Name Since there were no standard Macedonian and Bulgarian we use transcription of the city as it is today primary we take in mind the location of the city So Skopje is in Macedonia and we use Macedonian transcription into English For those cities that are in BG you can use Bg transcription but Skopje is in Macedonia If you really want to use slavic transcription use Old Church Slavonic because that was the official language at that time and Greek too