In 1944, a secret assembly laid the foundations for the Macedonian state
During the height of World War II, a secret assembly of resistance fighters gathered at a remote monastery in 1944 to declare the birth of a new Macedonian state.
In 1944, the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia (ASNOM) held its first historic session at the Prohor Pčinjski Monastery. Amidst the chaos of the Second World War, this secret gathering of 115 delegates officially established the Macedonian state as a federal unit within a new Yugoslavia.
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