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Golden Mask Alike the Trebenista One Excavated
| 30 September 2002 Sensational Finding at Samoil Fortress. This is an epochal discovery for the Macedonian, Balkan and European archaeology since it sheds additional scientific light to the widely famous Trebenista necropolis near Ohrid. |
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The Rosetta Stone third language
| Discovered in Egypt in 1799, the writings on the Rosetta Stone date to 196 B.C. The text is transcribed in three languages, and the stone is considered a critical key to deciphering ancient script, especially the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. Just last month Macedonian scholars Boshevski and Tentov said that the third language on the stone was Macedonian, and not a form of ancient Egyptian known as Demotic, as had been thought. |
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| | Macedonian Mardi Gras
| If you missed New Orleans and Rio, you can still visit a place where orgies and revelry are part of the annual calendar, but about a month later, when Eastern Orthodox church calendars mark the onset of Lenten fasting. |
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In the church of St. Dimitrija there is a statue of Jozef Obremsky. He was a polish anthropologist who spent 30 years studying the local customs. His heritage includes 3 books and 550 photographs on glass. | A Church for Every Day of the Year
| If you really want a lot of that “old time religion”, be sure to visit Lake Ohrid in Macedonia. Legend has it that in Ohrid there were 365 churches dating from the 4th century A.D. and onwards |
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| A Place Called “Womb”
| Matka is a small community just outside Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. Matka is also the Macedonian word for “womb.” A lovely convent near the Tresca River Canyon – dramatically cleaving granite cliffs – is named for Mary, mother of Jesus, and is dedicated to mothers “from whom all human life flows.” |
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| The Monastery St. Triphun -Govrlevo
| Has several smaller churches within its premises. It is located on a beautiful hill and has a central position. The monastery overviews the wonderful area on the south slopes of Vodno. |
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GEE WHIZ! items of Macedonia
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Macedonia’s Lake Ohrid is one of the deepest and oldest in Europe |
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All fruits and vegetables are grown organically in Macedonia; tomatoes and peppers are legendary |
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Lake Mavrovo feeds two seas through two rivers: Radika empties into the Adriatic; Vardar empties into the Aegean Sea |
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Macedonia has literally thousands of sites where relics can be found going back 3800 years |
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Macedonia’s mountains are numerous; Shar Planina our Macedonian Alps, have 43 peaks and a height of 2500 meters (over 7500 feet) |
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70 or more monasteries are located in Macedonia, a country that also features many churches and Islamic mosques |
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Tresca River canyon at Matka features almost perpendicular scarps that rival the monoliths at major US and Australian national parks |
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Wildlife in forests and savannas of Macedonia include bear, wolves, goats, and deer; kiosks can be reserved for either open hunting or shooting at corralled game |
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Hot thermal baths are scattered throughout this seismically active region; many are used for therapeutic treatments |
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Macedonia has discovered its own Stonehenge, an ancient astronomical observatory created by a civilized tribe of sun worshippers in 1800 BC |
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Rock formations at the valley of Dolls near Kumanovo resemble those of Bryce Canyon National Park in UT, USA |
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The village of Kratovo, with homes scattered over steep hills, resembles Sausalito, CA’s hillsides; the town has legendary security towers rising from the floor of an ancient volcano’s crater (Krat, in Macedonian) |
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The mountain town of Galicnik, halfway between Skopje and Ohrid, features a worldwide wedding festival every July, where couples travel as mutual “chosen ones” to tie the knot in colorful traditional garb amid festival joy and celebration | |
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