Bulgarian consulate - flags of Bulgaria, European Union, Macedonia. Bitola has been known since the Ottoman period as "The City of The Consuls", since many European countries had consulates in Bitola.It is home to 12 consulates, of which two are general and ten are honorary. Most of the consulates are housed in neoclassical buildings around central Bitola. The Russian Consulate is one of the most prominent, located on Magnolia Square. The French, Montenegrin, Romanian, Serbian, and Turkish consulates are located on or just off Širok Sokak. Other countries with consulates in Bitola include Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, and Ukraine. Countries that used to have consulates in Bitola include Croatia, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom.