Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Each chapter in the book begins with an image in the chapter heading. This website explains each of those images and provides links for more information:

Stobi brick arch Mosque green door L3Painted Mosque

Lekcija 1

This photo was taken at the archeologic site at Stobi. For information on this site, see:

Exploring Macedonia: Stobi , World Monument: Stobi

Lekcija 2

This photo was taken at the Sultan Murat Mosque in Skopje. For information on this mosque, see:

Sultan Muraat Mosque, Skopje

 

 

Lekcija 3

This photo was taken at the Painted Mosque in Tetovo. For further information on this mosque, see:

Painted Mosque, Painted Mosque (Sharena dzamija)

 

 

L4 Ohrid sun
L5 Kameni Kukli
L6mosaic

Lekcija 4

This photo was taken at sunset in Ohrid. For information on Lake Ohrid, see:

Lake Ohrid information and map, Exploring Macedonia

Lekcija 5

This photo was taken at the site of the Kameni Kuklici - the Stone Dolls. For information, see:

Kameni Kuklici, Exploring Macedonia

 

Lekcija 6

This photo was taken at the archeologic site, Heraklea. For more information, see:

Exploring Macedonia, Bitola Museum

L3ancienttheatre
L8wood carving
L9Cifteamam

Lekcija 7

This photo was taken in the ancient ampitheatre in Ohrid. For information, see:

Ampitheatre in Ohrid, Exploring Macedonia

Lekcija 8

This photo shows an example of Macedonian tradiational wood carving. For photos of more famous carvings, see:

Sveti Spas , Sveti Jovan Bigorski

Lekcija 9

This photo was taken in the Stara Charshija in Skopje. The photo is of the old Turkish bath—now art gallery—Cifte Amam. For more information, see:

Cifte Amam

 

 

L10 Daut Pasha Amam and Gallery
L11 Stonewall
L12 Kilim

Lekcija 10

This photo was taken of the roof of the Daut Pasha Amam (now Art Gallery) in Skopje. For more information on the amam and Macedonian artists see:

National Gallery of Art, Daut Pasha amam

Lekcija 11

This photo was taken in Skopje in winter. For more photos of old Skopje architecture, see:

Old Skopje

Lekcija 12

This photo of a kilim (only a small fragment appears in the small square) was taken in the Blazhe Koneski House Museum. For more information on Koneski, see:

Blazhe Koneski

L13 Winery
L14 Gravestone Sv. Spas
L15 Molika

Lekcija 13

This photo was taken at the royal winery near Demir Kapija. For information on this site, and other information on Macedonia's developing wine industry, see:

Villa Marija winery, Macedonian wine road

Lekcija 14

This photo was taken of a gravestone in the courtyard of Sveti Spas in Skopje . For more information on Sveti Spas, see:

Sveti Spas , Sveti Spas Church

Lekcija 15

This photo was taken on Mt. Pelister near Bitola and shows the native tree, molika. For more information on Pelister and molika, see:

Pelister National Park , molika pine

L14Stobistone
   

Lekcija 16

This photo was taken at Stobi.

Exploring Macedonia: Stobi , World Monument: Stobi