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Monastir

(Encyclopedia)Monastir: see Bitola, North Macedonia. ...

Ochrida

(Encyclopedia)Ochrida: see Ohrid, North Macedonia. ...

Okhrida

(Encyclopedia)Okhrida: see Ohrid, North Macedonia. ...

Bitolj

(Encyclopedia)Bitolj: see Bitola, North Macedonia. ...

Skoplje

(Encyclopedia)Skoplje: see Skopje, North Macedonia. ...

Amphipolis

(Encyclopedia)Amphipolis ămfĭˈpəlĭs [key], ancient city of Macedonia, on the Strymon (Struma) River near the sea and NE of later Thessaloníki. The place was known as Ennea Hodoi [nine ways] before it was sett...

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

(Encyclopedia)Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), international organization established as the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in 1973, during the cold war, to promo...

Dorians

(Encyclopedia)Dorians, people of ancient Greece. Their name was mythologically derived from Dorus, son of Hellen. Originating in the northwestern mountainous region of Epirus and SW Macedonia, they migrated through...

Romani

(Encyclopedia)Romani or Romany both: rŏmˈənē, rōˈ– [key], people known historically in English as Gypsies and their language. 1 A traditionally nomadic people with particular folkways and a unique language,...

Dráma

(Encyclopedia)Dráma dräˈmä [key], city, capital of Dráma prefecture, NE Greece, in Macedonia. It is th...

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