References - Part 06

References:

1. "Macedonian PM Lj. Georgievski Speech-2004" 2. "Boris Trajkovski". The Telegraph. 27 February 2004. Retrieved 10 May 2013.

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Trpovski - Lazo Trpovski (1900-1943)

Lazo Trpovski was born in 1900 in the revolutionary village D’mbeni, Kostur Region. In 1928 he went to Canada and fought hard to expose the Vancho-Mihailovists, pro-Bulgarian agents among the Macedonian immigrants.

In 1932 he was deported from Canada by the Canadian Government and found himself in Moscow where he enrolled and finished a course in political science.

He returned to Greece in 1935 just in time for the parliamentary elections and became an active campaigner for the Communist Party of Greece.

In 1939, during the Metaxa dictatorship, he was terrorized, persecuted and jailed in the Akronavplia prison for being a communist. During the WW II occupation of Greece he was freed and immediately joined the fight against the occupiers.

Lazo Trpovski became one of the most important organizers of the anti-fascist, anti-monarchist movements in central and south Macedonia.

As a fighter for Macedonian human rights he became very popular in Kostur, Lerin, Voden and even in Kozheni Regions.

On April 11, 1943, an instructor in the Macedonian wing of the Communist Party of Greece, Lazo Trpovski, together with a number associates, was visiting the village Imera, Kozheni Region where he fell into enemy hands and was killed.

Reference: Page 29, Macedonian Almanac, 1984.

Tsepenkov - Marko Tsepenkov (1829-1920)

Marko Tsepenkov was born in Prilep in 1829. He was the son of a traveler who moved a great deal. By the time Marko was fifteen he had traveled to Ohrid, Struga and other places in the country.

In 1844 Marko moved back to Prilep, where he attended the private school of Hadji Pop Konstantin Dimkov and father Aleksa, for two years. After he graduated he became a tailor and through his work he met various people with intriguing stories. Marko was an excellent narrator and became interested in collecting and telling stories.

In 1857 Marko took on a teaching job in Prilep and after meeting Dimitar Miladinov, another fellow Macedonian folk artist, he started collecting even more stories as well as songs, riddles, folk tales, beliefs, curses, proverbs, dreams and much more. At that time he knew more than 150 stories and wrote one to two stories per week. He also wrote the play Tsane Vojvoda and about a dozen or so songs with patriotic themes. He even wrote his own biography. His collected folk works were published in ten books in Skopje in 1972. All in all Marko wrote 269 folk tales, 85 songs, 389 beliefs and curses, 3,827 proverbs, sayings and riddles, 590 beliefs and dreams and their interpretations as well as customs, rituals, white magic and children’s games.

Marko Tsepenkov died on December 29, 1920.

Marko Tsepenkov was one of the more important literary artists from the first generation of the Macedonian literary writers.

Reference: Pages 172-184, Macedonian Almanac, 1997.

Tsrnorizets Hrabar

Slavonic education and religious worship developed with considerable success in the empire within the boundaries in which Macedonia was situated. The Koine language was gradually ousted in the Slavic Churches and replaced by the Macedonia language. The Koine speaking clergy lost their positions they had held up to now.

The non-Slavic speaking population, particularly the Koine speaking clergy, naturally reacted to the new situation which put Slavonic literacy in the defensive. Evidence of this can be found in the works “O Pismeneh” by a lesser known defender of Slavonic literacy known as Tsrnorizets Hrabar. Hrabar’s work, which has been preserved in a large number of copies, lays out the development of Slavonic literacy, from the use of “lines and incisions” employed by earlier Slavic and Macedonian speakers through the use of the Latin and Koine alphabets to the invention of the Macedonian Cyrillic script and alphabet introduced by Kiril the Philosopher. As far as we know, Hrabar’s work was one of the first polemical works devoted to Slavonic education. Details of Tsrnorizets Hrabar’s life have yet to be verified. It is assumed that he was acquainted with Kiril and Metodi’s pupils and that he may have lived during Kliment, Naum, and Konstantin of Bregalnitsa’s time. Popular opinion puts him as working in places where the Ohrid Literary School was active.

Reference: Page 36, A History of the Macedonian People, 1979.

Tsrvenkovski - Branko Tsrvenkovski (1962-

Branko Tsrvenkovski was born on October 12, 1962 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) and belongs to the

political party Social Democratic Union. He is married to Jasna Tsrvenkovska. He is an Atheist.

Branko Tsrvenkovski lead the Republic of Macedonia's largest opposition party, the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia. He was Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2002 to 2004, then President of the Republic of Macedonia from 2004 to 2009.

In 1986 he obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Automation from the School of Electrical Engineering at the St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.

He was elected member of the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia at the first multi-party elections in Yugoslavia in 1990 after serving for several years as head of department at the Semos Company in Skopje. A former communist, Tsrvenkovski has been at the head of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia since April 1991.

On September 5, 1992 he became Macedonia's second prime minister after its secession from Yugoslavia and continued in the post for another four years following the December 1994 elections.

He served as Prime Minister from 1992 to 1998 and from 2002 until 2004. He was most recently elected in 2002 after his Social Democratic Union of Macedonia party won parliamentary elections.

In July 1996 he ordered that Albanian flags in front of government buildings in western part of the Republic of Macedonia be removed. The situation escalated with one person dead and many injured. In 2005, on his initiative, the Albanian flag was legalized.

He won the April 2004 presidential election against Sashko Kedev, and took office on May 12, 2004. He then resigned as prime minister.

Tsrvenkovski did not run for a second term in the presidential elections in March 2009. Instead, he returned to his party and was elected to be the head of the party on May 24, 2009.

Branko Tsrvenkovski is an Honorary Member of Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.

In Albania he received a copy of the key to the city Tirana on the occasion of his state visit to Albania.