One of the most important early Byzantine sites at the Balkan peninsula mainland, at the slopes of the mountain Radan, 28 km of Leskovac, and 7 km of Lebane. Founded in 6th cent. by one of the greatest Byzantine Emperors, Justinian I, who raised the town at his birthplace. At the site there are well preserved remains of a large and rich town, with its monumental secular and ecclesiastical buildings, containing precious mosaic floors. The town was an important administrative, military and ecclesiastical center. Justinian established Justiniana Prima as an archbishopric. The largest of ten town’s basilicas was an Episcopal basilica at the Acropolis. The heart of the city life was the paved central square, Forum. In the Lower Town, there are remains of the public baths, thermae. The city was abandoned after incursions of Avars and Slavs around 615. It is also known as Caričin Grad, The Empress’ Town, based on a popular belief that Justinian founded it in the honor of his wife Theodora, famous for her turbulent past.
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