Macedonian Partisans

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Not to be confused with
National Liberation Army (Albanians of Macedonia)
.
National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Macedonia
Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo

The Macedonian Partisans,

Mihajlo Apostolski.[7]

Partisans of Stiv Naumov Battalion, set up in November 1943 in Gorna Prespa.
Formation of the 51st Division in Shirok Dol, October 1944.

History

Resistance under question

Partisans of the 4th Macedonian Brigade in August 1944.

After the Bulgarian takeover of

Regional Committee of the Communists in Macedonia was de facto under the control of the Bulgarian Communist Party.[13]

Resistance in development

To change that, in the beginning of 1943 the

AVNOJ he became a member of the Presidency of AVNOJ. Apostolski became the commander of the General Staff of the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Macedonia.[14]

Formation of the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia

The resistance started to grow in the summer of 1943 with the capitulation of Italy and the Soviet victories over Nazi Germany.

Yugoslav National Liberation War in April 1945, the National Liberation Army of Macedonia had increased to three corps, seven divisions and thirty brigades, all with a total of 100,000 regular soldiers.[18] Chronological composition by the number of the members of MNLA (partisans, their helpers, etc.) was as follows:[19]

Late 1941 Late 1942 September 1943 Late 1943 August 1944[20][21] Late 1944[22]
Macedonia 1,000 2,000 10,000 7,000 8,000 66,000

Commanders

Orders of battle

Brigades

  • 1st Macedonian Auto-Brigade
  • 1st Macedonian Cavalry Brigade
  • 1st Aegean Assault Brigade
  • 1st Macedonian Brigade
  • 2nd Macedonian Brigade
  • 3rd Macedonian Brigade
  • 4th Macedonian Brigade
  • 5th Macedonian Brigade
  • 6th Macedonian Brigade
  • 7th Macedonian Brigade
  • 8th Macedonian Brigade
  • 9th Macedonian Brigade
  • 10th Macedonian Brigade
  • 11th Macedonian Brigade
  • 12th Macedonian Brigade
  • 13th Macedonian Brigade
  • 14th Macedonian Brigade Dimitar Vlahov
  • 15th Macedonian Brigade
  • 16th Macedonian Brigade
  • 17th Macedonian Brigade
  • 18th Macedonian Brigade
  • 19th Macedonian Brigade
  • 20th Macedonian Brigade
  • 21st Macedonian Brigade
  • 11th Macedonian Brigade (41st Macedonian Division)
  • Gotse Delchev Brigade

Corps

Divisions

  • 41st Macedonian Division (General Staff of Macedonia)
  • 42nd Macedonian Division (15th Corps)
  • 48th Macedonian Division (15th Corps)
  • 49th Macedonian Division
  • 50th Macedonian Division
  • 51st Macedonian Division
  • Kumanovo Division

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Macedonian: македонски партизани, romanized: makedonski partizani
  2. Serbo-Croatian
    : Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odredi Makedonije

References

  1. ^ "Вчера и денес: Македонија" Јован Павловски, Мишел Павловски. Скопје, 2000.
  2. ^ The Bulgarian occupation forces in the Yugoslav part of Macedonia were received as liberators and pro-Bulgarian feeling ran high in the early stages of the occupation. Neither the Communists’ position regarding a separate Macedonian nation nor the idea of a Yugoslav federation met with much response from the Slav population, which nurtured pro-Bulgarian sentiments. The local Communists, led by M. Satorov, splintered off from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and joined the Bulgarian Labour Party (Communists), with the slogan “One state, one party”. The subsequent dissatisfaction with the occupation authorities was due to social factors (high-handedness, heavy taxation, contempt for local sensitivities) rather than national ones. This was also why Tito’s resistance movement in Yugoslav Macedonia failed to develop till 1943. For more see: Sfetas, Spyridon. “Autonomist Movements of the Slavophones in 1944: The Attitude of the Communist Party of Greece and the Protection of the Greek-Yugoslav Border.” Balkan Studies 35, no. 2 (1995): 297–317. (299)
  3. ^ Lee Miller 1975, p. 202.
  4. ^ Poulton 2000, p. 104.
  5. ^ Rossos & Evans 1991, p. 304.
  6. ^ Trifunovska 1994, p. 209.
  7. ^ Ministry of Defense of North Macedonia.
  8. ^ Georgieva & Konechni 1998, p. 223.
  9. ^ Enciklopedija Jugoslavije, Vol. 7, p. 686.
  10. ^ Bechev 2009, p. 63.
  11. ^ Horncastle, J. (2016). The Pawn that would be King: Macedonian Slavs in the Greek Civil War, 1946-49, p. 73.
  12. ^ Meier 2005, p. 181.
  13. ^ Livianos 2008, p. 121.
  14. ISBN 9786082030234
    .
  15. ^ Lee Miller 1975, pp. 132–133.
  16. ^ Popovski 1962.
  17. ^ Stojanovski, Katardžiev & Zografski 1988.
  18. ^ Utrinski vesnik, no. 1342.
  19. ISBN 0-89096-760-1
    , p 96.
  20. ^ Bulgaria During the Second World War, Marshall Lee Miller, Stanford University Press, 1975, p. 202.
  21. ^ Who Are the Macedonians? Hugh Poulton, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 2000. p. 104.
  22. ^ The Slavonic and East European review, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1991, p. 304.

Sources

External links

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