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Saint Naum Church, Ohrid, Macedonia, 1983

The Church of Saint Naum, originally built in A.D. 910, stands illuminated by candlelight on its perch above Macedonia's Lake Ohrid. The nearby town of Ohrid was once the capital of a sprawling Bulgarian empire ruled by Tsar Samuel and later conquered by the Byzantines.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Byzantine Empire: Rome of the East," December 1983, National Geographic magazine)

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Photograph by Otis Imboden