I live in a small town located in the center of our country Macedonia called Negotino.
With its approximately 20,000 population Negotino is situated on the right bank of the river Vardar. Our town has an interesting and exciting history. There was a time between 278 and 242 BC, where a city was founded by King Antigonus, under the name Antigoneia. After conquering Paionia, he conquered the settlements around the region of central Vardar.

Antigoneia was located some twelve Roman miles south of the ancient city of Stobi, on the road to Thessaloniki, at the location of modern Gradiste, near the railway station of Negotino. At this place, Roman coins were found, as well as precious jewelry and other archeological findings from the period of the Roman and Byzantine period.

The ancient city existed until the 11th century when it was destroyed by a disastrous earthquake which hit almost all of the territory of Macedonia along with other cities such as Skupi, Stobi, Heraclea, Astibo, and Idomena. From 1929 to 1941, Negotino was part of the Vardar Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. As of today, we celebrate 8th of November as the day where our Municipality was freed from the Nazis occupation back in 1944. Also, one of the historical things famous in our city is the so-called "Clock Tower", built in 1821 during the Otoman empire. Negotino gets its biggest achievement in the second half of the 20th century where it grows in a modern town with a developed infrastructure.