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about old paeoninan coins, and notable vessels for storing and drinking
wine. The well-known bronze krater excavated at Gramage excavaion
site, near the village of Koreshnica in Demir Kapija, and the kantharos
presented on the silver tetrobol of the Paeonian ruler Teutaos,

discovered at the ancient fortification Markova Kula, village of
Koreshnica. This work also contextualizes the finding of the
representative hydria painted by the painter Meidias, as well as the wine
jug which was discovered during the investigation at Varnicite
excavation site near Klisursko Maalo in Demir Kapija. These findings
present distinctivematerial mementos to a time past, to a specific
process in which wine played a central role in the lives of local people
of higher ranks.

The author of the book, Mr.Zvonimir Budimirovic, continues
with a description of the deep cave `Golem Zmejovec`, which was
considered by the ancient population of the Middle Povardarie to be the
gate to the underworld, the deadly Hades, and also mentioning a highly
representative finding which has been taken to Switzerland. He gives a
chronological description of the events in the Demir Kapija region and
its neighboring areas, connected through the context of autochthonous
wine production, the processes of its storage and transport, i.e its
reading. So, he leads us thorugh the Middle Ages, through the Ottoman
era when other types of grapewines arrived in this are. The author gives
a special attention to the twentieth century when, even under various
shifts of power, the grapevine didn`t give its leading place to other
cultures.

In the final part of the work, the author deals with the chemical
composition of wine, the antioxidant role of phenols and their positive
effects on the human organism.

Finally, in front of us, we have a genuinely written monument, the work
of the author Zvonimir Budimirovic, Demir Kapija, `Important
Destination of Wine Merchants through the Ages` in wich he speaks, in
very interesting way and interpretation, about wine, the companion of
people through few millennia, wine which in an optimal absorption
measure causes positive reactions in the lives of people, wine native to
Demir Kapija whence it started its journey with trade caravans parts of
Macedonia and the world. Because of all the useful information and the
vividly painted story about wine and Demir Kapija, I warnly
recommend his work to anyone in wine and truth.

Prof. Viktor Lilcik, Ph

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