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The manuscript of the Konikovo Gospel is the oldest known Bible translation into modern Macedonian vernacular. It is a Greek vernacular-based evangeliarium with a translation to the Macedonian vernacular of Lower Vardar, from the eve of the 19th century. The manuscript, written by an anonymous translator who used Greek script for both the Greek ...
A notable feature of Macedonian culture was the ostentatious burials reserved for its rulers. [139] The Macedonian elite built lavish tombs at the time of death rather than constructing temples during life. [139] Such traditions had been practiced throughout Greece and the central-west Balkans since the Bronze Age.
In 2011, through a survey carried out by Ipsos MORI, the religious composition of North Macedonia was found to be 70.7% Christian, divided in 69.6% Eastern Orthodox and 0.4% Catholics and Protestants, and 28.6% Muslim, with unaffiliated Muslims making up the 25.6%. [3]
Macedonians (Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes), also known as Greek Macedonians or Macedonian Greeks, are a regional and historical population group of ethnic Greeks, inhabiting or originating from the Greek region of Macedonia, in Northern Greece. Today, most Macedonians live in or around the regional capital city of Thessaloniki and ...
Macedonia (/ ˌmæsɪˈdoʊniə / ⓘ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə; Greek: Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (/ ˈmæsɪdɒn / MASS-ih-don), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, [ 6 ] which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. [ 7 ]
The Aromanians are known as Vlachs in North Macedonia. [1] To refer to themselves, the Aromanians may use Armčnji, Armānji, [1] Aromani or Arominu, meaning "Roman". [2]The Aromanians are also identified under various names in different languages, often the word for shepherd, [3] such as Ulah in Turkish, Çoban in Albanian, Tschobani or Vlachoi in Greek, Cincar or Vlasi in Serbian, [1] and ...
The history of film making in North Macedonia dates back over 110 years. The first film to be produced on the territory of the present-day country was made in 1895 by Aromanian filmmakers Janaki and Milton Manaki in Bitola, beginning a filmmaking tradition in the region that continues to this day.
Virgin Mary with Christ mosaic, Hagia Sophia Interior of Hosios Loukas. Macedonian Renaissance (Greek: Μακεδονική Αναγέννηση) is a historiographical term used for the blossoming of Byzantine culture in the 9th–11th centuries, under the eponymous Macedonian dynasty (867–1056), following the upheavals and transformations of the 7th–8th centuries, also known as the ...