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St. Nicholas Šiševski Monastery
St. Nicholas Šiševski Monastery is a North Macedonia, Macedonian Eastern Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christian medieval monastery located near the village of Šiševo, high above the cliffs overlooking the canyon of the Treska River in North Macedonia. Location St. Nicholas Šiševski Monastery is located at about 480 m above sea level high on a terraced slope of mount Vodno, 160 m above the right bank of the artificial Matka (lake), lake Matka on the Treska River. The terrain is inaccessible to motor vehicles and mountain bikes and can only be reached on foot from three directions: from the bridge over the Treska River near the kayaking area close to the Matka Monastery in Dolna Matka (a half-hour walk); from the village of Šiševo (1 hour); and from the summit of Mount Vodno (2 hours and 30 minutes). It is located 18 km away from the city of Skopje, and approximately 3 km from the village of Šiševo. On the opposite side of the monastery, below the lake, there is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saraj Municipality
Saraj (, ) is one of the ten municipalities that make up the city of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia. * '' Saraj'', which means "palace" in Turkish, is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. ** It is a rural municipality and it is not part of the urban core of Skopje proper. Geography Saraj borders * Jegunovce Municipality to the northwest, * Želino Municipality to the southwest, * Sopište Municipality to the south, * Karpoš Municipality and Ǵorče Petrov Municipality to the east, and * Kosovo to the north. History In the early 2000s municipal boundaries within Macedonia in some areas were redrawn. During difficult negotiations the governing Macedonian Social Democrats (SDSM) gave in to the request of its Albanian coalition partner that wanted Albanians within Skopje to surpass the 20% population mark by attaching two rural Albanian inhabited municipalities, Saraj and Kondovo. The municipalities attachment to the capital ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
