Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society
- Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society
The Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society was a society of Slavic-speaking Macedonians in Russia. It's aim was the creation of an independent state encompassing the region of Macedonia.Fact|date=October 2008 One of its founders was Dimitrija Chupovski who was its president from 1902 to 1917.
The Macedonian Literary and Scientific Society was the most prominent society of its type in its time.Fact|date=October 2008 It was established in St. Petersburg on 28th October 1902 and was presided over by Dimitrija Chupovski. It expanded, establishing branches in Sofia (1903) and Odessa (1905), as well as in Bitola and Thessaloniki (1910-13). As part of its scholarly and literary activities, the society proclaimed a "Macedonian language" as its official language in Article 12 of its Constitution adopted on 16th December 1903.Fact|date=October 2008
It published the first book in a precursor of the modern Macedonian literary language (Za Makedonskite Raboti - "On Macedonian Matters") in 1903. In 1905 it published "Vardar", the first scholarly, scientific and literary journal in that languageFact|date=October 2008, while in 1913 it produced the first map of Macedonia.Fact|date=October 2008 In addition it published the most renown journal in its Macedonian and Russian "Makedonskye golos" (Macedonian Voice) (1913-14).Fact|date=October 2008 It designed a "Macedonian flag" (1914) and prepared and published the Programme for a Democratic and Federative Balkan Republic (1917).Fact|date=October 2008
For these reasons this scholarly institution with its rich literary and national cultural activity can be considered the foundation upon which the history of the Macedonian Academy was built.Fact|date=October 2008
Krste Misirkov was affiliated to the society.
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*Macedonism
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