The Torbeši are a Macedonian-speaking Muslim ethnoreligious group in North Macedonia and Albania. The Torbeši are also referred to as Macedonian Muslims or Muslim Macedonians. They have been religious
Female folk dance of Torbeši in the village of Gorno Kosovrasti, near Debar
The Old Mosque of Rostuša
Macedonians 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 identi
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…and members of the Macedonian Muslim community. Ismail Bojda, leader of the organization of Macedonian Muslims, fighter for the national unification of Macedonians and fighter against the pressures on Macedonian Muslims. Fejzo Dželadinovski, Macedonian Army soldier who was killed during the 2001 conflict in…
Gjorgjija Pulevski is the first known person, who in 1875 put forward the idea on the existence of a separate (Slavic) Macedonian language and ethnicity.
Krste Misirkov in 1903 attempted to codify a standard Macedonian language and appealed for eventual recognition of a separate Macedonian nation when the necessary historical circumstances would arise.
Dimitar Vlahov played a crucial role in the adoption of the Resolution of the Comintern on the Macedonian question that, for the first time by an international organization, recognized the existence of a separate Macedonian nation, in 1934
Metodija Andonov-Čento was the first president of the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia after the Second World War.