Travel Guide

The Acropolis The Acropolis were both the fortified citadel and state sanctuary of the ancient city of Athens. Although the great building programs of the 5th century B.C. have disturbed or covered many of the earlier remains, there is still a great deal of archaeological evidence attesting the impo Read More

John Forrest National Park John Forrest National Park in  Western Australia is the place to go if you want  to see natural bush land which is found in Western Australia. History It is one of Australia’s oldest conservation areas and was Western Australia’s first n Read More

Botanic Golf Botanic golf is a mini golf course mixed with a Botanical Garden. It is situated at 25 Drover’s Place Wanneroo (Perth, Western Australia) it has two types of golf Mini Golf and Billiard Golf. There is a very nice café called “The Leap Frog Café” For o Read More

The Macedonian language belongs to the Slavic group of languages. It is closely related to Serbian and Bulgarian, but it is not a dialect of neither one of them, but a language on its own.

The first Slavic language used for literary purposes was Old Church Slavonic, written in the Cyrillic alphabet devised by the Macedonian missionaries Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century. As individual alphabets were later developed for the various Slavic languages, the choice was made entirely by religion. Orthodox Macedonians adopted the Cyrillic alphabet, which you can see in the text above.

It was in 1950 that the then professor of London University, Reginald de Bray stated unequivocally in his book “Guide to the Slavonic Languages”, that – “By an irony of history the people who ancestors gave to the Slavs their first literary language, were the last to have their modern language recognized as a separate Slavonic language, distinct from the neighboring Serbian and Bulgarian.” Mr. de Bray also put forward in his chapter on “Old Slavonic” that – “The first writings in Old Slavonic are now generally considered by philosophers to have been in the language of the Slavs of Macedonia of the second half of the ninth century”.

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The Republic of Macedonia is located on the  Balkan peninsula in Southeastern  Europe. The territory of republic is located between 40 deg 50′ and 42 deg 20′ north latitude and 20 deg 27′30” and 23 deg 05′, east longitude. It is part of the larger geographic region of Read More

The countryside around Jabal Akhdar is a mixture of barren desert and lush oases with date palms and gently rushing water. I spent a nice morning at the A’Thowarah oasis near the village of Nakhal. It was refreshing to relax by the water and enjoy the shade of the palms. A local group of schoo Read More