Flags of the Macedonian Liberation Movement -. National Liberty Military Symbols of the Macedonian people. Various Macedonian Aidian and Committal-Revolutionary Ferries, Determines and military units in liberation utilities used flags with various colors and landmarks. In the reflection uprising (1876), a silk flag with a fiery red lion without a crown of a yellow field, with the inscription: “Macedonian Prege – get you coming to you,” Made according to “Stamatography” (1741) of Hr. Zafarovich. In the Ilinden Uprising, each company had its own significant flag. Under the influence of the same “Stamatography”, the lion is often used as a symbol of additional decorations: a sword, saber or rifle in the paws, or how the chains, with crescent and star that trample, but also with various other solutions – a symbol of Macedonia (under the influence of the French Revolution), which was the chain of slavery, with Turkish flags and weapons under its legs (in disorder) and with a flag in the left hand with a very common inscription “Freedom or Death.” The Macedonian artillery unit in the Spanish Civil War used a Macedonian flag with a red basis and with a five-story star. At the time of the NOB each unit of new and POM, there was also a special flag, mainly with red substrate, yellow edges and proletarian symbols (petrovac, sickle and hammer). For some time, the GS of New and POM used the red-black flag (Lopusnik, 1943), but then the traditional red flag with a yellow petrak in the upper left corner, and the first Constitution of the DFM (31. ⅻ 1946). Lit.: Dr. Aleksandar Matkovski, arms of Macedonia. Attachment to the Macedonian Heraldry, Skopje, 1970, 147 & 151; Dr. Simo Mladenovski, Macedonian national symbols during the NOB, “messenger”, Ini, 48, 1 & 2, Skopje, 2004, 23 & 42; It, the state symbols of the Republic of Macedonia, the Republic of Macedonia 60 years after ASNOM. Proceedings from the scientific gathering on the occasion of the sixty-year-anniversary of ASNOM held in Skopje on 15 and 16 December 2004, MANU, Skopje, 2005, 357 & 373. S. Ml.
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