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Skopje after being captured by Albanian revolutionaries in August 1912 after defeating the Ottoman forces holding the city, later the Ottomans restored power over the city Peter I of Serbia visiting Skopje in 1914. Following an alliance contracted in 1912, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declared war on the Ottoman Empire. Their goal was to ...
In 1913, after the Balkan Wars, Skopje became part of Kingdom of Serbia, and after the First World War the city became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of Yugoslavia). In the Second World War the city was conquered by the Bulgarian Army, which was collaborating with the Nazi Germans.
1947 - City Stadium of Skopje opens. 1949 City becomes capital of Skoplje Oblast. [4] Museum of the City of Skopje founded in a former railway station. Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje founded. 1953 - Population: 121,551. [12] 1963 26 July: 1963 Skopje earthquake. Revolution Bridge built. Contemporary Art Museum of Macedonia founded.
In 1258, King Stefan Uroš I of Serbia took Skopje, Prilep and Kičevo from the Byzantines, but lost them shortly after in 1261. Serbia's conquest of the areas south of the Shara mountain chain, on the plains of Polog, and in Byzantine dominated places like Skopje and later Serres (Slavic: Ser) began with the expansion of Serbian King Milutin in
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In 1912, the Serbian army liberated Skopje from Ottoman rule. [17] Soon after that, negotiations were initiated with the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and in 1920 the entire region was again returned to the jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church. [18] In 1930, Metropolitan Varnava Rosić of Skopje was elected Serbian Patriarch.