Ohrid

... there's, like, a massive cliff drop, and it's like, "Yeah, a bit of rope will do," you know?

Man, I'll give you a, a, a perfect primary example of this Three years ago, in '23, we were in Macedonia in, in Ohrid, which is the biggest lake in Europe, where she was born, and, and about half an hour away there's another smaller lake, right?

Fresh water?

Yeah, fresh water.

He avoided battle, instead wearing them down through skirmishes and ambushes.

He managed to slow Bohemond's advance through modern-day Albania, Macedonia, and northern Greece by strengthening the garrisons in the key towns and cities like Ohrid and Larissa, which held out in long sieges.

The mountainous Macedonian countryside, dotted with Byzantine hilltop forts, also made progress difficult.

In 1083, the Norman offensive petered out.

But the precise borders of all these territories were still not settled.

A conference was held in Vienna, where Italian territory in Macedonia was reduced, and Bulgaria gained important cities like Ohrid.

The Bulgarian Communist Party may have opposed the government, but it also quickly took advantage of these new annexations to likewise annex its Macedonian counterpart, despite fierce resistance from the Yugoslav communists.

Otherwise, some Bulgarian military officials were advocating an attack on Turkey, feeling it would abandon its neutrality anyway, so they might as well.