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Ohrid

Ohrid came from the Bysantine times.

A legend tells that while the Ottomans were conqueering Macedonia,they were doing a giant walk to the prisonners.Every one hundreth prisonner had one eye,the others had none,and one day while passing one prisonner said:

"Oh Rid" that means "Ahh a mount"

The prisonner was speaking of the Galicica moutain. 

 

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