Revolution Day
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
- Public Holiday
- Countrywide
- Fixed date
Overview
Revolution Day, also called the Day of the Uprising, commemorates the start of the National Liberation War in Macedonia. It marks the beginning of armed resistance on 11 October 1941 and is observed as a national public holiday in North Macedonia today.
What It Is
Revolution Day falls on the same date every year, 11 October, and is a countrywide public holiday in North Macedonia. Because the date is fixed, it can land on any day of the week. Official commemorations take place in honour of those who took part in the wartime resistance, and the day is a pause from regular work for much of the population, set aside for remembrance of the uprising and its participants.
Why It Matters
The date recalls 11 October 1941, when partisans in the town of Prilep attacked a police station, an action widely regarded as the opening of organised armed resistance in Macedonia during the Second World War. The region was then under Bulgarian occupation, and the uprising became the starting point of what is known as the National Liberation War. The holiday therefore stands for resistance to foreign domination, and it anchors a national memory of the struggle that preceded the creation of the Macedonian republic within postwar Yugoslavia.
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