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Museum Of Macedonia
The Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia ( mk, Музеј на Република Северна Македонија, translit=Muzej na Republika Severna Makedonija), formerly and still unofficially known as the Museum of Macedonia ( mk, Музеј на Македонија, translit=Muzej na Makedonija), is a national institution in North Macedonia and one of the oldest museums in the country. It is located in the Old Bazaar in Skopje, near the Skopje Fortress. The Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia was created by joining three museum in one. The three museum that were unified were the archaeological, historical and ethnological museum, of which the archaeological museum was the oldest one; it was opened in 1924 and that date is considered as an establishing date of the national museum. During the existence of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, the museum was known as People's Museum of Macedonia. The museum has got total area of 10.000 m², of which 6000 m² are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Bazaar, Skopje
The Old Bazaar ( mk, Стара чаршија, ''Stara čaršija''; ; tr, Eski Çarşı or Üsküp Türk Çarşısı) is a bazaar located in Skopje, North Macedonia, situated on the eastern bank of the Vardar River, stretching from the Stone Bridge to the Bit-Pazar and from the Skopje Fortress to the Serava river.Стара скопска чаршија: За чаршијата , ''staracarsija.mk''. The Old Bazaar falls primarily within the borders of but a part of it is located in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valandovo
Valandovo ( mk, Валандово ) is a small town in southeastern North Macedonia. The city is the seat of Valandovo Municipality. History Ancient Period Evidence of life can be found beginning in the 10th-7th centuries B.C. There is a settlement known as Mal Konstantinopol (Small Constantinople) dating from Roman times, and the life in the Middle Ages is marked by Markovi Kuli. In the vicinity of the town there is also a very important archaeological site known as Isar and is located at the village of Marvinci. Also, very interesting and important discoveries are the ancient mosaics of Valandovo, the necropolis discovered near Dedeli dating from the Iron Age, the monastery and the church dedicated to St. George, etc. On the hill Isar, at the village of Marvinci near the town of Valandovo, there is a community from the early antique period that belonged to the southern Macedonian area called Amphacsitida (Αμφαξίτις) in Ancient Greek meaning "from both sides of Axios ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Museums
A national museum is a museum maintained and funded by a national government. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, while other museums are run by regional or local governments. In other countries a much greater number of museums are run by the central government. The following is an incomplete list of national museums: Albania The Albanian government operates several national museums, including: * National History Museum (Albania) * National Museum of Education (Albania) * National Museum of Medieval Art (Albania) * Marubi National Museum of Photography Argentina The Argentinian Ministry of Culture operates several national museums, including: * Historical House of the Independence Museum * Museo Casa de Rogelio Yrurtia * Museo Mitre * Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) * National Historical Museum (Argentina) * National Museum of Decorative Arts * National Museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution * Sarmiento Historical Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums Established In 1924
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums In North Macedonia
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorno Vranovci
Gorno Vranovci ( mk, Горно Врановци, sq, Vranoc i Epërm) is a village in the municipality of Čaška, North Macedonia. The village has an Albanian school and a mosque. History The village was traditionally inhabited by a Torbeš population. Their ancestors were Mijaks who converted to Islam during the 16th century and migrated from the Mala Reka region in the Debar area at the end of the 17th until the 19th centuries to central Macedonia establishing villages such as Gorno Vranovci. p. 126. "Еден дел од торбешката група, кои на крајот на XVII век и во почетокот на XVIII-иот, во времето на големите миграциони движења во Македонија, ја напуштило старата територија (Дебарско) и се преселило во централните области на Македонија. Така се формирале шет торбешки ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galičnik
Galičnik ( mk, Галичник) is a mountain village in North Macedonia and along with Lazaropole is one of the two biggest and oldest Mijak villages in the region. Galičnik has well-preserved traditional architecture, including an amphitheater in the village square, and is famous for its surrounding countryside and nature reserve. People from Galičnik and northwestern North Macedonia appreciate the local yellow cheese kaškaval (''Kashkaval'') that is produced in the region as well as the local salt brine white cheese "belo sirenje" which is a homemade speciality for this region. Location It is located on the slopes of the Bistra Mountain, some 10 km from the artificial Mavrovo Lake and the ''Zare Lazarevski'' winter resort. History The village is located in the ethnographic region of " Mijačija", named after the Mijaks (Мијаци/Mijaci), the tribe historically inhabiting this mountainous region. This region has plentiful rich pastures for livestock grazing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bituše
Bituše ( mk, Битуше) is a village in the municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuša, North Macedonia. Demographics Bituše is attested in the Ottoman '' defter'' of 1467 as a village in the ziamet of Reka which was under the authority of Karagöz Bey. The village had a total of three households and the anthroponymy attested alludes to an Albanian character. According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 96 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:Macedonian Census (2002) ''Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion'' The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 135. * Macedonians 95 *Serbs 1 As of the 2021 census, Bituše had 161 residents with the following ethnic composition: *Macedonians 128 *Others (including Torbeš The Macedonian Muslims ( mk, Македонци-муслимани, Makedonci-muslimani), also known as Muslim Macedonians or ''Torbeši'' ( mk, Торбеши), and in some sources gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kočani
Kočani ( mk, Кочани ) is a town in the eastern part of North Macedonia, situated around east from Skopje. It has a population of 28,330 and is the seat of the Kočani Municipality. Geography and population The town spreads across the Northern side of the Kočani valley, along the banks of the Kočani river, where it leaves the mountain slopes and flows through the valley. North of the town there is the Osogovo mountain () and to the south the valley is closed by the mountain Plačkovica (). The town is above sea level. Kočani spreads over an area of and has population of 28,330 inhabitants which makes it the third regional center in the Eastern part of the country: * 1948 - 6,657 inhabitants * 1994 - 26,364 inhabitants * 2002 - 28,330 inhabitants Demographics Ethnic structure According to the 1903 Austrian consular reports on ethnic composition of the kazas of the Sanjak of Skopje in 1903, the kaza of Kočani was populated by a total of 39,406 inhabitants, of whom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Macedonia
North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It is a landlocked country bordering Kosovo to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south, and Albania to the west. It constitutes approximately the northern third of the larger geographical region of Macedonia. Skopje, the capital and largest city, is home to a quarter of the country's 1.83 million people. The majority of the residents are ethnic Macedonians, a South Slavic people. Albanians form a significant minority at around 25%, followed by Turks, Romani, Serbs, Bosniaks, Aromanians and a few other minorities. The region's history begins with the kingdom of Paeonia, a mixed Thraco- Illyrian polity. In the late sixth century BC, the area was subjugated by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipality Of Resen
Resen ( mk, Ресен ) is a municipality in southwestern Republic of North Macedonia. '' Resen'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Resen Municipality is located in the Pelagonia Statistical Region. Geography The municipality borders Ohrid Municipality to the west, Demir Hisar Municipality to the northeast, Bitola Municipality to the east, and Greece and Albania to the south. Demographics According to the last national census from 2021, Resen Municipality has 14,373 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the municipality include: Mother tongues in the municipality include: * Macedonian = 12,943 (76.9%) * Albanian = 1,885 (11.2%) * Turkish = 1,766 (10.5%) * Roma = 113 (0.7%) * others. Religions in the municipality include: * Orthodox = 12,599 (74.9%) * Muslim = 3,927 (23.3%) * others. Orthodox Macedonians inhabit all settlements in the municipality of Resen, except Kozjak and Gorna Bela Crkva. During the late Ottoman period, Macedonian Muslims use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuršumli An
Kursumli An ( mk, Куршумли ан, , tr, Kurşunlu han) is an Ottoman caravanserai located in the Old Town of Skopje. It is in the area of Museum of Macedonia The Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia ( mk, Музеј на Република Северна Македонија, translit=Muzej na Republika Severna Makedonija), formerly and still unofficially known as the Museum of Macedonia ( mk, М .... It has served as an inn and as a prison. Kursumli An was built in the 15th or 16th century. There were stables for 100 horses. The walls form a square but roof consists of pyramid-shaped domes. The domes were originally covered in lead, and this is why the serai is called "Lead Bazaar." Ground floor rooms were used for storage, upper floor for sleeping quarters. The building also featured rooms for livestock. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kursumli An Macedonian culture Museums in North Macedonia Buildings and structures in Skopje Ottoman caravanserais Bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
