What is the capital city of the FYR of Macedonia?
Municipalities of the Republic of Macedonia Municipalities of the Republic of Macedonia The municipalities are the first-order administrative divisions of the Republic of Macedonia. In February 2013, the Republic of Macedonia was reorganised into 80 municipalities (, "opštini"; singular: општина, "opština"); 10 of the municipalities constitute the City of Skopje (or Greater Skopje), a distinct unit of local self-government and the country's capital. Most of the current municipalities were unaltered or merely amalgamated from the previous 123 municipalities established in September 1996; others were consolidated and their borders changed. Prior to this, local government was organised into 34 administrative districts, communes, or counties (also "opštini"). In
Republic of Macedonia & minorities holidays. (See:"Public holidays in the Republic of Macedonia") Republic of Macedonia Macedonia (; ), officially the Republic of Macedonia ( ), is a country in the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991. The country became a member of the United Nations in 1993, but, as a result of an ongoing dispute with Greece over the use of the name "Macedonia", was admitted under the provisional description the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (sometimes abbreviated as FYROM and FYR Macedonia), a term