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 The Republic of Macedonia has a rich cultural heritage in art, architecture, poetry, and music. It has many ancient, protected religious sites. Poetry, cinema, and music festivals are held annually. Macedonian music styles developed under the strong influence of Byzantine church music. Macedonia is among the countries with the most beautiful preserved Byzantine fresco painting, mainly from the period between the 11th and 16th centuries. There are several thousands square metres [citation needed] of fresco painting preserved, the major part of which is in very good condition. In Macedonia the past meets the present. Its age-old architecture and monasteries and churches of exquisite beauty make an interesting contrast to the super modern new architecture. Most of the Macedonian monasteries, built in various periods, and particularly those built between the 11th and 15th -16th centuries, have been completely preserved until today. The Macedonian collection of icons, and in particular the Ohrid one, is among the most valuable collections in the world today. After the Sinai and the Moscow collection of icons, it is third in importance in Orthodoxy. From a Byzantological aspect, it is unique. The most important cultural events in the country are the Ohrid Summer festival of classical music and drama, the Struga Poetry Evenings which gather poets from more than 50 countries in the world, Skopje May Opera Evenings, International Camera Festival in Bitola, Open Youth Theatre and Jazz festivals in Skopje etc. |
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Galičnik (Macedonian: Галичник) is a village in the Republic of Macedonia, on Mount Bistra, 10 km from Mavrovo. Each summer on the Orthodox Christian holiday of St. Peter's day the Galichnik Wedding Festival takes place. The festival consists of a wedding done in traditional Macedonian style, featuring ancient customs, traditional music and dances. Participants all wear traditional costumes and mix with the visitors on the village square, which also contains an amphitheater. |
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 ... that the Megalithic Observatory, Kokino is more than 3800 years old and it is placed on NASA's list of important ancient observatories [1] ... that the smallest ethno museum in the world is located only 5 km on the northwest of Tetovo, in the picturesque village of Džepčište and as such is listed in the Guinness Book of Records ... about the Stone town, situated by the Kuklica village in the Kratovo area. According to the sources, the stone figures that are called Dolls by the local population, date from the ancient prehistory... |
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 Krste Petkov Misirkov (Bulgarian: Кръсте/Кръстю/Кръстьо Петков Мисирков;Macedonian: Крсте Петков Мисирков) (born 18 November 1874 in Postol (Pella), Ottoman Empire (today Greece); died 26 July 1926 in Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria) was a philologist, reformer of the standard Macedonian language, slavist, historian, ethnographer, publicist, author of the first book and magazine on standard Macedonian language and he was elected as the greatest Macedonians of the 20-th century. His writings are central to the issue of the existence of a Macedonian nation distinct from the Bulgarian nation. At different points in his life, Misirkov expressed conflicting statements about the ethnicity of the Slavs living in Macedonia, including his own ethnicity, calling them pure Bulgarians, Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians respectively. As a result, both his ethnic attachment and legacy remains a matter of dispute among historians from Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia. Misirkov's most important writing is undoubtedly the book Za Makedonckite Raboti (On Macedonian Matters) published in 1903 in which he laid down the principles of the modern Macedonian language. According to this book, the Macedonian language should be based on dialects from the central part of Macedonia which are the Veles, Prilep, Bitola and Ohrid dialects. He also used those dialects in the book itself. Misirkov's principles played a crucial role in the future codification of the Macedonian language, right after World War II. However, in one of his next articles Misirkov categorically renounced the point of this book, explaining that its content stays far away from unprejudiced science. |
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