Gevgelija

Gevgelija is a border town in the very southeast of North Macedonia, on the banks of the Vardar River. It sits at the country's main border crossing with Greece, Bogorodica-Evzoni, the point where the motorway from Skopje, and from Belgrade, Zagreb and Sofia beyond it, meets the route to Thessaloniki in Greece. The town is the seat of Gevgelija Municipality, which lies in the Southeastern Statistical Region. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Gevgelija belonged to the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, and statistics from 1878 recorded a Christian population of 290 families. At the 2002 census the town had 15,685 residents, most of them ethnic Macedonians. The town is also the name given to the municipality whose seat it is.