Skopje (Capital city, Macedonia)

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• Status of Skopje
• Skopje in Socialist Yugoslavia

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Status of Skopje

The city of Skopje (Greater Skopje) is divided into seven municipalities:

• Centar
• Čair
• Đorče Petrov
• Gazi Baba
• Karpoš
• Kisela Voda
• Šhuto Orizari

Skopje in Socialist Yugoslavia

by Jens Pattke

The flag of Skopje was seen in an exhibition of Socialist partner cities of Dresden (then in German Democratic Republic), in the beginning of the 1980s.

However, this flag was not necessarily the official city flag of Skopje. Among the other flags shown in the exhibition, the flag of Leningrad was striking. That flag was a white cloth, with the coat of arms (from the Soviet time) in the middle. I am not aware that the City of Leningrad had a flag. It was common in the GDR to put the municipal coat of arms on a white cloth if there was not any official city flag. The organizer of the exhibition perhaps helped himself so. The flags of Ustí (Czech Republic), Wrocław (Poland) and Dresden shown in the exhibition were the known flags with pre-1990 arms.

Jens Pattke, 3 February 2002

The emblem must have been adopted in the 1950s or even before. In any case it was shown on 1969 postage stamps of Yugoslavia.

Željko Heimer, 3 February 2002