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Bitola

Bitola

Bitola is a grand old town that still bears the marks of its turn-of-the-century importance as a center for diplomacy – while also exemplifying the country's time-honored cafe culture.
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  • Type: City with 74,600 residents
  • Description: city in Pelagonia, North Macedonia
  • Also known as: “Bitol”, “Bitolya”, “Manastir”, “Monasteron”, and “Monastir”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gazi Hajdar Kadi Mosque and Isak Mosque.

Mosque
Photo: гитардемон, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , is a mosque, situated in Bitola, . In the past the religious building has been transformed into a warehouse by the local Macedonian authorities.

Mosque
Photo: Raso mk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ishak Çelebi Mosque is the largest mosque in Bitola, . It is situated along the north bank of the Dragor River. This area was known as Bit-Pazar in the quarter of Emir Bey or Eyne Bey, also known as Ishak Çelebi mahalle.

Railway station
Photo: PetarM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the railway station of Bitola in , .

Bitola

Latitude
41.0316° or 41° 1′ 54″ north
Longitude
21.3303° or 21° 19′ 49″ east
Population
74,600
Elevation
583 metres (1,913 feet)
IATA airport code
QBI
United Nations Location Code
MK BTL
Open location code
8GH328JJ+J4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1812231434
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
792578
Wiki­data ID
Q157246
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Akan to Wu Chinese—“Bitola” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Bitola”
  • Albanian: “Bitola”
  • Albanian: “Manastiri”
  • Arabic: “بوتلي”
  • Arabic: “بيتولا”
  • Arabic: “بیتولا”
  • Armenian: “Բիտոլա”
  • Asturian: “Bitola”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bitola”
  • Azerbaijani: “Monastır”
  • Basque: “Bitola”
  • Belarusian: “Бітала”
  • Bengali: “বিতোলা”
  • Bosnian: “Bitola”
  • Bosnian: “Bitolj”
  • Breton: “Bitola”
  • Bulgarian: “Битола”
  • Bulgarian: “Битолско”
  • Bulgarian: “Битоля”
  • Catalan: “Bitola”
  • Catalan: “Bitòlia”
  • Catalan: “Manastir”
  • Catalan: “Битола”
  • Cebuano: “Bitola”
  • Chechen: “Битола”
  • Chinese: “Bitola”
  • Chinese: “比托拉”
  • Church Slavic: “Обитѣль”
  • Croatian: “Bitola”
  • Croatian: “Bitolj”
  • Czech: “Bitola”
  • Danish: “Bitola”
  • Danish: “Manastir”
  • Dutch: “Bitola”
  • Dutch: “Manastır”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيتولا”
  • Esperanto: “Bitola”
  • Estonian: “Bitola”
  • Finnish: “Bitola”
  • French: “Bitola”
  • French: “Manastır”
  • French: “Monastir”
  • Galician: “Bitola”
  • Georgian: “ბიტოლა”
  • German: “Bitola”
  • German: “Manastir”
  • German: “Битола”
  • Greek: “Βιτώλια”
  • Greek: “Μοναστήρι” (historical)
  • Greek: “Μοναστήριον” (historical)
  • Greek: “Μπίτολα (Μοναστήρι)”
  • Greek: “Μπίτολα”
  • Gujarati: “બિટોલા”
  • Hebrew: “ביטולה”
  • Hebrew: “מונאסטיר”
  • Hebrew: “מונסטיר”
  • Hindi: “बिटोला”
  • Hungarian: “Bitola”
  • Indonesian: “Bitola”
  • Interlingue: “Bitola”
  • Irish: “Bitola”
  • Italian: “Bitola”
  • Italian: “Manastiri”
  • Japanese: “ビトラ”
  • Javanese: “Bitola”
  • Javanese: “Manastır”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಟೋಲಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Manastïr”
  • Kazakh: “Манастир”
  • Kazakh: “ماناستىير”
  • Korean: “마나스트르”
  • Korean: “마나스티리”
  • Korean: “비톨라”
  • Latin: “Bitolia”
  • Latin: “Monasterium”
  • Latin: “Pelagonia”
  • Latvian: “Bitola”
  • Latvian: “Monastira”
  • Lithuanian: “Bitola”
  • Lithuanian: “Bitolis”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bitule”
  • Macedonian: “Битола”
  • Malay: “Bitola”
  • Marathi: “बिटोला”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bitola”
  • Mingrelian: “ბიტოლა”
  • Moksha: “Битола”
  • Nauru: “Bitola”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bitola”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bitola”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bitola”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Битола”
  • Norwegian: “Bitola”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Bitola”
  • Ossetian: “Битолæ”
  • Persian: “بیتولا”
  • Polish: “Bitola”
  • Polish: “Bitoła”
  • Portuguese: “Bitola”
  • Pushto: “بیتولا”
  • Romanian: “Bitola”
  • Romanian: “Bitolia”
  • Romanian: “Monastir”
  • Russian: “Битола”
  • Russian: “Битоль”
  • Russian: “Манастир”
  • Russian: “Монастир”
  • Scots: “Bitola”
  • Serbian: “Bitolj”
  • Serbian: “Битола”
  • Serbian: “Битоля”
  • Serbian: “Битољ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bitola”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bitolj”
  • Silesian: “Bitola”
  • Sinhala: “බිටෝලා”
  • Slovak: “Bitola”
  • Slovenian: “Bitola”
  • Slovenian: “Bitolj”
  • Slovenian: “Monastir”
  • Spanish: “Bitola”
  • Spanish: “Manastir”
  • Spanish: “Manastır”
  • Swedish: “Bitola”
  • Swedish: “Bitolj”
  • Swedish: “Korzo”
  • Swedish: “Manastır”
  • Swedish: “Monsatir”
  • Tamil: “பீடோலா”
  • Tatar: “Битола”
  • Telugu: “బిటోలా”
  • Thai: “บิตอลา”
  • Thai: “บิโตลา”
  • Turkish: “Bitola”
  • Turkish: “Manastır, Kuzey Makedonya”
  • Turkish: “Manastır”
  • Ukrainian: “Битола”
  • Ukrainian: “Бітола”
  • Ukrainian: “Бітоль”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bitola”
  • Urdu: “بیتولا”
  • Vietnamese: “Bitola”
  • Volapük: “Bitola”
  • Welsh: “Bitola”
  • Western Armenian: “Պիթոլա”
  • Western Frisian: “Bitola”
  • Wu Chinese: “比托拉”
  • “Bitola”
  • “Bitule”

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