Ohrid

Ohrid (native: Охрид) is located on the northeastern shore of Lake Ohrid. Agriculture, fishing, and tourism provide a livelihood for the population. Among the churches in the town are St. Sophia's, with 11th-14th-century frescoes, and St. Clement's (1295), also with medieval frescoes uncovered in the 1950s. On a nearby hilltop is a quadrangular building, the Imaret, a Turkish mosque and inn, built on the foundations of the Monastery of St. Panteleimon (9th century), associated with St. Clement, the first Macedonian bishop of Ohrid. St. Clement opened the first Macedonian school of higher learning, wrote the earliest works of Macedonian literature, and, with St. Naum, translated the Scriptures from Greek into Macedonian. The 10th-century monastery of St. Naum, about 19 miles (31 km) south, crowns a prominent crag on the Macedonia-Albania frontier and overlooks Lake Ohrid.