Underrated MACEDONIA | BITOLA Bazaar & Typical Balkan Market 🇲🇰
Join us as we explore the beautiful city of Bitola here in sunny Macedonia 🇲🇰
We checked out the windy streets of the old bazaar (one of our favourites in the balkans) then headed to the shirok sokak which is the main pedestrian walking street in Bitola and always brimming with life every hour of the day.
We spent quite a bit of time wandering around the green Market or covered market and got some halva aswell as a grape drink which is basically liquid crack, we got a few more bits including some dried fruits from a lovely lady and met many friendly locals all willing to chat.
Macedonia is becoming one of our all time favourites it's really shining I don't get why there are no tourists here there missing out on so much, oh well more for us to enjoy! 🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰
0:00 Intro+Chat
2:00 Shirok sokak walking street
3:29 Beautiful church
3:59 Typical breakfast burek+yoghurt
5:46 Old bazaar
8:00 Green markets/trying halva+grape drink
10:25 Green markets vendors interactions
14:37 Trying dried fruit we bought
15:35 Bit of a walk and outro
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#macedonia #bitola #northmacedonia
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Bitola was my favourite city in Macedonia 🇲🇰
@EllisWR
2 жыл бұрын
It was amazing 🇲🇰
@VixaAndSophieOfficial
Жыл бұрын
Yay a person who doesn't hate my city
@connappliedscience4973
5 ай бұрын
Bitola is Monastir and before that Heraklea, a Greek city. It will be ours again.
great video. I am writing from California but I finished college in Bitola. thank you for showing respect for the macedonians and using just Macedonia because we all know that north is forcibly attached. cheers
@EllisWR
4 ай бұрын
We will go back soon it's been too long. Beautiful Macedonia 🙏
Well done guys greetings from MACEDONIA UNITED Pirin Vardar Aegean Macedonia ☀️☀️☀️🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰.
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching my friend 🇲🇰
@connappliedscience4973
5 ай бұрын
We won't even keep what yiu have. Fake country belongs to its 4 neibors.
Thanks for visiting my hometown. I hope you enjoyed your time in Bitola, the republic of MACEDONIA!
@EllisWR
2 жыл бұрын
Your hometown is beautiful and so is Macedonia 🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰 we love it have a great day thanks for watching.
@patriotm.4117
Жыл бұрын
You mean...NORTHmacedonia.....
@VixaAndSophieOfficial
Жыл бұрын
It's also my hometown and city
@KanooPhaPha94
Жыл бұрын
IT IS NOT BITOLA BUT MONASTIRI
@darkodarko9
Жыл бұрын
@@KanooPhaPha94 stick to your language and we will stick to ours.. its Bitola for us
Bro, I have to agree with 'ryermkd' that conversation with the chap at the market was natural. I think you made his day actually. When he mentioned London, he was asking if you were from there. The peppers in the bottles were pickled in brine and were hot. His paprika was the best quality and perfect for dipping 'kebabchina' in and other bbq meat. Those little roasted nut type things you tried in the market were roasted chickpeas. I'm so envious of you now; I haven't been since 2019.
@EllisWR
2 жыл бұрын
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
This is the town where i grown up and ny birth town. Thanks for visiting Bitola. Greetings❤
@EllisWR
8 ай бұрын
Beautiful Bitola thanks for watching 🙏🇲🇰
Love from Greece 🇬🇷❤️🇲🇰☮️✌🏻
Are you guys part Macedonian by any chance? You seemed to be understanding the shop keepers to a certain extent! Especially the guy at 13min, I was impressed as a Canadian with Macedonian roots myself. It's actually a very easy language to learn is largely phonetic in spelling, but perhaps that's due to me knowing the basics as a child so it was easier for me to pick up.
@EllisWR
2 жыл бұрын
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? :)
Great vid buddy , you & your partner doing a great job Bitola & Macedonia 🇲🇰 look great 👍
@EllisWR
2 ай бұрын
Thanks so much
Great video of Bitola. Thank you. Bitola in my ❤
@EllisWR
2 ай бұрын
Beautiful Bitola 🙏
Ellis,pozdravi mi lepu trgovkinju sa pijace,, pozdrav Bitoli,,vod.staza,,,🇲🇰ime nema da zagine,,,pozz.Resen,Ohrid,Struga,Debar,Banjiste(karaula) BITOLA,,,🇲🇰🌸🍷⚽❤🍽🌅👍👏🇲🇰pozdrav Bitoli,ah sta bih dao da popijem kavu i mastiku u najlepsoj Bitoli!❤👍🇲🇰
@EllisWR
2 жыл бұрын
Hey Nedeljko thanks for watching have a great day!
@darkodarko9
Жыл бұрын
nemoj care mastiku vise od dvije :) drzi se zute tikveske
Love you guys, awesome city, awesome video.
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Hey Gorilla thanks really appreciate it have a top day!
@VixaAndSophieOfficial
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
Nice Macedonian flag,some people don’t like it,mostly Greek trolls.
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
If they don't like it they can watch something else lol. Cheers for watching my friend 🇲🇰
Lepa moja Bitola u kojoj sam uzivao 7 meseci,hvala Bitola,Resen,Ohrid,Struga,Debar,Banjiste,, najlepsi deo Evrope,,,Bitola,Fk,,Pelister,Epinal,Dragor,,,,MK ime nema da zagine,,,,hvala studenti MK,,,🇲🇰❤🌸🌅⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽🍽🍷👏👏👏👍
@EllisWR
9 ай бұрын
Macedonia 🙏🇲🇰
At 16:48 you are directly in front of my cousins place, and also walked past where I stay every year when I go there. The romani - gypsies are dodgy but they don't bother you. I'm glad you did the old bazaar (pazar). Bitola is the best and my favourite place in all of Macedonia. At the olive section the lady was explaining that the ones on the left were with pits, and the ones (that you got) on the right were without the pits! Go Man U 😀
@EllisWR
7 ай бұрын
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
keep it up
@EllisWR
5 күн бұрын
Thanks!!
Like how you guys are picking up random Macedonian words...already closing in on A2 level 😉
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Hahah we try and learn a little my friend! We do miss Macedonia ❤️🇲🇰
❤❤❤❤❤
@EllisWR
8 ай бұрын
❤️🙏
@tatjanavelkova5814
5 ай бұрын
@@EllisWR EVERY BEST ! ! ! Tatjana from MAKEDONIJA
9:41 i buy those drinks all the time and i love them
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
They are so good we were addicted to them!
I beleive the juice you are drinking may be blueberry drink - borovinka
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Ahhh yes!
Was it a Sunday? People don't go out much on Sundays
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Maybe my friend I can't remember, is Sunday a day of rest in Macedonia then?
@zoranilijevski2758
Жыл бұрын
@@EllisWR more of a day to spend with family. Also rest up before the new week.
You missed the cheese section of the pazar
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
They have literally everything the pazar is incredible, we love the local cheese, thanks for watching :)
@VixaAndSophieOfficial
Жыл бұрын
Me who has walked passed it for around 10 years and hasn't noticed it:👁️👄👁️
@thadoc5186
Жыл бұрын
@@VixaAndSophieOfficial How could you miss the smell?
I live very close to the place where the thumbnail is(in Macedonian it's called a пазар)
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
We love Bitola your city and country is super beautiful thankyou for watching!
DRAgoro gleda maku cist ponapred polni Bese so gubre 👍🙏👏👍
@EllisWR
10 ай бұрын
Macedonia 🙏
Is this north Macedonia country?
@EllisWR
Ай бұрын
Macedonia init
There's hell of a lot more suspicious characters where your from I guarantee it..
@EllisWR
8 ай бұрын
Life is boring without suspicious characters
@Roadwarier9871
8 ай бұрын
Typical English Humor ...
Greeting my friends from MACEDONIA 🇲🇰
@EllisWR
2 ай бұрын
Legend!
λευτερια στην βορειο μακεδονια!
This is "North Macedonia". It is a small Slavic country founded a few years ago. The region of Macedonia today includes parts of six Balkan countries, the largest part is in Greece and includes historical sites of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia, like Philippi, Pella, Vergina and Mieza, where Aristotle taught Alexander.
@lydia3098
Ай бұрын
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
Bulgarian speaking are not Makedonians! Makedonia is part of 🇬🇷! We speak 🇬🇷 and we are 🇬🇷!
@EllisWR
21 күн бұрын
Okay
Before you answer if Macedonians were greeks, Please answer if slavs were Macedonians, or if Macedonians were slavs. And After For that you anwser if the traditional Culture civilization For Ancients Macedonians were near to Greek traditional Culture civilization or to Slavic. Ask your self. And Waiting Your anwser After 10 days of thinking About That.
@EllisWR
2 жыл бұрын
Don't like don't watch :)
@RU-Aussie
Жыл бұрын
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)
@ysti6552
Жыл бұрын
@@RU-AussieI understand that you are Funny. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hoeots-Gc9fNcs4.html
Macedonia is not underrated, there is simply not much to see, except the lakes Ohrid and Prespa. The rest is frankly boring and Skopje looks more like Disney Land.
@EllisWR
2 жыл бұрын
And where are you from? We found lots to see all over the country, ohrid & Skopje not even being the best places...
@TanTan-rf1gu
2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@EllisWR
2 жыл бұрын
Wow cool mate why are you telling me?
@TanTan-rf1gu
2 жыл бұрын
@@EllisWR, I was just commenting your video.
@EllisWR
2 жыл бұрын
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 :)
The DNA profiles of Slav Macedonians- inhabitants of North Macedonian show that they have Slavic, Greek and Paleobalkan/local DNA.Their language is Slavic as well as their culture. Therefore they don't have anything common with Phillip II and Alexander the Great, who spoke Greek, wrote in Greek and their culture was Greek. So this country called North Macedonia culturally is allien to the Ancient Macedonia, their culture is Slavic.
@mellake7052
Жыл бұрын
😂 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.
@johnsinger1887
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@mellake7052
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@mellake7052
Жыл бұрын
@@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
@johnsinger1887
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
Macedonia is a historic region with it's center in Greece. This is Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, today known as Northern Macedonia. This is a country with stolen identity. Citizens consist of Orthodox Christian Slavs and Muslim Albanians. No Greek there, but they are still using false Hellenistric identity as the basis of ther statehood because if they tried anything else, the country would disintegrate into Christian and Muslim parts.
Bitola is Greek, real ancient name Heraclea, modern name Monastir. After the Albanians receive autonomy and then independence from FYROM, we shall rightfully reclaim and take back what is ours. Bitola will be reunited with the motherland Macedonia Hellas.
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Cheers for watching.
@connappliedscience4973
Жыл бұрын
@@EllisWR My pleasure, we'll be living there one day.
@darkodarko9
Жыл бұрын
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
@nadanedd1131
Жыл бұрын
You'll have to get through the Romans first 😂😂😂
@salvatoretotoriina9523
8 ай бұрын
Sonuvaj si ti kako sakas
The most beautiful and most neglected city in Macedonia! Grossly neglected. With the mountain like Baba, this town was supposed to be Aspen in Europe. But it's not, unfortunately, due to a very bad and corrupted politics. Thank you for the video. By the way, there is nothing suspicious in people there, they just look like that, the truth is they are all just warm and naturally good. .
@EllisWR
Ай бұрын
we love macedonia
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