Best way to get from skopje to ohrid is by bus, there are regular lines from skopje to ohrid several times a day. Try this website for finding time-line for bus departure https://busticket4.me/MK/1357-1557-132-0-0/1-1/Skoplje-Ohrid/18-10-2022. I would recommend galeb.
Jsp is the public transport for skopje only, it doesn't do regional transport. They cover all of skopje. You can try their app on playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stormwin.jsp_otg.
But I'm not sure how good is their english support, and don't rely too much on their schedule
Hi, Try getting this one:
This is what I was using and it's very good.
try this page http://www.rome2rio.com don't worry too much about the immigrants. I was travelling in Greece one month ago and the Gevgelija border was fine. The other border (near Bitola) is also fine.
That's great you want to learn. If you're young travel and stay there s for a few weeks.
Use https://macedonianlanguage.org/
or https://www.amazon.com/dp/0299247643/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_X6J9M0PBK7RFTHJAV8BA
You can get this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stormwin.jsp_otg
You can get a yellow Skopska card in any of the JSP stores, it's about 250 denars and has 5 rides you can use within 2 weeks of purchase. If you want more rides, you have the choice to either add credit (minimum of 100 denars i think) and each ticket is 35, or you can get 10 rides to use within 2 weeks for a slightly lower price.
I have been using this textbook by Kramer and Mitkovska:
https://www.amazon.com/Macedonian-Beginning-Intermediate-Students-English/dp/0299247643
And it has been drastically helpful. I became good at basic conversation quickly. Although Macedonian is super hard to find, it is an incredibly easy language to learn.
Good luck!
You've posted your buddy Ivan's blog post before.
You're wrong, read this to learn why
I know you're going to say it's "illogical". But hey some small printing press called Cambridge University published it. I'm sure academia hated it, well maybe not:
>was named a 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and won the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association in 2003.
Sure Professor Curta is a online conspiracy theorist that teaches at the University of Florida for shits and giggles.
Oh well even if all of his scholarly work which was acclaimed by Slavic Review, Comitatus, and International History Review is wrong and the "slavic hordes" swept through and changed the ethnic makeup of the Balkans then you'll agree that modern Grecians are a mix of Slavs, Albanians, and Valchs
The only thing modern Grecians have in common with Ancient Hellenes is you're both gifted in telling stories and lying.
Poursa, what books have you written?
Maybe you'd enjoy something more recent such as this title: http://www.amazon.com.au/The-Macedonians-Ernest-N-Damianopoulos-ebook/dp/B009C8WE4Q
Whether you take a political, historical, anthropology, or genetic approach to answering Who are the Macedonians, Dr Damianopoulos has shown that a separate and indigenous group of people called Macedonians lived in Macedonia.
As for the "hundreds of historians" the MHRMI reached out to many and found that many authors name was used WITHOUT permission. http://www.mhrmi.org/news/2009/may25_e.asp
It seems neo-Grecian history is as authentic as "Greek" coffee which 6 billion people around the world call Turkish.
This book can get you started: http://www.amazon.com/Macedonian-Beginning-Intermediate-Students-English/dp/0299247643
You can download it as a PDF here: http://k2s.cc/file/ceeb8a96612f2/0299247643Macedon.rar
Try reading the Making of the Slavs by Professor Curta which shows serious problems in the "slavs as ethnicity" theory in both the historical record and archeology. Its only supported by Russia to push it's influence in eastern Europe and contemporary Grecians who desperately need to latch onto anything to deflect attention away from their ethnic cleansing and social engineering (Megali idea)
Regarding lanaguage read Dr Damianopoulos' book which will explain to you how ethnicities are determined by anthropologists, historians, and other fields of study. Language in itself is not a end all be all of ethnicity. Look at Scandinavian countries for example. It also touches upon Genetics which recent studies have shown Macedonians have more in common with other Mediterranean people than Ukrainians or Russians.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Macedonians-Their-Past-Present/dp/0230339859
Lastly it's funny to hear a contemporary Grecian be offended when I question their mixed background. Maybe you should show a little bit more respect to your Macedonian neighbors.
If you're looking for books on how life was during Ottoman times read some of Keith Browns books:
Loyal Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia (New Anthropologies of Europe
Or
The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation