Sveti Nikole

Sveti Nikole (Macedonian: Свети Николе) is a city in the east-central area of North Macedonia. It is a major settlement of the Ovče Pole, a relatively large plain in this mountainous country.

History
The Sveti Nikole area is home to the ruins of Bylazora, a Paonian city from early classical antiquity. It was perhaps the most important town of Paonia, until it was captured by the Macedonians in 217 BC. In 1923, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, unhappy with Serbian rule carried out an attack on 23 colonizing Serbs in the village of Kadrifakovo near Sveti Nikole. A retaliatory attack was carried out by Serb forces near Radoviš soon after.

Get in
Sveti Nikole sits between Skopje and Štip on a modern expressway built in 2019. The area is also connected by rail with a train station located in the village of Amzabegovo, south of Sveti Nikole.

Learn
Sveti Nikole is home to the main campus of the International Slavic University, established in 2004 as a private university. It maintains affiliations with other universities in Russia and other parts of Europe.