Socialist Republic of Macedonia

North Macedonia, 1945–1991. Draft, not yet reviewed

The Socialist Republic of Macedonia was one of the six constituent republics of the post-World War II Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The first Macedonian state was formally proclaimed under the name Democratic Federal Macedonia at the First Plenary Session of the Anti-Fascist Assembly for the People's Liberation of Macedonia (ASNOM) during World War II. After the transition of the political system to parliamentary democracy in 1990, the Republic changed its official name to Republic of Macedonia in 1991 (now called North Macedonia). It declared itself an independent country and held a referendum on 8 September 1991 on which a sovereign and independent state of Macedonia, with a right to enter into any alliance with sovereign states of Yugoslavia was approved.

Seat of power: Skopje

No rulers documented for this era yet.

Culture

• More than 200,000 people were left homeless, and about 80 percent of the city was destroyed.
• Relief, in the form of money, medical, engineering and building teams and supplies was offered from 78 countries throughout the world.
• Within a few days after the earthquake took place, 35 nations requested that the United Nations General Assembly place relief for Skopje on their list of agendas.

Picture

The 1963 Skopje earthquake occurred in what was then the Socialist Republic of Macedonia and resulted in more than 1,000 deaths.

Image: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, file

Sources

• Socialist Republic of Macedonia (Wikipedia)
• Socialist Republic of Macedonia (Wikidata)
• About the picture (Wikipedia)

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