Balkan Vernacular Architecture : Macedonia (Under Construction)

Macedonia

Macedonia, formerly a republic in Yugoslavia, declared its intention to leave the Yugoslavia federation and gained its independence peacefully in 1991 (a member of the UN under the name F.Y.R.O. Macedonia). The three principal ethnic groups (Slavic Macedonian, Albanian, and Turkish) have common and specific cultural roots. The complex cultures of Macedonia have strong connections to Greek, Slavonic, Albanian and Ottoman cultures.
The country has three mountainous landscapes (the Dinaric/Pindus Alps, the Šar Planina, and the Rila/Rhodopes), two major Lakes (Ohrid and Prespa) and the Vardar River as important factors in the development of the country's history and the different types of vernacular architecture still found.

Galičnik

Gari

Kruševo

Ohrid

Sveti Jovan Bigorski on the Radika River

Tetevo

Titov Veles (Veles)

Varoš

BVA

Macedonia