Monastir

Monastir, called also BITOLIA, the second town in Turkish Macedonia, in a broad mountain-valley, 136 miles NW. of Salonica by rail (1894). It manufactures carpets and silver filigree, and trades in corn and agricultural products. The Turks, recognising its strategic importance, have made it the headquarters of an army corps. Under its ancient name of Pelagonia it gives title to a Greek archbishop. Here the Albanian beys were massacred in 1833. Pop. 45,000.