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| Exhibition on Macedonian History at Macedonian Parliament Opening Today Scheduled to Tour the World
(Vest, 30.07.2003) - An exhibition, “100 Years of Ilinden - 100 Years of Macedonian Statehood” is opening at the lobby of the Macedonian Parliament at 11.30 a.m. ahead of the ceremonial parliamentary session dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of Ilinden Uprising.
The exhibition will visit 100 cities throughout the world. It will be set in clubs of Macedonians living abroad, church communities, embassies, culture centres, galleries museums and is also scheduled to be displayed at the Council of Europe in Strasburg, European Parliament in Brussels and the United Nations. “This is a gift-exhibition mainly intended for the Macedonian-born living in other countries. Ilinden Uprising connects Macedonian emigrants because the greatest movement out of the country happened after the uprising,” Klime Korobar, the head of an expert team that has prepared the exhibition says. Vera Vangeli and Marjan Dimitrievski have conceived the historical concept, and graphic design is by Vladimir Borojevic.
The exhibition narrates the history of Macedonia and Macedonian people through 25 placards. They offer a cross-section of all important historical events from pre-Ilinden period and the uprising itself to the ‘gemidzijas,’ Krusevo Republic and Balkan Wars to Macedonia’s division, People’s Liberation Struggle in World War II and Macedonia’s joining the United Nations.
“As for the historical concept of the boards, each contains messages our present life and state philosophy is based upon,” Vangeli says. “The basic thing we have built this concept on was the Ilinden cause expressed in the maxim that Macedonia is the motherland of everybody living in it regardless of their ethnicity and gender. The leaders of the Ilinden Uprising were the members of an intelligent elite created in the 19th century who were written about by foreigners visiting our country as early as the 18th and 19th centuries. That elite conceived these documents and the Krusevo Manifesto and we should be proud of them much more than the French take pride in the French Declaration.”
According to Dimitrievski, the goal of the exhibition is to show that history of Macedonia is a part of the world history and the fact that each board brings a message shows what was the key of that time.
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