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| Macedonia celebrates Ilinden |
Celebrations are taking place all over the country with the main gathering taking place in the Uprisings last stand on Mechkin Kamen, Krushevo.
This years traditional march of the horses is being lead by Macedonian war hero Johan Tarchulovski.
Other gatherings in Macedonia will take place in Pelince, on the Serbian border half a kilometer from the historic St Prohor Pcinjski Monastery, where the Macedonian national liberation movement held its first assembly in 1944. Events will also be taking place at Trnovo-Magarevo in Bitola, where a large number of Macedonian refugees from Aegean Macedonia gather as well as in Ohrid where the Green Beach Festival will be taking place.
Ilinden is also celebrated in the diaspora with dance groups, soccer clubs and churches organizing functions around the globe. The two major gatherings in Melbourne were organized at the Shrine of Remembrance and the Macedonian Orthodox Church in Epping.
Ilinden will forever be remembered for the day the Macedonian people rose up against the Ottomans to establish a free and independent Macedonian republic, setting the foundations of our state. The struggle was lead by the dukes and freedom fighters (Vojvodi and Komiti) of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (VMRO). Today does not only celebrate the 110 year anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising, it also celebrates the 69th anniversary of the first assembly of the Macedonian national liberation movement, ASNOM, lead by the great Macedonian patriot Metodija Andonov Chento.
It is because of these two history-defining events on Saint Elijah's Day that August the 2nd will forever be celebrated amongst the Macedonian people.
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