Hisar Leskovac

Hisar hill is an archaeological site and a nature park, an area of 10.6 hectares, over Leskovac. to elevation of 341 meters.

Name of the hill dates from the Osamsnskog Empire and means fortification in the defense, solidly built, rock and brick, with or without a tower. Under this type of fortification, was called Hisardžik - fortress. Hisari were the most important cities Spa and Dubočice, Rovinj and Leskovac, as evidenced by the names of the hill on which are raised.

In itinerary in " Serbia - land and population " from in 1904., one of the best connoisseurs of South Eastern Europe Felix Kanitz wrote:

Three bridges connect parts of the city, through which flows Veternica and where minarets and roofs dormitory built over the dark trees, reminiscent of the former rule of the Turks. Oh it would have a lot to say and Hisar, 350 it high hill with a castle on the left bank of the river. George Brown else 1677. video there castle, which is ruled barovitom surrounding plain.

On the hill there is a transmitter TV Leskovac, The Monument to the Unknown Soldier, erected 1922. Anonymous in honor of the captain, who on 26 October 1915 was killed in the fighting in Leskovac Morava Offensive (1915), as well as a memorial park on the eastern slope, built in 1971, according to the preliminary design of the architect Bogdan Bogdanovic. There is also a memorial plaque to remember the first gathering of workers in the Leskovac area in 1897.

At the archaeological site of 130 hectares since 1999. was performed continuously archaeological research, led by Milorad Stojic from the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade.

At Hisar were located village of Neolithic and Copper, Bronze and Iron Age, the Rome, Byzantine and the Ottoman period, and there was discovered the oldest center of metallurgy in Europe. On it they found numerous cases, most notably from the Neolithic period. Found in the ore iron, mill for its logs, called cake, and amorphous iron weighs more pounds, stoves, duvaljci, pit where manufactured charcoal, huge amounts of slag and some metal objects that are produced there.

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