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Bitola (Cyrillic Битола, Turkish and Greek Monastir, Serbian Bitolj/Битољ) is a city in the present day Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. As Heraclea Lyncestis, founded by Philip II of Macedon, it was a major city during the Roman Empire, lying on the Via Egnatia. Later it was settled by slavic peoples and in 1395 it was conquered by Ottoman Empire, which made the city a major military and commercial center. It later became the terminus of a major railway line and the largest city in western Macedonia.During the First Balkan War of 1912, both Greece and Serbia attacked Monastir in a pincer movement. Serbia won the race to Monastir, apparently because the Greeks diverted much of their army to the capture of Thessaloniki and IoanninaStatistics Capital:Ioannina Periphery: Epirus Area:? kmē Inhabitants:100,000 Pop. density:? inh. kmē ISO 3166-2:GR-? Map Ioannina (Greek: , often Giannena, Yiannena or Giannina, Yiannina ; Albanian: Janin or Janina Aromanian: Ianina Bulgarian: ''Janina is. In 1917Events January 2 The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank. January 22 World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. January 25 The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million January 25 Anti-, the city suffered extensive damage from an allied artillery barrage.
The city was subsequently renamed Bitola by the Serbs, a name that it retained following the independence of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
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