Editing Bitola (section)

===The covered bazaar===
[[File:Bitola.1914 01.jpg|left|thumb|The Monastir bazaar in 1914]]

Situated near the city centre, the covered [[bedisten]] ({{langx|mk|Безистен}}) is one of the most impressive and oldest buildings in Bitola from the Ottoman period. With its numerous cupolas that look like a fortress, with its tree-branch-like inner streets and four large metal doors it is one of the biggest covered markets in the region.

It was built in the 15th century by [[Kara Daut Pasha Uzuncarsili]], then [[Rumelia Eyalet|Rumelia]]'s [[Beylerbey]]. Although the bazaar appears secure, it has been robbed and set on fire, but has managed to survive. The bedisten, from the 15th to the 19th centuries, was rebuilt, and many stores, often changing over time, were located there. Most of them were selling textile and other luxurious fabrics. At the same time the Bedisten was a treasury, where in specially made small rooms the money from the whole Rumelian Vilaet was kept, before it was transferred into the royal treasury. In the 19th century the Bedisten contained 84 shops. Today most of them are contemporary and they sell different types of products, but despite the internal renovations, the outwards appearance of the structure has remained unchanged.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}