X-Nico

7 unusual facts about Ohrid


A. den Doolaard

In 2006, in the Macedonian town of Ohrid was erected a monument in honor of A. den Doolaard, and in 2011, a memorial room opened with an exhibition of books and documents explaining the life and work of the author.

Franc Kangler

He actively participated in several NATO Assemblies, including the ones in Paris, Copenhagen, Orlando, Ottawa, Warsaw, and Prague, as well as in North Atlantic Assemblies in Luxembourg, Ohrid, Bucharest, and Barcelona.

Ibrahim Spahic

He has performed on behalf of the IPU Conference in Berlin, Jakarta, Amman, Burkina Faso, then to Paris, London, Bled, Ohrid and other bilateral and multilatelarnim meetings of parliamentarians.

Jan Cieplak

On 29 March 1919 he was named the titular archbishop of Achrida.

Mišo Juzmeski

Misho Yuzmeski (Macedonian: Мишо Јузмески / Misho Juzmeski or (older form) Mišo Juzmeski), (Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, April 7, 1966) is a Macedonian writer, publisher and photographer.

Zoran G. Jančić

Jancic was frequently invited to participate in major music festivals within his native homeland including Ohrid and Dubrovnik International Music Festivals.

Zoran Stavreski

Zoran Stavreski (born 1964 in Ohrid) was the Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Finance.


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.

Aleksandar Protogerov

Alexandar Protogerov (1867 Ohrid, Ottoman Empire, today Republic of Macedonia - 1928, Sofia) was a Bulgarian general, politician and revolutionary as well as a member of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia, Thrace and Pomoravlje.

Arsenije III Čarnojević

The passing Ottoman armies plundered the local populace mercilessly; the worst of them all was the one under notorious Jegen Osman-pasha who for two years (1687-1689) robbed the area from Belgrade to Ohrid and from Sofia to Peć.

Baba Mountain, Macedonia

It is one of the leading tourist areas in the country, since it is a well-known ski resort, along with Ohrid, Prespa, Dojran, Popova Šapka, and Kruševo.

Boban Simonovski

There he met musician Robert Bilbilov, who saw him perform a song by classmate Lambe Alabakovski at a school talent show: the two helped organize a charity Tose Proeski concert in Ohrid, where Simonovski performed alongside Bojan Marović and musicians from across the Balkans and around the world.

Croatian Province of the Society of Jesus

The Province also maintains residences in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ohrid, Macedonia where they provide religious education to seminarians in the local dioceses.

Cyril of Turaw

They are works by early Christian and Byzantine churchmen that would have been available to Kirill in Slavonic translations: John Chrysostom, Epiphanius of Salamis, Ephrem of Syrus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Eusebius of Caesarea, and the scholia of Nicetas of Heraclea, Titus of Bostra, Theophylact of Ohrid, and the chronicler George the monk (George Hamartolus).

Duvalo

Duvalo is an active geothermal surface feature situated close to the village of Kosel, near Ohrid, Republic of 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).

Polizoi Arbëri

His first U-21 goal came in a friendly against Macedonia at the Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall in Ohrid on 19 November 2008.

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.

St. Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral, Toronto

Clement of Ohrid (Macedonian: Св. Климент Охридски) in Toronto, Ontario, is the first Macedonian Orthodox Church in Canada and one of the oldest in the American-Canadian Diocese.

Stephen of Ohrid and Macedonia

In 1969, he enrolled in the Macedonian Orthodox Theological Seminary of St. Clement of Ohrid in Dračevo, where he graduated in 1974.

Trebeništa

These finds are housed in the Archaeological Museums in Ohrid, Sofia and Belgrade.


see also