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4 unusual facts about Monastir


Faouzi Benzarti

Faouzi Benzarti (فوزي البنزرتي), (born January 3, 1950 in Monastir), is a Tunisian former footballer and current coach.

Gazi Hajdar Kadi Mosque

is a mosque which was commissioned by Haydar Bey, the administrator of Rumelia, the largest Ottoman administrative territory, with Monastir as a regional centre.

Mohamed Salah Mzali

Mohamed Salah Mzali (born Monastir, February 11, 1896 - died November 22, 1984) was a Tunisian educator, historian, and politician.

Nafta, Tunisia

Nefta lies on GP 3 (Gafsa-Nefta), 25 km/16 mi southwest of Tozeur (airport; regular services to and from Tunis, Monastir, and Djerba) and 113 km/70 mi southwest of Gafsa.


Cinema of Tunisia

The producer Tarak Ben Ammar, a nephew of Wasila Bourguiba, succeeded in attracting some big production companies to shoot inside his studios in Monastir.

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.

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.

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.

Erdal Özyağcılar

The artist regained his popularity in Turkey in 2007 with the series named Elveda Rumeli (Farewell Rumelia), portraying a Turkish peasant living during the turmoil times of 19th century in Balkans region, near Monastir, with his family, when Ottoman Empire started to lose territory and fall back.

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).

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.

Moufida Bourguiba

Moufida Bourguiba (مفيدة بورقيبة), (born Mathilde Lorrain) (1890 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés France – 15 November 1976 in Monastir).

Süleyman Askerî Bey

During the days he stayed in Monastir, he joined the Committee of Union and Progress and he married Fadime Hanım, who was an aristocrat of Filibe (present-day Plovdiv).


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