Tauresium

Tauresium
	Remains of building walls in Tauresium
	Shown within North Macedonia
Alternative name	Gradište
Location	Taor, Skopje Statistical Region, North Macedonia
Region	Dardania
Coordinates	41°53′53″N 21°36′41″E / 41.89806°N 21.61139°E
Type	Settlement
Site notes
Archaeologists	Arthur Evans
Website	www.tauresium.info/english/

Tauresium (Latin; Macedonian: Тауресиум), today known as Gradište (Macedonian: Градиште), is an archaeological site in North Macedonia, approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of the capital Skopje. Tauresium is the birthplace of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (ca. 482) and King Theodahad of the Ostrogoths (480).^[1]^[2]

^ Wolfgang Kuhoff (1996). "Theodahadus, Flavius, König der Ostgoten 534-536". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 11. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 824–832. ISBN 3-88309-064-6.
^ "Archaeological site Tauresium" (in Macedonian and English). Museum of the city of Skopje. Archived from the original on 4 March 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2011.

[1] Wolfgang Kuhoff (1996). "Theodahadus, Flavius, König der Ostgoten 534-536". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 11. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 824–832. ISBN 3-88309-064-6.

[taor-2] "Archaeological site Tauresium" (in Macedonian and English). Museum of the city of Skopje. Archived from the original on 4 March 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2011.

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