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Revision as of 20:04, 11 May 2007 by Strich3d (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society was a society of ethnic Macedonians in Russia. It's purpose was fighting for human rights of ethnic Macedonians and an independent Macedonia. One of its founders was Dimitrija Chupovski, and he was its president from 1902 to 1917
Macedonian Literary and Scientific Society was most prominent macedonian society of its time.It was established in St. Petersburg on 28th October 1902 and presided over by Dimitrija Chupovski.It expanded, establishing branches among the Macedonian expatriates in Sofia (1903) and Odessa (1905), as well as in Bitola and Thessaloniki (1910-13). As part of its numerous scholary and literary activities and with a clearly defined Macedonian national agenda, the society proclaimed the Macedonian language as its official language in Article 12 of the Constitution adopted on 16th December 1903. It published the first book in the modern Macedonian literary language (Za Makedonskite Raboti - On Macedonian Matters) in 1903 and in 1905 it published Vardar, the first scholary, scientific and literary journal in contemporary Macedonian, while in 1913 it produced the first Map of Macedonia. In addition it published historical records and other official documents with a clear Macedonian national ideology and a liberation programme for the preservation of the territorial integrity and freedom of Macedonia (1913-1915), as well as the most renowed journal in Macedonian and Russian "Makedonskye golos" (Macedonian Voice) (1913-14). It designed a Macedonian flag (1914) and prepared and published the Programme for a Democratic and Federative Balkan Republic (1917).
For these reasons this scholary institution with its rich literary and national cultural activity can be considered the foundation upon which the history of the Macedonian Academy was built
The two Leading figures working as part of the Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society in St. Petersburg were Dimitrija Chupovski and Krste Misirkov.
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