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unusual facts about Skopje-Veles dialect



107th Mixed Aviation Regiment

After the war the regiment was briefly stationed at Skopje before moving to Niš in late 1945.

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.

1986 Vrancea earthquake

In addition, intensities of V (rather strong) were recorded in Skopje (now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia, suggesting the earthquake was widespread.

63rd Parachute Battalion

On the order of the JNA General Headquarters, the 63rd Parachute Brigade was dismissed in late 1959, and out of it 3 independent parachute battalions were formed: 159th Parachute Battalion in Skopje; 127th Parachute Battalion at Batajnica; and 148th Parachute Battalion at Cerklje.

Adam of Govrlevo

The Adam of Govrlevo, often referred to as the Adam of Macedonia, is a Neolithic sculpture found by archaeologist Milos Bilbija of the Skopje City Museum.

Air Adriatic

Air Adriatic announced plans for 2007 to launch schedule services from Zagreb to Berlin, Düsseldorf, Malmö, Moscow, Pristina, Skopje and Zürich and to replace its McDonnell Douglas MD-82s with Boeing 737-700 aircraft.

Andrej Žernovski

Andrej Žernovski (Macedonian Cyrillic: Андреј Жерновски) (born 26 November 1968 in Skopje) is a Macedonian politician, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the current mayor of the Centar Municipality of Skopje.

Blagoj Stračkovski

Blagoj with one group of partisans had to go to Black Mountain of Skopje (Skopska Crna Gora) but because of the snow which there was plenty of it, they had to come back in the town.

Boris Trajkovski Stadium

Boris Trajkovski Stadium (Macedonian Cyrillic: Стадион Борис Трајковски) is a football stadium in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

Bulgarian Action Committees

The Executive Committee of the organization was headed by: Stefan Stefanov from Kratovo, president, Spiro Kitinchev from Skopje, vice-president and Vasil Hadzhikimov from Štip (Novo selo), secretary.

Chromatography in blood processing

The Institute of Transfusion Medicine in Skopje, Macedonia is a plasma fractionation center in the Balkans.

Church of St Nicholas, Sapareva Banya

In terms of design and decoration, Mavrodinov likens the church to the Church of St Pantaleon in Gorno Nerezi near Skopje, today in the Republic of Macedonia.

Dolno Sonje

It is located on the other side of Mount Vodno from Skopje, but a road running around the mountain connects the two communities.

Đorđe Andrejević-Kun

In the years following World War II, he had one-man shows in Belgrade (1953 and 1959), Kragujevac, Čačak, Niš, Skopje, Zemun, and Sombor, and in Berlin in 1963.

Elvir Mekić

After performing the song "Armija" at Skopje Fest 2008, Elvir, along with his best friend and fellow musician, Jovan Jovanov, organised a concert to be held in Skopje.

Filiz Ahmet

Filiz Ahmet graduated from medical school and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje in 2003.

Fizir F1V

During factory tests, on 8 October 1926 Pilot V. Striževski flew the aircraft from Novi Sad to Skopje to Mostar to Rajlovac (Sarajevo) to Zagreb and returned to Novi Sad - a distance of 1,410 km - over a period of 8 hours and 40 minutes.

Friedrich von Scholtz

His Army Group Headquarters was moved from Skopje to Jagodina, but the situation continued to deteriorate, and some Bulgarian soldiers even mutinied and headed towards Sofia.

Hungary national cricket team

In 2010, the team won the 2010 European Twenty20 Championship which was held in Skopje, Macedonia beating a strong Russian side in the final off the last ball.

Karposh's Rebellion

Karposh Square, a square across the Stone Bridge on the other side of Macedonia Square in Skopje is named after Karpos, where the leader of the uprising was executed by the Ottomans.

Komercijalna banka Skopje

Today Komercijalna Banka A.D. Skopje is a universal bank licensed for performing all types of banking operations, combining the functions of commercial banking, savings deposits and investments, as well as banking services provided to the citizens and enterprises in the domain of domestic and international payment operations.

Komiti Skopje

Not to forget is also the 'Golden Lords', a subgroup from the Karpoš part of Skopje, on 11 November 1997 they were formed.

Makedonija Zasekogaš

The whole project finished with a big concert on the square Macedonia in Skopje.

Mirko Gashi

He studied journalism at the University of Belgrade and worked subsequently as a reporter for the newspaper Flaka e vëllazërimit (Flame of Brotherhood) in Skopje and for Radio Pristina.

Miroslav Grčev

Miroslav Grčev was mayor of central Skopje municipality "Centar" in 1996-2000 from Social Democratic Union of Macedonia.

Motorways in the Republic of Macedonia

The first motorway runs from the Tabanovce border crossing with Serbia (for Preševo), passing Kumanovo (A2 junction), Petrovec (Skopje Airport) near Skopje (A3 junction), Veles, Gradsko (A5 junction) Negotino (A7 junction), and continuing onto the main border crossing with Greece, Bogorodica-Evzoni near Gevgelija.

Posta Shqiptare

In 1946 a new telephone line was run between Tirana and Peshkopi which would also serve as a connector between Tirana, Belgrade and Skopje.

Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina

RTVBiH (and consequently BHRT) grew out of RTV Sarajevo in 1992, one of eight principal broadcasting centers of former Yugoslavia, others being RTV Ljubljana, RTV Zagreb, RTV Beograd, RTV Novi Sad, RTV Titograd, RTV Pristina, and RTV Skopje.

Radmila Šekerinska

She became involved in the Open Society Institute of George Soros and in 1996 won a seat on Skopje City Council, which she held until she was elected to the Macedonian parliament in 1998.

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.

Ruth Volgl Cardoso

She played in five World Chess Olympiads, playing first board for the Brazilian team each time: in Skopje 1972, Medellín 1974, Buenos Aires 1976, La Valletta 1980, and Luzern 1982.

Şarık Tara

Şarık Tara (born 1930 in Skopje) is a Turkish billionaire who founded Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş., with Sadi Gülçelik, in 1957.

Serbs in the Republic of Macedonia

Vukan however, immediately violated the treaty, launching an operation in the Vardar region, conquering the cities of Vranje, Skopje and Tetovo, with much loot.

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.

In the 19th century, the ethnic Serbian areas outside (south) of the Principality of Serbia were designated by Serbian cartographers as "Old Serbia", claiming that the inhabitants of this region (Kratovo, Skopje, Ovče Pole) described their native districts as "Serbian lands".

Skopje 2014

The monument of Justinian I, born in Tauresium just outside modern Skopje, arrived at Macedonia Square on June 16, 2011.

Skoplje Football Subassociation

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

Standard Macedonian

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

Strez

Some ruins by the Vardar River near Jegunovce west of Skopje were known to the locals as "Strez's Fortress" (Стрезово кале, Strezovo kale).

Tifozat Kuq e Zi

In this sense, TKZ is joined by different supporters' associations throughout Albanian-speaking regions mainly in Kosovo (Plisat of Pristina, Torcida of Mitrovica, etc.), Republic of Macedonia (Ballistët of Tetovo, Ilirët of Kumanovo, Shvercerat of Skopje, etc.) and in Albania itself.

Vladimir Boyadzhiev

In 1893 he graduated in History at the Sofia University in Bulgaria and then went on to work as a teacher in Skopje, Seres, Adrianople and other towns.

Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986

The winner was decided by the votes of eight regional juries (Sarajevo, Zagreb, Skopje, Titograd, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Pristina and Novi Sad).

Zoran Jolevski

He attended the Orce Nikolov High School in Skopje, Macedonia, along with his best friends - opera singer Boris Trajanov and movie director Milcho Manchevski and he graduated in 1978.


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