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Bitola - The old town
Bitola - the town of the tradesmen, consulates and pianos, the town of Bitola. In the end of the 19th century, due to its location, the most mannerly town - as many people define it, turned into a chief strategic, military, administrative, political, trading, and cultural center of the European Part of the Ottoman Empire. As a site of the Bitola Vilayet, with its seven markets, the Bezisten, over 1000 craftsmen and 2000 stores, Bitola presented a key center of the trading between Vienna and Istanbul. The rich Bitola guildsmen and tradesmen built magnificent object of which the old city style has given Bitola an authentic and national character.
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