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Radožda
Radožda ( mk, Радожда ) is a village in the Struga municipality in the southwestern region of North Macedonia. Geography Radožda is situated on the western shore of the Ohrid Lake. It is south of the town Struga. It is from the Macedonian-Albanian border crossing Qafë Thanë. The closest village is the village of Lin which is situated in Albania. The village is situated at above sea level. History The village was founded on the western edge of the Ohrid Lake over ten centuries ago. It was founded in a fertile area which soon became accustomed to farming. The surrounding hinterland was suitable for small-scale agriculture and the area was settled. The village was founded approximately west of today's position. Etymology A document from the era of Tsar Stefan Dušan has the village listed under the name ''Radobužda'' (). An Ottoman document from the year 1583 also records the village but under a different name ''Radohožda'' () while a hand written document from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vevčani-Radožda Dialect
The Vevčani-Radožda dialect ( mk, Вевчанско-радошки дијалект, ''Vevčansko-radoški dijalekt'') is a member of the western and north western subgroup of the western group of dialects of Macedonian. Because of the old and rich tradition that this region has and because of the Vevčani Carnival, many old words are present in everyday communication of the people. The Vevčani-Radοžda dialect is the smallest dialect among the other dialects of Macedonian. The dialect is spoken in the villages of Radožda, Vevčani, Mali Vlaj in the Republic of Macedonia and the village of Lin in Albania. The dialect is close with the Struga, Korča, and Ohrid Ohrid ( mk, Охрид ) is a city in North Macedonia and is the seat of the Ohrid Municipality. It is the largest city on Lake Ohrid and the List of cities in North Macedonia, eighth-largest city in the country, with the municipality recording ... dialects. Phonological characteristic *change of word-initia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin, Korçë
Lin ( sq-definite, Lini, mk, Лин) is a village in the former Udënisht Municipality in Korçë County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Pogradec. Geography Lin is situated on a small peninsula on Lake Ohrid, just south of the Qafë Thanë mountain pass, which is a border-crossing point between Albania and North Macedonia. Pogradec is roughly 22 km to the south of the village, while Struga is about 10 km north, along the lake shore. Radožda is the nearest settlement on the opposite side of the border. History The Lin area has been inhabited since at least the Iron Age. Archaeological findings from the hilltop above the present-day village include foundation walls and mosaics of an early Christian Byzantine church, dating from the 6th century. The church is a Cultural Monument of Albania and is included within the possible UNESCO site of the Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid Region (Albania). In 1873, the vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Struga Municipality
Municipality of Struga ( mk, Струга, translit=Struga, sq, Strugë) is a municipality in western North Macedonia. ''Struga'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Struga Municipality is part of the Southwestern Statistical Region. Geography The municipality borders *Lake Ohrid to the south, *Debarca Municipality to the east, *Centar Župa Municipality to the north, and * Vevčani Municipality and Albania to the west. Inhabited places The only town in the municipality is Struga. Besides Struga, there are additional 50 villages: * Bezovo, Bidževo, Bogojci, Brčevo, Burinec, *Delogoždi, Draslajca, Dolna Belica, Dolno Tateši, Dobovjani, Drenok, *Džepin, *Frangovo, * Globočica, Gorna Belica, Gorno Tateši, * Jablanica, * Kališta, Korošišta, *Labuništa, Lakaica, Livada, Lokov, Ložani, Lukovo, *Mali Vlaj, Misleševo, Mislodežda, Modrič, Moroišta, * Nerezi, Novo Selo, * Oktisi, * Piskupština, Podgorci, Poum, Prisovjani, * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Struga Municipality
Municipality of Struga ( mk, Струга, translit=Struga, sq, Strugë) is a municipality in western North Macedonia. ''Struga'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Struga Municipality is part of the Southwestern Statistical Region. Geography The municipality borders *Lake Ohrid to the south, *Debarca Municipality to the east, *Centar Župa Municipality to the north, and * Vevčani Municipality and Albania to the west. Inhabited places The only town in the municipality is Struga. Besides Struga, there are additional 50 villages: * Bezovo, Bidževo, Bogojci, Brčevo, Burinec, *Delogoždi, Draslajca, Dolna Belica, Dolno Tateši, Dobovjani, Drenok, *Džepin, *Frangovo, * Globočica, Gorna Belica, Gorno Tateši, * Jablanica, * Kališta, Korošišta, *Labuništa, Lakaica, Livada, Lokov, Ložani, Lukovo, *Mali Vlaj, Misleševo, Mislodežda, Modrič, Moroišta, * Nerezi, Novo Selo, * Oktisi, * Piskupština, Podgorci, Poum, Prisovjani, * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Struga
Struga ( mk, Струга , sq, Strugë) is a town and popular tourist destination situated in the south-western region of North Macedonia, lying on the shore of Lake Ohrid. The town of Struga is the seat of Struga Municipality. Name The name Struga was first mentioned in the 11th century. It is of Slavic origin. and means a "river bed". The ancient name of the city is Enchalon (Εγχαλών), the ancient Greek word for eel, which may be related to the Illyrian Enchele tribe that was known to live in the region. According to E. Hamp, a connection with Albanian ’ngjalë’ makes it possible that the name Enchele was derived from the Illyrian term for eels, which may have been anciently related to Greek and simply adjusted to the Greek pronunciation. In Polybius the word 'Enchele' is written with a voiceless aspirate ''kh'', ''Enchelanes'', while in Mnaseas it was replaced with a voiced ''ng'', ''Engelanes'', the latter being a typical feature of the Ancient Macedonian a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Šećeroski
Nikola Šećeroski ( sr-cyr, Никола Шећероски; 1934–2008) was a candidate for the Serbian Presidency, running in December 1990 as an independent. Early life He was born in 1934 to a Macedonian Serb family in Radožda, a village on the shore of Lake Ohrid in the south-west of Yugoslavia, in modern-day North Macedonia. Early activism He was a social activist in the 1970s, and protested against some corrupted officials, and became a politician in the 1980s. 1990 election A 1-hour long TV interview for ''TV Beograd'' ahead of the 1990 elections, representing himself, made him famous in Yugoslavia, as he eccentrically spoke about various matters, most famously of the accusations against him by the municipality of Čukarica that he made "brooms and brushes", that had haunted him for three years, stating that he had "nothing to do with brooms and brushes, I am a plastic worker", and that they needed to be punished. He made several more TV appearances, such as guesting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church St
Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Christian denomination, a Christian organization with distinct doctrine and practice * Christian Church, either the collective body of all Christian believers, or early Christianity Places United Kingdom * Church (Liverpool ward), a Liverpool City Council ward * Church (Reading ward), a Reading Borough Council ward * Church (Sefton ward), a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward * Church, Lancashire, England United States * Church, Iowa, an unincorporated community * Church Lake, a lake in Minnesota Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Church magazine'', a pastoral theology magazine published by the National Pastoral Life Center Fictional entities * Church (''Red vs. Blue''), a fictional character in the video web series ''Red vs. Blue'' * Churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jablanica Mountain
Jablanica ( sq, Jabllanica or Jabllanicë ; mk, Јабланица ) is a mountain range in Southern and Southeastern Europe, stretching north–south direction across the border of Albania and North Macedonia. Geography The long mountain ridge is higher than for approximately , while the highest part, located in its very center, is Black Stone at high. Both countries have 50% of the mountain, Albania the west and North Macedonia the east. Jablanica Mountain contains many large mountain lakes. Shebenik mountain is located just to the west of Jablanica and give name to the Shebenik-Jabllanice National Park. The closest towns to Jablanica are Librazhd in Albania and Struga in North Macedonia. The mountain range is one of the few places in the Balkans that hold the Balkan lynx (''Lynx lynx martinoi''), a subspecies of the Eurasian lynx (''Lynx lynx''). The total number of this vulnerable species is estimated at below 100 individuals. See also * Central Mountain Range * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic Macedonians
Macedonians ( mk, Македонци, Makedonci) are a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group native to the region of Macedonia in Southeast Europe. They speak Macedonian, a South Slavic language. The large majority of Macedonians identify as Eastern Orthodox Christians, who speak a South Slavic language, and share a cultural and historical "Orthodox Byzantine–Slavic heritage" with their neighbours. About two-thirds of all ethnic Macedonians live in North Macedonia and there are also communities in a number of other countries. The concept of a Macedonian ethnicity, distinct from their Orthodox Balkan neighbours, is seen to be a comparatively newly emergent one. The earliest manifestations of an incipient Macedonian identity emerged during the second half of the 19th century among limited circles of Slavic-speaking intellectuals, predominantly outside the region of Macedonia. They arose after the First World War and especially during 1930s, and thus were consolidated by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic Macedonians
Macedonians ( mk, Македонци, Makedonci) are a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group native to the region of Macedonia in Southeast Europe. They speak Macedonian, a South Slavic language. The large majority of Macedonians identify as Eastern Orthodox Christians, who speak a South Slavic language, and share a cultural and historical "Orthodox Byzantine–Slavic heritage" with their neighbours. About two-thirds of all ethnic Macedonians live in North Macedonia and there are also communities in a number of other countries. The concept of a Macedonian ethnicity, distinct from their Orthodox Balkan neighbours, is seen to be a comparatively newly emergent one. The earliest manifestations of an incipient Macedonian identity emerged during the second half of the 19th century among limited circles of Slavic-speaking intellectuals, predominantly outside the region of Macedonia. They arose after the First World War and especially during 1930s, and thus were consolidated by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Day (North Macedonia)
Republic Day or the Day of the Republic or Ilinden (Macedonian language, Macedonian: Ден на Републиката, ''Den na Republikata'', Илинден) is a major national holiday of North Macedonia. It is celebrated on 2 August, which is also a major religious holiday – Ilinden (Macedonian: Илинден; St. Elijah day; the day is reckoned as 20 July according to the Julian Calendar). It commemorates two major events in the establishment of the statehood of the country which took place on this date: * The Ilinden Uprising of 1903 which was organized by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against the Ottoman Empire, and during which a short-lived Kruševo Republic was proclaimed, and * The First Assembly of ASNOM of 1944, during World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia, which laid the foundation of the SR Macedonia. Macedonians have traditionally celebrated this day, also called ''Ilinden'', because of its religious significance which has its roots in the Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbs
The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their nation state of Serbia, as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Kosovo. They also form significant minorities in North Macedonia and Slovenia. There is a large Serb diaspora in Western Europe, and outside Europe and there are significant communities in North America and Australia. The Serbs share many cultural traits with the rest of the peoples of Southeast Europe. They are predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christians by religion. The Serbian language (a standardized version of Serbo-Croatian) is official in Serbia, co-official in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is spoken by the plurality in Montenegro. Ethnology The identity of Serbs is rooted in Eastern Orthodoxy and traditions. In the 19th century, the Serbia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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