going into the mainstay of [North] Macedonia

going to a somewhat-acknowledged land at midnight

(land #27) the town with 365 churches

(land #25) the land that broke away from Serbia in 2006

(land #24) a walled hub and a trip to an island

stopping over in this "country within a country"

(land #23) towns hurt by earlier fighting but building back strong

(land #22) - my first "former Yugoslavian country"