The National Liberation War of Macedonia (Macedonian: Народноослободителна Борба на Македонија (НОБ), transliterated Narodnoosloboditelna Borba na Makedonija, NOB; Croatian, Serbian: Makedonski Narodnooslobodilački Rat, NOB) was a political and military campaign carried out by mainly Macedonian Partisans of the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia (part of the Yugoslav Partisan movement) from October 11, 1941 until the end of 1944 when Yugoslavi...
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The National Liberation War of Macedonia (Macedonian: Народноослободителна Борба на Македонија (НОБ), transliterated Narodnoosloboditelna Borba na Makedonija, NOB; Croatian, Serbian: Makedonski Narodnooslobodilački Rat, NOB) was a political and military campaign carried out by mainly Macedonian Partisans of the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia (part of the Yugoslav Partisan movement) from October 11, 1941 until the end of 1944 when Yugoslavia was reestablished. The operation was a regional conflict of the greater Yugoslav People's Liberation War but combatants developed further aspirations over the geographic region of Macedonia.
During the Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913, the region of Macedonia which was then an Ottoman province was divided amongst the Kingdom of Greece, the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Serbia.
From 1912 until 1941 the territory of Vardar Macedonia remained within the territory of Yugoslavia. During that time, there were two main autonomist agendas — the...
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