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The
history of Macedonia's survival throughout centuries seems like an
incredible story: similar examples of such sturdiness and endurability
in the hardships of times could hardly be found in history! Macedonia
as soil and tradition, as an ethnic organism and social organization
will have to outlive a millenium-long period of silence and anonimity,
smoldered in the ashes of an extensive, wrongful and complete injustice,
conquered and enslaved in various forms, until She re-appears on the
historical scene towards the middle of this century as the bird Phoenix,
as an equal member of the enourmous family of peoples and states. Macedonia
is everlasting and will not be subdued. Today, at the end of the 20th
century, Macedonia is a historical, political, economic, and above all,
a cultural reality. Situated between the facts and the metaphores,
Macedonia, as a concept, spreads beyond its frontiers, with quite an
investment in the overall treasurery of the civilazation of mankind: to
be stored in the global memory with relations with the name Alexander of
Macedonia; the teachers of all Slavs, Cyril and Methodius; the inventor
and introducer of the Cyrillic alphabet, Saint Kliment Ohridski; the
tragical Czar Samoil and the Bogomil movement; the dignified struggle
for freedom in Kresna and the two Ilinden uprisings is quite
significant. Today, Macedonia is a small, valuable and influential
contribution in the general efforts to make the World finally a
brotherly community where reason will be the supreme and exhalted
principle of living. |
