Bitola honors macedonian heroes after 84 years
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In Bitola, North Macedonia, delegations laid flowers at the monument of Stevan Naumov, a national hero, to commemorate 84 years since his death and that of Dimitar Bogovski-Mite.
On September 12, representatives from the Bitola municipality, the city council, veterans’ associations, political parties, and local citizens gathered at Širok Sokak to pay their respects. The groups remembered Naumov and Bogovski-Mite, who died in 1942 in the Bolnanska Planina mountains while fighting against Bulgarian forces.
Rather than be captured by the occupying army, the two men took their own lives during an uneven battle. Stevan Naumov was born in Bitola on October 27, 1920, and Dimitar Bogovski-Mite was born in the village of Bolno, in the Resen region, on October 31, 1919. Students and staff from the “Stevan Naumov” elementary school also participated in the commemoration, with the school’s choir performing a song dedicated to the hero.
