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Into the black mountains: Meyer's night assault on the Yugoslav frontier and the lightning drive toward Monastir

On a sweltering night in April 1941, Kurt Meyer briefs his battalion in the shadow of the Macedonian mountains, evoking the bloody German battles of WWI to steel them for the coming assault. At dawn, ...
Archaeology

Great Prespa Lake Islands, North Macedonia and Albania

Tour operators can help you rent a kayak or hire a motorboat from the Albanian town of Pustec to get to Maligrad and several shoreside cave-hewn churches where Christian hermits once dwelled. For more ...