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21 unusual facts about Bitola


1942 Bulgarian State Football Championship

The football clubs from Prilep, Bitola and Skopje in Vardar Macedonia took part in the competition, with Makedonia Skopie even reaching the final.

Bardyllis

The armies met in battle on a plain in the Erigon Valley near Bitola, just south of the Drdanian State.

Bravo Band

In TV ORBIS' manifestation from Bitola they took the award "Zvezdena orbita na popularnosta" and together with fifteen other media houses from Macedonia they were chosen for most popular people of the year award.

Constantine I of Greece

After Constantine impudently cabled: "The army will not march on Thessaloniki. My duty calls me towards Monastir, unless you forbid me", Venizelos was forced to pulled rank.

At this point, his first clash with Venizelos occurred, as Constantine desired to press north, towards Monastir, where the bulk of the Ottoman army lay, and where the Greeks would rendezvous their Serb allies.

Education in Albania

The advent of the Young Turks movement in 1908 motivated the Albanian patriots to intensify their efforts, and in the same year a group of intellectuals met in Monastir to choose an Albanian alphabet.

Edward Likowski

He gained a bachelor's in 1861 from Monastir and was ordained a priest on 21 December 1861 in the diocese of diocese of Gniezno-Poznań.

Elpida Karamandi

Her mother emigrates to Republic of Macedonia (then part of kingdome of Yugoslavia) in Bitola, to her relatives and there marries for the second time.

In April 1942 she left Bitola and went to the First Bitola Partisan detachment.

Folklore Museum of the Aristotle Association

Of particular note are the examples of wax-weaving, a craft of Byzantine origin that started to flourish in Florina when the refugees from Monastir arrived and continues to the present day.

Ion Dragoumis

In 1902, Dragoumis was made deputy consul in the Greek consulate at Monastir (present-day Bitola).

Lou Naumovski

Lou Naumovski, also in French "Louis" and in Macedonian "Ljupco", (born 1957 in Bitola, Macedonia) is a Canadian entrepreneur of Macedonian descent, Vicepresident and Director General of the Moscow Representative Office of the Kinross Gold Corporation, the largest foreign gold miner in Russia.

Monastir Offensive

The Bulgarians and German casualties totaled around 61,000 men and even though Monastir had to be abandoned the new positions a few kilometers to the north provided excellent conditions for defense and assured the dominance of the Bulgarian artillery over the town.

On 4 of October the Allies attacked with the French and Russians in the direction of Monastir - Kenali, the Serbian First and Third Army in along the Kenali - Cherna Loop line, the Serbian Second Army against the Third Balkan Division - in the direction of Dobro Pole.

Around that time, when it became clear that the Allies were pulling troops from the eastern flank and were concentrating them against Monastir the commander of the Bulgarian Second Army general Todorov ordered the 7th Rila Division to take positions for an attack over the Struma river, in order to assist the hard pressed Bulgarians and Germans west of the Vardar.

The offensive took the shape of a large battle and lasted for three months and ended with the capture of the town of Monastir.

By this time however general Below had decided to abandon Monastir and on 18 November, while the heavy fighting was still going on, General der Infanterie Winckler ordered the Eleventh Army to retreat to new positions to the north of Monastir.

Nedelya Petkova

She later founded the first Bulgarian girls’ schools in Prilep, Bitolya, Veles, and Thessaloniki.

Ramonda nathaliae

The flower is well known on the Nidze mountain near Bitola in Macedonia, where at Kajmakchalan peak, in the World War I battle of Kajmakchalan, the Serbian Army suffered a loss of nearly 5,000 soldiers before they were victorious against the Bulgarian Army.

Standard Macedonian

Several prestige dialects have developed around the major urban centers of Skopje, Bitola, Kumanovo and Prilep.

The standard language is phonologically and morphologically based on the central Western Macedonian dialects (in particular, the Prilep-Bitola and Skopje-Veles dialect) with its lexicon influenced by all Macedonian dialects.


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Albanian Revolt of 1843–44

The rebellion was spread to Peć (then İpek), Yakova, Prizren and İşkodra (now Shkodër), while in the spring of 1844 the rebellion reached Ohrid and Manastiri in the south, İşkodra in west, North Kosovo in North and Kumanovo in east.

Bitola inscription

The work on the fortress of Bitola commenced on the twentieth day of October and ended on the ... This Tsar was Bulgarian by birth, grandson of the pious Nikola and Ripsimia, son of Aaron, who was brother of Samuil, Tsar of Bulgaria, the two who routed the Greek army of Emperor Basil II at Stipone where gold was taken ... and in ... this Tsar was defeated by Emperor Basil in 6522 (1014) since the creation of the world in Klyutch and died at the end of the summer.

Branislav Nušić

As an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he was appointed to clerk of consulate in the Aromanian city of Bitola, where he eventually married (1893).

Douglas Haskell

The son of American missionaries, Haskell was born in the Ottoman Empire, in the Balkan city of Monastir, now Bitola in the Republic of Macedonia.

Electrolux Bitola

Electrolux DP (commonly known as Electrolux) is a Macedonia multinational household and professional appliances manufacturer headquartered in Bitola, Macedonia.

Gorno Orizari

It is located to the north of the city, east of the exit road for Prilep and close to the proposed M5 motorway, a limited-access road that bypasses Bitola linking the city with Ohrid and Resen (west) and Prilep (north).

Rosoman

These are strategically positioned so as to attract custom from outside the village, as Rosoman is one of the only villages on the route between Gradsko - to the north (from where motorists join the motorway for Greece or Skopje) - and the Pletvar mountains, which separate central Macedonia from the important cities of Prilep and Bitola.

Serbs in the Republic of Macedonia

Strez was for a time a Duke under Stefan Nemanjić and had by 1209 conquered most of Macedonia; from the Struma valley in the east, which bordered lands controlled by Boril, to Bitola and perhaps Ohrid in the west, and from Skopje in the north to Veria in the south.

Skoplje Football Subassociation

By the time of its formation it included the clubs from the districts of Skopje, Bregalnica, Bitola, Kosovo and Vranje.

At the assembly there were also 21 delegats representing 21 clubs: 7 from Leskovac, 6 from Skoplje, 6 from Bitola, 1 from Vranje and 1 from Strumica.

Thessaloniki–Bitola railway

The railway from Thessaloniki to Bitola is a 219-kilometre long railway line, that connects the port city Thessaloniki in Greece with Bitola in the Republic of Macedonia, via Veroia, Edessa, Amyntaio and Florina.

Tony Naumovski

He made his professional debut in 1998 in DECAMERON (an adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece) and played one of the lead roles in a production of the Macedonian National Theater of Bitola as part of The Ohrid Summer Festival.