FACTS ABOUT MACEDONIA:
- In Macedonia is located the only European ruby locality.
- The highest-quality opium in the world is the Macedonian one.
- The most popular Roman road in its biggest part passed through Macedonia.
- The 120 dolls in Kuklica in the vicinity of Kratovo are 10 million years old.
- According to NASA, Kokino is the fourth oldest observatory in the world.
- One of most known humanitarians and winners of the Nobel prizein , Mother Teresa was born in Skopje. In her honor is built a Memorial House in Skopje.
- Beside Mother Teresa, known personalities born in this region are the father of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk born in Bitola.
- It is believed that in the churches „St. Bogorodica Prechista“ in Kochani, „St. Jovan Bigorski“ and „St. Gjorgjija Pobedonosec“ in Debar are hiding parts of the cross Jesus was crucified on.
- Vrelo is one of the deepest under-water caves in the world.
- The cave Peshna in Makedonski Brod was described in the New York Times as identical to the caves imagined in Lord of the Rings.