Po redaktohet Damastion (paragraf)

==Location==
[[File:Ancient Greek coin of Damastion.jpg|thumb|Silver coin of Damastion, 4th century BC. Obv.:Apollo head, laureate. Rev.:Tripod, letters ΔΑΜΑΣΤΙΝΩΝ (''of the Damastians'') - ΚΗΦΙ.]]
Damastion was issuing silver in the form of coins bearing the head of Apollo on the obverse and a tripod with the inscription "ΔΑΜΑΣΤΙΝΩΝ" on the reverse. These coins have been found in many places in the Balkans, mainly in southern [[Serbia]], north-eastern [[Kosovo]], eastern North Macedonia, west [[Bulgaria]], [[Shkodër]] in Albania and as far as [[Romania]], [[Trieste]] and [[Corfu]]. They are dated in the 4th century BC. Most attempts to locate Damastion are based on the study of the coins and their distribution. One author, Dr Imhoof-Blumer, endeavoured to find modern derivatives of the name and assumed that Damesi, a village in Albania, could have been Damastion.<ref>May J.M.F. The coinage of Damastion and the lesser coinages of the Illyro-Paeonian region. Oxford University Press, London, 1939</ref> There are a number of other hypotheses<ref>Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world: map-by-map directory, Tome 1,by Richard J. A. Talbert,page 758,near Resen?</ref><ref>The Illyrians
by John Wilkes,page 128,"north or northeast of ohrid"</ref> about its location somewhere near [[Resen (town)|Resen]] in ancient [[Paionia]],<ref>The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) by Z. H. Archibald, 1998, {{ISBN|0-19-815047-4}}, page 107,"of Paion- ian Damastion"</ref> modern [[North Macedonia]].

The most recent location that was proposed was at Serbian archaeological site [[Kale-Krševica]], south-east of [[Vranje]] (southern Serbia) <ref>(Popovic, P., Kale-Krsevica excavations 2001-2004, Bulletin of the National Museum Vranje, 33: 25-49, 2005.)</ref> where 5th-century BC foundations of an Ancient Greek urban town have been unearthed.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=20160361 |title=Numismatic finds of the 4th-3rd centuries BC from Kale at Krsevica (Southeastern Serbia) |access-date=2009-11-16 |archive-date=2012-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612065724/http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=20160361 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=PL>{{Cite web|url=http://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/113748/Kale-iznova-iznenaduje-naucnike|title=Кале изнова изненађује научнике|website=Politika Online}}</ref>

Dr. Petar Popović from the Institute of Archeology in [[Belgrade]] says that Kale-Krševica could very likely be the city of Damastion.<ref name=PL/> He added that monumental building was found made from semicircular blocks 9m long and 3 m high. He estimated that only 5% was excavated and said that the town probably had 3.000 people.

Dr. Viktorija Sokolovska, Archaeologist, has located Damastion near Kosovska Mitrovica, on the site of Socanica, where many years ago have been discovered three epigraphic monuments on which is noted abbreviation MUN.D.D. on which she sees MUNICIPIUM DAMASTION DARDANORUM. (for reference see bibliography below)<ref>{{cite news|title=Damastion kod Bujanovca!?|url=http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/ci/story/6/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0/9359/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD+%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B4+%D0%91%D1%83%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%86%D0%B0+!%3F|access-date=5 September 2014|agency=Radio Televizija Srbije|date=4 August 2014}}</ref>