian question so delicate and complex? The term "Macedonia" is not exclusively related to a state Rather, it has always been used to delineate a wider geographical area, approxmdy 51% of which is part of Greece, 37% is in the Former Yugoslav Republic of what's Macedonia, 11% in Bulgana and 1% in Albania. The choice of one state alone to monopolize the name "Macedonia" - the largest part of which lies outside its borders - neither depicts geographical and political reality, nor contributes to stability in the Balkans....

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryApril 5, 2008 President's Radio Address   President's Radio Address  Audio  En Español       In Focus: NATOTHE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I'm speaking to you from Europe, where I attended the NATO summit and witnessed the hopeful progress of the continent's youngest democracies. The summit was held in Romania, one of the 10 liberated nations that have joined the ranks of NATO since the end of the Cold War. After decades of tyranny and oppression, today Romania is an important member of an international alliance dedicated to liberty, and it is setting a bold example for other...

Greece Blocks Macedonia's NATO Bid Greece successfully blocked Macedonia's NATO bid03 April 2008 Bucharest _ Macedonia will only receive an invitation to join NATO once the ‘name’ row with Greece is resolved. "We regret that we were not able to reach consensus to invite Macedonia to join alliance," United States President George Bush said. " The name issue needs to be resolved quickly so Macedonia can be invited to NATO as soon as possible. NATO looks forward to the day that Macedonia takes its place among members of alliance," he added. “We encourage negotiations to resume without delay and expect...

Greek fury over swastika poster Greece has warned Macedonia that its hopes of joining Nato could be damaged by a poster which has appeared in the Macedonian capital Skopje. The poster, advertising a private art exhibition, features the Greek flag with the cross replaced by a swastika. Greece has already threatened to veto Macedonia's Nato bid if a dispute about the name "Macedonia" is not resolved. The Macedonian government expressed regret over the poster, after Greece made an official diplomatic complaint. The Greek ambassador to Washington, Alexandros Mallias, complained about the poster in a letter to President George Bush, Secretary...

The imbroglio between Macedonia and Greece has been resolved by default – by the coming to light of an ancient manuscript ceding sovereignty over both territories in perpetuity to today's Kosovo. In addition, Kosovo would also hold claims over a region in south-east Bulgaria, formerly referred to as Bulgarian Macedonia until the Socialist regime changed the name to Pirin region. Reaction to the development, which has far-reaching consequences not only for the protracted impasse over the name of Macedonia but for South-Eastern Europe politics, the economy, but also for the demographic future of Europe, drew immediate and impassioned reaction from...

Like pensions and insurance, defence is one of those subjects to which too many people only pay attention when things go wrong. You might think, in the light of the past decade, that this would have changed. But you would be sadly mistaken. Even today, even after Iraq, few mainstream MPs without an immediate personal or constituency interest in the subject turn up in the Commons for defence debates. Many politicians who are thoughtful about a range of domestic issues still pass by on the other side when the conversation gravitates to the military. In this they reflect the British...

Moscow, March 18 (RIA Novosti) Russia has said that the recent violence in Tibet is linked with the recognition by some states of the independence of Serbia's breakaway province, Kosovo. In an interview published Tuesday in the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the recognition of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence by many countries, including the US and the majority of the European Union (EU) states, had 'already reverberated in many regions.' He said that the Kosovo issue was linked to recent riots in Tibet and demands for greater autonomy by ethnic Albanians in Macedonia. 'There are...

MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti) - A court in Macedonia has ordered the government to pay a $3,500 fine to a local bee-keeper over a bear that had been stealing his honey, national media said on Friday. The case came about after a man from the village of Krivogastani, near the town of Bitola, appealed to a local court, claiming damage to his property. He had initially tried to keep the bear away from his beehives by playing loud Serbian turbo-folk music. "I tried to distract the bear with lights and music because I had heard that bears are afraid...

12 March 2008 Skopje _ The Democratic Party of Albanians, DPA, the key Albanian partner in the ruling centre-right coalition lead by VMRO-DPMNE, is leaving government, the party leader told media Wednesday. Menduh Taci explained that the party leadership will confirm its decision by the end of the day. The move comes after Prime Minister and VMRO-DPMNE head Nikola Gruevski previously rejected a list of demands the DPA chief, had given him on Monday. “If you ask me, the decision is definite,” Taci told media, after he informed the United States and European Union ambassadors, Gillian Milovanovic and Erwan Fouere...

5 March 2008 | 19:02 | Source: Beta, AP SANDANSKI -- Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski was in Bulgaria today when he addressed the border issue with Kosovo. After meeting his Bulgarian counterpart Georgy Prvanov, he "warned neighboring Kosovo that its ultimatum on a border dispute bodes ill for bilateral relations", the AP reports. "I have proposed to my government not to address the Kosovo authorities, but rather the international institutions, which, as it seems, are to stay there for a quite a long time," Crvenkovski said. Macedonia's northern border with Kosovo has never been officially delineated since the former Yugoslav...

Sgt. Felix Correa, right, a native of Pearl City, Hawaii, who serves as the initial vehicle search team leader, shows Macedonian Sgt. Elvis Torovski how to authenticate an identification card and what to watch out for with fake IDs at the Gunner’s Gate at Camp Taji, Jan. 28. Photo by Spc. Aaron Rosencrans, 2nd Stryker Brigade 25th Infantry Division. CAMP TAJI — A platoon of Soldiers from the Macedonian Army recently volunteered to come to Camp Taji to help with perimeter security around the military base, which is located northwest of Baghdad. Each Soldier had his or her own reasons...

When government officials in Macedonia recently proposed rebuilding a church that once stood on the city’s central square, they received an abrupt warning: for the Islamic Community (IVZ), the recreation of Sveti Konstanin & Elena, destroyed in the 1963 earthquake, should guarantee them their own right to build a mosque in the prominent downtown area. According to a report from A1 Television, among its other ambitions the IVZ is most keen on rebuilding the Burmali Mosque, destroyed in 1925, a year after the official dissolution of the Ottoman Empire but 12 years after the Ottomans were finally expelled, following a...

The European Union wants Hashim Thaci, the former guerrilla leader who looks set to lead the government that emerges from Saturday's polls, to avoid any rash moves that could provoke Serbia and its ally Russia. Noting a December 10 deadline for ending negotiations on the future status of the ethnic Albanian-majority province, EU foreign ministers called on Thaci to let the talks run their course, and do nothing to jeopardize international support. "Kosovo should have her independence (but) it shouldn't be an unmanaged unilateral declaration," said Britain's European affairs minister Jim Murphy. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said: "We need...

At least eight members of an armed criminal group have been killed in a police action, Interior Ministry spokesman Ivo Kotevski told the MIA state news agency. He said no police officers were injured and confirmed special forces were still in the area. Locals from the village of Brodec, a Šar Mountain village north of Tetovo, have confirmed a shooutout between police and armed groups in the village. A spokesman for NATO peacekeepers in neighbouring Kosovo told a news conference a helicopter had crashed but there was no information on casualties. Macedonian police denied that report. "There is no helicopter...

KIEV, Ukraine, Oct. 22, 2007 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today thanked fellow participants in the Southeast Europe Defense Ministerial conference for their support in Iraq and Afghanistan and told the group he plans to press NATO to live up to its commitments in Afghanistan. Gates, speaking with SEDM members at their 12th conference, expressed frustration that some NATO countries still haven’t followed through with troop commitments made at the 2006 NATO session in Riga, Latvia. “I am not satisfied that an alliance whose members have over 2 million soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen can’t find the modest...

BELGRADE -- Serbian police (MUP) says its officers came under attack in southern Serbia late last evening. The incident occurred at 10 p.m. Saturday, on the road between Lu�ani and Kon�ulj, when masked assailants, wearing black uniforms, first committed a number of robberies by shooting the passing cars’ tires and then robbing the drivers. A patrol from the Bujanovac station arrived at the scene shortly after it was alerted, when gunmen opened fire at officers. MUP’s elite Gendarmerie, stationed at the nearby administrative boundary with Kosovo, also came under fire when they arrived. Interior Minister Dragan Jo�ić told reporters this...

French adjutant-chief Eugene Rouges died with several of his men when a German artillery shell exploded in their trench, on Nov. 16, 1916. But their spirits live on in Gradesnica. More than 90 years later, visitors are still drawn to this former World War I battlefield, a remote mountain village in southern Macedonia, where the lure is more than military history: A liquid fortune in vintage cognac and wine lies buried in the old trenches. Stefan Kovacevski, 64, is one of the Gradesnica residents who tasted the French army rations that have matured into an exquisite elixir. "At first we...

The May 7 arrests of six Islamic radicals, four of them ethnic Albanians originally from Macedonia and Kosovo, led American intelligence officials to issue a direct order to their Macedonian colleagues, urging them to redouble efforts against known and unknown Islamic radical elements in the country, Balkanalysis.com can now report. The alleged aspiring terrorists have been held without bail since their arrest and were indicted on June 5. While the majority of news reports on the subject have remained preoccupied with details such as the ‘true’ nationality of the men arrested or their prior experience as refugees, or the larger...

Skopje, 24 May (AKI) - Macedonian police said on Thursday one of its patrols came under gunfire in the ethnic Albanian village of Tanusevci, on the border with Serbia’s breakaway Kosovo province. Macedonian police minister Gordana Jankulovska told media that the police entered the village "on a routine patrol", after reports that groups of armed individuals have been spotted in Tanusevci. She said there were no casualties and the police were investigating whether the patrol was fired at by the villagers or from Kosovo, across the border. Macedonia Television Channel 5, whose crew visited the village after the shooting on...

How Alexander the Great used 'Mother Nature' By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 1:45am BST 15/05/2007 Alexander the Great had ''Mother Nature'' on his side when he conquered the island fortress of Tyre in 332 BC, says a study published today. A bust of Alexander the Great Tyre, in present day Lebanon, was then a strategic coastal base in the war between the Greeks and the Persians. Now archeologists have at last worked out how Alexander's engineers managed to build a causeway to enable his army to conquer what had become a bastion of resistance. All previous settlements on...

These Albanian Muslims, terrorists to be, were smuggled into the United States at Brownsville, Texas as children.

PRIŠTINA -- A Priština court has sentenced former KLA commander Xhavit Morina to 12 years in jail on terrorism charges. The Kosovo Liberation Army clashed throughout 1998 with the Serbian military in Kosovo, a conflict which ended with NATO interventions in 1999 that ousted Serbia's forces from the province, turning it into a virtual UN protectorate. The rebel group remained active in the region, especially in Macedonia, where tensions escalated into a civil war in 2001. According to the indictment, Morina led a heavily-armed group that attacked a city council building located in a busy area of the Macedonian village...

Five people died over the weekend while fleeing authorities near Hebbronville.The five are believed to be undocumented migrants. Ten people were involved in the wreck, which happened after about 4 p.m. Sunday. “It’s unfortunate because immigrants are taking a risk by coming into this country, but the smuggler doesn’t care about their safety,” said Ed Martinez, an assistant chief patrol agent with Laredo sector. The 10 were riding in a Nissan Armada that was spotted by Border Patrol agents at the intersection of Texas 285 and County Road 1017, Martinez said. The agents tried to run the Armada’s license plates...

No, URL, local area publication Unattributed report: "February in Tanusevci!" Groups of armed and uniformed [ethnic] Albanians have been roaming Skopje's Crna Gora [mountain] for several weeks. They are moving in the regions of the villages where the 2001 armed conflict in Macedonia started. The armed groups are reportedly most active near Tanusevci and Sipkovica in the Tetovo area. Sources within the intelligence services say that these are Macedonian nationals who have logistical support in the Kosovo border regions, as well. Some local residents have confirmed these reports. They say that they have noticed the groups, but claim not to...

Former chief of staff of macedonian Army Pande Petrovski claimed that during Albanian Islamic insurgency in 2001 NATO direcly prevented destruction of Albanian Islamist supporting them. He stated that during battle for Aracinovo village, Macedonian troops arrested Two Americans alongside several dosent NATO personell and Albanian terrorists. He calims that than president of macedonia Trajkovski ordered him to stop the attack, and prevented him of capturing Albanian terrorists. NATO than SG George Robertson conducted talks with president and NATO extracted iths own personell and Albanian Terrorists from besiged village. George Robertson claimed that in village are 30 of his (NATO)...

5 October 2006 | 17:01 | FOCUS News Agency Skopje. The Macedonian Red Cross refuted today in Skopje the information that its representatives are involved in the trafficking of heroin from Macedonia to Albania, Makfax reports. According to the Macedonian Red Cross the officials from the International Red Cross are the ones who had participated in the contraband attempt. The dismissal of alleged involvement of the Macedonian Red Cross came after information released on Thursday by the Albanian authorities and media saying that the vehicle carrying the three Macedonian citizens arrested yesterday in Tirana belonged to the Macedonian Red Cross.The...

Skopje, 11:05 Four persons have been killed late Tuesday, while coming out of a mosque. The murders took place in the Skopje's nearby village of Vrazalo, A1 TV station reported, quoting eyewitnesses. According to the same sources, the assassin was family related to the victims. Unofficially, the murders were motivated by an insult of one of the killed, which prompted the murderer to get a machine gun from his home and fire a series of bursts towards the victims. Police was conducting an inspection at the site until Wednesday morning. A representative of the Interior Ministry confirmed the incident, announcing...

The conventional wisdom is that the troubles in the former Yugoslavia began with Kosovo and will end with it. That may not be accurate, as there are many other problems, which are still far from being resolved and have major elements of instability. Bosnia can never be a fully functioning, viable, and dynamic state while saddled with its current Constitution and other aspects of the Dayton Peace Agreement. Serbia lives under the shadow of growing Radical influence, disaffection with the West and its conditionality, and seemingly unbridgeable differences among the parties considering themselves to be "democratic." It is hard to...

Belgrade, 29 August (AKI) - Serbian police have broken up a human trafficking chain, arresting 33 people, most of them Albanians, the Belgrade-based daily Press reported on Tuesday, quoting police sources. The report said police who had been tracking the flow of illegal immigrants for some time, raided a house in Belgrade on Monday where they found 28 Albanian, and five Turkish citizens who had entered the country illegally. The police said that 13 were juveniles, aged from 11 to 17, and all of them will be returned to their home countries. According to police, the Turks were smuggled into...

Belgrade, 23 August (AKI) - Serbia's foreign minister, Vuk Draskovic has reacted with undiplomatic vehemence to remarks made on Tuesday by an Albanian official that Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro were "unnatural creations," and that all Albanians living in the region should unite to form a 'natural Albania' by 2013. The comments made by Albanian prime minister Sali Berisha's political adviser, Koco Danaj, to Kosovo Albanian language daily Epoka were - surprisingly - ignored by press in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. However, Draskovic’s ministry immediately issued a sharp statement upbraiding Albania for its "expansionist" aspirations. "The message was sent through the...

Tirana, 22 August (AKI) - Albanians living in the Balkan region should unite and be integrated into a "natural Albania" by 2013, a senior Albanian official said on Tuesday. Neighbouring Macedonia, with a 25 percent Albanian population, is likely to be partitioned first, if its authorities fail to honour the five-year-old Ohrid peace agreement - which gave Albanians more autonomy and increased their political representation - Koco Danaj, political adviser to Albania's prime minister, Sali Berisha, told Pristina-based Albanian language daily Epoka e Re. “In politics it’s easier to face the painful truth, than the painful lies,” said Danaj. “Therefore,...

A group of ethnic Albanian "independent intellectuals" in Macedonia has asked United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to intervene in the formation of a new government that will protect the rights of ethnic Albanians. Skopje Albanian language daily Lajm on Friday published a letter sent to Rice and signed by 34 "independent intellectuals" demanding that incoming prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, includes in his cabinet members of the largest ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI). Gruevski’s VMRO-DPMNE won the 5 July parliamentary election and decided to form a coalition government with DUI’s rival, the Democratic Party of...

SOFIA - With just months to go until it is due to join the European Union, Bulgaria is being flooded with citizenship applications by Macedonian and Moldovan nationals claiming Bulgarian origins to obtain a European passport. “Since 2001, Bulgaria has been attractive for its Euro-atlantic prospects, its stability and the travel opportunities that Bulgarian passports offer. Applications have increased exponentially,” Stefan Nikolov of the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad told AFP. Valid claims of ethnic Bulgarian origin presented by Macedonians, Moldovans, Russians, Israelis, Ukrainians and Serbs increased from 5,495 in 2001, to 29,493 in 2004, with another 23,200 in 2005. “The...

In the southwestern quadrant of the country we find Lake Ohrid, the deepest lake in Europe... Here we meet the foremost archaeologist in Macedonia, Pasko Kuzman. He has been excavating 3,000-year-old submerged sites in Lake Ohrid, and the first fortress of King Philip II, Alexander's father, on its shores... Pasko's signature tools include three weighty watches he wears on his left wrist, what he calls his "time machines." With one he says he travels to the Bronze and Neolithic ages. With another to the future. And with the third, his "archaeological watch" with its special sensors, he makes his finds......

As Serbian RTS central TV said in news bulliten representative of Phillip Moriss tobaco corporation for Kosovo and Macedonia was obducten infront of his apartment in Skoplje, Macedonia and by thugh pushed into car and taken in unknown direction. He was target last year of bomb attack.

Kerseblept, who was a son of Kotus I, was an amazing warrior... many times in battles with Macedonian king Philip II. He used to be an honorary citizen of Athens and had the right to participate in the Olympics Games. There is a hypothesis that the golden wreath, found during the excavations, is a prize for his achievement at the legendary games... It is more probable, however, that the wreath is an insignia of honour he received in a battle, the archaeologist said.

Released : Sunday, July 02, 2006 1:18 PM TBILISI, Georgia-Italian police arrested a Georgian man working for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for allegedly trying to smuggle 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of heroin in Italy, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday. The ministry did not say in its statement exactly when Zurab Lomashvili was arrested, but Italian newspaper L'Espresso said Lomashvili was driving in the seaside city of Pescara on June 24 when financial police, suspicious of his Macedonian number plate, ordered him to stop and searched the car. Authorities then took the car to a police mechanic...

Key archeological find at Bulgaria's Veliko Turnovo 09:00 Mon 26 Jun 2006 - Colin Munro A gold Thracian breastplate found near the village of Golemanite, Veliko Turnovo municipality, has proven pivotal to the re-construction of the Thracian Calendar. Using a mathematical model, Ventseslav Tsonev of the Regional Historical Museum in Veliko Turnovo presented his findings at a conference on Treasures and Sacred Typography, held recently in Sliven. “In the Thracians’ calendar, there are three seasons and 60 main holidays. A year consisted of 12 months with 360 days, five days being added to the last month every year.” As there...