Bitola (mkd)

Bitola

Bitola ranks 1,233rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Indore, Valletta, and Alcalá de Henares. Memorable people born in Bitola include Nexhmije Hoxha, Miljan Miljanić, and Nuri Killigil. Bitola has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians. Bitola is located in North Macedonia.

Bitola is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, 14 kilometres north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing with Greece. The city stands at an important junction connecting the south of the Adriatic Sea region with the Aegean Sea and Central Europe, and it is an administrative, cultural, industrial, commercial, and educational centre. It has been known since the Ottoman period as the "City of Consuls", since many European countries had consulates in Bitola. Read more on Wikipedia