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5 unusual facts about Veles


Blagoj Stračkovski

All these activities have contributed his stay in Veles to be very dangerous for his life so in September 1942 he became a member of the Partisan Detachment "Dimitar Vlahov".

When the war started and Bulgarian occupiers went to Veles, Blagoj was chosen as a member for the local committee of KPJ in Veles and secretary of the local committee of SKOJ.

Boatmen of Thessaloníki

Salonika terrorists were very young men, mostly from Veles, pupils in the Bulgarian High School.

The Municipality of Veles also constructed a monument by a recently built iron bridge.

Veles

Velež Mountain, south-central Herzegovina, named after the deity


Aleksandar Andreev

In May 1911, he again became a leader of a revolutionary band in the region of Veles, and in 1912 he operated with the band of Tane Nikolov in the regions of Thessaloniki and Enidzhe Vardar.

Blagoj Stračkovski

After that they went to Rosoman where they have been seen and they were caught and taken to Veles military barracks.

Book of Veles

The Book of Veles (also: Veles Book, Vles book, Vlesbook, Isenbeck's Planks, Велесова книга, Велесова књига, Велес книга, Книга Велеса, Дощечки Изенбека, Дощьки Изенбека) is a literary forgery claimed to be a text of ancient Slavic religion and history purportedly written on wooden planks.

Mijaks

The villages Oreše, Paparadište and Melnica in the Tito Veles region were populated by Mijaci during the Turkish occupation 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.

Nedelya Petkova

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

Serbs in the Republic of Macedonia

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.


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