Duke -. a) Vlastolin in the medieval states in Macedonia; administrative or military elder; b) Actural head in the time of the Ottoman rule in Macedonia, an act smaller than Pasha, taken from the Balkan tradition; c) the leader of Ajdutic or Communication or the company. He found a broad reflection in folk poetry from all periods of the Macedonian past. For example, Malin Duke or Gruica Vojvoda is mentioned, in the Ottoman period Dervish-BEG Vojvoda, a Selim-Beg Duke or only Turk Vojvoda, and from the committee and the comic and revolutionary period numerous distinguished characters for freedom from Strahil from Strahil Duke, Rumena or Sirma Duke to the Duke Pitu Guli or Jordan pepper, and even in the Noah Mite Duke (Mite Trpevski). Litt: hero folk songs. Selection and newsroom Dr. Kiril Penakliski, Skopje, 1968; Impactic and revolutionary songs. Choosing Jovan Boskovski and Dr. Kiril Penakliski, Skopje, 1969; Dr. Simo Mladenovski, Macedonian folk songs for the National Liberation and Revolution, Skopje, 1983, 261. S. Ml.
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