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Scunis
Skopje · Скопје
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Scupi, the Roman forerunner of Skopje in North Macedonia, is marked with the usual pair of towers, but its name came out as Scunis, probably because a copyist mistook a Greek pi for an n. The town was a Roman colony and later the capital of the province of Dardania, and the historian Procopius places the birthplace of the emperor Justinian nearby. The road on to Stobi is a puzzle: the map's figures add up to a hundred and fifteen Roman miles, more than twice the real distance. Scholars suspect that two separate routes were accidentally woven into one.