Modern Ohrid is was built on the foundations of the ancient city of Lychnidos. According to the facts, the oldest information about the city date from 2400 BC. Lychnidos was situated next to the oldest and most important roman road on the Balkans Via Ignatia.

          At the end of the 6th century Ohrid and the surrounding area was exposed to mass Slavic colonization, and was completely colonized in the 30s of the 7th . Since then, Lychnidos was renamed into Ohrid.

          In 886 Clement (of Ohrid) arrived in Macedonia and served as a teacher. Together with Naum (of Ohrid), they set the first Ohrid literary school. Thanks to their work, the city of Ohrid grew into a modern and important Slavic cultural centre.

          In the period of Czar Samuels reign, Ohrid was important religious cenre, a capital of the kingdom and a centre of the Ohrid Archbishopcy. The fortress still crown the city.

     Note: Ohrid as the most important city in the region, was the most significant educational centre and a literary source for all Slavs as well. The oldest university in Europe (dating from the 9th century) is in Ohrid. In the place called Plaosnik there is a church St. Clement. The facts of the church indicate that here, there was a university in the 13th century. Ohrid is known as a Macedonian Jerusalem, for the 365 churches, one for each day in the year.