It was amazing 🇲🇰

Yay a person who doesn't hate my city

Bitola is Monastir and before that Heraklea, a Greek city. It will be ours again.

We will go back soon it's been too long. Beautiful Macedonia 🙏

Hey Tony thanks so much for the comment and for watching! He was a lovely chap infact pretty much everyone we encountered in Macedonia were just great people. His stuff did look really good! Thanks for all the info I appreciate it, you need to get back to visit! 🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰 Have a great day

Thanks for watching my friend 🇲🇰

We won't even keep what yiu have. Fake country belongs to its 4 neibors.

Thanks so much

Your hometown is beautiful and so is Macedonia 🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰 we love it have a great day thanks for watching.

You mean...NORTHmacedonia.....

It's also my hometown and city

IT IS NOT BITOLA BUT MONASTIRI

@@KanooPhaPha94 stick to your language and we will stick to ours.. its Bitola for us

Hey Gorilla thanks really appreciate it have a top day!

Thanks

Beautiful Bitola 🙏

Beautiful Bitola thanks for watching 🙏🇲🇰

Hey Nedeljko thanks for watching have a great day!

nemoj care mastiku vise od dvije :) drzi se zute tikveske

Hey my friend thanks for watching I appreciate it. No we're not Macedonian atall! We just speak to people as much as possible and try to understand learn little bits, I can read and write Cyrillic too which helps sometimes. We love the country and the people do you ever visit? :)

Ah super cool. We really like Bitola, infact Macedonia as a whole. Would love to return again now. Have a great day thanks for explaining

They are so good we were addicted to them!

Macedonia 🙏🇲🇰

We love Bitola your city and country is super beautiful thankyou for watching!

Hahah we try and learn a little my friend! We do miss Macedonia ❤️🇲🇰

Maybe my friend I can't remember, is Sunday a day of rest in Macedonia then?

@@EllisWR more of a day to spend with family. Also rest up before the new week.

❤️🙏

@@EllisWR EVERY BEST ! ! ! Tatjana from MAKEDONIJA

Ahhh yes!

They have literally everything the pazar is incredible, we love the local cheese, thanks for watching :)

Me who has walked passed it for around 10 years and hasn't noticed it:👁️👄👁️

@@VixaAndSophieOfficial How could you miss the smell?

Macedonia init

Macedonia 🙏

If they don't like it they can watch something else lol. Cheers for watching my friend 🇲🇰

Life is boring without suspicious characters

Typical English Humor ...

Legend!

Don't like don't watch :)

Modern Greece is by no means related either genetically or culturally to the ancient cosmos and the people who once occupied this land. The modern Greeks are just an intermixture of Balkan tribes (Albanians/Arvanites, Slavs, Vlachs) which in the process of time mingled with northern Africans, Armenians and other tribes of Anatolia, not to mention the francs and the venetians who were also dominantly present in this land.” THE SOCIO-CULTURAL ROOTS OF THE Greek ECONOMIC CRISIS Dimitris Epikouris (a Greek)

@@RU-AussieI understand that you are Funny. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irmkh9B-qNrLcp8.html

Okay

And where are you from? We found lots to see all over the country, ohrid & Skopje not even being the best places...

@@EllisWR, it doesn't matter where I'm from. I have been traveling through the Balkans too. Macedonia was one of the most boring countries in the whole Balkans.

Wow cool mate why are you telling me?

@@EllisWR, I was just commenting your video.

We had an amazing time all over the country and met some epic people, a tourist attraction isn't what makes a country worth visiting :)

It's only "north Macedonia " because of useless, corrupt politicians who were quick to change the name to appease whinging Greeks. Politicians will sell their own family for their own agenda

😂 No culture is the same as any culture in antiquity. No place, peoples, language or cultures remain frozen in time for thousands of years. The notion is ludicrous. Besides, the majority of the population of modern Greece is descended form Christian Albanians (the Muslim Albanians were driven out or murdered), Vlachs, "Slavs", Roma and Turks (and many more) so applying your logic, these people are "culturally alien" to ancient Greece. Most are strongly hellenised today. And the northern part of Macedonia, not that long ago in terms of human history, was joined to the southern part before it was divided after the Balkan Wars of 1912/1913.

@@mellake7052 Modern Greek is the continuation of Ancient Greek, while Slavic languages are different to ancient Greek. Recent DNA studies from Harvard geneticist Iosif Lazaridis published in ''Nature '' magazine , prove that modern Greeks have a big % of the same DNA as Minoans and Mycenaeans (Genetic origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans, 2017). No serious scientist disputed these findings yet. So your argument about modern Greeks being Christian Albanians is false.

@@johnsinger1887 Nothing false at all, unless you're calling Greek academics liars. Read Greek professors such as Professor M Efthimiou and you'll learn that around 40% of the population of Greece (the former Morea) was of Albanian roots at the time this nation was created by the west (1832) [Travellers and observers state it was as high as 60% but let's stick to academia.] The remainder were largely "Slavs", Vlachs, Roma and Turks, though a form of Greek was spoken by some due to the continuation through the church, as that was the only church language at the time. In that biased genetics "study", the mostly Greek Americans who conducted it (many times over until they achieved results they were aiming for) have conceded that they did not observe proper methodology, aside from the fact that their conclusions were just that - conclusions - and not facts. Besides, the ethnicity of those from whom the ancient matter was taken can never be known. The Slavonic language has been spoken in Greece and in particular, all of Salonika, (which until 1913 was part of Macedonia, never previously part of Greece) since well before the 'Cyril and Methodius, the Apostles to the Slavs' spread Slavonic literacy as far as present-day Czechia. When "Greece" was created, the authorities removed the Slavonic toponyms (though some still remain in the south) and replaced them with ancient Greek names as suggested by the Bavarian and English creators. They later forcibly changed all the people's names, not just toponyms to give the illusion of continuity. Slavonic, as spoken in Macedonia, including the part taken by Greece after the Balkan Wars, retains some Homeric vocabulary, though the people adopted the Slavonic tongue - as many cultures have done throughout history. Just like the Mexicans speak Spanish but they are neither Spanish, nor even European. But you are partially correct in your first comment - Macedonians do share genetic commonalities with mainland Greeks (islander Greeks are quite different) pointing to the fact they are similar peoples who are indigenous to the region but who, linguistically and culturally, developed differently over the centuries. But keep in mind that when these companies state the customers ethnicity, it is not ethnicity at all as ethnicity is a social construct and no DNA test can ever determine that. The tests reveal which region of peoples the customer shares the most DNA with. Check the ethnicity map for the My Heritage Macedonia page and you will see that over 80% of the population shares genetic DNA with those in Greece and Albania (keeping in mind that they don't literally mean ethnicity but rather, region. The Greek language has been created to fit in with the ancient Hellenes myth concocted by Droysen and Co. And I'm afraid modern Greek is an invented language which has been experimented with so much that it was not standardized until 1976.

@@johnsinger1887 Greek academic, N Dimou: *“It was a first in the history of linguistics:* the CREATION OF AN ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE,* a retro-dialect. All impurities were rooted out, place names were changed, HISTORY WAS DISTORTED-for the sake of proving...what? That Greece was not a Balkan nation like the others, but a racially pure aristocracy, not only of the region but of the whole world. Like certain pseudo-bluebloods who fake their family trees to prove their superiority.”* *“So we had to resort to dreams: as the extreme descendants of classical Athens, we were superior to Europeans in all cultural and intellectual abilities, as descendants of the Byzantine Empire, we legitimately claimed its heritage. We bet on *an ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE that we CONSTRUCTED* to prove that we were the continuation of the ancients and, as strangers were indifferent to our high achievements, we denounced them out loud and envied them in silence.”* Alexis Politis: interview with Elpidoforos Intzebelis 2019 Professor Politis from University of Thessaloniki, Paris & Crete

@@mellake7052 ''Modern Greeks resemble the Mycenaeans, but with some additional dilution of the early Neolithic ancestry''. This is what the ground-breaking study of Iosif Lazaridis is saying (and he is Greek , born and raised in Kavala, not Greek-American as you say). The majority of the writters of this study are non Greeks (even two Turks in the study) so again you are caught saying false things. People who are familiar with science know that 99,9% of scientist can't get a study published in ''Nature'' and ''Science'' magazines, which have the biggest impact factors in the world.They are the ''creme de la creme '' of science. I regard as facts things which have to do with countable and material things and not theories and DNA is a material thing. No scientists, even Slavs , have disputed with scientific facts this study yet. So it is very valid and even if you say tons of lies ,it's easy to uncover your lies. Many Greek academics (just like English , German etc) say silly things , this is not an argument really.Theories are not important, only science is. Greek was not an artificial language because even simple people wrote and spoke in Greek like the ''Makriyannis memoirs ''. There are countless of books written in Greek during the ottoman empire by simple people. Mexicans speak Spanish because they were conquered by the Spanish, while ancient Macedonians were never conquered by Athens or Sparta. They spoke and wrote in Greek bc they were Greeks too. No matter how many falsehoods you bring the scientific community regard modern Greeks racially and culturally as the continuation of ancient Greeks. Only poor Slav nationalists like you try with lies to change history , but they fail miserably.Accept the truth and you will feel better.

Cheers for watching.

@@EllisWR My pleasure, we'll be living there one day.

lol ^^ we will see ^^ dont forget that if albanians get their autoniomy they are coming for north-western Greece as well ^^ so good luck with that :) and Hheraclea was long gone when Bitola was established by the ottoman empire..its two different cities..check your facts

You'll have to get through the Romans first 😂😂😂

Sonuvaj si ti kako sakas

we love macedonia