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==Etymology==
The name ''Bitola'' is derived from the [[Old Church Slavonic]] word ѡ҆би́тѣл҄ь (''obitěĺь'', meaning "monastery" or "cloister"), literally "abode," as the city was formerly noted for its monastery. When the meaning of the name was no longer understood, it lost its prefix "o-".<ref>{{Citation |last=Room |first=Adrian |title=Placenames of the world: origins and meanings of the names for 6,600 countries, cities, territories, natural features, and historic sites |place=Jefferson, N.C. |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |year=2006 |edition=2nd |page=60 |isbn=0-7864-2248-3 }}</ref> The name ''Bitola'' is mentioned in the [[Bitola inscription]], related to the old city fortress built in 1015 during the ruling of [[Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria]] (1014–1015) when Bitola served as capital of the [[First Bulgarian Empire]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Dennis P. Hupnick |title=The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony: Silver-Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies |date=2017 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=9783319562063 |page=297}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Robert Mihajlovski |title=The Religious and Cultural Landscape of Ottoman Manastır |date=2021 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004465268 |page=17}}</ref> Modern Slavic variants include the [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] {{lang|mk-Latn|Bitola}} ({{lang|mk|Битола}}), the [[Serbian language|Serbian]] {{lang|sr-Latn|Bitolj}} ({{lang|sr-Cyrl|Битољ}}) and [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] {{lang|bg-Latn|Bitolya}} ({{lang|bg|Битоля}}). In [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] times, the name was Hellenized to {{lang|grc-Latn|Voutélion}} ({{lang|grc|Βουτέλιον}}) or {{lang|grc-Latn|Vitólia}} ({{lang|grc|Βιτώλια}}), hence the names ''Butella'' used by [[William of Tyre]] and ''Butili'' by the Arab geographer [[Muhammad al-Idrisi|al-Idrisi]].

The [[Greek language|Modern Greek]] name for the city ({{lang|el-Latn|Monastíri}}, {{lang|el|Μοναστήρι}}), also meaning "monastery", is a [[calque]] of the Slavic name. The [[Turkish language|Turkish]] name {{lang|tr|Manastır}} ({{langx|ota|مناستر}}) is derived from the Greek name{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}, as is the [[Albanian language|Albanian]] name ({{lang|sq|Manastir}}), and the [[Ladino language|Ladino]] name ({{lang|lad|מונאסטיר}} {{lang|lad-Latn|Monastir}}). The [[Aromanian language|Aromanian]] name, {{lang|rup|Bitule}} or alternatively, {{lang|rup|Bituli}}, is derived from the same root as the Macedonian name. Bitola is known as {{lang|ro|Bitolia}} in [[Romanian language|Romanian]].