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Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps

Opalchenie Peak in Vinson Massif, Antarctica is named after the Bulgarian Volunteer Force in the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War and the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Force in the 1912-1913 Balkan Wars.


A. den Doolaard

In 2006, in the Macedonian town of Ohrid was erected a monument in honor of A. den Doolaard, and in 2011, a memorial room opened with an exhibition of books and documents explaining the life and work of the author.

Alexander's Balkan campaign

The Macedonian army marched up to Mount Haemus, where they met a Thracian garrison manning the heights.

Archaeological Museum of Kavala

On the ground floor of the museum are artifacts from ancient Amphipolis including a marble bust of a woman (4th century BC), a marble grave stela of an ephebe (5th century BC), a large gold finger ring and a gold olive wreath that were found in Macedonian Tomb 1 (3rd century BC), a headless marble statue of a woman wearing a peplos (1st century BC), and a portrait bust of the Roman empress Agrippina.

Blagoj

Blagoj Jankov Mučeto, Macedonian partisan who was declared a People's Hero of Yugoslavia

Blagoja

Blagoja Kuleski (born 1962), retired Macedonian football player and currently a football manager

Blagoja Kitanovski (born 1962), former Macedonian football player, now assistant coach at FK Pelister

Božin Pavlovski

Bozin Pavlovski has written sixteen novels in Macedonian, out of which thirteen have been translated in English in collaboration with authors and friends, including James Thomev, Biljana John, Michael Serafinov and his daughter Elena Ciavarella, with supervision by Irina Dunn.

Branko Bauer

After that film, Bauer worked for a Macedonian production company and made Three Girls Named Anna (Tri Ane; 1959), a film which is often compared to Umberto D. by Vittorio de Sica.

Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty

The medieval Byzantine Empire reached its height under the Macedonian emperors of the late 9th, 10th, and early 11th centuries, when it gained control over the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, and all of the territory of the Tsar Samuel.

Codex Zographensis

The first few ones have not been preserved, and thus it begins with Matthew 3:11 and ends with John, with Mt 16:20-24:20 being later insertion in old Macedonian Church Slavonic.

Croats in the Republic of Macedonia

In 2006, Croatian President Stjepan Mesić and his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski announced that the Croats would receive national minority status in Macedonia.

Demetrius the Fair

Among his maternal aunts were queen Arsinoe II of Egypt and among his maternal uncles were pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Macedonian King Ptolemy Keraunos (Keraunos was Ptolemais’ full blooded brother).

Devojko

The music of the song is made by the famous Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski and the lyrics were written by his older brother Jovan Trpčeski.

Esen Vo Mene

The author of the music is Elena's producer Darko Dimitrov and the lyrics were written by the Macedonian diva Kaliopi Bukle.

FK Teteks

They won the Macedonian Republic League on four occasions and along with Vardar, was the only other Macedonian club to have won the Federal EasternYugoslav Second League containing only the teams from 3 federal Republics:Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia Kosovo and Voivodinship.

Flag of the Republic of Macedonia

The flag was adopted along with the state's laws and principles during ASNOM's first plenary session in the St. Prohor Pčinjski Monastery in modern Serbia, near the Macedonian town of Kumanovo.

František Lipka

František Lipka is also an important translator of Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and Macedonian literature.

Geographical distribution of the Macedonian language

Large concentrations of Macedonian speakers can be found in Pančevo, Jabuka, Novi Sad and Belgrade.

Golema Rakovitsa

During the Balkan Wars in 1912 a man from Rakovitsa was a member of the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps.

Gora dialect

With the westernmost dialects of Macedonian, as well as most of the Bulgarian dialects, it shares the reflex of "big Yus" (*/ɔ̃/) as /ə/ (ӑ) in words like păt ('road') (cf. Macedonian pat, Serbian put).

Govrlevo

Blagica Pavlovska, a famous Macedonian folk-singer was born in Govrlevo.

Hippolochus

Andrew Dalby, "Hippolochus: The wedding feast of Caranus the Macedonian" in Petits propos culinaires no. 29 (1988) pp.

History of Jhelum

Modern research has fixed the site of the conflict between Alexander and Porus as within Jhelum district, though the exact spot at which the Macedonian king effected the passage of the Jhelum (or Hydespes) has been hotly disputed.

Hristofor Zhefarovich

Hristofor Zhefarovich (original Cyrillic: Христофоръ Жефаровичъ; Bulgarian: Христофор Жефарович, Hristofor Zhefarovich; Macedonian: Христофор Жефаровиќ, Hristofor Žefarović; Serbian: Христофор Жефаровић, Hristofor Žefarović) was an 18th-century Macedonian painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.

Hypereides

After being put to death, his body (according to others) was taken to Cleonae and shown to the Macedonian general Antipater before being returned to Athens for burial.

Kirovski

Jovan Kirovski (b. 1976), American association football player of Macedonian descent

Lino Červar

Lino Červar (born 22 September 1950 in Delići near Vrsar) is a Croatian-Macedonian handball coach who is currently coaching the Macedonian handball team RK Metalurg Skopje and a politician, and former member of the Croatian Parliament.

Macedonian language naming dispute

As of 2007, Microsoft only uses "Macedonian (FYROM)" as the name of the language in its then-current operating system, Windows Vista.

Macedonians in Serbia

Tijana Dapčević, pop singer (Macedonian by father, Serb by mother)

Mali i Thatë

It is found within Albania, close to the Macedonian border and from this high peak, among several mountains of Albania, both Ohrid Lake and Prespa Lake can be seen, as well as the third highest peak in the Republic of Macedonia, Baba Mountain or Pelister Mountain (2601 m).

Markovski

John Markovski (born 1970), an Australian soccer coach and former player of Macedonian descent

Venko Markovski (1915–1988), a Bulgarian writer, poet, and politician of Macedonian descent

Martin Vučić

During the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, Vučić was chosen to read out the Macedonian televotes to Greece and sang a song in Greek — "Maria Me Ta Kitrina" to Maria Menounos.

Mihail Petruševski

He published over 200 philosophic works, but his translation of Homer's "Iliad" and his adaptation of "Skanderbeg" by Grigor Parlichev were considered particularly significant for Macedonian culture.

Mogila

It has been said that the name derives from the Ancient Macedonian "Mogila" which means graveyard, even though there has been nowhere recorded any such word by ancient lexicographers such as Hesychius of Alexandria, Amerias, Marsyas of Pella and Athenaeus who have saved around 200 ancient Macedonian words.

Monunius I of Dardania

This is surely the meaning of the minting of a second series of silver coins bearing his name and traditional Macedonian symbols, the head of Heracles on the face and on the reverse, Olympian Zeus, sitting on the throne.

Novogradska

He collaborated with Macedonian singer Karolina Gočeva on the hit song Ajde da letame, which topped the national charts in 2000 and 2001.

Prodromoi

The Prodromoi were only part of the cavalry contingent of the Macedonian army which also included the Companion Cavalry and Thessalian cavalry.

Radmila Šekerinska

She became involved in the Open Society Institute of George Soros and in 1996 won a seat on Skopje City Council, which she held until she was elected to the Macedonian parliament in 1998.

Stephen of Ohrid and Macedonia

In 1969, he enrolled in the Macedonian Orthodox Theological Seminary of St. Clement of Ohrid in Dračevo, where he graduated in 1974.

The Valley of the Thracian Rulers

As far as coins are concerned – they represented Macedonian rulers (Philip II, Alexander III, Cassander, Lysimach, etc.) together with single coins from towns such as Messambria, Apollonia Pontica, Enos, Lysimachia.

The Virtues of War

Alexander first recounts of his younger days serving under his father, Philip II of Macedon, and Philip's expansion of Macedonian hegemony throughout Greece and Thrace.

Toni Storaro

Many of his songs have been covered by other Balkan artists, most notably by Serbian Dragana Mirković and Macedonian Toše Proeski and others.

WCSB

The station also airs news and information oriented toward many of the ethnic groups represented in Greater Cleveland: Latin, Hispanic, German, Hungarian, Polish, Irish, Macedonian, Arabic, and Slovenian.

Yelabuga

The castle was built on the place of the legendary tomb of Alamir-Sultan (Alexander the Great "Macedonian").

Youtab

She is notable for fighting alongside her brother against Greek Macedonian King Alexander the Great at the Battle of the Persian Gate in the winter of 330 BC.

Zagradec

Zagradeci, a village in the Mala Prespa area, known as Заградец (Zagradec) in Macedonian

Živko

Živko Popovski- prominent Macedonian architect after the Second World War

Zoran Stavreski

Zoran Stavreski (born 1964 in Ohrid) was the Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Finance.


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