Tetovo

Tetovo (Macedonian: Тетово, Albanian: Tetov, Turkish: Kalkandelen) is a city in the north-west Macedonia, built on the foothills of the ar mountain (Shar mountain) and divided by the Pena river.

The city covers an area of 1,080 km at 468 meters above sea level and with a population of approximately 200,000. [1], [2] It is home to two universities, the State University of Tetovo and the international South East European University.

Tetovo literally means "Teto's place" and myth has it that the town was named after the legendary hero Teto, who supposedly cleared the town of snakes.

Although there may have been inhabitants in Tetovo's area as early as the Bronze Age, Tetovo was officially founded in the 14th century as a small medieval Orthodox settlement around the Sveta Bogorodica church. Tetovo grew with the building and construction of houses around the Orthodox Church. At the end of the 14th century, Tetovo, along with all of Macedonia, fell under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. As the Muslim population in Macedonia began to expand in the early Ottoman period mosques, baths, and markets began to appear as early as the 15th century. Tetovo under Ottoman tutelage became an important trade center for the local farmers and craftsmen, as well as an important military fortification. Turkish influence deeply impacted Tetovo an

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