Blaga Aleksova

She graduated from high school and studied at the Art History Department of the Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. She obtained her doctorate in medieval archeology in 1958 at the University of Lublin.{{Cite web|title=Македонско археолошко научно друштво|url=http://www.mand.org.mk/mk/clen.php?id=92|access-date=2020-07-16|website=www.mand.org.mk|archive-date=2016-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406030211/http://www.mand.org.mk/mk/clen.php?id=92|url-status=dead}} In the years 1948–1950 she worked as a curator at the Skopje City Museum, and then for 15 years managed the Department of Medieval Archeology at the Archeological Museum. In 1962–1975 she was the director of this museum. In 1971 and 1983 she was a scholarship holder at Dumbarton Oaks. In the years 1975–1983 she worked at the Institute of Art History as a professor of medieval and early Christian archeology. In 1983 she retired.{{Cite web|title=Блага Алексова (1922-2007) – МАНУ|url=http://manu.edu.mk/teams/%d0%b1%d0%bb%d0%b0%d0%b3%d0%b0-%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%ba%d1%81%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b0/|access-date=2020-07-16|language=en-US}} From 1997 she was a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts.{{Cite web|title=Блага Алексова|url=http://macedonia.kroraina.com/baeb/blaga_aleksova.htm|access-date=2020-07-16|website=macedonia.kroraina.com}}

In 1952–1956 she conducted research in the Demir Kapija area, where she discovered the ruins of an early Christian basilica recognized as a monument of Macedonian history. In 2011, a decision was made to reconstruct it.{{Cite web|title=Реконзервација и ревитализација на ранохристијанска базилика {{!}} opstinademirkapija.gov.mk|url=http://ssmedia.mk/opstina/mk/%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%b7%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b2%d0%b0%d1%86%d0%b8%d1%98%d0%b0-%d0%b8-%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%b0%d1%86%d0%b8%d1%98%d0%b0-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d1%80/|access-date=2020-07-16|language=mk-MK|archive-date=2020-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717231948/http://ssmedia.mk/opstina/mk/%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0-%D0%B8-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D1%80/|url-status=dead}} As part of Yugoslav-American research projects, she conducted research in Bargali and Stobi. During the work carried out in 1966–1971, a basilica, a city tank and a residential complex were discovered in Bargala. In 1975 she conducted archaeological works at the Kale archaeological site at the mouth of the Złetowska and Bregałnica rivers, near the town of Krupiszte.{{Cite journal|last=Nacev, Trajce|date=1998|title=Конзерваторско-реставраторски работи на археолошки локалитет Кале-Црвена Црква|url=https://core.ac.uk/display/35323747?source=3|language=en-gb}} Based on research, it proved that it was established at Glagolitic Cyril and Methodius, although not all scientists agree with her theorem.{{Cite web|title=Штипскиот Музеј доби четири милиони денари за проекти од национален интерес|url=https://mia.mk/shtipskiot-muze-dobi-chetiri-milioni-denari-za-proekti-od-nacionalen-interes/|access-date=2020-07-16|website=МИА|language=mk-MK|archive-date=2020-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519192707/https://mia.mk/shtipskiot-muze-dobi-chetiri-milioni-denari-za-proekti-od-nacionalen-interes/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=Локалитетот Кале кај Крупиште е една од можните локации каде е напишана глаголицата|url=https://24.mk/details/lokalitetot-kale-kaj-krupishte-e-edna-od-mozhnite-lokacii-kade-e-napishana-glagolicata|access-date=2020-07-16|website=24.mk}} In 1981 she conducted research in Stobi in the area of pre-war archaeological research, where she discovered the basilica, which turned out to be the oldest Christian church in Macedonia.{{Cite web|title=Епископска базилика - Национална установа Стоби|url=http://www.stobi.mk/l%D0%BEk%D0%B0lit%D0%B5t/m%D0%B0p%D0%B0/k%D0%BEnt%D0%B5%D1%98n%D0%B5r-z%D0%B0-%D0%BEb%D1%98%D0%B5ktit%D0%B5-n%D0%B0-st%D0%BEbi/%D0%B5pisk%D0%BEpsk%D0%B0-b%D0%B0zilik%D0%B0|access-date=2020-07-16|website=www.stobi.mk}}

• Episcopate at Bregałnica: Slovenian Crkowen and Kulturno-prosweten centar wo Makedonija 1989 {{Cite book|last=Алексова|first=Блага|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wh_MSAAACAAJ|title=Епископијата на Брегалница: прв словенски црковен и културно-просветен центар во Македонија|date=1989|publisher=Институт за истражување на старословенската култура--Прилеп|language=mk}}
• Studies in the antiquities of Stobi. Volume III 1981 Co-author: James Wiseman {{Cite book|url=https://princetonup.degruyter.com/view/title/508105|title=Studies in the Antiquities of Stobi, Volume 3|date=2014-07-14|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-5905-4|language=en|doi=10.1515/9781400859054|editor1-last=Mano-Zisi|editor1-first=Ðorde|editor2-last=Wiseman|editor2-first=James}}
• Prosek-Demir Kapija. Slovenska necropolis and slovenian necropolis at Makedonija Skopje 1966 {{Cite book|last=Aleksova|first=Blaga|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11718770|title=Prosek-Demir Kapija. Slovenska nekropola i slovenske nekropole u Makedoniji.|date=1966|publisher=Arheološko društvo Jugoslavije; Skopje|location=Skopje; Beograd; Arheološki muzej|oclc=11718770}}
• Loca sanctorum Macedoniae = Kult na martirite vo Makedonija from IV to IX vek Skopje 1995 {{Cite book|last=Aleksova|first=Blaga|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36778937|title=Loca sanctorum Macedoniae = Kult na martirite vo Makedonija od IV do IX vek|date=1995|publisher=Matica Makedonska|isbn=978-9989-48-009-6|location=Skopje|oclc=36778937}}

• In 2008, the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts published the book Spomenica posweten na Błaga Ałeksowa, a redo member at Makedonskata Akademija na Naukite i Umetnosti {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4r8JuwEACAAJ|title=Споменица посветена на Блага Алексова, редовен член на Македонската Академија на Науките и Уметностите: 1922 - 2007|date=2008|publisher=Македонска Акад. на Науките и Уметностите|language=mk}}

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