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Top best places to visit in Skopje, Macedonia
Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia.
It is the country’s political, cultural, economic, and academic center. Skopje is known as the City of Statues thanks to its impressive monuments situated all over the city.
In the center of town is the Macedonia Square, the biggest public space in Macedonia.
In its middle stands the Warrior on a Horse, a fountain and a statue of Alexander the Great.
The symbol of the city the Stone Bridge connects Macedonia Square to the Old Bazaar.
Around the square, which serves as a main entrance to the Old Bazaar, are:
The Museum of the Macedonian Struggle,
The National Theater,
And the Holocaust Memorial, a museum and multimedia center about the history of the Jews in the Balkans.
Nearby is another representative square with the Macedonian Opera and Ballet and a Philharmonic Hall.
And next to it is the Art Bridge, the most beautiful bridge in the city full of sculptures of noted artists.
Also worth a visit are:
The Porta Macedonia, a triumphal arch dedicated to 20 years of Macedonian independence.
The Mother Teresa House, a beautiful and tranquil modern chapel and a museum.
And the Church of St Clement of Ohrid, the largest cathedral of the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
One of the most important places to go in Skopje is the Old Bazaar. It is the largest marketplace in the Balkans famous for its cultural and historical values.
Beside the stores there are some interesting objects within the Old Bazaar, such as:
The National Museum, one of the oldest museums in the country.
The Double Hamam, a Turkish bath, today used as a gallery.
The Church of the Ascension of Jesus, a tiny orthodox temple with a pleasant courtyard.
And the Mustafa Pasha Mosque, one of the most beautiful Islamic buildings in Macedonia.
In the vicinity of the Old Bazaar there are other prominent mosques, like:
The Sultan Murat Mosque, the biggest mosque in Macedonia.
The Gazi Isa Bey’s Mosque, the only seljuk mosque in Europe.
And the Yahya Pasha Mosque which has a roof in the shape of a pyramid and the tallest minaret in Skopje.
But the biggest attraction in the city is the Kale Fortress.
The historic fortifications was build on the highest hill in the Skopje valley
and now offer great views over the city.
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Mustafa Pasha Mosque - Skopje
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The structure stands on a plateau above the old bazaar, built in 1492 by Mustafa Pasha, vizier on the court of Sultan Selim I.[citation needed] The mosque is largely intact from its original state, and no additions have been made through the years. The body of the daughter of Mustafa Pasha is buried in the türbe next to the mosque. The mosque has a rose garden.
A five-year renovation of the mosque, funded by the Turkish government, was completed in August
Things to do in Skopje, North Macedonia
Skopje is the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia, the City that lies in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula, at the crossroad of important communications, a city with a 2000 years old tradition. Skopje is a modern city with population of almost one million and presents Macedonia’s major political, economical, educational and cultural center. It continues to be a focus for new residents, economic development, construction and refurbishment.
Skopje also is a very attractive tourist destination with its fortress, cultural and historical monuments, archaeological sites, sport halls, caves in the canyon of the River Treska and Lake Matka and a health spa in the eastern part of the city.
Skopje is steadily becoming a vital regional route for international flight operators. The town with the beautiful quay of the Macedonian river “Vardar”, the narrow streets in the Old Bazaar which is the biggest bazaar preserved in the Balkans today, the town is internationally famous for being the birthplace of Mother Teresa. He has blossomed into a thriving, stimulating city to explore, defining itself as an exciting tourist destination with the 1500 years old fortress Kale and monastery St. Pantelejmon with the fresco ”Lamentation of Christ”, with the first signs of the Renaissance, the Islamic monuments Sultan Murat’s- Hjunkar Mosque, the Daut Pasha’s bath.
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Bitola,also historically known as Monastir or Manastır; known also by several alternative names) is a city in the southwestern part of the Republic of Macedonia. The city 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 has been known since the Ottoman period as the city of the consuls, since many European countries have consulates in Bitola. According to the 2002 census, Bitola is the second largest city in the country. Bitola is also the seat of the Bitola Municipality. Bitola is one of the oldest cities on the territory in the Republic of Macedonia. It was founded as Heraclea Lyncestis in the middle of the 4th century BC by Philip II of Macedon. During the Ottoman rule the city together with Salonica were the two reigning cities of Ottoman Rumelia.
Manastır
Şehir 1382 yılında I. Murat döneminde Timurtaş Bey tarafından Türk topraklarına katılmıştır. Balkan Savaşları sonucunda (1912 yılında) Manastır, Osmanlı idaresinden çıkmıştır. 530 yıl Osmanlı
idaresinde kalmıştır. Evliya Çelebi'nin seyahatnamesinde de belirtildiği gibi, o dönemde şehir, 3.000 hane, 20 mahalle, 900 dükkân, 70 mescit ve camiden oluşan, Rumeli vilayetinin ileri gelen
şehirlerinden biridir.Balkan sinemasının ilk kameramanları olan Manaki Kardeşler'in bu şehirde çalışmaları nedeniyle şehirle ilgili, Osmanlı dönemini gösteren, çok sayıda fotoğraf ile Sultan V.
Mehmet Reşat'ın Manastır ziyaretini gösteren sinema filmi de mevcuttur.
Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin kurucusu Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, buradaki Manastır Askerî İdadisi'nde okumuştur. Manastır, Osmanlı döneminde İttihat ve Terakki'nin de en önemli muhalif merkezlerinden biri olmuştur.Wikipedia
Гази Иса Бегова Џамија - Скопје ... Gazi Issa Bey mosque - Skopje 2
Гази Иса Бегова Џамија - Скопје ... Gazi Issa Bey mosque - Skopje 2
Üsküp Mustafa paşa Murat paşa Arasta cami
Makedonya Üsküp Alaca Camii/Skopje Alaca (İsa Bey) Mosque
Makedonya Üsküp'te bulunan alaca (İsa Bey) Camisinin lazer tarama animasyonu
Ottoman Mosques Greece plan
Typology of the Ottoman Mosques in Greece
The process of studying the plans of Ottoman mosques for the purpose of establishing an acceptable typology is a complicated task. There are many considerations: geography, chronology, influences, function (either as a singular monument or part of a larger complex), architect, roofing and vaulting, etc. The primary focus of previous studies dealing with the typology of the Ottoman mosques has been on chronology and geography. This approach typically begins with a discussion of the Seljuk mosques of Anatolia followed by an analysis of Ottoman mosques, tracking the change of capital from Bursa to Edirne to Istanbul . Other studies have dealt with the topic of typology from a single point of view, considering only the function or the architect , as stated above. Another group of studies examines the plan and architecture of a group of related monuments, namely in a city or in a country , and classify the monuments according to the available examples. However, as a result of this method, a single monument may be categorized in two dissimilar groups. Despite recent interest in the Ottoman architecture of Greece, primarily in the field of restoration, it is still among the least studied topics of Greek archaeology. In fact, a detailed study of the typology of the plans of the Ottoman mosques in Greece is still greatly needed . In my attempt to classify these monuments, I favored an initial categorization according to ground plan. This primarily takes into account the views of Kuran, but modified to allow for differences between the Ottoman mosques of Anatolia and those of Greece.
The surviving Ottoman mosques in Greece have a rich variety of plans more than almost any other region of the Ottoman Empire, except for Istanbul. Until the second half the 17th century, the Ottoman mosques in Greece are as diverse as those of the capital. Likely, the architecture of the provinces followed the prototypes of the capital. In this respect, it is important to stress that where the plan of the early Ottoman mosques is concerned, in general the Seljuk heritage prevailed, namely the single-domed unit mosque preceded by a portico (Fig. 57, type 1 A–C).
While the Ottoman mosques in Greece and the Balkans typically follow the examples set by Istanbul, these early monuments still show an incredible amount of innovation; specifically in the early period of Ottoman rule in Greece, when the Sultan and members of his family and other wealthy court figures sponsored architectural activities; there are numerous mosques that are equal in quality to the great monuments of the capital. The creative plan of the Great Mosque (or the Mosque of Iskender Bey Evrenosoğlu) in Giannitsa was considered by Kiel to be “a highly original building of a type we do not find anywhere else in the vast dominations of Ottoman architecture extending from Hungary to Egypt and from Bosnia to the lands beyond Baghdad. It is not strange to find such an original creation precisely in this place, considering the extraordinary time it came into being, it is also the largest dome building ever erected by the Turks in Greece” . Thus, the idea that the Ottoman monuments outside Istanbul were merely provincial replicas of the monuments in the capital is not always accurate. In fact, in many instances we find original and creative forms. These constructions were dependent on any number of factors, the most important of which were the founder and the architect.
The typology of the Ottoman Mosques in Greece from the point of view of space and form proposed here comprises eight main types, as follows:
1. The single-unit mosque (or the single-domed mosque).
2. The single-unit mosque with side rooms (or the Zawia-Mosque and the reverse-T plan).
3. The single-unit mosque with articulated interior.
4. The “Eywan” mosque (similar with the second type mosques in the definitions of the Zawia-Mosque and Reverse-T plan).
5. The quatrefoil plan (or clover-leaf cross-in-square, or a central dome surrounded with four half domes).
6. The courtyard mosque.
7. The multi-domed mosque (multi-unit mosque).
8. The octagonal mosque.
Happy Missionary deals with demons in Skopje Macedonia
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Cübbeli Ahmet Hoca - Murat Paşa Camii Sohbeti (Üsküp Makedonya)
Makedonya Alaca Cami-Dünyada eşi benzeri olmayan cami
Asırlarca Osmanlı egemenliği altında kalan Balkanlarda, birbirinden güzel camilerden ezan sesleri yükselmeye devam ediyor.
Bu camilerden kuşkusuz en güzeli, Makedonya’nın Kalkandelen kentindeki Alaca Cami…
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ECDADIN EŞSİZ ESERİ ALACA CAMİ, GÖRENLERİ ADETA BÜYÜLÜYOR
Skopje | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:09 1 Geography
00:03:18 1.1 Topography
00:05:06 1.2 Hydrography
00:07:59 1.3 Geology
00:10:03 1.4 Climate
00:12:09 1.5 Nature and environment
00:14:33 2 Urbanism
00:14:41 2.1 Urban morphology
00:18:21 2.2 Localities and villages
00:19:21 2.3 Urban sociology
00:21:36 3 Toponymy
00:23:22 4 History
00:23:30 4.1 Origins
00:25:14 4.2 Roman Scupi
00:27:48 4.3 Middle Ages
00:32:28 4.4 Ottoman period
00:38:46 4.5 Balkan Wars till present day
00:44:59 5 Emblems
00:45:34 6 Administration
00:45:43 6.1 Status
00:46:33 6.2 City Council
00:47:19 6.3 Mayor
00:47:41 6.4 Municipalities
00:49:16 7 Economy
00:49:24 7.1 Economic weight
00:50:51 7.2 Firms and activities
00:53:35 7.3 Employment
00:55:04 8 Population
00:55:12 8.1 Demography
00:56:48 8.2 Ethnic groups
00:59:48 8.3 Religion
01:01:57 8.4 Health
01:03:07 8.5 Education
01:04:35 9 Media
01:06:31 10 Sports
01:09:10 11 Transport
01:09:19 11.1 Main connections
01:11:34 11.2 Rail and coach stations
01:13:00 11.3 Public transport
01:14:27 11.4 Airport
01:16:04 12 Air pollution
01:16:38 13 Culture
01:16:46 13.1 Cultural institutions
01:18:21 13.2 Museums
01:20:12 13.3 Architecture
01:26:18 13.4 Festivals
01:29:31 13.5 Nightlife
01:31:42 14 People from Skopje
01:31:51 15 International relations
01:32:01 15.1 Twin towns – sister cities
01:32:13 15.2 Partnerships
01:32:22 16 See also
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Skopje (, US also ; Macedonian: Скопје [ˈskɔpjɛ] (listen), Albanian: Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic center.
The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; remains of Neolithic settlements have been found within the old Kale Fortress that overlooks the modern city centre. Originally a Paeonian city, Scupi became the capital of Dardania in the second century BC. On the eve of the 1st century AD, the settlement was seized by the Romans and became a military camp. When the Roman Empire was divided into eastern and western halves in 395 AD, Scupi came under Byzantine rule from Constantinople. During much of the early medieval period, the town was contested between the Byzantines and the Bulgarian Empire, whose capital it was between 972 and 992.
From 1282, the town was part of the Serbian Empire and acted as its capital city from 1346 to 1371. In 1392, Skopje was conquered by the Ottoman Turks who called it Üsküb, with this name also being in use in English for a time. The town stayed under Ottoman control for over 500 years, serving as the capital of pashasanjak of Üsküp and later the Vilayet of Kosovo. At that time the city was famous for its oriental architecture. In 1912, it was annexed by the Kingdom of Serbia during the Balkan Wars. During the First World War the city was seized by the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and after this war, it became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Yugoslavia becoming the capital of the Vardarska banovina. In the Second World War the city was again captured by Bulgaria and in 1944 became the capital of SR Macedonia, then a federated state of Yugoslavia. The city developed rapidly, but this trend was interrupted in 1963 when it was hit by a disastrous earthquake.
Skopje is located on the upper course of the Vardar River, and is located on a major north-south Balkan route between Belgrade and Athens. It is a center for metal-processing, chemical, timber, textile, leather, and printing industries. Industrial development of the city has been accompanied by development of the trade, logistics, and banking sectors, as well as an emphasis on the fields of transportation, culture and sport. According to the last official count from 2002, Skopje had a population of 506,926 inhabitants; according to official estimates, the city ...
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Ankara | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:06 1 Etymology and names
00:04:16 2 Geography
00:04:26 2.1 Climate
00:05:55 2.2 Demographics
00:08:01 3 History
00:08:40 3.1 Ancient history
00:11:11 3.2 Celtic history
00:12:29 3.3 Roman history
00:17:22 3.4 Byzantine history
00:23:24 3.5 Turkic rulers
00:26:02 3.6 Turkish republican capital
00:29:20 3.7 Ecclesiastical history
00:35:27 3.7.1 Armenian Catholic (titular) see
00:36:42 3.7.2 Latin titular archbishopric
00:37:07 3.7.3 Saint Clement Church
00:37:48 4 Economy and infrastructure
00:40:50 4.1 Transportation
00:43:02 4.1.1 Ankara Public Transportation Statistics
00:44:06 5 Politics
00:48:01 6 Main sights
00:48:11 6.1 Ancient/archeological sites
00:48:22 6.1.1 Ankara Citadel
00:49:41 6.1.2 Roman Theatre
00:50:10 6.1.3 Temple of Augustus and Rome
00:51:24 6.1.4 Roman Baths
00:52:08 6.1.5 Roman Road
00:52:52 6.1.6 Column of Julian
00:53:16 6.2 Mosques
00:53:25 6.2.1 Kocatepe Mosque
00:53:58 6.2.2 Ahmet Hamdi Akseki Mosque
00:54:44 6.2.3 Yeni (Cenab Ahmet) Mosque
00:55:16 6.2.4 Hacı Bayram Mosque
00:56:22 6.2.5 Ahi Elvan Mosque
00:56:51 6.2.6 Alâeddin Mosque
00:57:38 6.3 Modern monuments
00:57:48 6.3.1 Victory Monument
00:58:27 6.3.2 Statue of Atatürk
00:59:00 6.3.3 Monument to a Secure, Confident Future
00:59:46 6.3.4 Hatti Monument
01:00:20 6.4 Inns
01:00:29 6.4.1 Suluhan
01:01:28 6.4.2 Çengelhan Rahmi Koç Museum
01:02:22 7 Shopping
01:05:33 8 Culture
01:05:42 8.1 The arts
01:06:18 8.1.1 Music
01:08:14 8.1.2 Theatre
01:08:46 8.2 Museums
01:09:00 8.2.1 Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
01:09:43 8.2.2 Anıtkabir
01:10:42 8.2.3 Ankara Ethnography Museum
01:11:37 8.2.4 State Art and Sculpture Museum
01:12:11 8.2.5 Cer Modern
01:12:58 8.2.6 War of Independence Museum
01:13:43 8.2.7 Mehmet Akif Literature Museum Library
01:14:15 8.2.8 TCDD Open Air Steam Locomotive Museum
01:14:39 8.2.9 Ankara Aviation Museum
01:15:46 8.2.10 METU Science and Technology Museum
01:16:12 8.3 Sports
01:19:51 9 Parks
01:22:12 10 Education
01:22:22 10.1 Universities
01:22:46 11 Fauna
01:22:55 11.1 Angora cat
01:25:03 11.2 Angora rabbit
01:26:43 11.3 Angora goat
01:29:04 12 Gallery
01:29:13 13 International relations
01:29:24 13.1 Twin towns and sister cities
01:29:38 13.2 Partner cities
01:29:56 14 See also
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Ankara (, also US: , Turkish: [ˈaŋkaɾa] (listen)), historically known as Ancyra () and Angora (, also US: ), is the capital of Turkey. With a population of 4,587,558 in the urban center (2014) and 5,150,072 in its province (2015), it is Turkey's second largest city after Istanbul (the former imperial capital), having outranked İzmir in the 20th century.
On 23 April 1920 the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was established in Ankara, which became the headquarters of Atatürk and the Turkish National Movement during the Turkish War of Independence. Ankara became the new Turkish capital upon the establishment of the Republic on 29 October 1923, succeeding in this role the former Turkish capital Istanbul (Constantinople) following the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The government is a prominent employer, but Ankara is also an important commercial and industrial city, located at the center of Turkey's road and railway networks. The city gave its name to the Angora wool shorn from Angora rabbits, the long-haired Angora goat (the source of mohair), and the Angora cat. The area is also known for its pears, honey and muscat grapes. Although situated in one of the driest places of Turkey and surrounded mostly by steppe vegetation except for the forested areas on the southern periphery, Ankara can be considered a green city in terms of green areas per inhabitant, at 72 square metres (775 square feet) per head.Ankara is a very old city with various Hittite, Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, a ...
Albanian nationalism | Wikipedia audio article
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Albanian nationalism
00:02:30 1 History
00:02:39 1.1 Background
00:04:40 1.2 Eastern Crisis and Albanian National Awakening
00:08:44 1.3 Skanderbeg
00:10:35 1.4 Western influences and origin theories
00:14:43 1.5 Geopolitical consequences and legacy
00:19:16 2 Independence and Interwar period
00:26:49 3 World War Two
00:32:16 4 Albanian Nationalism during the People's Republic of Albania (1945–1991)
00:34:34 4.1 Origin theories during communism
00:36:16 4.2 Nationalism and religion
00:37:58 4.3 Name changes
00:39:30 5 Within Yugoslavia (Kosovo and Macedonia)
00:44:26 5.1 Dissidence and rise of nationalism
00:46:24 5.2 Late 1980s and early 1990s
00:48:45 5.3 Kosovo conflict (1990s) and Kosovan independence (2000s)
00:50:26 6 Contemporary Albanian Nationalism in the Balkans
00:50:38 6.1 Albania
00:52:43 6.1.1 Influence of origin theories in contemporary society and politics
00:55:33 6.2 Kosovo and Republic of Macedonia
01:03:55 7 Pan Albanianism and Albanian politics in the Balkans
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Albanian nationalism is a general grouping of nationalist ideas and concepts generated by ethnic Albanians that were first formed in the 19th century during the Albanian National Awakening (Albanian: Rilindja). Albanian nationalism is also associated with similar concepts, such as Albanianism (Shqiptaria or Shqiptarizmi) and Pan-Albanianism, (Panshqiptarizmi) that includes ideas on the creation of a geographically expanded Albanian state or a Greater Albania encompassing adjacent Balkan lands with substantial Albanian populations.
During the late Ottoman period Albanians were mainly Muslims with close ties to the Ottoman Empire. The lack of previous Albanian statehood to draw upon resulted in Albanian nationalism developing later unlike neighbouring nationalisms of the Serbs and Greeks. The onset of the Eastern crisis (1870s) that threatened partition of Balkan Albanian inhabited lands by neighbouring Orthodox Christian states stimulated the emergence of the Rilindja period and nationalist movement. During the 19th century, some Western scholarly influences, Albanian diasporas such as the Arbëresh and Albanian National Awakening figures contributed greatly to spreading influences and ideas among Balkan Albanians within the context of Albanian self-determination. Among those were ideas of an Illyrian contribution to Albanian ethnogenesis which still dominate Albanian nationalism in contemporary times and other ancient peoples claimed as ancestors, in particular the Pelasgians which have been claimed again in recent times.Due to overlapping and competing territorial claims with other Balkan nationalisms and states over land dating from the late Ottoman period, these ideas comprise a national myth that aim to establish precedence over neighboring peoples (Slavs and Greeks) and allow movements for independence and self-determination, as well as irredentist claims against neighboring countries. Pan-Albanian sentiments are also present and historically have been achieved only once when part of Kosovo and western Macedonia was united by Axis Italian forces to their protectorate of Albania during the Second World War. Albanian nationalism contains a series of myths relating to Albanian origins, cultural purity and national homogeneity, religious indifference as the basis of Albanian national identity, and continuing national struggles. The figure of Skanderbeg is one of the main constitutive myths of Albanian nationalism that is based on a person, as other myths are based on ideas, abstract concepts, and collectivism.