Yugoslav Spomeniks (11-C): East N Macedonia Road Trip - Štip to Delčevo to Kočani

September 2024. Macedonia (Makedonija / Македонија) AKA North Macedonia. Eastern Region.

Join me for another Balkans road trip, this time driving through Macedonia's Eastern Region.

This video is the third of four presenting my 8-day Autumn drive around the eastern part of Macedonia for 390 miles (628 km) looking for Yugoslav-era spomeniks (monuments). I found (21) of them. The spomeniks are World War II memorial sculptures that were part of a grand project of Tito's to unify socialist Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the National Liberation Struggle (NOB). Estimates put the number of such spomeniks built at up to 40,000. These communist works of art are unique and beautiful and often abandoned.

The places I rolled through are (Part 11-A): Star Dojran (Стар Дојран), Nov Dojran (Нов Дојран), Nikoliḱ (Николиќ), Gevgelija (Гевгелија), Negorci (Негорци), Mrzenci (Мрзенци); (Part 11-B): Strumica; (Part 11-C): Štip (Штип), Zrnovci (Зрновци), Blatec (Блатец), Mitrašinci (Митрашинци), Delčevo (Делчево), Makedonska Kamenica (Македонска Каменица), Kočani (Кочани), Probištip (Пробиштип); (Part 11-D): Kriva Palanka (Крива Паланкa), Malotino (Малотино), Staro Nagoričane (Старо Нагоричане), Kumanovo (Куманово), Kokino.

Special shoutout to Donald Niebyl and his spomenikdatabase.org; without his thorough work, it would be a far greater task to locate these monuments and the learn the stories behind them.

The Spomenik Series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnrWepwzwiRGMKzG1XRGAk1lhERAQwLm1&si=gviIKzZPnFrTs20G

Macedonia Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnrWepwzwiREBeSACNcbXenhRFcK-iyuc&si=l3c0pZOrGZzwTtG2

Тэги:

#travel #probistip #stip #delcevo #kocani #eastern_europe #the_balkans #communism #war_monuments #ilinden_uprising #fast_eddie_dice #macedonian_food #exploring #how_to_visit_north_macedonia #jugoslavija #Југославија

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