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unusual facts about Prilep-Bitola dialect



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.

Ancient Greek sculpture

The territories of ancient Greece, except for Sicily and southern Italy, contained abundant supplies of fine marble, with Pentelic and Parian marble the most highly prized, along with that from modern Prilep in Macedonia, and various sources in modern Turkey.

Andrijaš Mrnjavčević

Andrijaš Vukašinović Mrnjavčević or Andrija Kraljević (?) was a 14th-century Serbian noble who governed the region of Prilep 1371–1395.

Battle of Sorovich

While advancing however, the division was caught at unawares near Banitsa (modern Vevi) by an attack of the Ottoman VI Corps (part of the Vardar Army with the 16th, 17th and 18th Nizamiye divisions), which was retreating following the battle of Prilep with the Serbs.

Dimitar Andonov

In Sofia, they connected with the foreign representation body of the revolutionary organization IMARO and in Kyustendil they joined the Prilep revolutionary band of Konstantin Kondov.

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).

Hero City

The Communist Yugoslavian government awarded the Order of the National Hero to eight separate Hero Cities of Yugoslavia (grad heroj in Serbian/Croatian): Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Prilep, Pristina, Titov Drvar, Cetinje.

Hitar Petar

In the Republic of Macedonia, it is thought that Hitar Petar (Itar Pejo) is a native of the region of Mariovo, an opinion not popular elsewhere, and a monument to the character was built in Prilep.

M90 Rocket Launcher

The launcher is produced by Eurokompozit of Prilep, Macedonia, while the anti-tank rocket is produced by Sloboda of Cacak, Serbia.

Macedonian hip hop

Later, another pop-rap artist named Kristijan Gabrovski emerged from Prilep and was nicknamed Risto Bombata after Afrika Bambaataa.

Macedonians of Romania

Another documented instance of the migration from Macedonia was when Nicodim of Prilep came to Valahia from Prilep and built monasteries in Tismana, Vodiţa, Prislop, Vişina.

Nedelya Petkova

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

Panagyurishte

Another wave of refugees came in the 15th century after rebellions in Albania and the western Bulgarian lands (Debar, Prilep, Kostur and others).

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.

Selimova-Želčeski

Selimova is Macedonian Turkish from Resen, while Želčeski is from Prilep.

Serbs in the Republic of Macedonia

In 1258, Uroš I of Serbia took Skopje, Prilep and Kičevo from the Byzantines, but lost them shortly after in 1261.

According to Serbian authors, after the Treaty of San Stefano, the populations of the counties of Kumanovo, Skopje, Kriva Palanka, Kratovo, Kyustendil, Kočani, Strumica, Probištip, Veles, Debar, Kičevo and Prilep sent deputations and appeals to Prince Milan of Serbia, imploring him to not abandon Macedonia to the Bulgarians and to assign the region to Serbia.

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.

Theodore Synadenos

Synadenos was a close friend to his cousin, the junior emperor Michael IX Palaiologos, but after Michael's death in 1320, Michael's father, the old emperor Andronikos II (r. 1282–1328), distrusting his loyalty, sent him to the border with Serbia, as governor of Prilep.


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