Medžitlija

Medžitlija (Macedonian: Меџитлија, Albanian: Mexhitli, Turkish: Mecitli) is a village in the municipality of Bitola, North Macedonia, along the border with Greece.

The village is located 14 km south of Bitola at the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing.

In the early Ottoman period, Medžitlija was one of several villages in the Pelagonia plain settled by nomadic Turkomen tribes from Anatolia during 1475–1543.

[1] In the modern era, following the migration of the village Turkish population, Albanians from nearby mountainous areas settled in Medžitlija from the mid 1950s onward.

[2] In the early twenty first century, a new mosque was built in Medžitlija and financed by the wealthy Sulejmani family from the Albanian diaspora in Australia.