Socialist Republic of Macedonia

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Социјалистичка Република Македонија
Socialist Republic of Macedonia
1944-1991
Flag of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia
Coat of arms of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia
flag coat of arms
Official language Macedonian and Serbo-Croatian
Capital Skopje
Form of government State
surface 25,333 km²
currency Yugoslav dinar
founding 1944
National anthem Denes nad Makedonija
Time zone UTC +1
Locator map Macedonia in Yugoslavia.svg

The Socialist Republic of Macedonia ( SR Macedonia for short ; Macedonian Социјалистичка Република Македонија ; until 1963 People's Republic of Macedonia , Народна Република Македонöderија) was a part of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia . It was proclaimed on August 2, 1944. The capital of the republic was Skopje . The republic ruled by the Union of Communists of Macedonia existed within Yugoslavia until 1991 and has its successor in what is now the Republic of North Macedonia .

history

World War II and Liberation of Macedonia

In April 1941, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia entered World War II after being attacked on April 6 from all sides in the course of the Balkan campaign . After the German Wehrmacht took the whole country, Yugoslavia was divided into several fascist vassal states by the Axis powers . Bulgaria annexed Vardar Macedonia to its state structure on April 19, and the far west of Macedonia between Struga and Tetovo became part of the fascist Greater Albania . The Bulgarians did not encounter much resistance and were sometimes even welcome.

The People's Republic of Macedonia was founded in 1944 at the first ASNOM general assembly on August 2nd, a commemoration day of the Ilinden uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1903 . This date is now also celebrated as the National Day of North Macedonia. The decision to form a partial socialist republic was taken in November 1943 by the Antifascist Council for National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) in the Bosnian city ​​of Jajce . However, no representatives from Macedonia were present during the Jajce decisions . In 1946 the republic was officially incorporated as a part of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia . The full legal, economic and social equality of the sexes and thus the active and passive right to vote for women were guaranteed for the first time in the constitution of 1946.

The name of the republic changed with the new constitution in 1963 analogous to the SFR Yugoslavia in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia . The ruling party was the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia .

In 1990 the system of government was changed from a socialist state to a parliamentary democracy . The first elections were held on November 11, 1990 and Kiro Gligorov became the first democratically elected President of SR Macedonia on January 27, 1991. On April 16, 1991, parliament accepted a constitutional amendment to remove the term "socialist" and on June 7 of the same year the new name Republic of Macedonia was officially adopted. After the break-up of Yugoslavia , Macedonia declared its independence in a referendum on September 8, 1991.

politics

The following persons were Prime Ministers of SR Macedonia:

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John R. Lampe: Yugoslavia as History: Twice there was a Country . Ed .: Cambridge University Press. 2000, ISBN 0-521-77357-1 , pp. 207 .
  2. ↑ Dunja Melcic: The war in Yugoslavia. Handbook on the history, course and consequences. 2nd edition, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-33219-2 .
  3. ^ Marie-Janine Calic: History of Yugoslavia in the 20th century. CH Beck Munich, 2nd edition, 2014, p. 216
  4. ^ Mart Martin: The Almanac of Women and Minorities in World Politics. Westview Press Boulder, Colorado, 2000, p. 240.