Visit Macedonia – Holidays and Tours

Fast Facts

• Land Area: 25,713 km²
• Population: 2 million
• Bordering states: Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania
• Time Zone: Central European (GMT +1)
• Telephone code: +389
• Unit of Currency: Macedonian Denar (MKD)
• Independence Day: September 8 (Declared in 1991)
• Major Cities: Skopje (capital); Bitola; Tetovo; Ohrid; Prilep; Strumica; Štip, Kumanovo
• Principle Airports: Skopje Alexander the Great, Ohrid Apostle Paul

Did You Know

• The Cyrillic alphabet was created here in the 9^th century, by monks Kliment and Naum- at the Slavic world’s first university, in Ohrid.
• Macedonia boasts 16 mountain peaks higher than 2,000m (6,562 ft).
• A Macedonian rose wine, Stanosina, has been cultivated since Roman times from grapes that only exist here.
• Revered Catholic nun Mother Teresa was born in Macedonia, Skopje in 1910.
• The megalithic observatory of Kokino, in northeastern Macedonia, is considered among the top four most important such sites by NASA.
• Catfish in Macedonian lakes can reach up to 200 kilos in weight.

PLACES NOT TO MISS in Macedonia

• Matka
• Kokino
• Saint John the Baptist Monastery
• Ohrid
• Saint Naum Ohridski

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