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Where is Skopje, Macedonia? – Skopje, Macedonia Map – Skopje, Macedonia Map Download Free

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Skopje, Macedonia Leaving Bulgaria behind, we head west through Mediterranean Europe. Our first stop is Macedonia, the ancient nation sandwiched both culturally and geographically between Bulgaria, Greece, Albania and two fellow former Yugoslav republics, Serbia and Kosovo. Like Bulgaria before it, the Macedonian contribution to our language isn’t as robust as it is elsewhere. However, there is at least one word here that’s worth stopping to admire: Macedoine is a French word of modern coinage It means a mixture of different fruits iced, such as confectioners prepare for desserts; also a round game at cards, when each player chooses his

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TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE

editor — Tue, 02 May 2017 20:43:56 +0000

The architecture in every place is moulded according to the special and local historic, social, economic and environmental conditions. Especially in Thrace with the richness of the cultural elements that still survive in our days, the architecture acquires many expressions and a single aesthetic, not only in its form but also in the materials that are used in order to construct a building. Apart from a really classic distinction between mountainous and coastal styles, in the area we can surely note all the characteristics of the continental as well as the island architecture. A very characteristic example is the built-up

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Fonias” gorge, Samothraki

editor — Tue, 02 May 2017 20:37:14 +0000

In the region as well as in the mountainous parts of Rodopi we can find 60% of the whole European flora flourishing here. In the region of Xanthi the relief of the soil, is favorable for the creation of forests either in the sandy or in the semi-mountai-nous areas and even in the mountainous zones northwards in the region. At the low and intermediate altitude mountains, there occurs apple trees, nut trees oak trees, chestnut trees, slivers etc. At altitudes higher than 800-900 meters, there spread beautiful beech trees and a bit higher there flourish mixed beech, pine and red

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MACEDONIA MOUNTAINOUS TOURISM

editor — Tue, 02 May 2017 20:31:01 +0000

But also the journey by train from Xanthi to Stavroupoli gives an alternative way to cross the narrow straits of Nestos. At the same time there exists the possibility to cross the straits by boat, which would be the easiest way, like the journey Paranesti-Stavroupoli by rafting. People who are lovers of canoe-kayak can enjoy a very beautiful passage from Stavroupoli to Toxotes (for further information contact the agencies: Vistonis +30 (0) 5410 21 084, Maiandros +30 (0) 5420 22690, Strovilos +30 (0) 5410 93700, Forestland +30 (0) 5410 62488). In the mountainous region of Xanthi the shelters Leivaditis and

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MACEDONIA TOURISM

editor — Tue, 02 May 2017 20:26:16 +0000

The mountainous complex in the region of Rodopi as well as the rest of the mountains not only in the continental Thrace but also in the Eastern Macedonia, and in both the islands of Samothraki and Thassos, give the chance to visitors for tours, activities and sightseeing. The island if Samothraki offers the chance to march on the difficult to approach gorge of “Gria Vathra” near Loutra, it has the spectacular falls of Fonias, and it gives the chance to climbing up to the peak of Feggari at the mountain Saos. These are some of the most wonderful destinations during

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MACEDONIA CITIES

editor — Tue, 02 May 2017 20:14:58 +0000

Some kilometers distant from the city of Kavala, there is another very well known village called Nea Karvali, there is kept the miraculous corps of Saint “Gregorios Theologos”, which was brought to Greece from Kappadocia, together with the refugees that came back in Greece in 1924. Fifteen kilometers from Kavala towards the city of Drama, we can see the remains of the first Christian city of Europe the city of Philippoi, where Apostle Paul preached for the Christian world for the first time in the European region in 49 A.D. and baptized the first European Christian Lydia, in the waters

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Holiday in Macedonia

editor — Tue, 02 May 2017 20:06:16 +0000

At the religious museum of the Metropoli of Alexandroupoli (for further information contact: +30(0) 5510 82282), the visitor can find very interesting and precious exhibits, as icons from the period of the dynasty of Palaiologoi (14th -15th century), headstone from the tomb of Isaakios Komninos (12th century) holly utensils etc. The metropolitan church of the city of Komotini is unique because of its architecture but also has a great religious value, the Byzantine castle, constructed on the foundation of a Byzantine church, and at a lower level of the level of the surface of the soil, because according to the

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