Macedonia History

  Our treasure today is an army ID card of a Macedonian partisan from World War II. The army ID card with the registration number 360033 was probably issued on September 24, 1944, one month after the partisan celebrated his 21st birthday. His name: Neshkovski Nove, from the village of Košino. The small village of Koshino, or Košino, is (today) located in the municipality of Dolneni, near the city of Prilep in Macedonia. According to the records, in 1948, three years after the Second World War, exactly 289 citizens lived in the village. Unfortunately, there are no comparable figures before the war. Data from 1905 (presumably from the church archives) say that only 120 people lived in the village of Košino. You can find the translation of the data entered about the fighter under the screenshots. Surname: Neshkovski Father's name: Bogev Name: Nove Rank and duty: borаc art. majstor (fighter artillery master) Unit (troop and brigade): 2. baterija (2nd battery) 2. haubicerska divizija ar...

 "The sommon Macedonian soldier was proud not to be a Greek", this quote comes from the work 'Alexander the Great' by Philip Freeman. Even in the introduction on page 5, Freeman invalidates a number of newfangled myths that arose about the language of the Macedonians in the course of the Greek struggle for the inheritance of Macedonia: The language of the Macedonians differed from the Greeks, the Macedonians from the Upper Regions and according to Freeman, the "Lowland farmers" spoke a common language that separated them from the Greeks in the south. As a result, they are to be seen as an independent people. So we read: Though the pastoral Macedonians of the mountains differed from the lowland farmers in many ways, they shared a common language that defined them as a single people - and separated them from the Greeks to the south. The Macedonian tongue was so far removed from the Greek of Athens or Sparta that it may as well have been a different language en...

 In 1759-1760 the Russian Empire set up three new hussar regiments: the "Yellow Regiment" (Želtiy), the "Bulgarian Regiment" (Bolgarskiy) and the "Macedonian Regiment" (Makedonskiy). All in all, the latter was named in Russian: Македонский гусарский полевий полкь. In the work “Preseljenitsi iz Makedonije u Rusko Tsarstvo sredinom 18. veka” by Milka Zdraveva we find somewhat more precise data about the Macedonians who joined the Russian hussar regiment or about the inhabitants of "New Serbia". The author presents data on several members of the regiments in "New Serbia", and these are said to have called themselves Macedonians.  New Serbia, also Slavonoserbia, was a Serbian military administrative area in the Russian Empire, in southern Ukraine. This "zone" was founded in 1752 by the Empress of Russia Elisabeth. In the regiment of the Serbian Ivan Shević, 74 people declared that they were descended from the Macedonian nation. Ac...

Alexander the Great and members of his phalanx had toasted with Tikvesh wine while the residents of the Kavadarci village of Resava had made bricks to build their houses mixing them with wine instead of water. These stories are part of the promotional tourist sets, set to be offered to wine tourists as of March. Established a decade ago, the Tikvesh Wine Route Foundation is compiling the unique national and cultural beauty of the region of Tikvesh in a single attractive tourist offer. Its goal is to prove that sea is not the main requirement for a successful development of tourism. “All that is beautiful should be shared. The tales of the water of fairies, the rock of fertility, the invaluable archeological artifacts, frescoes, etc. The exquisite wines and rakia, the local cuisine… It is about time we cook visitors from home and abroad meals to taste authentic and traditional cuisine which Macedonia is known for,” says Violeta Jankova, the Foundation’s director. M...

This he insists upon at large in this Third Book, and thinks it the more probable, because the Story of Saxo, the Founder of the Saxon Nation, agrees with it. He says all Authors, Crantzius excepted, agree. That the Saxons were some Remains of the Macedonian Army; and that before they came into Germany, they were called Macedonians ; for this he quotes the German Chronicle, printed at Mentz, in 1482. the Annals of Freezland, and others." The History of the Works of the Learned, Or, An Impartial Account of Books Lately Printed in All Parts of Europe, Band 1, Seite 83 SOURCE: GOOGLE BOOKS