ZOO Skopje photo galery

Enjoy the pictures taken in the ZOO in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia in the past few months.

Show them to your friends, spread the good word about the Skopje Zoo and of course, visit it! ;-)

 

 

 

Macedonians in USA in 1899

Macedonian a "race" according to US Bureau of Immigration 1899!

Macedonian is mentioned as a separate race in Turkey in Europe, Bulgaria and Greece, used by the United States Bureau of Immigration since 1899.

“The Economic Investigations of the United States Immigration Commission” by W. Jett Lauck, published in “The Journal of Political Economy”, Vol. 18, No. 7, (Jul., 1910), pp. 525-549. This is from page 527.

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Our Name is Macedonia

Who gave YOU the right to negotiate MY name?

The most basic human right is self - identification.

Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) and the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) have launched an ad campaign demanding an end to all negotiations with Greece over its name.

MHRMI and AMHRC ask every Macedonian organization, in the country and abroad, to join our call for Macedonia to immediately cease name negotiations.

To sign on or see the ad campaign, please visit www.mhrmi.org/our_name_is_macedonia

Saint Elijah day celebrated by the ethnic Macedonians in Greece

Few days ago Macedonians in Greece celebrated their national holiday, Saint Elijah's Day.

Yes! The same Macedonians that don't exist in Greece. The "few hundred Slavs" as Greek government would like to name them. Unfortunately for them,they are not few hundred, they are thousands and thousands, and every day they speak more openly about their past, their roots, their position in the Greek society.

In Ovcarani, near Lerin (greek: Florina) last weekend thousands of Macedonians joined the festivity. They sang, danced, talked and celebrated life. 

The media from Republic of Macedonia were not allowed to cover from Ovcarani. The TV crew from  the national Kanal 5 television station were stopped on the Macedonian/Greek border by the Greek custom and asked for "special permission". Only the reporter was allowed to pass, without equipment. 

This shows the level of democracy, that this EU member country practices. 

Here are few short videos which were uploaded from the festivity. Enjoy! 

Za mnogu godini Makedonci, kade i da ste! Za mnogu godini moj narode, na Makedonija!

I am Macedonian

One of our biggest God given rights is to declare our selves for who we are.


Unfortunately, some of us don't have that right.


Check out the video, and you will find out, what are Macedonians going through their history, and what is their presence like. 


One name, one love, one Macedonia.

"Macedonia for Macedonians" rally 1922 in the USA

This video is from a rally in United States, organized by the Macedonian commune.


Even though some people say that Macedonians are new, artificial nation, without past, a nation created after World War II, this shows the movement of the Macedonians in 1922.


Macedonian community in the United States of America got organized in 1922 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Since then, this organization (MPO) and all the other organization of the Macedonians, in some period were usurped by people who were spreading mainly Bulgarian, and sometimes Greek propaganda. 


Through the years, most of the neighboring Balkan countries, tried to usurp Macedonian history and identity, and by doing that to cover up the segregation of the Macedonians after the Balkan Wars in 1912 - 1913. Let us not forget the genocide over the Macedonian population in Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece in the twenties and the thirties, especially in Greece during and after the Greek civil war 1946 - 1449 .


Macedonians strongly set themselves on the idea of having their own country. Since 8th of September 1991, that idea became reality. Republic of Macedonia is a motherland for all the Macedonians around the world and strength that holds them together.


MACEDONIA FOR MACEDONIAN. UNITED MACEDONIA!

Learn Macedonian on line

It is estimated that there are approximately one million Macedonian descendants around the world, who don't know their mother tongue.

Finally, there is a chance for them to learn their language, and find out more about their mother land on English, or German.

I hope that this web site, will also help the tourist who plan to visit Republic of Macedonia, to learn more about her and maybe few words.

Check out the web:

http://www.ucimakedonski.mk

Sculptures in the city center Vol.2

Almost two moths ago I had a post with some of the sculptures in the city center of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

Here are some of the other statues that you can see, if you visit our capital. Visit Skopje, visit Macedonia.

Zoo Skopje

I already wrote once about the reconstruction of the Zoo garden in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

Now, i will present to you some new photos, taken in the last 10 days, with the new inhabitants and their new homes. 

I hope you will enjoy the gallery. 

See you all, in Zoo Skopje.

CNN - Creating Napa Valley in Macedonia

One more article on Macedonia, on the series of articles promoting the country.

This time Nic Robertson visits Jordan Trajkov, the owner of Popova Kula Winery in the Tikvesh region. 

You can see the Macedonian potential in the wine industry, as well as the possibility to travel around the country and check out all the natural beauties, and the cultural heritage.

Republic of Macedonia. Cradle of culture. Land of nature. 

Macedonia. Timeless.

CNN on Macedonia's name issue

The World media finally decided to spend some time, and analyze the "Macedonian issue", the name dispute and the meaningless requests by the Greek government.

The reporter Nic Robertson plastically presents the current situation, interviews the Prime minister Nikola Gruevski, and shows a new perspective on the whole problem.

I think that finally is the time for the World to know that Macedonia is mobbed by Greece, and that all international law are broken in this despute with no ending.

Mother Teresa Memorial House

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Agnes Gondza Bojadziu), was a Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950.

Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was born on 26 August 1910, in Skopje, capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Although she was born on August 26, she considered August 27, the day she was baptized, to be her "true birthday." Her father Nikola, died in 1919 when she was eight years old. 


In her early years Agnes was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries and their service, and by age 12 was convinced that she should commit herself to a religious life.She left home at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary. She never again saw her mother or sister.

The Memorial house of Mother Teresa is non profit organization financed by the Government of Republic of Macedonia.

The Location of the museum is not randomly chosen. That is to say, on this exact place the old Catholic Church “Sacred heart of Jesus” used to stand. It is where Mother Teresa, then Gonxha Bojaxhiu was baptized just one day after her birth, on the 27th of august 1910, place where she received her first communion and where she find her inner peace after her father’s death.

This place had a great importance and influence on developing of the character of young Gonxha and to her desire to help the poor people. Since she was a child she sang in the Catholic Church choir and participated in charity organizations. Somehow the location itself represents a symbolic bridge that connects little Gonxha to one of the greatest humanitarian of the world, Mother Teresa.

The desire to pay respect to one the most famous person and Nobel Prize winner from Macedonia was accomplished on the 30-th of January 2009 with the opening of the Memorial house dedicated to Mother Teresa. 

The next day, on January 31, 2009 the Memorial house of Mother Teresa was formally promoted in front of several hundred of people. For this special occasion the Catholic Church brought a relic of Mother Teresa.

Sculptures in the city center Vol.1

Here are some of the sculptures in the city center of Skopje, the capitol of Republic of Macedonia. 

The sculptures are situated on the main pedestrian street Macedonia and the national plaza Macedonia.

Enjoy the view.

Night before Easter in Skopje, Macedonia

The night before Easter, Macedonians gathered together in the local churches to attend the Easter liturgy. The central feast was in the Apostolic Church St. Clement Ohridski (македонски: Св. Климент Охридски) where people massively gathered.

Easter is the central religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to Christian scripture, Jesus was resurrected from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. 


Some Christians celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday (also Resurrection Day or Resurrection Sunday), two days after Good Friday and three days after Maundy Thursday. 

  

Traditionally the Easter Season lasted for the forty days from Easter Day until Ascension Day but now officially lasts for the fifty days until Pentecost. The first week of the Easter Season is known as Easter Week or the Octave of Easter. Easter also marks the end of Lent, a season of fasting, prayer, and penance.

Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the vernal equinox.

  

 Macedonian Orthodox Church bases its calculations on the Julian Calendar whose March 21 corresponds, during the twenty-first century, to April 3 in the Gregorian Calendar, in which calendar their celebration of Easter therefore varies between April 4 and May 8.

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar.

Easter egg "battles" are tradition among Macedonians. After midnight ans Christ uprising, the believers are "fighting" trying to discover who has the strongest Easter egg.

Tree Day - Green Macedonia

Once again, Macedonians proved that when is needed they know how to preserve their nature. With the motto "Plant your future" they showed their enthusiasm.

Yesterday (Tuesday, 30th march 2010), for the fifth time, in the last two years was the National Tree Day. Macedonian citizens planted approximately 7, 5 million trees all around Republic of Macedonia. 

This time the event was international. Trees were planted on the border areas with Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania. The intention is the next event to be applied all over the Balkan Peninsula.

 So far over 21 million trees were planted.