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Trajko Prokopiev

Trajko Prokopiev

By on April 25, 2012 in Culture, Film, Music, People

Trajko Prokopiev (1909-1979) was a famous Macedonian classical music composer and conductor.

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Kiril Dzajkovski

Kiril Dzajkovski

By on April 25, 2012 in Culture, Music, People

Kiril Dzajkovski is a renowned Macedonian musician and composer, author of both film and theater music.

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Grigor Prlichev

Grigor Prlichev

By on April 2, 2012 in Culture, History, Literature, People

Grigor Prlichev is perhaps one of the most talented Macedonian writers of the 19th century.

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Marko Tsepenkov

Marko Tsepenkov

By on April 2, 2012 in Culture, History, Literature, People

Marko Tsepenkov belonged to the first generation of collectors of precious Macedonian folklore.

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Kocho Racin

Kocho Racin

By on January 6, 2012 in History, People

Kosta Apostolov Solev (1908-43), popularly known as Kocho Racin, was a Macedonian revolutionary, poet and pioneer of modern Macedonian literature.

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Gligorov Dead at 94

Gligorov Dead at 94

By on January 5, 2012 in In the Know, News, People

Macedonia lost an honored statesman, committed patriot, and its first democratically elected President when Kiro Gligorov died Sunday evening at his Skopje home.

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Saint Clement of Ohrid

Saint Clement of Ohrid

By on December 7, 2011 in History, People

Saint Clement of Ohrid (840-916), disciple, missionary, scholar and church leader. Celebrated champion of education and evangelism in the Slavic speaking world.

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Georgi (Gjorgji) Pulevski

Georgi (Gjorgji) Pulevski

By on November 3, 2011 in Culture, History, Literature, People

Gjorgji Pulevski (1817-1893) was a Macedonian writer, lexicographer, grammarian, poet, folklorist, ethnographer, historian and military leader.

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Vojdan Pop Georgiev – Chernodrinski

Vojdan Pop Georgiev – Chernodrinski

By on September 30, 2011 in History, People

Vojdan Pop Georgiev was a remarkable Macedonian man of letters: a writer, patriot, revolutionary, stage director, artist and founder of the Macedonian theater.

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Atina Bojadzi – the Ohrid Dolphin

Atina Bojadzi – the Ohrid Dolphin

By on October 5, 2010 in History, People

Atina Bojadzi, also known as the Ohrid dolphin, was the first woman from the Balkan region to swim the English Channel.

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