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The history of the Jews in Monastir (present-day Bitola, North Macedonia) and its region reaches back two thousand years. The Monastir Province was an Ottoman vilayet, created in 1864, encompassing territories in present-day Albania, North Macedonia (one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991) and Greece.
The Battle of Monastir [4] took place near the town of Bitola, Macedonia [5] (then known as Monastir) during the First Balkan War, between Serbian and Ottoman forces from 16 to 19 November 1912. It resulted in a Serbian victory after heavy fighting north of the city, the routed Turks fled abandoning their guns.
Žamila Kolonomos was born on June 18, 1922, in Monastir (now Bitola, North Macedonia) to Jewish parents. [4] [5] She grew up in the Jewish community in the city, where her father was a manager in the local branch of Banque Franco-Serbe (French-Serbian Bank). [6]
Bitola (/ ˈ b iː t oʊ l ə,-t ə l ə /; [2] Macedonian: Битола ⓘ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia.It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, 14 kilometres (9 miles) north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing with Greece.
Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...
The Monastir offensive was an Allied military operation against the forces of the Central Powers during World War I, intended to break the deadlock on the Macedonian front by forcing the capitulation of Bulgaria and relieving the pressure on Romania.
At the suggestion of the Chief Rabbi of Sephardi Jews in Yugoslavia, Rabbi Alkalai, Djaen settled in Monastir in Macedonia, where he returned to the Balkans. [5] He served from 1925 to 1928 as chief rabbi of the community. [6] He worked tirelessly to create a national conciousness among Sephardi Jewry across the globe.
Yugoslavia broke apart in the 1990s to form the following 5 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). In 2003, the FRY was reconstituted as the federation of Serbia and Montenegro. In 2006, it was split into the separate countries of: Montenegro and Serbia.