Destinikon

Studies

• P. Petrović and P. Vlahović concluded that it was most likely southeast of Ras. This presumption is confirmed by the fact that the DAI mentions Klonimir attacking Petar, coming from Bulgaria.
• R. Novaković, studying fort ruins in the area of the early medieval Serbian state believed Ždrelo or Gradište Gedže, in Orahovac, to have been the site. The site, ruins of a fortified city with towers, is located at a hill called Gradiš or Gradeš, dated to the 9th–10th centuries.
• Metohija
• Aleksandar Deroko noted that it may have been early Sjenica.
• Croatian linguist P. Skok and Serbian historian V. Korać believed it to be Drsnik, in Metohija.
• Serbian historian S. Novaković and K. Grot believed it to be Deževa, in Raška.
• Slovak historian P. J. Šafárik believed it to be on the Lower Drina, near the villages of Disit and Desna.
• Czech historian K. J. Jireček believed it to have been located west of Ras. This view was supported by Serbian historian S. Stanojević.
• Serbian historian M. Blagojević believed it to have been in the župa of Hvosno.
• Serbian historian S. Ćirković presumed it was on the road "from Ras towards the Lim valley".
• Serbian historian Vladimir Ćorović deemed the location unknown.
• Remains of a fortification thought to be that of Destinikon have been found in the Archaeological site of Vrsjenice, near Sjenica. The findings date from late antiquity and early Byzantine.