Imaret
mosque, Ohrid, North Macedonia
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The Imaret is a Turkish mosque and inn located in Ohrid, North Macedonia. It was built on the foundations of the 9th-century monastery of St. Panteleimon. This monastery is associated with St. Clement of Ohrid, who was the first Slav bishop and established the earliest Slavic school of higher learning. Ohrid itself is a town on the northeastern shore of Lake Ohrid and is a popular resort destination in North Macedonia. Historically, it was a Greek colony called Lykhnidos and later became the capital of a Bulgarian tsar.1
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