The Republic of Macedonia
is located on the
Balkan peninsula in Southeastern
Europe. The territory of republic
is located between 40 deg 50' and 42 deg 20' north latitude and 20
deg 27'30'' and 23 deg 05', east longitude. It is part of the larger
geographic region of Macedonia which includes also Pirin Macedonia
in
Bulgaria and
Aegean Macedonia in
Greece. The territory of the
republic is sometimes called Vardar Macedonia after the Vardar
River, which flows through the country southeast into
Greece. The republic is landlocked.
It has common boundaries with
Albania in the West,
Bulgaria in the East,
Greece in the South, and
Serbia in the North. The territory
of the Republic of Macedonia is approximately twenty-five thousands
square kilometers. The capital of the republic is the city of
Skopje in the Northern part of the
country, on Vardar river.
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IT IS TRUE THAT WE ARE
SERBIAN STOOGES!
QUISLINGS - THE TRUTH ABOUT OMO "ILINDEN"
(Krassimir Iliev, ex-secretary of OMO "Ilinden", St. Vrach,
1992) In
1940 the leader of the Norwegian fascists Vidkun Quisling
supported actively the Hitlerite occupation of Norway.
This way the people who collaborate with a national enemy
and betray their ..."
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"I conceive the world
only as a place for cultural rivalry of the nations..." The
Life of a Legend
1.Gotze Delchev's Early Years.
2.Gotze Delchev's Joining the Revolutionary Movement in Macedonia.
3.Gotze Delchev- the Apostle of Freedom.
4.Gotze's Heroic Death.
"Gotse (Georghi) Nikolov Delchev was
born on January 23, 1872, in the town of Kukush, southeastern Macedonia. He
received his elementary education in the local Bulgarian school of Kukush,
and later entered the Gymnasium of Salonica. Here Delchev became one of the
most popular of the students, not only in point of scholarship, but also as
a youthful agitator and advocate of Macedonian independence. Delchev, while
in Salonica, familiarized himself with the various revolutionaryunder-currents
in 1891 he entered the military school in Sofia.
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OHRID
"...Welcome to Ohrid-the Bulgarian
Jerusalem"-Lubcho Kurtelov.
"Ohrid (ancient Lichnydos) is a leading tourist
center on the shore of beautiful Lake Ohrid. Some well-preserved
houses in the picturesque local architectural style can be seen in
the town. Built in the 19th century, these
dwellings
hang over the street, each successive story projecting further than
the one below. The old part of the town also preserves
the ruins of Samuil's Fortress (10th c.) and churches built here
in the 9th century by St. Clement of Ohrid. The many medieval
churches and monasteries raised here contain world-renowned frescoes
and icons. The cathetral
church of Sveta Sofija (The Holy Wisdom), which was the
seat of the Archbishopric of Ohrid for several centuries is is the
oldest surviving church in Ohrid. One can find some of the finest
frescoes and a famous icon collection in the
Ohrid church of St. Clement. The
church of St. John the Divine at Kaneo was built and decorated
with frescoes in the 13th century..."
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The
Life of a Legend
