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A review for the book ‘History of wine’ by Zvonimir Budimirovikj :

The author successfully conveys story for the wine and viniculture
through centuries in the region of Demir Kapija and Tikves. The
perception of this matter, he compares it in his own way through the
prism of ethnology, history, archaeology and mythology.

Phd Antonio Jakimovski

On the work of Zvonimir Budimirovic,
Demir Kapja Important Destination of Wine Merchants through the
Ages

Reviewer: Viktor Lilcic, Ph, Dr at St.Cyril and Methodius University,
Faculty of Philosophy-Skopje, Institute of Art History and Archeology,
Department of Archeology.

Mr.Zvonimir has created a work worthy of respect. Although it
has not so many pages, it is full of erudition and vision, as well as
wxperience and interdisciplinarity, about the main product of the
Middle Povardarie, that, under the protection of the God from Nysa-
Dionysus, here in Macedonia, in the region called Tikvesh, has been
occupying and activities of the people who make their existence
through wine through millennia nad centuries.

The author gives detailed information about the origin of wine,
types of vines and their origin. He emphasizes the origin of the
grapevine from the oldest periods from Georgia.

Z.Budimirovic tries to find a solution for the etymology of the
wine named kratoshija and makes a connection between this word and
the words krater and karta(wooden wine flask) and the sweet protogenic
grape extract-the must(shhira).

The author of this exceptionally interesting work gives an
analysis about the Paeonians, the oldest known settlers of the Tikvesh
region and the Demir Kapija region, as well. He also gives an analysis

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