STRUMICA

Strumica is located at an altitude of 240m above sea level. At Mt. Belasica close to Strumica, the famous battle in 1014 between the Emperor Samuel and the Byzantine Emperor Vasilia II took place. During the battle Samuel's army was defeated and about 14,000 soldiers were blinded, while every hundred soldier was left with only one eye so that he could lead the blinded soldiers.
The Carske Kule fortress is the remains of an old town at the top of the hill, above present-day Strumica. The fortress was known in the eleventh century as well as being mentioned later.
This town today is the centre of the Strumica basin, watered by the river Strumica, and its tributary-the Struma. Fruit and Mediterranean crops are cultivated there, such as: afion (poppies) cotton, tobacco, "susam", peanut and "anason", the sort that is very rare, used for making of well-known brandy "mastika".

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