Anti-Fascist Assembly of the National Liberation of Macedonia (in Macedonian: Antifašističko sobranie na narodnoto osloboduvanje na Makedonija, abbr. ASNOM) was the supreme legislative and executive people's representative body of the Macedonian state from 1944 until the end of World War II. A legislature is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to adopt laws. ... The Elections and Parties Series Democracy Liberal democracy History of democracy Representative democracy Representation Voting Voting systems Elections Elections by country Elections by calender Electoral systems Politics Politics by country Political campaigns Political science Political philosophy Related topics Political parties Parties by country Parties by name Parties by ideology Representative... Motto: (Transliteration: ) (English: ) Anthem: (Transliteration: ) (English: ) Capital Skopje Largest city Skopje Official language(s) Macedonian, Albanian1 Government Parliamentary republic  - President Branko Crvenkovski  - Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski Independence From Yugoslavia   - Declared September 8, 1991  Area    - Total 25,333 km² (148th)   (9,779 sq mi)   - Water (%) 1. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... This article is becoming very long. ...

The first plenary session of ASNOM was convened on the symbolic date of August 2 (Ilinden uprising day) 1944 in the St. Prohor Pcinjski Monastery near Kumanovo. The most important assembly decisions are the proclamation of the Macedonian state, proclamation of the Macedonian language as the official language of the Macedonian state. The citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic affiliation, were guaranteed all civil rights, as well as the right to their mother tongue and confession of faith. Plenary session is a term often used in conferences to define the part of the conference when all members of all parties are in attendance. ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... The Ilinden Uprising as seen by the English daily The Times, Aug. ... Prohor Pčinjski is a Serb Orthodox monastery in the deep south of Serbia, near the border with the Republic of Macedonia. ... Kumanovo (Macedonian: Куманово) is the second largest municipality city in the Republic of Macedonia after the capital Skopje and third largest town in the country. ... The National Assembly is the name of either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries. ... The Macedonian language (Македонски, Makedonski) is a language in the Eastern group of South Slavic languages and is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia. ... This article or section should be merged with ethnic group Ethnicity is the cultural characteristics that connect a particular group or groups of people to each other. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... First language (native language, mother tongue, or vernacular) is the language a person learns first. ... A Confession of Faith is a statement of doctrine very similar to a creed, but usually longer and polemical, as well as didactic. ...

ASNOM, as the supreme institution of government, also meant a de jure commencement of the constitutional law existence of Macedonia as a federate state within the framework of the Yugoslav federation. The Assembly issued a Manifesto which described the position of Macedonia under the old Yugoslavia as that of the colony, before declaring the brotherhood and unity with the other peoples of Yugoslavia. The Tito-Stalin split of 1948 and the defeat of the communists in the Greek Civil War ended Tito’s dream of uniting whole of region of Macedonia under his rule. Dejan Djokić claims that with Bulgaria once more reverting to denial of Macedonians as separate nation from Bulgarians and the victorious anti-communist Greek forces adamant in their own denial, the new Yugoslavia remained the only concrete medium for Macedonian aspirations to nationhood and quasi-statehood.^[1] It must be noted that some of the key members of ASNOM - Lazar Koliševski and Kiro Gligorov declared Bulgarian citizenship in the beginning of the war. Look up De jure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The terms de jure and de facto are used instead of in principle and in practice, respectively, when one is describing political situations. ... Constitutional law is the study of foundational laws that govern the scope of powers and authority of various bodies in relation to the creation and execution of other laws by a government. ... It has been suggested that Democratic Federal Yugoslavia be merged into this article or section. ... Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Flag of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a kingdom in the Balkans which existed from the end of World War I until World War II. It occupied an area made up of the present-day states of Bosnia... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Colonialism. ... Brotherhood and unity (known locally as Bratstvo i jedinstvo or Bратство и јединство or Bratstvo in enotnost) was the catch phrase for the official policy of inter-ethnic relations in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Informbiro. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Combatants Hellenic Army, Royalist forces, Republicans, British troops Communist guerillas (ELAS, DSE) Commanders Alexander Papagos Markos Vafiadis Strength 100,000 men 20,000 men and women Casualties 12,777 killed 37,732 wounded 4,527 missing 38,000 killed 40,000 captured or surrendered An ELAS soldier The Greek Civil... Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe whose area was re-defined in the early 20th century. ... Lazar Kolisevski (Lazar Kolishevski) (1914–2000) was a Communist political leader in Macedonia closely allied with Tito. ... Kiro Gligorov Kiro Gligorov (Киро Глигоров in Macedonian/Bulgarian, also known as Kiril Blagoev Gligorov/Кирил Благоев Глигоров), born May 3, 1917 in Å tip was the first democraticaly elected president of the Republic of Macedonia. ... Citizenship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a state) and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen. ...

The president of the Assembly was Metodija Andonov Cento. Cento's goal was to create a reunified Macedonia, either fully independent or as a republic within the new communist federal Yugoslavia, but he was opposed by Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo, Tito’s envoy to Macedonia and Lazar Koliševski, the leader of the Macedonian Communist party. One of contributors in the Assembly was Kiro Gligorov, later the first President of the independent Macedonian state. Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo (1912-2000 ) A leading Montenegrin communist and member of the Central Commitee. ... constitutional robocracy In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, the sociopolitical ideology based on Marxism. ... The Macedonian Presidency began after the Macedonian declaration of independence on September 18, 1991, and its first president was Kiro Gligorov, the oldest president in the world up until his resignation as president in 1999. ...

References

1. ^ Dejan Djokić:Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918-1992

See also

• AVNOJ
• Sobranie

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