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Skoplje

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[skawp-lye] / ˈskɔp ljɛ /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Macedonia.


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The two leaders did just about everything else, as they ranged the country from quake-shattered Skoplje to wild Montenegro, where after a picnic the mountainfolk broke into the kolo, a fiery, foot-stamping circle dance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the mountains from Sofia to Nish and Skoplje went drives intended to cut the vital Vardar Valley and divide the Yugoslavs from the Greeks.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has taught at Chicago, Pennsylvania and Harvard, served on U.N. urban-planning missions in Japan and Indonesia, was a consultant on the reconstruction of Skoplje, the Yugoslavian city devastated by an earthquake in 1963.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Macedonian Government is now functioning in Skoplje, in Yugoslavia, about 60 miles from the Greek frontier.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Serbian troops crossed the frontier and fighting proceeded in three different directions, towards Skoplje and Prilep, towards Adrianople and towards Scutari.

From Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) by Nikolai Velimirović

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