page_title: Veles, North Macedonia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Veles, North Macedonia / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Nova iskra
context_page_description: Veles is a city in the central part of North Macedonia on the Vardar river. The city of Veles is the seat of Veles Municipality.
context_section_description: The area of present-day Veles has been inhabited for over a millennium. In antiquity, it was a Paionian city called Bylazora, and contained a substantial population of Thracians and possibly Illyrians. It was then part of the Byzantine Empire, and at times the First and Second Bulgarian Empire. It became part of the Kingdom of Serbia at the end of the 13th century, while during the Serbian Empire (1345–71) it was an estate of Jovan Oliver and subsequently the Mrnjavčević family until Ottoman annexation after the Battle of Rovine (1395). Before the Balkan Wars, it was a township (kaza) with the name Köprülü, part of the Sanjak of Üsküp.
caption: Veles in the 19th century.
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