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Bitola

Old names:
1. Heraclea Linkestis (founded by Phillip 2. Macedonian, named after Hercules, and the tribe Lynx);
2. Obitel (old macedonian word for: 1. family, 2, monastery), called after the monastery located on that place.
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Bitola (Битола) is a city in the southwestern part of the Republic of Macedonia. It is an administrative, cultural, industrial, commercial and educational centre. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba and Nidže mountains, 14 km north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing with Greece. It is an important junction connecting the south of the Adriatic Sea with the Aegean Sea and Central Europe. It is known from the Ottoman period as "the city of the consuls", as many European countries had consulates in Bitola. According to some sources Bitola is the second largest town in the country and by others the third. Bitola is also centre of the Bitola municipality.
(Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitola

Recent city comments:

  • Karposh, mare (guest) wrote 14 years ago:
    very natural untached and a place to be in you will experience the culture and the way life is in the suburbs, borimecka not far is being re build by the macedonians that are slowly coming back home from the western world. Karpos and Borimecka are the developing suburbs in this magnificent city "Bitola"
  • Jewish Cemetery, VechnaMKD wrote 15 years ago:
    Jewish cemetery
41°2'4"N   21°19'35"E
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