Isar is an archaeological site located in

Marvinci Marvinci (Macedonian and sr-cyr, Марвинци) is a village in the Valandovo municipality, in the southeastern part of North Macedonia. Geography Marvinci is located in the southeast of the country, some 8 km from the nearest town, also ...

, a village situated in the south-eastern areas of

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...

. It is only 18.6 kilometres north of the town of

Gevgelija Gevgelija ( mk, Гевгелија; ) is a town with a population of 15,685 located in the very southeast of the North Macedonia along the banks of the Vardar River, situated at the country's main border with Greece (Bogorodica-Evzoni), the point ...

. According to Macedonian archaeologists the site has roughly well over 200 graves and is only a few kilometres from the town of

Valandovo Valandovo ( mk, Валандово ) is a small town in southeastern North Macedonia. The city is the seat of Valandovo Municipality. History Ancient Period Evidence of life can be found beginning in the 10th-7th centuries B.C. There is a settle ...

. Archaeological digging and examining was conducted between 1977 and 1986. The archaeological finds were transported to the Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia. The archaeological findings there are dated from the period between the Bronze Age to the late Antiquity. A discovered artifacts from the 3rd century BC reveal that the name of the local settlement was ''Idomene''.Chaniotis, A., Corsten, T., Papazarkadas, N. and Tybout, R.A., “SEG 63-458. Isar-Marvinci (modern place name; Idomene?). Epitaph of Zoilos, 2nd cent. B.C.”, in: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Current editors: A. T. E. N. Chaniotis Corsten Stavrianopolou Papazarkadas. Consulted online on 06 August 2021 First published online: 2012. The archeological site contains remnants of a temple and stadium, designed according to the ancient Roman style.

External links

Viktorija Sokolovska, The ancient townat Isar-Marvinci, ValandovoCultural-historic survey.

References

{{reflist Archaeological sites in North Macedonia Bronze Age sites in Europe Valandovo Municipality