This is the fourth part in a series about a journey across what used to be called Macedonia, which is now divided among Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, and Turkey. The border guards at the Sveti ...

I was earlier than I needed to be at the Skopje International Airport, so I settled into a chair overlooking the airfield and carried on with my book: W. Papel Hamsher’s The Balkans by Bicycle. The ...

As many Slavs mark the Day of Sts Cyril and Methodius, founders of the Glagolitic alphabet, BIRN travels to the Macedonian town of Ohrid, where their disciples, Clement and Naum, created and spread ...

Taking a bite of the famed Ohrid trout grilled to perfection, she said, “There was a church for everyday of the year. Of the thousand churches in Macedonia (now North Macedonia), Ohrid alone had 365.