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Izdanieto e finansirano od semejstvoto STAMEVSKI

This edition was sponsored by the STAMEVSKI family SLAVE NIKOLOVSKI - KATIN

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Naca, Krste i Stame, predcite na Stamevski • Naca, Krste and Stame, the Stamevski ancestors Cena i Tvrdomir, roditelite na Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski na 50-godi{ninata od brakot Cena and Tvrdomir, Svetozar-Steve Stamevski’s parents at their 50th Anniversary Svetozar-Svetle i Svetlana so decata • Svetozar-Steve and Svetlana with their children

Svetlana, Xorx, Lora i Svetozar-Svetle • Svetlana, George, Laura, and Svetozar-Steve SVETOZAR - SVETLE STAMEVSKI

Parlamentot na Republika Makedonija • The Parliament of Republic of Macedonia

Belata ku}a vo Va{ington • The White House in Washington

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VOVED AFIRMATOR NA MAKEDONIJA I SAD

INTRODUCTION AFFIRMER OF MACEDONIA AND USA

ojot pove}egodi{en anga`man vo y many years of studying Mace- prou~uvaweto na makedonskoto donian migration resulted in the iseleni{tvo, dovede do publiku- publication of numerous works on M vawe na brojni trudovi od ovaa M M Mthis subject. However, in recent oblast. Poslednive godini, me|utoa, moeto years, my attention has been increasingly vnimanie sé pove}e go preokupiraat uspe{- drawn by the successful Macedonians in the nite Makedonci vo dijasporata, ~ij broj ne Diaspora, who are not just a few, and who e mal, a koi mu davaat svoeviden beleg na give this migration phenomena a unique ovoj star iseleni~ki fenomen. I ne samo characteristic. And this is not only because of zaradi specifikata na migracionite dvi- the specific nature of the migratory move- `ewa vo svetot, osobeno vo minatiot vek, ments in the world, particularly in the last tuku poradi faktot {to Makedoncite, ne- century, but because of the fact that the zavisno na koi svetski meridijani }e se Macedonians, regardless of where they are in najdat, poseben beleg im davaat na op{test- the world, add a special quality to the vata vo koi se integriraat. Tipi~en primer societies in which they integrate. Svetozar- za toa e po~ituvanoto semejstvo na Svetozar Steve Stamevski's respected family from the -Svetle Stamevski od selo Odri, od Polog. village of Odri, Polog, is an epitome of this. He Toj e makedonski iselenik vo SAD, vo dr`a- is a Macedonian migrant in Michigan, USA. A vata Mi~igen, istaknat biznismen, poznat distinguished businessman, well-known and i priznat donator, humanist i veren patri- recognized donator, he is a humanist and loyal ot na Makedonija i SAD. Negovoto semejstvo patriot of Macedonia and the USA. His family minalo niz site fazi na makedonskoto ras- experienced every phase of the Macedonian petie, ispolnuvaj}i go celiot dvaesetti vek crucifixion, filling the entire 20 th century with so nastani tipi~ni za vekovnata borba na events typical of the age-old struggle of makedonskiot opstanok, ne samo vo starata Macedonian survival, not only in their native tatkovina, Makedonija, tuku i na site svet- fatherland Macedonia, but throughout the ski iseleni~ki prostori. Toa e semejstvo migrant world. It is a family to be respected

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za po~it i primer od koe moàt i treba da and taken as an example, from which other se ogledaat i drugite makedonski semejst- Macedonian families from both fatherlands, va vo dvete tatkovini, SAD i Makedonija. USA and Macedonia, can and should learn, Zatoa {to deloto {to go napravile Sta- for, the deed that the Stamevski family has mevski pretstavuva ubav primer i patokaz done is a beautiful example and road sign of na edno ~estito i blagorodno semejstvo. an honest and noble family. Analizata na nivniot buren iseleni~ki For these reasons precisely, the analysis of pat, tokmu od iznesenite pri~ini, ni go ot- their turbulent road in migrating opens up to kriva svetot na Makedonecot vo planetarni us the world of the Macedonians on a razmeri, pokaùvaj}i i potvrduvaj}i deka planetary scale, demonstrating and confirming potomcite na Aleksandar Makedonski, neza- that the descendents of Alexander of Macedon, visno od nivnite rodokrajni koti, se del na (the Great) regardless of their place of origin, edna od najstarite svetski civilizacii, ~ii are part of one of the oldest world civilizations trajni vrednosti gi raznesuvaat na site de- whose permanent values they take to every lovi na na{ata galaksija, po koi svetot i ne part of our galaxy, for which the world knows prepoznava. Poradi toa istorijata na koe us. Because of this, the history of any bilo makedonsko uspe{no semejstvo vo di- successful Macedonian family in the Diaspora jasporata, fakti~ki e istorija na makedon- is in fact the history of the Macedonian age-old skoto vekovno bitisuvawe, ne samo na Bal- existence, not only in the Balkans and in kanot i vo Evropa, tuku i na site drugi kon- Europe, but on every other continent as well. tinenti. Zatoa, obidot da napi{am mono- Thus, my attempt to write a monograph of the grafija za semejstvoto Stamevski, vo mojata Stamevski family, within my research on istraùva~ka rabota za makedonskoto ise- Macedonian migration, is the crown of this free leni{tvo, pretstavuva kruna na toj slobo- project. The monograph is based on facts that den proekt. Monografijava se potpira na spring from the lifelong opus of these people faktografija koja izvira od ìvotniot of ours, who are the pride of their native opus na tie na{i lu|e, so koi se gordee niv- fatherland, the Republic of Macedonia, which, nata stara tatkovina, Republika Makedoni- despite the numerous problems it is facing at ja, koja, i pokraj site problemi {to denes the moment, has nevertheless started stepping gi ima, uspe{no za~ekori kon svojata demo- successfully towards its democratic transfor- kratska preobrazba, vo ramkite na evrop- mation as part of the European and world skite i svetskite integracioni procesi. integration processes. Edna od zna~ajnite li~nosti koja dala Svetozar-Steve Stamevski, politician, mem- golem pridones vo afirmiraweto na samo- ber of the same party, and friend of the US stojnosta na Republika Makedonija i nejzi- President George Bush Junior, is of course one no priznavawe od strana na SAD, sekako e of the significant personalities that made a Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski, politi~ar, so- great contribution to the affirmation of the partiec i prijatel na amerikanskiot pret- independence of the Republic of Macedonia sedatel Xorx Bu{ - Junior. and its recognition by the USA.

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Knigava e monografija za semejstvoto This book is a monograph of the Stamevski Stamevski, od selo Odri, Polog, Makedoni- family, from the village of Odri, Polog, ja, koe od vtorata decenija na minatiot vek Macedonia, who has lived and worked in ìvee i raboti vo Soedinetite Amerikan- Detroit, Michigan, USA since the second ski Dràvi, vo Detroit, vo dràvata Mi~i- decade of the last century. One can get the full gen. Celosna pretstava za niv moè da se picture of them only under one condition i.e. if, dobie samo pod eden uslov: ako za proekci- wishing to present the Stamevski family, one jata na Stamevci se prekr{i rodnoto og- reflects their native hearth Odri, Tetovo, as ni{te Odri, Tetovsko kako negov atar i Ma- their property, and Macedonia as their father- kedonija kako Tatkovina. Taka istorijata za land. Thus, their history will be complete, par- niv }e bide kompletna, osobeno za onie vo ticularly for those in whose hands this book will ~ii race }e se najde ova kniga, za ameri- find itself, for Steve-Svetozar's American kanskite prijateli na Svetozar-Svetle i friends and for his future generations, as well negovite novi generacii, no i na onie vo as those in his fatherland who do not know all tatkovinata koi sé u{te nemaat celosna of this land, yet, and those who do not know pretstava za nea. A ne znaat kako da i po- how to help it. They will learn this lesson from mognat. Taa lekcija }e ja nau~at od Sveto- Svetozar-Steve Stamevski, who has not only zar-Svetle Stamevski, koj ne samo {to ne not given up on Odri, Polog, and Macedonia, krenal race od Odri, Polog i Makedonija, but he also influences effectively the courses tuku efektivno vlijae i vrz tekovite na of the U.S. policy. Svetozar-Steve Stamevski, amerikanskata politika. Za izborot na nej- among others, also deserves credit for the ziniot prv ~ovek, Xorx Bu{ - Junior, me|u election of the U.S. President George Bush drugite ima zasluga i Svetozar-Svetle Junior, of which both he and Macedonia are Stamevski, so {to i toj i Makedonija se proud, for his contribution in this field is a gordeat. Za{to negoviot vlog na toj plan e contribution to the future of the most powerful prilog vo idninata na najmo}nata nacija vo nation in the world, and indirectly the future of svetot, no indirektno i vo idninata na Macedonia. Makedonija. Slave Katin Slave Katin

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Narodna nosija od Polog • Macedonian folk embrodiery cloth from Polog

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Rodniot kraj na Stamevci Birth place of the Stamevski family

Karta na Makedonija od Dimitrija ^upovski i Makedonskoto nau~no-literaturno dru{tvo od Sankt Petersburg od 1913 godina.

A map of Macedonia by Dimitrija ^upovski and the Macedonian Scientific and Literary Association in Sankt Petersburg, 1913. 17 SVETOZAR - SVETLE STAMEVSKI

Sv. Kiril i Metodij , ikona • Sts. Cyril and Methodius. icon

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Freska „Oplakuvawe na Hristos“ • Fresco painting, Lamentation of Christ

Duborez vo crkvata „Sv. Spas“ vo Skopje od 19 vek • Woodcarving at the Holy Salvation Church in Skopje, 19th century

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Makedonskata akademija na naukite i umetnostite • Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Crkvata „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“ na Plao{nik vo Ohrid • St. Clement of Ohrid Church on Plao{nik in Ohrid

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MAKEDONSKI LETOPIS MACEDONIAN CHRONICLE

akedonskoto mileniumsko opstoju- he millennium-old Macedonian survival vawe, kako da nalikuva na dolga, seems to resemble a long, rare, and M retka i, re~isi neverojatna pri- T almost incredible story fitted in the Mkazna, smestena vo analite na po- Tannals of uniqueness and immortality. sebnosta, i besmrttnosta. Retki se primerite There are rare examples in history of such vo istorijata za takvo istrajuvawe na eden na- persistence of a people that has endured such tur- rod koj pominal niz takvi turbulentni ampli- bulent amplitudes throughout the centuries. tudi niz vekovite. Retki se primerite na edna Macedonia is a rare country that is so rich with zemja kako makedonskata, koja e tolku bogata so virtues of civilization and culture, and rare civilizaciski i kulturni doblesti i poseb- historical values. Macedonia, the land from which nosti so istoriski vrednosti. Makedonija od the Stamevski family descends as an ethnic and kade poteknuva semejstvoto Stamevski, kako et- social organism, has passed through so many ni~ki i op{testven organizam pominuvala i zaminuvala niz tolku fazi na negacija, iscrpuva~ka obespravenost na delewe i par~ewe na dolgi i krvavi buni i bitki. I s¯ taka, dodeka na istoriskata scena, nalik na pticata feniks, ne stana nerazdelen i respektiran del od golemoto evropsko i svetsko, od univerzalnoto semejstvo. Beskrajno dolgiot te`ok pat, e ispolnet i so bleskavite stranici na makedonskoto istrajuvawe i cvrstina, kogo bibliska Makedonija go mina niz lavirintot na vremenskata nepokor- nost, za kone~no, kako nacija da se konstituira i da se potvrdi. Za `al, toa se slu~i duri kon polovinata na 20 vek, i toa kako narod od evropski profil, lociran vo srceto na Balkanot, na teritorijata na anti~ka Makedonija, kade {to starite kulturi i rimskata civilizacija ostavile brojni tragi, a hristijanstvoto i islamot dolgo se borele za prevlast. Herfordova karta od 1290 god. pr.n.e. • The Hereford map, AD 1290

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Makedonskiot narod opstojal na site vidovi stages of negation and exhausting injustices of pritisoci i dolgi vekovni obezli~uvawa, uspe- division and partition, and of long and bloody vaj}i da bide za~uvan, blagodarenie na svojata rebellions and battles. And this continued until, like kulturna konsolidacija. Iako blagonaklonosta na the phoenix, on the historical scene it became an sudbata naj~esto go odminuvala, sepak, mnoguve- inseparable and respected part of the huge kovnata iscrpuva~ka borba, vostanija i buni i European, global, and universal family. prkosi, gi nau~ija Makedoncite uspe{no da ja The endlessly long and hard road is filled with sovladuvaat surovata the bright pages of {kola na opstojuva- Macedonian persis- weto i kone~niot na- tence and strength, cionalno-dràven which Biblical Mace- oblik. donia walked thro- Kako samostojna ugh the labyrinth of dràva Makedonija insubordination to ti- za prvpat postoi u{- me, to finally consti- te od anti~kiot pe- tute and confirm it- riod. Se nao|ala na self as a nation. Un- teritorijata na ed- fortunately, this hap- noimenata oblast, pened as late as the porano narekuvana mid-20th century, but Emitija. Drevnata then as a people of Makedonija se gra- European profile, ni~ela na jug so settled in the heart Elada (dene{na Gr- of the Balkans, on cija), na zapad so the territory of Anci- Epir, na severoza- ent Macedonia, whe- pad so Ilirija i na re the old cultures istok so Trakija. and the Roman civi- Osnovnoto nasele- lization left numer- nie vo dr`vata bi- ous traces, where le makedonskite ple- Christianity and Is- miwa Oresti, Lin- lam fought for ages kesti, Elimioti, i to dominate. The Ma- Evrodejcite. cedonian people en- Makedonija vo 6 dured every kind of vek pred na{ata pressure and denial era nemala poblis- of its identity, still ki komunikacii so managing to survive, elinskite dràvi i thanks to its cultural kulturi. Vo op{te- consolidation. Even stven pogled taa though fate was ne- seu{te ìveela vo ver kind to them, the prvobitniot peri- „Menada“, mala bronzena figurina na devojka od Tetovsko many centuries of od, no ve}e kon 5 “Menada” – bronze figurine of a girl from the Tetovo region exhausting battles, vek pred novata era rebellions and riots, navlegla vo etapata na takanare~enata voena taught the Macedonians to learn successfully the demokratija. harsh school of survival and the final shape of the Koga ve}e razvojnite procesi na op{testven national state. plan ja vklu~uvaat i Makedonija vo klasnoto op- Macedonia first existed as an independent state {testvo, doa|a prvoto obedinuvawe na rascep- during the Ancient period. It was located on the

22 SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI I DEL - MAKEDONIJA NA[ATA RODNA ZEMJA kanata zemja na oblasti, doa|a do politi~koto territory that used to be known as Emitia. Ancient obedinuvawe. Carot Aleksandar Prvi (498-454 Macedonia bordered to the South with Ellada god. pr.n.e.) e i prviot obedinuva~ na Makedonija. (modern day Greece), to the West with Epirus, to Carot Arhelej ja zacvrstil centralizacijata i the North West with Illyria, and to the East with vovel pari~ni i voeni reformi (413-399) dode- Thrace. The country was primarily populated by the ka vo vremeto na Filip Vtori (359-336) Make- Macedonian tribes known as Orestis, Lynkestians, donskoto Carstvo se pro{iruva. Toj ja reorgani- Elimiotis, and Evrodeis. ziral vojskata gi In the 6th cen- likvidiral sepa- tury BC, Macedo- ratisti~kite ten- nia did not have dencii, a so bit- any close commu- kata kaj Heronea nication with the (338 god. pr.n.e. Hellenic states and tokmu na 2 Avgust cultures. From a kako Prv Ilin- social aspect it still den) na Elinite, lived in the primi- a i na celata an- tive period. How- timakedonska ever, towards the koalicija im go 5th century BC it nanel najgolemi- entered the phase ot poraz, izdig- of the so-called nuvaj}i ja Make- military democracy. donija vo edna od When the develo- najsilnite drà- ping processes on vi na Balkanot i a social level came po{iroko. to include Mace- Filip Vtori donia in the class bil nasleden od system, too, the negoviot sin Alek- broken up land of sandar Makedon- districts was unit- ski, narekuvan ed for the first kako Aleksandar time, and a politi- Veliki (Makedon- cal unification re- ski) (336-323 pr. sulted. King Alex- n.e.) koj gi pro- ander I (498-454 dolìl zavoju- BC) was the first va~kite pohodi, to unite Macedo- na istok do In- nia. King Archela- dija. Toga{ Make- os enhanced cent- donija stanala ralization and in- centar na edna troduced mone- ogromna dràva tary and military koja se protegala reforms (413-399), na tri kontinen- Aleksandar Makedonski, osvojuva~ na kopnoto i vodite and during the ti i koja go do- Alexander the Macedon (Great), conqueror of the land and the waters time of Phillip II stignala vrvot na (359-336) the Ma- svojot razvoj. cedonian empire expanded. No, po smrtta na Aleksandar Makedonski, Ma- He reorganized the army and liquidated all sepa- kedonija kako dràva po~nala da se raspa|a. ratist tendencies. Furthermore, with the battle at Zavojuva~kite stremeì na Rimjanite na Balka- Chaironeia (338 BC precisely on the 2 August, as a

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not dovele do trite takanare~eni makedonski first Ilinden) he inflicted the greatest defeat upon vojni koi bile vodeni vo 214-205, 200-197 i the Hellenians, and to the entire anti-Macedonian 176-168 godina pred novata era. Po ova Makedo- coalition, thus making Macedonia one of the most nija bila pokorena i podelena na ~etiri avto- powerful countries in the Balkans and beyond. nomni oblasti vo ramkite na rimskata provin- Phillip II was succeeded by his son Alexander of cija so centar vo Solun, a podocna i so vtoriot Macedon, known as Alexander the Great (336-323 centar vo Stobi. BC) who continued the conquests and reached as Od krajot na 6 pa far as India to the do sredinata na 7 East. Macedonia then vek po Hrista, re~i- became the center of si cela Makedonija, a huge country that so isklu~ok na gra- stretched over three dot Solun, ja nase- continents and reach- luvaat slovenskite ed the summit of its plemiwa Draguviti- development. te, Sugaditite, Ve- However, after the ligizitite, Strum- death of Alexander of janite, Rinhinite, Macedon, Macedonia Smoqanite i Bere- began declining as a zitite. Tie se izme- state. The conquest {ale so starosedel- efforts of the Romans cite brzo asimili- in the Balkans led to raj}i gi i na toj na- the three so-called ~in sozdavaj}i go Macedonian wars that idniot etni~ki amal- were waged during gam na Sklavinite the periods 214-205, ili na makedonski- 200-197, and 176- te Sloveni, t.e. na 168 BC. After this, Makedoncite. Nao- Macedonia was con- |aj}i se na najpro- quered and partitio- metniot del na Bal- ned into four autono- kanot. Tie nabrzo mous districts within }e stanat objekt na the Roman province tu|inskite aspira- with its main center cii i zavojuvawa, in Thessalonica, and za{to Vizantija se- later a second center koga{ vo nivnata in Stobi. pocvrsta dràvna From the end of organizacija gledala the 6th century to the potencijalna opas- middle of the 7th nost od sozdavawe century AD almost all na nova silna drà- of Macedonia, with va. Po ìlav i dolg Samuilovata tvrdina vo Ohrid the exception of the otpor od preku 200 Samuil’s Fortress in Ohrid city of Thessalonica, godini makedonski- was inhabited by the te Sloveni }e bidat pokoreni od Vizantija. Slavic tribes known as the Draguvitis, Sugaditis, Edno od najpoznatite antivizantiski vosta- Veligizitis, Strumjanis, Rinhinis, Smoljanis, and nija e bunata na sinovite na brsja~kiot knez Berezitis. They mixed with the natives, quickly Nikola vo 976 godina. Sinot na Nikola - Samuil, assimilating them and thus creating the future eth- uspeal do krajot na 10 vek da ja oslobodi cela nic amalgam of the Sklavins, or the Macedonian

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Kru{evo • Kru{evo Makedonija i da ja organizira prvata dràvna Slavs, i.e. the Macedonians. Finding themselves in zaednica na makedonskite Sloveni. Samuilovo- the busiest part of the Balkans, the Macedonian to carstvo traelo od 976 do 1018 godina. Toga{ Slavs quickly became the object of foreign aspira- Makedonija, pak, stanuva edna od najsilnite tions and wars, for Byzantium always saw in their dràvi na Balkanot, so centar najprvin vo stronger state organization a potential threat that a Prespa, a potoa vo Ohrid. Zna~ajno e da se odbe- new powerful Slavic country may be created. After leì deka toga{ vo Makedonija crkvata imala a persistent and long resistance of more than 200 rang na patrijar{ija. Vo ramkite na Samuilova- years, the Macedonian Slavs were conquered by ta makedonska dràva vleguvaat Tesalija, Epir, Byzantium. del od Albanija so Dra~, Severna Bugarija, One of the best known anti Byzantine uprisings is Bosna, Dukqa i Ra{ka. the rebellion of the sons of the Brsyak Prince Nikola Po porazot na car Samuil od Vizantija vo in 976. By the end of the 10th century, Nikola’s son, 1014 godina vo bitkata kaj Belasica, za Makedo- Samuil, managed to liberate all of Macedonia and to nija nastapuvaat dolga niza vekovi na robuva- organize the first state of the Macedonian Slavs. we. Najprvin pod Vizantija, potoa pod Bugarija Samuil’s empire lasted from 976 to 1018. Macedo- i Srbija, a najposle turskoto osmanlisko ropst- nia was then one of the most powerful countries in vo, {to }e se protegne niz pet stoletija, sé do the Balkans, with its center being first in Prespa, po~etokot na minatiot vek. Brojnite buni i vos- and then in Ohrid. It is important to note that at the tanija na Makedoncite bile i protiv ovie zavo- time the Macedonian church had the rank of a patri- juva~i, a i protiv turskata tiranija. Najmasov- archate. Samuil’s Macedonian state included The- no e vostanieto protiv turskata vlast vo vreme- ssaly, Epirus, and part of Albania including Durres, to na Avstro-ruskata vojna do 1689 godina. Toa e Northern Bulgaria, Bosnia, Duklja, and Ra{ka.

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Karpo{ovoto vostanie, po koe se redat Kresnen- Czar Samuil’s defeat by Byzantium in 1014 in the skoto od 1878 godina, Brsja~kata buna od battle near Belasica was followed by many 1880/81 godina, akciite na vojvodite dedo Iqo centuries of slavery for Macedonia, first under Male{evski, Spiro Crne, Sirma vojvodkata i Byzantium, then Bulgaria and Serbia, and finally drugi. Turkish Ottoman slavery that went on for over five Kon krajot na 1983 godina vo Solun }e bidat centuries, until the beginning of the last century. In staveni osnovite na Vnatre{nata makedonsko- addition to the numerous rebellions and uprisings odrinska revolucionerna organizacija, pozna- of the Macedonians against these conquerors, they ta pod imeto VMRO, kako izraz za fazata koga also participated actively in the battle against the zapo~nuva kolektivniot otpor na Makedoncite Turkish tyranny. They participated in the Serbian protiv sultanskata vlast. VMRO }e se zalaga za and Greek uprisings (in 1804 and 1821) with their avtonomija na Makedonija vo ramkite na turska- own troops. Nevertheless, the most massive upris- ta dràva. Osnova~i na VMRO se: Damjan Gruev, ing was the one against the Turks during the Goce Del~ev, \or~e Petrov, Petar Pop Arsov, a Austrian-Russian war up to 1689. This was the Kar- nejzini poznati aktivisti i rakovoditeli po- po{ Uprising, which was then followed by the Kres- docna }e bidat: Jane Sandanski, Dimo Haxi Di- nensko Uprising in 1878, the Brsyak rebellion in mov, Pere To{ev, Nikola Karev i drugi. Vo ovie (1880/81), the activities of the Voyvodas Grandpa Iljo godini }e se sozdadat i prvite socijalisti~ki Male{evski, Spiro Crne, Voyvodka Sirma and others. grupi vo Makedonija, koi }e proklamiraat deka In late 1893, in Thessalonica, the Vnatrešna „osloboduvaweto na Makedonija e rabota makedonsko-odrinska revolucionerna organizacija na site Makedonci“ i }e ja propagiraat ide- known as the VMRO (Internal Macedonian-Odri jata za samostojna i nezavisna makedonska re- Revolutionary Organization) was founded as an publika. expression of the beginning of the collective resistance of the Macedoni- ans against the sultan rule. VMRO strived for an autonomous Mace- donia within the Otto- man state. Founders of VMRO included: Damjan Gruev, Goce Del~ev, Gjor~e Petrov, and Petar Pop Arsov. Some of its well known activists and leaders later included: Jane Sandanski, Dimo Hadì Dimov, Pere To- {ev, and Nikola Karev among others. During these years, the earliest socialist groups, who proclaimed that the “liberation of Mace- donia is the job of every Macedonian” were also formed in Macedonia, They also advocated the idea of an independent Mace- donian republic. êre{ovoto top~e • The cherry-wood cannon

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ILINDENSKI MOSTOVI I NEPOKOR ILINDEN BRIDGES AND INSUBORDINATION

inaleto na svoeto dejstvuvawe Make- he Macedonian revolutionary organiza- donskata revolucionerna organization reached the summit of its activities F cija }e gi ostvari vo Ilindenskoto T with the Ilinden Uprising in 1903, when Fvostanie vo 1903 godina, koga vo Tthe ten-day-long Kru{evo Republic was Kru{evo e sozdadena desetdnevnata Kru{evska formed in Kru{evo. The Macedonian people stood Republika. Makedonskite narodni masi so oru`- up with weapons in their hands in a determined je vo raka se krenaa vo re{itelna presmetka so battle against the conqueror. However, in the porobuva~ot, no vo neramnata borba so daleku uneven fight against the far stronger enemy, they posilniot neprijatel, krvavo se porazeni. were defeated in bloodshed. The uprising failed, Vostanieto ne uspealo, no svetot po{iroko e but the whole world learnt of the readiness and ve}e zapoznat so gotovnosta i re{itelnosta na determination of the Macedonian people to fight makedonskiot narod da ja izvojuva slobodata. for freedom. Vo tekot na balkanskite vojni {to od 1912 The Balkan wars that were waged from 1912 on godina se vodele na teritorijata na Makedoni- Macedonian territory definitely put an end to the ja, definitivno e urnato petvekovnoto osman- five-century-long Ottoman rule in the Balkans and in lisko vladeewe na Balkanot i vo Makedonija. Macedonia. Nevertheless, even though the Macedo- Sepak, iako Makedoncite zemaat masovno u~e- nians participated massively on the side of the stvo na stranata na sojuzni~kite vojski (bugars- allied armies i.e. Bulgarian, Serbian, and Greek, still ki, srpski, gr~ki), Makedonija ne dobiva slobo- Macedonia did not get its freedom. With the Bucha- da. So dogovorot vo Bukure{t od 1913 godina, rest Agreement of 1913, Macedonia was partitioned Makedonija e razdelena me|u Srbija, Bugarija i between Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece (Vardar, Pirin, Grcija (Vardarska, Pirinska i Egejska Makedo- and Aegean Macedonia). This position was sanctio- nija). Po Prvata svetska vojna, so dogovorot vo ned with the Agreement of 1919 after WWI. 1919 godina, ovaa polo`ba e sankcionirana. The Macedonian people did, nevertheless, take Sepak, makedonskiot narod vo Vtorata svet- advantage of their chance in WWII. Joining the ska vojna, vklu~uvaj}i se vo antifa{isti~kata anti-fascist coalition, the People’s Liberation War koalicija, vo Narodno-osloboditelnata borba against the German/Bulgarian/Italian occupiers, the protiv germansko-bugarsko-italijanskite okupa- Macedonian people won their freedom along with tori, vo zaednica so drugite balkanski narodi, the other Balkan peoples. Unfortunately, they won ja izvojuva svojata sloboda. No, za `al, izvojuva their freedom only in the Vardar region of Macedo- sloboda samo vo vardarskiot del na Makedo- nia. As part of the former Federal Republic of Yugo- nija, koj vo ramkite na biv{ata Federativna slavia, Macedonia got the status of a state – the

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Republika Jugoslavija go dobi svojot status na Republic of Macedonia, proclaimed as such at the dràva - Republika Makedonija. Proklamirana First ASNOM Assembly at the Prohor P~inski e na Prvoto zasedanie na ASNOM vo manastirot monastery held on the 2 August, 1944. Thus, once Prohor P~inski odràno na 2 avgust 1944 godi- again on Ilinden, following an armed battle, the na. Taka, pak, na Ilinden, po pat na vooruèna majority of the Macedonian people got their own borba, najgolemiot del od makedonskiot narod state, which developed within the framework of the se zdobi so svoja dràva, i ima{e svoj razvoj vo Yugoslav community. Later, on 8 September 1991, ramkite na jugoslovenskata zaednica. Potoa, na it became a fully independent, renowned, and 8 septemvri 1991 godina, stana celosno samo- acknowledged democratic country. stojna i nezavisna, poznata i priznata The land from which the Stamevski family demokratska zemja. descends is a well-known cultural center and cradle of culture. Thus, closely tied to their native hearth, the Macedonian people lived with their age-old traditions handing them down from generation to generation, creating and developing a rare and rich material and spiritual culture, which retained many patriarchal features. Hence, folk work was the result not just of the rich creative spirit and the artistic tal- ent of the Macedonian people, but it was a reflec- tion of the economic, social, and cultural conditions in the various historical epochs which the Macedo- nian people experienced. In addition to the various useful objects, the folk craftsman also paid particular attention to the artistic shaping of his clothes, and the national costume and jewelry as the most remarkable samples of traditional craftwork.

Sosednite propagandi kon Makedonija Neighboring propaganda against Macedonia

Zemjata od kade poteknuva semejstvoto Sta- mevski e poznato kulturno àri{te i lulka na kulturata. Taka, makedonskiot narod cvrsto povrzan za doma{noto ogni{te, ìveel so svoite vekovni tradicii i prenesuvaj}i gi od pokolenie na pokolenie, sozdaval i razvival edna retka i bogata materijalna i duhovna kultura, koja za sebe zadràla i pove}e patrijarhalni obele`ja. Taka, narodnoto tvore{tvo e plod ne samo na bogatiot tvore~ki duh i negovata umetni~ka nadarenost na makedonskiot narod, tuku i odraz na ekonomskite, socijalnite i kulturnite uslovi vo razli~nite istoriski epohi niz koi Makedonecot minuval. Osven na raznovidnite upotrebni predmeti posebno vnimanie vo umetni~koto oblikuvawe narodniot tvorec mu posvetil na svojata oble- ka, narodnata nosija i na nakitot, kako najizra- ziti primeroci na tradicionalnoto tvore{tvo. Spomenik na Iqo Anteski - Smok, prvoborec od Tetovo The monument of Iljo Anteski – Smok, a fighter from Tetovo

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NACIONALNI BELEZI, TRADICII... NATIONAL FEATURES, TRADITIONS ...

arakteristi~no za narodnata nosija e haracteristic of the folk costume is the white belata tunikoobrazna platnena ko{ula, tunic-like cotton shirt as well as the numer- Kkako i brojnite volneni obleki od S ous woolen garments made of a thick white Kbela i crna kla{a. Osobeno se izdvo- Sand black fabric. The festival and formal juvaat prazni~nite i sve~enite nosii, vo koi costumes in which the creative spirit of the Mace- tvore~kiot duh na makedonskata `ena dostig- donian woman reached its summit are particularly nal vrven izraz. So svojata monumentalnost, remarkable. Monumentality, harmony, and elegance skladnost i elegancija se odlikuvaat nosiite characterize the costumes from the areas of Skopje, od okolinata na Skopje, Kumanovo, Tetovo, Prilep Kumanovo, Tetovo, Prilep, and other places in

Mitropolitot Kiril vo Le{ok • Mitropolitan Kiril in Le{ok

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i drugi mesta vo Makedonija. So svojata vpe~at- liva i bogata ornamentika, osobeno e karakte- risti~en nakitot na prazni~nite i sve~enite ènski nosii od Polog, Stru{ko, Ohridsko, Prilepsko, Mavrovo, Skopsko, Prespansko i drugi regioni. Ne zaostanuva ni makedonskata grn~arija: resenskata, vele{kata, stru{kata, debarskata, ki~evskata koja se karakterizira so anti~ki formi, dejstvuvaj}i impresivno so svoite izdolèni i vitki oblici. Rezbarstvo- to, pak, pretstavuva kruna vo narodnata umetnost na Makedoncite. Mija~kite majstori-rez- bari (kopani~ari) bile poznati na Balkanot, osobeno so dlabokata i plitkata rezba, so koja bile ukrasuvani makedonskite crkvi i manastiri, a i bogatite ku}i vo Tetovo, Debar, Skopje i Bitola. Rezbite vo manastirot Sv. Jovan Bi- gorski, Debarsko, vo Sv. Spas vo Skopje i Sv. Dimitrija vo Bitola, pretstavuvaat najdra- goceni kulturno-istoriski spomenici i remek- dela na makedonskata narodna umetnost. Vakviot podem na narodnata umetnost vo Ma- kedonija se dolì na makedonskite prosveti- teli sv. Kiril i Metodij, koja svoeto prodolù- vawe i rascut }e go doìvee tokmu vo Makedo- nija. Za{to, direktni nejzini prodolùva~i se nivnite najbliski sorabotnici sv. Kliment i Naum. Sv. Kliment Ohridski (840-916) e sozdava~ na poznatata i najzna~ajnata Ohridska kni- èvna {kola. Kako najdobar u~enik na solun- skite bra}a, po progonuvaweto od Moravija toj Leopardot i srnata, simbol na hristijanskata du{a i nejzinite stradawa, Herakleja • }e se naseli vo oblasta Kutmi~evica (dene{na Zapadna Makedonija) i nekade po 887 godina }e ja zapo~ne svojata bleskava prosvetitelska Macedonia. Impressive and rich ornament is espe- kariera. Sv. Kliment Ohridski otvora u~ili{ta cially characteristic of the jewelry on the festival and za deca i vozrasni niz cela Makedonija, a vo formal women’s costumes in Polog, and the areas Ohrid i Univerzitet so nad 3.500 slu{ateli. of Struga, Ohrid, Prilep, Mavrovo, Skopje, and Pres- Najblizok sorabotnik i prodolùva~ na de- pa, among others. Macedonian pottery is equally loto na sveti Kliment vo Makedonija e sv. Naum impressive. The pottery of the Resen, Veles, Struga, Ohridski, koj, isto taka, rabotel vo oblasta Debar, and Ki~evo areas is characterized by Kutmi~evica. Najstariot za~uvan kirilski spo- ancient shapes, and is quite impressive with its long menik e otkrien vo Makedonija. Toa e nadgrob- and curving shapes. Woodcarving, on the other nata plo~a na carot Samuil od 993 godina. No, hand, is the crown of Macedonian folk art. The od Makedonija poteknuvaat i nekolku najpozna- “Mija~ki” masters, woodcarvers, were well known in ti pametnici na staromakedonskata pismenost, the Balkans, particularly for the deep and shallow pi{uvani na kirilica, a so elementi na make- woodcarvings that decorated the Macedonian donska redakcija. Toa se „Ohridskiot apostol“, churches and monasteries, as well as the wealthy „Bolowskiot psaltir“, „Bitolskiot triod“, people’s houses in Tetovo, Debar, Skopje, and „Lesnovskiot psaltir“ i drugi. Od drugite Bitola. The woodcarings at the St. Jovan Bigorski za~uvani rakopisni zbornici }e gi spomeneme monastery near Debar, the St. Spas in Skopje, and the St. Dimitrija in Bitola are the most precious

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cultural and historical monuments, and master- pieces of Macedonian folk art. Such progress of folk art in Macedonia is owed to the Macedonian educators, Sts. Cyril and Metho- dius. It continued and flourished in Macedonia precisely because it was directly continued by their close associates Sts. Clement and Naum. St. Cle- ment of Ohrid (840–916) established the best known and most significant Ohrid Literary School. As the best student of the Salonica brothers, after he was exiled from Moravia, he moved to the Kutmi~evica area (in modern-day Western Macedo- nia), and began his brilliant career as an educator some time after 887. St. Clement of Ohrid opened schools for children and adults throughout Macedo- nia, and a University in Ohrid with more than 3,500 students. The closest associate and continuer of St. Cle- ment’s work in Macedonia is St. Naum of Ohrid, who also worked in the Kutmi~evica area. The oldest preserved Cyrillic monument was discovered in Macedonia. It is the gravestone of Czar Samoil from the year 993. In addition to this, some of the best known monuments of Slavic literacy also come from Macedonia. These are written in Cyrillic with elements of Macedonian editing. They include “The Apostle of Ohrid”, “The Psalter of Bologne”, “The Bitola Triad”, “The Lesnovo Psalter”, and others. Other preserved manuscripts include “Priest Jovan’s Gospel” (12th century), “Gligorovi~’s { • Leopard and doe, symbol of Christian soul and suffering, Heraclea Paramejnik”, “The Vrane Apostle” (13th century), “The Slep~enski Apostle”, “The Dobraj{ov’s Gospel”, “Radomir’s Gospel” and others that date u{te „Pop Jovanovoto evangelie“ (12 vek), back to the time between the 12th and 13th cen- „Gligorovi~eviot paramejnik“, „Vrane{- turies. ni~kiot apostol“ (13 vek), „Slep~enskiot Elements of the modern Macedonian tongues apostol“, „Dobraj{ovoto evangelie“, also appear in some manuscripts from the 16th and „Radomirovoto evangelie“ i drugi, koi 18th centuries. The Macedonian tongue is introdu- poteknuvaat od periodot pome|u 12 i 13 vek. ced into an unofficial form of literary use as early as Elementi od sovremenite makedonski govori the time when the Ottomans ruled Macedonia, par- se pojavuvaat i vo nekoi rakopisni tekstovi od ticularly in the 19th century. Beginning with 16 i 18 vek. Makedonskiot jazik vo literaturna “Danail’s Four-language Book” (1802), and continu- upotreba, no vo neoficijalna forma, se vovedu- ing with the works of Kiril Pej~inovi} – Tetoec, va u{te vo tekot na turskoto vladenie vo Make- Joakim Kr~ovski, and Teodosij Sinaitski from the donija, osobeno vo 19 vek. Po~nuvaj}i od Danai- early decades of the 19th century, until the emer- loviot ~etirijazi~nik (1802), preku delata na gence of the new generation of Macedonian writers Kiril Pej~inovi} - Tetoec, Joakim Kr~ovski i of the mid-19th century (Dimitrija and Konstantin Teodosija Sinaitski, od prvite decenii na 19 Miladinov, Rajko @inzifov, Grigor Prli~ev, Marko vek, pa s do pojavata na novata generacija ma- é Cepenkov, Kuzman [apkarev, and others) folk lan- kedonski pisateli od sredinata na 19 vek guage gradually developed to the level of a literary (Dimitrija i Konstantin Miladinovi, Rajko form.

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@inzifov, Grigor Prli~ev, Marko Cepenkov, In addition to its use in administration, public com- Kuzman [apkarev i drugi), narodniot jazik po- munication, schools, printed media, radio and tele- stepeno se izdiga do nivo na literaturna forma. vision, theatres and other kinds of media, today the Na makedonskiot jazik deneska, pokraj nego- Macedonian language is also used to create lieter- vata upotreba vo administracijata, javnata ature, to translate the best known values of the komunikacija, u~ili{tata, pe~atot, radioto world spiritual treasury. Furthermore, at the Mace- i televizijata, donian langua- teatrite i dru- ge departments gite vidovi me- in many coun- diumi, se sozda- tries throughout va literatura, se the world, lec- preveduvaat naj- tures are held poznatite vred- in the Macedo- nosti od svetska- nian language, ta duhovna riz- and it is studied nica i na kated- as a world rite na makedon- language. ski jazik vo mno- Thus, after gu zemji vo sve- an entire ele- tot se odr`uva- ven centuries, at predavawa za the Macedoni- nego, no i se izu- an tongue has ~uva kako svet- lived to see its ski jazik. reaffirmation Taka, duri po once again. This edinaeset stole- is the language tija, makedon- and culture of skiot jazik, pov- the Stamevski torno ja do~eka family, which svojata reafir- they took with macija. Toj e jazi- them to the new kot i kulturata environment to na semejstvoto fill a modest Stamevski, {to piece of the rich so sebe go done- mosaic of the le vo novata cultural treasu- sredina, za da ry of the United poplo~i skro- States of Ame- men del od boga- rica. tiot mozaik na kulturnata riz- nica na SAD.

„Ute{enie gre{nim“ na igumenot Kiril Pej~inovi} “Comfort to the Sinful“, by monk Kiril Pej~inovi}

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Odri

Karta na Polog • A map of Polog

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POLO[KA RAZGLEDNICA A PORTRAIT OF POLOG

emejstvoto Stamevski poteknuva od he Stamevski family comes from the Te- tetovskiot kraj vo Makedonija koj, me|u tovo area in Macedonia, which God gifted S drugoto, Gospod go daruval so mnogu pri- T with an immensely picturesque landscape, Srodni ubavini. Inaku, od Skopje do Te- Tamong other things. A modern highway tovo vodi moderna magistrala, koja ovozmo`uva leads from Skopje to Tetovo, which allows one to ova rastojanie od triesetina kilometri da se pass this distance of about thirty kilometers in only sovlada za polovina ~as. Malku kilometri tre- half an hour. One only needs to pass a few kilometers ba da se pominat za da se izleze od klisurata to come out of the Karpalak gorge in the mountain

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Karpalak na planinata i da se zdogleda Tetovo and see Tetovo with Mt. [ar in the distance behind so [ar Planina nad nego. Pred patnikot se it. At the same time, one sees Polog, one of the otkriva i Polog, edna od najubavite kotlini vo most beautiful valleys in Macedonia, filled with Makedonija, polna so gusto naseleni sela i densely populated villages and green fields, and zelenilo i poznata po bogatstvoto zemjodelski renowned for its wealth of agricultural products proizvodi {to gi snabduva Tetovo, Gostivar i that supply Tetovo, Gostivar, and the wider area. At po{irokiot region. Isto taka, ovoj region e the same time, a highway links this area to Ohrid povrzan so avtopat, so {to patuvawata vo Ohrid and Debar via Ki~evo, thus making travel easier, i Debar, preku Ki~evo, e udobno i atraktivno. A, more comfortable, and attractive. And, Western Zapadna Makedonija e me|u najprekrasnite pre- Macedonia is truly the most attractive region of the deli vo dràvata, kako po svojata rasko{na country, both with its luscious nature and with its priroda, taka i po izgra- electrical power plants and denite elektroenergetski their scenic lakes. Radika, objekti so ìvopisnite as a canyon where the St. ezerski povr{ini. Radika Jovan Bigorski monastery is kako kawon vo koj se nao- located, and the crystal |a manastirot sv. Jovan clear river that runs into Bigorski i bistrata reka Lake Debar, is a paradise for koja se vleva vo Debar- those that fish for the river skoto Ezero, e raj za ri- trout. Mavrovo, too, with its bolovcite na re~nata pa- hydroelectric power plant, strmka. Mavrovo, pak, so its lake waters, and especial- hidroelektranata i ezer- ly its ski terrains on Bistra, skite vodi, a osobeno so has a beauty that is unique skija~kite tereni na in the region and in the Bistra, e nepovtorliva Balkans. ubavina vo regionot i na Tetovo is a municipal Balkanot. center located 468m above Tetovo e op{tinski sea level and has a popula- centar, i se nao|a na nad- tion of over 80,000. From a morska viso~ina od 468 historical aspect, it is first metri, so preku 80.000 mentioned in the 17th cen- ìteli, koj za prvpat vo Makedonski naroden vez tury as Htetovo, and later istorijata se spomenuva the Ottomans referred to it Macedonian folk embroidery duri vo 17 vek, kako Hte- as Kalkandere. Today, the tovo, a podocna Turcite go narekuvale Kalkan- city is located at the far end of the Polog valley, at dere. Denes gradot se nao|a na rabot na the foot of Mt. [ar itself, where the Pena River Polo{kata ramnina, pod samata [ar Planina, comes down from the mountain and meets the val- kade {to rekata Pena sleguva od planinata vo ley. At the very approach to the city, regardless of ramninata. U{te na prio|aweto kon gradot, od which side one is coming from, the traveler is met koja i da e strana, patnikot go zapliskuva sve- by the beautiful fresh climate due to the location of àta i ubava klima {to e rezultat na mestopo- the city surrounded by the magnificent mountain lo`bata na gradot opkolen so rasko{nite peaks, especially Mt. [ar. planinski vrvovi, osobeno na [ara. According to some information, during the Spored nekoi podatoci, vo sredniot vek Te- Middle Ages, Tetovo was a village-type suburb with tovo bil selska naselba, so belezi na orientot. oriental characteristics. Most probably because of Verojatno poradi blagoprijatnata mestopolo`- its pleasant location, the Ottoman beys built their ba, turskite begovi tuka gi izgradile svoite palaces (sarays) here. Many buildings from that sarai. Od toa vreme vo Tetovo se ostanati po- time remain in Tetovo, some preserved even today. ve}e gradbi, nekoi od niv za~uvani do denes. Some of these are Baltepe and Alibaba teqe

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Me|u niv se Baltepe, Alibaba te}e, a nekoi od (dervish lodge) while others are located in one niv se koncentrirani na eden kompleks. Takov e complex. Such is the case with the Turkish bath slu~ajot so turskiot amam - dene{nata Umetni~- (amam) – the present day Art Gallery, the Bey’s ka galerija, Begovskite konaci i edna ~e{ma. Inn, and a fountain. These are rare samples of Toa se retki primeroci na islamskata arhitek- Islamic architecture in Tetovo. tura vo Tetovo. Also dating from the period of the Ottoman Od periodot na turskoto vladeewe vo Tetovo Empire, we especially need mention the colorful posebno se izdvojuva {arenata xamija Alaxa xa- Aladja Mosque, located near the Bey’s Towers. It is mija, koja se nao|a kraj Begovite kuli. Vnima- attractive not only for its architecture, but also for nieto go privlekuva ne samo so svojata arhitek- its ornamental interior and exterior. The Arabati- tura, tuku i so vnatre{nata i nadvore{nata Baba teqe is located at the periphery of the city,

Manastirot Sv Atanasij i grobot na Kiril Pej~inovi} - Le{ok Motiv od Polog The monastery of St. Atanasij and the tomb of Kiril Pej~inovi} - Le{ok A scene of Polog ornamentika. Na periferijata na gradot, pokraj near the chairlifts to Popova [apka. This is what stanicata na `i~arnicata za Popova [apka, se used to be a Mohammedan monastery of the nao|a te}eto Arabati-Baba. Toa e nekoga{niot Bektesh sect, the only one in the Balkans that is muhamedanski manastir na bekte{kata sekta, preserved. It has now been renovated into an edinstven za~uvan na Balkanot. Toa e denes attractive catering facility, one of the best of its kind renovirano vo atraktiven ugostitelski objekt, in Macedonia. The teqe is surrounded with green eden od najdobrite od ovoj vid vo Makedonija. lawns and an interesting ambience. It was built in Te}eto e opkoleno so zeleni trevnici i intere- the 17th century by Redjep Pa{a, who gave it entire sen ambient. Izgradeno e vo 17 vek od Rexep villages and stores in Tetovo, Tirana, Elbasan, pa{a, koj podaril celi sela, du}ani vo Tetovo, Thessalonica, and Istanbul. Tirana, Elbasan, Solun i Istanbul. There are not many historical monuments in the Vo okolinata na Tetovo nema mnogu istoris- Tetovo area. The churches in the village of Le{ok, ki spomenici. Od posebno zna~ewe se crkvite located eight kilometers from Tetovo and linked by vo seloto Le{ok, oddale~eno osum kilometri od a good asphalt road, are especially significant. Tetovo, povrzano so dobar asfalten pat. Vo ova There are two churches and a monastery in this

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selo se nao|a manastir so dve crkvi: Sveti Ata- village: Sveti Atanasij, built in the 14th century nasij, podignata vo 14 vek, za vreme na osnova- during the founding of the First Episcopacy of weto na Prvata polo{ka episkopija. Soyidana e Polog. It is built of limestone and brick in a vo vizantiski stil od kamen bigor i tula. Podot Byzantine style. The floor is covered with marble e pokrien so mermerni plo~i. Ostatocite od blocks. What remains of the frescoes indicates that freskite poka`uvaat deka tie bile mnogu kva- they were of very high quality. Today the church lies litetni. Denes crkvata e vo urnatini. Vtorata in ruins. The second church is St. Mary (Sveta crkva e Sveta Bogorodica, koja za prvpat se Bogorodica), first mentioned in the 14th century. spomenuva vo 14 vek. So doa|aweto na poznatiot Lodgings were built around it in 1818, with the makedonski prerodbenik Kiril Pej~inovi} - coming of the well-known Macedonian reformer

Kiril Pej~inovi} 1871 - 1845 i Arsenij Marko, so ko{ni~ka v race Deloto „Ogl;edalo“ na igumenot Kiril Paj~inovi} Kiril Pej~inovi}, 1871 - 1845 and Arsenij Markov holding a basket The work „Mirror“ by prior Kiril Pej~inovi}

Tetoec vo 1818 godina, okolu nea se izgradeni Kiril Pej~inovi~ – Tetoec. The frescoes in the church konaci. @ivopisot vo crkvata bil raboten tri- were painted three times. The second layer dates pati. Vtoriot sloj e od 17 vek, a tretiot od 1879 from the 17th century, and the third is from 1879. godina. Kiril Pej~inovi~ was buried in the yard of the Grobot na Kiril Pej~inovi} se nao|a vo dvorot Le{ok Monastery. He was born in Tearce around na manastirot Le{ok. Toj e roden vo Tearce okolu 1770. This Macedonian educator organized a school 1770 godina. Ovoj makedonski prosvetitel vo at this monastery for the young ones in which he

38 SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI IIDEL - KORENITE VO MAKEDONIJA manastirot organiziral {kola za mladinci vo himself was the tutor. He also collected books and koja samiot bil u~itel. Osven toa sobiral knigi established a monastery library. There is a museum i osnoval manastirska biblioteka. Vo konacite room devoted to Kiril Pej~inovi~ in the monastery na manastirot e uredena soba muzej na Kiril lodgings. Visitors are impressed with the rich and Pej~inovi}. Sekoj nejzin posetitel ostanuva busy life of this Macedonian educator. As a young impresioniran od bogatiot i buren `ivot na man, he attended the monastery school at “Sveta ovoj makedonski prosvetitel. Kako mlad ja pose- Pre~ista” in the Ki~evo area. Later, with his father tuval manastirskata {kola vo „Sveta Pre~ista“ and uncle, they went to the “Hilendar” monastery Ki~evsko, za potoa so negoviot tatko i striko da on Mt. Athos, where they became monks. He con- zaminat za Sveta Gora, vo manastirot tinued his education there, and in 1801 he returned

Sobir vo Le{ok • A gathering in Le{ok

„Hilendar“, kade {to se pokalu|erile. Tuka toj to Macedonia and became a Father Superior at the go prodol`il svoeto {koluvawe, a vo 1801 godi- Markov Monastery near Skopje. During the twenty na se vra}a vo Makedonija i stanuva igumen vo years he spent there, he renovated the monastery. „Markoviot manastir“ vo okolinata na Skopje. At the same time, he wrote his first book “Ogledalo” Vo tekot na svojot prestoj od okolu dvaesetina (Mirror), published in Budim in 1817. One year later, godini toj go obnovil manastirot, istovremeno he left this monastery and went to “Hilendar” to pi{uvaj}i ja i svojata prva kniga „Ogledalo“, visit his father and uncle, and then returned to

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izdadena vo Budim vo 1817 godina. Edna godina Tearce to stay. He intended to renovate the ruined potoa go napu{til „Markoviot manastir“ i zami- Sveti Atanasij monastery in the village of Le{ok. He nal na „Hilendar“ da gi poseti tatko mu i managed to do this despite the numerous problems striko mu, za potoa definitivno da se vrati vo and difficulties he encountered. He established a Tearce. Negova cel bila da go obnovi razurna- school at the monastery that was attended by tiot manastir „Sv. Atanasij“ vo selo Le{ok. Vo about fifty students from the area. toa i uspeal nasproti golemite problemi i During this period, Kiril Pej~inovi} continued his te{kotii na koi naiduval. Vo manastirot for- literary work and wrote “Ute{enie gre{nim” miral u~ili{te koe go posetuvale okolu pede- (Comfort to the Sinful), published in 1840 in settina u~enici od toj kraj. Thessalonica. At the same time, he wrote the

Hotelski centar na Popova [apka Ba~ilo na [ara The Popova [apka ski resort Sheepfold on Mt. [ara

Vo toj period Kiril Pej~inovi} ja prodolìl biography of Prince Lazar, believing that he svojata knièvna rabota i go napi{al „Ute{e- deserved the credit for the building of the Le{ok nie gre{nim“, objaveno vo 1840 godina vo Solun. Monastery. However, this remained as a manuscript Istovremeno, napi{al i @itie za knez Lazar, because all of his efforts to have it printed in veruvaj}i deka toj e zasluèn za izgradbata na Kragujevac failed due to the strict censorship of the Le{o~kiot manastir, no toa ostanalo vo rakopis, Belgrade Diocese. The manuscript of “Ute{enie bidej}i site negovi obidi da go otpe~ati vo gre{nim” also experienced the same fate in the first Kraguevac, ostanale bezuspe{ni, poradi stroga- phase. He then offered this manuscript to the ta cenzura na Belgradskata mitropolija. Istata archimandrite Teodosij Sinaitski to print in his print- sudbina ja doìveal vo prvata faza i rakopisot ing house in Thessalonica. Pej~inovi} did not forget na „Ute{enie gre{nim“, koj potoa mu go ponudil this good deed, so that when this printing house na arhimandritot Teodosij Sinaitski da go burnt down in a fire in 1840, he helped Gologanov otpe~ati vo negovata pe~atnica vo Solun. Ovoj restore it. He underlined his expressions of negov gest Pej~inovi} ne go zaboravil, pa koga gratitude in the introduction to the book “Ute{enie ovaa pe~atnica vo 1840 izgorela vo poàr, mu gre{nim”.

40 SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI IIDEL - KORENITE VO MAKEDONIJA pomognal na Gologanov da ja obnovi. Izrazite After the death of Kiril Pej~inovi} – Tetoec, the na negovata blagodarnost toj gi podvlekol vo Serbian authorities closed down the school at the predgovorot na knigata „Ute{enie gre{nim“. Le{ok Monastery and destroyed his library, burning Po smrtta na Kiril Pej~inovi} - Tetoec srp- the books in the monastery yard. He was buried skite vlasti go zatvorile u~ili{teto vo Le- here in 1845, in a tomb he built only a few years {o~kiot manastir i ja uni{tile negovata bib- before his death. lioteka, ~ii knigi bile zapaleni vo manastir- Today, Tetovo is developing into an industrial skiot dvor. Tuka e pogreban i toj vo 1845 godi- city with one of the biggest factories of the textile na, vo grobnicata {to ja izgradil samo nekolku industry “Teteks“, whose products are well known godini pred svojata smrt. throughout the world, particularly in the USA. The

[arplaninec, posebna rasa na pesovi koi gi ima samo na [ara Jabolka od Odri [arplaninec, a special dog breed that originates from Mt. [ar Apples from Odri

Denes Tetovo se razviva vo industriski grad chemical factory “Jugohrom“, owned by a French vo koj se nao|a edna od najgolemite fabriki na company for many years, is also located near the tekstilnata industrija „Teteks“, ~ii proizvodi city. At the moment, a number of small and se poznati vo svetot, osobeno vo Amerika. Vo medium size companies from the health, food, and neposredna blizina na gradot se nao|a i hemis- construction industries are also active in this city. kiot kombinat „Jugohrom“, koj pove}e godini e vo However, Tetovo is becoming increasingly attractive sopstvenost na edna francuska firma. Vo ovoj for the development of its tourism, especially in the grad denes rabotat i pove}e mali i sredni firmi winter. The construction of the Popova [apka ski od oblasta na zdravstvenata, prehranbenata i resort and the chairlifts, as well as the numerous grade`nata industrija. Me|utoa, ona po {to Te- hotels and catering facilities, all created the tovo se pove}e go privlekuva vnimanieto e raz- necessary conditions for its affirmation, not only in vojot na turizmot, osobeno na zimskiot, za koj so the country, but also abroad. This is proven by the izgradbata na skija~kiot centar na Popova numerous domestic and regional skiing competi- [apka i `i~arnicata, kako i brojnite hotelsko- tions, some of which are traditional, such as the ugostitelski objekti, se sozdadeni site uslovi “[arplaninski kup” (Mt. [ar Cup).

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za negova afirmacija, ne samo vo zemjata, tuku Tetovo’s future in tourism is linked to the city’s i nadvor od nea. Potvrda za toa se brojnite road connections with the Adriatic Highway. Before dr`avni i balkanski natprevari vo skijawe, this highway enters the Ka~anik gorge, it separates, del od koi se i tradicionalni, kako {to e thus one road leads towards Tetovo and connects „[arplaninskiot kup“. to the western transversal that leads to Ohrid, Turisti~kata idnina na Tetovo e povrzana i Bitola, and the Greek border, i.e. Ohrid, Bitola, so vrskite na gradot so Jadranskata magistrala, Prilep, and then joins the Belgrade – Gevgelija high- koja pred vleguvaweto vo Ka~ani~kata Klisura way. Similarly, Tetovo is very close to Skopje aiport, se oddeluva so eden krak koj vodi kon Tetovo, which links it to the world. The seraglios that the povrzuvaj}i se so zapadnata transverzala koja Turkish pashas and beys built in this city, even vodi za Ohrid - Bitola - gr~ka granica, odnos- though it was a small town at the time, are no Ohrid - Bitola - Prilep i se povrzuva so evidence of these tourist comforts. In the mid 19th avtopatot Belgrad - Gevgelija. Tetovo e mnogu century, the Russian consul Jastrebov I., was blisku do Skopskiot aerodrom, koj go povrzuva impressed with the healthy climate of the city and so svetot. Dokaz za turisti~kite pogodnosti considered it a great recreational center. Ami Bue nao|ame vo saraite {to vo ovoj grad gi gradele describes Tetovo as a very clean city, which is not turskite pa{i i begovi, iako vo toa vreme bil far from the truth, which we can still see today. mal grad. Ruskiot konzul I. Jastrebov, vo sredi- In addition to being a winter recreational sports nata na 19 vek, se voodu{evuval od zdravata center, Mt. [ar is also known to be a rich wildlife klima na gradot i go smetal za golem rekreativen hunting ground. There is quite a lot of fishing on its centar. Ami Bue go opi{uva Tetovo kako mnogu rivers. The Hisar spa bath, with a water tempera- ~ist grad, {to ne e daleku od vistinata, za koja ture of 20°C, is located above Tetovo, in the valley nao|ame potvrda i denes. of the Pena River. From Tearce and the village of Osven zimsko rekreativen sportski centar, Odri, the birth place of the Stamevski family, [ar Planina e bogato lovi{te na dive~. Nad towards the Bistrica River there is a lot of bear and Tetovo, vo dolinata na rekata Pena se nao|a ba- other wildlife hunting. A hunter’s lodge was built wata Hisar, so temperatura na vodata od 20°S. there for this reason. Hence, any passer by who will Od Tearce i seloto Odri, rodnoto mesto na se- visit Tetovo will not leave without climbing Mt. [ar, mejstvoto Stamevski kon rekata Bistrica e raz- and if not its highest peak of 2,760 meters, then vien lovot na me~ki i drug dive~, zaradi {to e they will be sure to climb up to the mountain lakes izgradena i love~ka ku}a. Patnikot namernik of Livadi~ko, Crnoto or Beloto (the Field Lake, koj }e go poseti Tetovo, ne propu{ta da ne se White Lake or Black Lake) or up to the Jelak moun- iska~i na [ara, ako ne na nejziniot najvisok taineer’s center or the Lešnica fishermen’s house, if vrv od 2760 metri, toga{ sigurno do planinski- they like hunting wild goats. In any case, the start- te ezera Livadi~ko, Crnoto ili Beloto ili, ing point to go to Popova [apka is the Arabati Teqe pak, do planinarskiot dom Jelak ili do ribar- in Tetovo from where the chairlifts start and take skata ku}a Le{nica, ako e qubitel na lovot na you to the ski terrains in about 30 minutes to one divi kozi. Vo sekoj slu~aj pojdovnata to~ka kon of the hotels such as Popova [apka, Skopje, Popova [apka e mestoto Arabati te}e vo Tetovo, Tetovo, and other hotels, which have now been pri- odkade {to e startot na `i~arnicata, so koja za vatized and offer a whole new range of services. okolu 30 minuti se pristignuva na skija~kite tereni ili do nekoj od hotelskite kapaciteti, kako {to se „Popova [apka“, „Skopje“, „Tetovo“ i drugi, sega ve}e privatizirani i so mnogu podrug servis.

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ODRI - SELO UBAVO - SELO GOLEMO ODRI – A BIG, BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE

rede polo{kata ubavina, vgnezdeno vo or more than seven centuries, amid the polo{kata pitomina, pove}e od sedum veka beauty of the Polog valley, hidden in its ta- S `ivee, se gradi, se razviva i taguva, se meness, the beautiful village of Odri has S{iri i se iseluva ubavoto selo Odri. been living, growing, developing, grieving, Edno od najrasko{nite sela vo Tetovsko, vo ~ii expanding, and migrating. It is one of the atari se nao|aat i korenite, ottamu e potekloto most beautiful villages in the Tetovo area, from whose na familijata Stamevski. Odri, rodnata grutka land the Stamevski family originates. Odri, their birth- bila i }e bide mesto kade {to e nivniot semeen place was, and continues being their family home. dom i denes, se razbira, sovremen golem i ras- Of course, it is a large, modern, and luxurious place ko{en i kade {to i tretiot potomok Svetozar- which the third descendent, Svetozar-Steve, after his

Pogled kon Odri • A view towards Odri

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Svetle, po dedoto Krste i tatkoto Tvrdomir, doa|a grandfather Krste and his father Tvrdomir, visits and i sekoga{ ostanuva kolku {to moè podolgo. stays there for as long as he can. Gordelivo go raskaùva Svetozar-Svetle kade Svetozar-Steve talks about it proudly, wherever i da e, niz semejnoto steblo i niz ostanatite he may be, through his family tree and other neigh- kom{iski i maalski prikazni, za nad 700-te leta borhood stories. He talks about its 700 years of exis- postoewe, koi bile vreme na tegobi, maki, prob- tence that were times of trouble, hardship, problems, lemi, ropstvo, terori, no i vreme na nepokor, slavery, and terror, but also times of insubordination, ìlavost, podemi, uspesi, radost i sre}ni migovi. flexibility, progress, accomplishments, joy, and happy Vo istorijata za Tetovo i Tetovsko, seloto Odri moments. se spomenuva vo 14 vek, me|u 27 selski naselbi In the history of Tetovo and the Tetovo area, the koi u{te toga{ bile bogato naseleni mesta. Ve}e village of Odri is mentioned in the 14th century, as kon krajot na 19 vek, okolu 1890 godina, Tetovo one of 27 village settlements that were characterized by broelo 19.200 ìteli, od koi 8.500 Makedonci, a relatively high density. Towards the end of the 19th 9.000 Turci, 1.200 Romi i 500 Albanci. So raz- century, i.e. around 1890, Tetovo counted 19,200 vojot na gradot, ovie naselbi fluktuiraat taka residents of which 8,500 Macedonians, 9,000 Turks, {to vo nekoi od niv, kako Odri, na primer, brojot 1,200 Roma, and 500 Albanians. As Tetovo developed,

Ulica vo Odri • A street in Odri Ulica vo Odri • A street in Odri

na ìtelite opa|a, a kaj selata Tearce, Pirok i these settlements fluctuated, thus, in some of them Kamewane, rapidno raste. A imalo i takvi, kako such as Odri the population dropped, whereas it Jedoarce, Setole, Otuwe, Varvara i drugi, koi grew rapidly in villages such as Tearce, Pirok, and doìvuvale kompletna depopulacija. Kamenjane. On the other hand, there were those Crkvata „Sveti Dimitrija“ vo selo Odri, vo such as Jedoarce, Setole, Otunje, Varvara, and oth- po~etokot na 14 vek bila imot na manastirot ers that were completely depopulated. Gra~anica. Vo sredinata na 15 vek (1568 godina) In the early 14th century, the St. Dimitrija Church Odri e me|u selata so najvisok danok vo ìto od in the village of Odri was the property of the Gra~a- 275 tovari, nasproti Gostivar, so 231 tovar. Od nica Monastery. Towards the middle of the 15th cen- 1453 godina koga vo Odri imalo 67 semejstva, 4 tury (1568) Odri was one of the villages that collec- vdovici i 16 neoèneti mom~iwa, nivniot broj ted the highest tax in the form of wheat, i.e. 275 loads, vo 1468 godina se zgolemuva na 71 semejstvo, 8 vdo- as compared to Gostivar, which had 231 loads. In vici i 5 neoèneti maì. Vo sredinata na 15 vek 1453 Odri had 67 families, 4 widows, and 16 bachelors. (1545 godina) brojot na semejstvata se zgolemuva By 1468 this number had increased to 71 families, 8 na 82, na vdovicite 6, a na neoènetite - 9. Naj- widows, and 5 bachelors. In the mid-15th century

44 SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI IIDEL - KORENITE VO MAKEDONIJA mnogu neoèneti maì se evidentirani vo 1568 (1545) the number of families had increased to 82, godina - 21. Vo ovoj period, osven Makedonci, dru- with 6 widows, and 9 bachelors. The highest num- gi nacionalnosti ne se registrirani. Toa zna~i deka ber of bachelors, i.e. 21, was recorded in 1568. Du- Odri vo sredniot vek bilo ~isto makedonsko selo. ring this period, other than Macedonians, there are Seloto Odri se nao|a vo severoisto~niot del no records of any other nationalities. Therefore, in the na Gorni Polog, na teritorijata na Op{tinata Middle Ages, Odri was a clearly Macedonian village. Tearce, ~ij atar se izdiga do srtot na [ar Pla- The village of Odri is located in the north-east- nina. Seloto e ridsko, na nadmorska viso~ina od ern part of Gorni Polog, in the Tearce municipality. 650 metri. Od gradot Tetovo naselbata e odda- Its area spans up to the crest of Mt. [ar. The village le~ena 20 km. Atarot zafa}a prostor od 11 kilo- is on a hilly terrain at 650 meters above sea level metri kvadratni. Na nego {umite zafa}aat povr- and 20 kilometres from the city of Tetovo. There are {ina od 352 hektari, na obrabotlivoto zemji{te 11 square kilometres of village land. Of these, 352 otpa|a 320 hektari, a na pasi{tata 231 hektar. hectares are covered in forest, 320 hectares are Seloto, vo osnova, ima zemjodelska funkcija. Vo arable land, and 231 hectares are pastures. The nego raboti osumgodi{no village’s major activity is u~ili{te, ima ambulanta, agriculture. It has an eight- spomenik za NOB (Narod- year primary school, a cli- no osloboditelnata borba) nic, a monument honouring i uslu`ni objekti. Vo se- the People’s Liberation War loto postoela crkva "Sv (NOB), and catering facili- Dimitrija", koja {to se ties. There used to be a St. spomnuva vo 13-ot i 14-ot Dimitrija’s Church in the vi- vek. Me|utoa, taa ne e za- llage, of which records date ~uvana. Vo 19-ot vek bila back to the 13th and 14th izgradena crkvata "Sv. Ni- centuries. However, it no kola". Odri e golema na- longer remains. St. Nikola’s selba, koja {to vo 1961 go- Church was built in the dina broela 1.363 ìteli, 19th century. Odri is a large od koi 842 bile Albanci, settlement. In 1961 it had a 518 ìteli Makedonci. 1,363 residents of which Vo 1994 godina brojot na 842 were Albanians and naselenieto se zgolemil 518 Macedonians. In 1994 na 1608 ìteli, od koi its population grew to 1436 se Albanci, a samo 1,608 residents of which 168 Makedonci i ~etiri Crkvata „Sv. Nikola“ vo Odri • St. Nikola’s Church in Odri 1,436 were Albanians, only ìteli Srbi. 168 Macedonians, and 4 Denes, seloto Odri so svoite 1.600 ìteli, Serbs. od koi samo stotina ìteli se Makedonci, spa|a Today, the village of Odri and its 1,600 resi- na teritorijata na op{tinata Tearce, koja se dents, out of which only around a hundred inhabi- nao|a vo severozapadna Makedonija, odnosno tants are Macedonians, fall under the Tearce Mu- Dolni Polog. Op{tinata se nao|a na levata st- nicipality in Dolni Polog, Northwestern Macedonia. rana na rekata Vardar i pripa|a na negoviot The municipality is located to the left of the Vardar sliv posredno preku rekata Bistrica. Kako pod- River and is part of its left basin indirectly via the planinsko podra~je na jugoisto~nata strana na Bistrica River. This region has a specific relief, and [ar Planina ima razli~na reljefna struktura. stretches on the southwestern side of the foot of Se grani~i so op{tinite: Vratnica, Jegunovce, Mt. [ar. It borders with the municipalities of Vrat- Xep~i{te, mal prostor so Tetovo i so pogolema nica, Jegunovce, Dèp~i{te, a small area with Teto- dolìna so granicata so Srbija, odnosno Kosovo vo, and a somewhat larger area with Kosovo and i Metohija. Metohija, Serbia.

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Del od crkvata vo Odri • A section of the church in Odri

Grobi{tata vo Odri • The cemetery in Odri

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Ku}ata na Stamevski vo Odri • The Stamevski’s house in Odri

Ku}ata na Stamevski vo Detroit (Va{ington, Mi~igen) • The Stamevski’s house in Detroit (Washington, Michigan)

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SEMEJNOTO STEBLO NA STAMEVCI FAMILY TREE OF THE STAMEVSKI FAMILY

o, pred malku pove}e da go portretirame owever, before we go any deeper into the likot i voop{to ìvotekot na Svetozar- portrait and life of Svetozar-Steve Sta- N Svetle Stamevski isklu~itelno dobles- N mevski, the exceptionally virtuous, co- Nten, komunikativen i poln so pozitivna Nmmunicative, and full-of-positive-energy energija Makedonec, sepak, }e se vratime mnogu Macedonian, we will go back many decades. We will decenii nanazad. ]e ja po~neme na{ata saga za begin our saga of the Stamevski family, with the Stamevci, od dedo-pradedo, od onie vremiwa koi great grandfathers, with the times that will be se vgnezdeni vo nezaboravot, od imiwata koi se remembered forever, with the names that are the stolbot na ovaa pillar of this won- prekrasna tetov- derful family from ska, odriska, det- Odri, Tetovo, and roitska familija. Detroit. Pradedoto na Svetozar-Ste- Svetozar-Svetle, ve’s great grand- se vikal Dimo i father’s name was toj bil od seme- Dimo. He came jstvoto Carevi od from the Carev seloto Le{ok. Ka- family in the villa- ko {to bivalo vo ge of Le{ok. As toa vreme, oti- was common at {ol domazet vo the time, he ma- Vratnica. Tamu i rried and went to ja bendisal pra- live with his wife’s babata Menka, so family in the villa- koja i se oènil Semejnite grobovi na Stamevci vo Odri • Graves of members of the Stamevski family in Odri ge of Vratnica. Her i taka po~nale name was Menka. da se gradat temelite na ovaa familija. I Dimo He had liked and married her, and thus they began i Menka, bile skromni, bile mnogu vredni lu|e. to build the foundations of this family. Dimo and Za da se znae deka tuka vo Vratnica go po~nale Menka were both very modest, very hardworking svojot zaedni~ki ìvot, pradedoto Dimo zasadil people. To make it known that it was in Vratnica vo dvorot maslinovo drvo, koe im donese kasmet that they had begun their life together, great grand- na Stamevci, i ete i den-denes tie naslednicite father Dimo planted in the yard an olive tree, which

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Cena, Tvrdomir, Vlado i Daca • Cena, Tvrdomir, Vlado, and Doca kako Svetozar-Svetle i negovite deca, ja prodol- brought the Stamevski family good luck. And still, ùvaat ovaa interesna prikazna za samite sebe. even today, their successors, such as Svetozar- Dimo i Menka silno }e i se izraduvaat i na Steve and his children, continue this interesting svojata vtora ma{ka ro`ba, na dedoto na Sveto- story about themselves. zar-Svetle, Krste (1898 - 1976). Da se rodi sin, Dimo and Menka were also thrilled at their se- i toa u{te eden, vo familijata zna~elo mnogu, cond baby boy, Svetozar-Steve’s grandfather, Krste bidej}i toa, toga{ bilo garancija deka }e se (1898 - 1976). To have another son meant a lot in prodolì semejnata loza. the family, because at the time it was a guarantee Kako {to se se}ava denes Svetozar-Svetle Sta- that the family vine would continue. mevski, dedo mu Krste bil so sreden rast, no mno- Svetozar-Steve Stamevski remembers his grand- gu dobro graden, i kako {to veli, cvrst ~ovek. Ama, father Krste as being a man of medium height, but site go pametat kako mnogu li~en. Sudbinata bila a well built and strong man. Everybody remembers surova kon nego. U{te kako malo detence na tri- him as being very handsome. Fate was harsh godi{na vozrast, dedo mu Krste ostanal sirak. towards him. At the very young age of three, his Tatko mu nastradal, poginal, i nemaj}i drug iz- father died. Having no other way to survive, his bor za da moè da preìvee, majka mu se prema- mother remarried in the village of Svilare, near ùva vo skopskoto selo Svilare. Tamu gi nosi so Skopje. She took with her from Vratnica her elder sebe od Vratnica i postariot sin Risto i seka- son, Risto, and of course, the younger, Krste. ko, pomale~kiot Krste. The children’s stepfather did everything he could O~uvot pravi sè {to moè za da bidat dobro to make sure that his stepsons and their mother, zgrièni dvete dojden~iwa, negovite prisino- Menka were taken good care of. He even carried vi, i sekako nivnata majka Menka. Toj duri i na these fragile little children on his back up the grbot po rekata Vratni~ka gi nosel tie krevki Vratnica River when they went to visit on holidays de~iwa, na koi im bil dalek i naporen patot od or other times because the way from Svilare to Svilare do Vratnica, koga trebalo da odat na Vratnica was distant and strenuous for them. vizita za praznik ili delnik. Unfortunately, another tragedy happened. This Arno ama, povtorno, se slu~uva tragedija. Sega time it was fateful for the two little brothers. In less ve}e kobna za malite brat~iwa. Samo po necela than a year, they lost their mother who had tried so godina, umira nivnata maj~i~ka, koja tolku mnogu hard to find happiness for herself and her little

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Tvrdomir, Naca i Leposava • Tvrdomir, Naca, and Leposava se trudela da ja najde svojata i sre}ata na dvete boys. With this happening, not having anywhere to nejzini sin~iwa. Koga ve}e taka se slu~ilo, i live, and unable to feed the family, their stepfather koga nemal od {to da ìvee i da go prehrani took them back to Vratnica. semejstvoto, toga{ o~uvot gi zema niv i gi vra}a However, grandmother Menka was the young- nazad vo Vratnica. est. She had no brother, and all of her sisters were No, babata Menka koja bila najmala, nemala married, hence, the children had nowhere to go. brat, a site sestri i bile omaèni, pa de~iwa- Then, someone took them to the village of Odri, ta i nemale kade da odat. Toga{ nekoj gi zemal where in fact, the story of the Stamevski family i gi donel vo seloto Odri, kade vsu{nost i po~- begins developing. Krste was taken by the Jankov- nuva da se plete prikaznata na semejstvoto Sta- ski family, who were seven or eight brothers. They mevski. Vo golemata familija na Jankovski, koi were also known as Patronjari. Risto was adopted bile sedum-osum bra}a, bil zemen Krste. Tie by the Krsti} family. In the Jankovski family, Krste’s imale nadimak Patrowari, dodeka pak kaj Krs- grandfather’s name was Gjoro, and his grandmot- ti}i bil posinet Risto. Dedo mu na Krsteta kaj her was Kocana. The great grandfather Stame had Jankovci se vikal \oro, a baba mu Kocana. Od come from Staro Selo to Odri, where he had been Staro Selo, vo Odri bil dojden pradedoto Sta- adopted. However, he had been adopted by his me kade i bil posinet. No, posinet bil od tet- aunt Trpka, who had decided with her husband kata Trpka koja so svojot ma` Janko, re{ile da Janko to take Stame. go zemat Stameta. Janko’s wife came from a family of priests in Inaku, soprugata na Janko bila od popska fa- Davo{nik, and he was from Odri. Stame came from milija od Davo{nik a toj bil od Odri. Stame Staro Selo to Odri. Thus, Stame is Krste’s step- do{ol od Staro Selo vo Odri. Toa zna~i deka father since his father Dimo had died, as did his Stame mu e pritatko na Krsteta, koga ve}e tatko mother just after she had remarried. mu Dimo umrel a majka mu samo {to se premaì- Krste also experienced many years of hardship la, pa i taa umrela. from a very young age. He lived in Odri, but had to Krste bil ~ovek koj, isto taka, minal niz dosta go to Romania as a child. He set off to work as early te{ki godini od svojata najrana vozrast. Toj ì- as 1909. There, as a child, he found ways to con- veel vo Odri, no, ve}e vo detstvo moral da za- tribute to the family earnings. He sold bread rolls mine vo Romanija. U{te vo 1909 godina, Krste, and ice-cream, and in the two years that he spent

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trgnal na pe~alba. in Romania, life Tamu, toj kako deten- had already star- ce, nekako se snao- ted to temper |al za da pridonese him. vo zarabotuva~kata It was not easy na familijata. Pro- for him. Even af- daval |evreci i sla- ter he returned doledi i za vreme od home, only three dvete godini kolku years later, the {to bil vo Romanija, gendarmerie at nego ve}e po~nal da the time took him go ~eli~i ìvotot. and sent him to Ne mu bilo lesno. the front, not as Ama i doma, otkako a Macedonian si do{ol, po tri go- soldier, but as a dini bil sobran od Serbian soldier in toga{nite xandari i the Balkan Wars. bil ispraten na Only he knows frontot ne kako ma- the Golgotha he kedonski, tuku, kako went through, for srpski vojnik vo bal- the deep scars in kanskite vojni. Kak- his soul were ne- va golgota preì- Svetozar, Svetlana, Cena, Tvrdomir i Velko • Svetozar-Steve, Svetlana, Cena, Tvrdomir, and Velko ver healed. The veal, samo toj znael, mere fact that of bidej}i te{kite luzni vo du{ata nikoga{ ne bile the fifteen thousand soldiers, God saved only nine izbri{ani. So samoto toa {to od petnaeset thousand to return alive, speaks most illustratively iljadna vojska samo okolu devet iljadi Bog gi of this dark page in Krste’s life. spasil za da se vratat ìvi doma, najilustra- Yet, this was only the beginning. Once again, he tivno zboruva za seta taa mra~na stranica na was forced to become an asker (Turkish soldier) in Krsteta. WWI. Again, he went through Hell, but God saved Ama toa bilo samo po~etok. Za{to, toj mora pak him and he returned home to Odri. He then asker da zamine so sila, sega, vo Prvata svetska decided to get married. His heart chose the young vojna. Povtorno pominuva niz pekolot, ama pak Naca from Jalo{nik. However, only after the first Bog go do~uval. Si doa|a nazad doma vo Odri. Re- days of married bliss, Krste had to take his bag and {il da se èni. Izbrani~kata na negovoto srce go to work in Romania again, via Serbia and across e li~nata moma Naca od Jalo{nik. No, samo {to the Danube River. He went to Romania, where se izraduval na prvite bra~ni zaedni~ki dni, Svetozar-Steve Stamevski’s mother-in-law’s father Krste moral da go narami torbuleto i povtorno had already gone with the entire family. Krste preku Srbija i Dunav da zamine na pe~alba vo joined them, but not for long. Somehow, things did Romanija, kade {to ve}e bil pojden tatko i na not go as he had planned. They found little under- baba mu na Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski i toa so standing with them, so one day he decided to celata familija, i taka oti{ol i toj kaj niv. Me- return to the village of Odri. |utoa, ne za dolgo. Nekako, rabotite ne mu trgnale He came back to Odri. But, how was he to kako {to planiral. Ne na{le razbirawe so niv, i survive? How was he to take care of his wife and eden den re{ava da se vrati nazad doma vo Odri. children? All of these dilemmas tore his heart apart Si do{ol vo Odri. Ama kako da se preìvee? and he had to look for a way out. They talked over Kako da se odgledaat èna i deca? Site tie di- and over with his wife and his brother Risto about lemi mu ja kornele du{ata i toj moral pak da which road to take to make a living. bara nekoe ~are. Dolgo razgovaraat so soprugata i so brat mu Risto, koj li pat da go fatat i kade da trgnat po zarabotka i opstanok.

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KRSTE NA GURBET VO AMERIKA KRSTE MIGRATED TO AMERICA

o analizata na site mo`ni varijanti, fter considering all the possible alternatives, odlukata pa|a, dvajcata bra}a Krste i a decision was reached. The two brothers, P Risto sepak, da ja vrvat golemata voda A Krste and Risto, would cross the ocean and Pi na gurbet da zaminat kon dale~nata Ago to work in the distant and unknown i nepoznata zemja Amerika. Taka i se slu~uva. land of America. And so it was. According to Sveto- Nekade okolu 1919 - 1920 godina, spored ka`u- zar-Steve Stamevski, sometime around 1919-1920, vaweto na Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski, dedo mu his grandfather Krste set off on a steamboat on his Krste kinisuva so la|ata na dolgata amerikans- long American destination, first to New York, and ka destinacija. Otprvo do Wujork, a potoa i do then to his final goal, Detroit. krajnata im cel, do Detroit. There were already people from Odri in this city.

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Vo ovoj grad ve}e imalo lu|e od Odri, i se- Thus, it was somewhat easier with them to find a pak, bilo polesno nekako so niv da se snajdat za job and make a living, in the beginning at least. As rabota i ìvea~ka, barem vo po~etnite vremi- a newcomer, his grandfather Krste began to work wa. Kako dojdenec, dedo mu Krste po~nuva da on the tunnel, as did many other Macedonians. raboti na tunelot kako i mnogumina drugi Make- When he had settled in a little, he began looking at donci. Koga ve}e the other opportuni- malku se ponakrenal ties around him. He i po~nal da gleda then went to the Ford okolu sebe {to sé automobile factory. moè da dobie kako They employed him, {ansa, toga{ toj odi and his job was to vo fabrikata za av- install the car win- tomobili Ford. Go dows. His subordina- primaat, i imal ob- tes soon commended vrska da gi stava him. However, his prozorcite na avto- restless spirit did not mobilite. Nabrgu e stop here. pofaluvan od pret- He thought over postavenite. Nego- and over, he made viot nemiren duh ne plans, looked for ot- zapira tuka. her solutions. Finally, Misli, razmislu- he decided to do what va, kroi, prekrojuva, he knew best, and to bara drugo ~are i work for himself, najposle re{ava, da without bosses and po~ne da raboti toa tutors standing over {to najdobro go mo- his head. He already è i umee i ba{ka had the experience, za sebe, bez na gla- having had learnt the vata da mu stojat trade in Romania. So, {efovi i tutori. along with his broth- Imal, zna~i ve}e er Risto and another iskustvo, poznat mu Macedonian, they de- bil zanaetot od cided to open a bake- Romanija i re{ava ry in Detroit. zaedno so brat mu His bakery busi- Risto i so u{te eden ness went well. Pro- na{inec da otvorat fits were not bad, furna vo Detroit. Naca i Krste • Naca and Krste either, so he could go Mu trgnal dobro home to Odri every furnaxisko-pekarskiot biznis. Sepak i zarabotu- year to visit his family. We know how the distance, va~kata ne bila lo{a, pa taka i moèl sekoja the occasional encounters, and brief visits can be godina da si odi doma vo Odri kaj najbliskite. difficult, but also effective. Every three years they I se znae kolku dale~inata, povremenoto vidu- had a newborn. He did not wish to move his family vawe, kratkite viziti se i te{ki no i so efekt. to the USA under any circumstances. He knew that Na sekoi tri godini im se ra|alo po edno deten- he was only there to earn some money, and that it ce. Ne sakal nikako familijata da ja preseli vo would be best for him to buy some property when Amerika. Znael deka e na gurbet, a deka toj koga he returned home. So, this was what he did. }e dojde doma, najdobro e ako kupi imot. Taka i He spent about fifteen years in Detroit. However, pravel. bad luck befell him some time around 1935-1936.

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Vo Detroit ostanal okolu petnaeset godini. They were preserving some vegetables and the Nekade vo 1935-1936 godina, go fatil maler. grandfather got food poisoning. He damaged his Pravele tur{ija i dedoto se zatrul. Mnogu te{ko stomach badly. The doctor shocked him when he go o{tetil stomakot. Doktorot go stapisal koga told him he had only three weeks left to live, for the mu rekol oti ima samo u{te tri nedeli ìvot, poisoning had been that dangerous. If that was the oti e tolku opasno trueweto. Ako e taka, re{il case, he decided to come back to Macedonia, so da se vrati nazad vo Makedonija i koga do{lo that if the time had come for him to die, then he da se umira, barem da si umre doma vo Odri, kaj would rather die home in Odri, with his dearest ones. najmilite. He got on the steamboat. He knew that if he Se ka~il na parahodot. Znael deka dokolku se died on the boat, they would throw him into the slu~i da umre na brodot, toga{ }e go frlat vo ocean and there would be no trace of him. okeanot i traga ne }e mu se znae nikoga{. Sepak, Nevertheless, he managed to reach home, sick, but uspeal nekako da stasa do doma, iako bolen, ama at least alive. He decided to go to the mountains barem ìv. Sepak re{il da zamine v planina i and look for a cure there. If he recovered, that tamu da bara lek. Ako go bide dobro ako ne, kra- would be good, but if not, there was only one jot se znael. Tamu visoko vo ridovite, na{ol alternative. High up in the hills, he found many wild mnogu divi kosteni. chestnut trees. Po~nal sekoj den da gi mele da gi pe~e i da gi Every day, he began to grind them, bake them, jade istovremeno piej}i, planinski ~aj i drugi and eat them, drinking mountain tea and other herbs bilki. Doma negovite ostanale pod silen stres, at the same time. His family at home continued {to li }e se slu~i so Krsteta. Poleka, poleka, fearing what would happen to Krste. Gradually, a se slu~ilo ~udo. Stomakot mu se vra}al vo nor- miracle happened. His stomach began returning back mala. Se izlekuval i ìvnal ve}e. Eden den so- to normal. He had healed and felt much better. One sema zakrepnat se vra}a nazad vo Odri. I toj i day he returned to Odri completely recovered. Both familijata bile najsre}ni. Najlo{oto minalo. he and his family were thrilled. The worst was over.

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Semejstvoto Stamevski • The Stamevski family

Semejstvoto Stamevski vo Makedonija • The Stamevski family in Macedonia

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TE[KI VREMIWA TIMES OF HARDSHIP

o, nabrgu po~nuva Vtorata svetska vojna. oon afterwards, WWII began. He could not Toj ne moè da se vrati nazad vo Det- return to Detroit. How unlucky this man N roit. [to kasmet }e da ima{e ~ovekov. Y was, to have to fight every war. He joined NSite vojni da gi vojuva. Se vklu~uva vo Ythe liberation movement. He joined the osloboditelnoto dvièwe. Se vklu~uva vo bor- struggle for the liberation of Macedonia. He fed the bata za osloboduvawe na Makedonija. Go hrani entire Mt. [ar unit. However, one cannot escape the celiot {arski odred. Me|utoa, zarem ima kurtu- spies, moles, and informants. They discovered him luva~ka od {pioni od kodo{i i dou{nici. Go and betrayed him to the Bulgarian occupier. Soon, snimile i go predale na bugarskiot okupator. he was caught, tortured, beaten, and maltreated, Nabrgu e faten, te{ko ma~en, tepan, maltreti- and quickly convicted to death by shooting from an ran i na krajot po hitna postapka osuden na smrt automatic gun. Two of his friends had already been so strelawe i toa od avtomat. Dvajca negovi shot by the fascists. drugari ve}e mu bile strelani od fa{istite. However, he got lucky. At the last minute prior No, i tuka ima kasmet. Vo posleden moment to his execution, a patrol from the Dobro{ slaugh- pred da bide egzekutiran, mu doa|a patrola vo terhouse came to check how they were working Dobro{kata klanica za da proverela kako se there. When the chief saw grandfather Krste all raboti tamu. Koga go videl na~alnikot dedoto black with bruises, covered in blood, and all beaten Krste kako e modar kako sliva, celiot oblean vo up, he asked the Bulgarian officer what this Mace- krv i skr{en od }otek, go pra{al bugarskiot donian had done. ~inovnik, {to li storil toj Makedonec. The officer replied that Krste had fed the Gi hrani partizanite i Albancite. Gi hrani partisans and the Albanians. The chief descended {umkarite, mu odgovoril toj. Slegol od motorot from his motorbike and approached grandfather, na~alnikot pri{ol do dedoto i go pra{al kako asking him what his name was. Krste told him his se vika. Ovoj mu rekol, deka se vika Krste. name. “Pa ti si zemjodelec, nie tebe te poznavame”, “But, you are a farmer, we know you,” the vozvratil uniformiraniot i zo{to toa ne im go uniformed officer replied and asked him why he had kaà na ovie, mu rekol. Zbunet, tepa~ot i negova- not told them this. Confused, the bully and his ta svita koi ~ekale da go pokosat Krsteta, go ~e- retinue, who were waiting to execute Krste, kale ishodot od razgovorot. Koga Krste vozvra- awaited the outcome of the conversation. When til deka xabe bilo {to toj im kaàl koj e, koga Krste replied that it had been useless telling them tie ne mu veruvale, mislej}i deka gi mami deka who he was when they refused to believe him, e zemjodelec, koga se ubedeni deka e politi~ar, thinking that he was lying about being a farmer padnala naredba:

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“Pu{tete go. Toj raboti zemja i ni{to drugo ne znae, osven da hrani narod”, otse~no pre- sekol na~alnikot. Se svrtel kon Krsteta i mu rekol deka od deneska ima{ nov den i nov ìvot i go pu{tile da si zamine doma. No, kako {to bil pretepan do smrt ne moèl da mrdne, ne moèl da napravi eden ~ekor. Morale da doj- dat negovite i na tezgere da go odnesat do doma. Soprugata i ostanatite, cel mesec go redele so kromid i so sol za da zastane na noze. Zna~i, glava spasil samo za nekolku minuti i toa opasno premre`je dolgo mu bilo no}en ko{mar. Ne zel nitu denar nekakva penzija ili nadomest za ni{to {to toj pridonel i pretrpel vo vojnata. Isto taka, maka videl i po vojnata. Maka videl od makedonskite komunisti iako mnogumina od niv gi hranel i pomagal. Maka golema videl i od Albancite koi bile lo{i. Iako, bil vo tri vojni, iako celiot {arski odred go hranel, toa nikogo ne go interesiralo, tuku u{te go treti- rale kako kapitalist i eksploatator, a site znaele plus i deka tolku godini pominal na gurbet ostavaj}i ja mladosta i zdravjeto vo tu|ina. Bil prinuden da ja dade celata stoka vo vreme- to na kolektivite, bidej}i ednostavno mu vpe- rile pi{tol vo slepoo~nicite. No, koga zavr{uva siot toj cirkus so kolektivite, dedoto Krste koj imal golemo imawe vo Tetovsko, po~nal denono}no da raboti so seta familija. Po nekoe vreme go kupile i ~ifligot vo Jegunovce, kupile zemja i vo Dobro{ko, Odarsko, vo Nera{ko. Samo ~ifligot vo Jegu- Dedoto Krste • Grandfather Krste novce bil kupen za tri iljadi dolari. Golemi pari vo toa vreme. Sose imotot vo Odri, fami- when they were convinced that he was a politician, lijata bila mnogu zafatena i stanale golemi the following order was issued: gazdi. “Let him go. He works on the land and knows S¯ do 1968 godina dedoto ne moèl da izleze nothing but to feed the people,” the chief said od Makedonija. Duri vo taa godina uspeva da se brusquely. He turned to Krste telling him that as of vrati vo Amerika. Pet godini pred toa, kako that day he would have a new day and a new life, {to se se}ava dobro Svetozar-Svetle od kaùva- and they let him go home. However, having had wata, vo Detroit ve}e oti{ol negoviot ~i~ko been beaten up, he could not move, he could not Vlado, za potoa da go zeme i dedoto. Ama toj ve}e take a single step. His family had to come and take bil star, izma~en, ne moèl i da raboti, pa him home on a stretcher. His wife and the rest of samo po edna godina, vo 1969, se vra}a vo Odri. the family had to treat him with onion and salt on Poslednata èlba mu bila da umre vo svojata his skin for a whole month to get him back on his Makedonija. Pogreban e vo Odri. Vo negovoto feet. Hence, his life had been saved by only a few Odri. minutes, and this dangerous encounter with death I, naglasuva Svetozar-Svetle, „Albancite ja remained his nightmare for a long time. He never ispokr{ija celata crkva, gi skvernavija gro- received a dime of any pension or compensation for bi{tata, napravija {teti i na mrtvite, no, ne all of his contribution and suffering in the war.

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He had more troubles after the war. He was troubled by the Macedonian communists even though he had fed and helped many of them. He also suffered from the Albanians who were very mean. Despite the fact that he had fought in three wars and had fed the entire Mt. [ar detachment, no one cared. They even treated him as a capitalist and exploiter even though everyone knew that he had spent so many years working abroad, leaving his youth and health in a foreign land. During the time of the “collectives” (agricultural associations) he was forced to give up all of his cattle because he was simply pointed a gun at his head. Nevertheless, when the entire circus with the “collectives” was over, grandfather Krste, who had a lot of land in the Tetovo area, began working with his family day and night. After some time, they bought a property in Jegunovce, and more land in the Dobro{, Odar, and Nera{ areas. They paid three thousand dollars for the property in Jegunovce only. This was a lot of money at the time. Along with the property in Odri, the family was quite well-off and they became large property owners. The grandfather could not leave Macedonia until 1968. It was in this year that he managed to return to the USA. As Svetozar-Steve remembers well from the stories he was told, his uncle Vlado had gone to Detroit five years earlier, and then took the grandfather. However, he was now old and exhausted, and he could not work. Therefore, only after a year, in 1969, he returned to Odri. His last wish was to die in his Macedonia. He was buried in Odri, in his Odri. Svetozar odi vo Belata ku}a • Svetozar-Steve goes to the White House Svetozar-Steve continues, stressing that “the gibnati ostanale krstovite samo na ve~nite Albanians destroyed the entire church, desecrating po~ivali{ta na dedoto Stame i dedoto Krste, the graves, and doing damage to the dead ones. bidej}i kaj nas rabotea celi albanski familii However, only the crosses of the eternal resting koi dedo mi gi hrane{e. places of grandfather Stame and grandfather Krste Takov ~ovek be{e. Vreden. Mnogu vreden, remained untouched because entire Albanian fami- mnogu ~estit. Ne piel, ne se kockal, go intere- lies had worked on our land and my grandfather sirala samo rabotata, dodava Svetozar-Svetle. had fed all of them. Mislam deka duri i koga spie{e pametot mu He was that kind of man, very hard working – be{e vo zemjata, vo stokata. Ne be{e nekoj es- hard working and very honest. He did not drink or naf za na oro, nitu pak konte koj brka{e moda. gamble, and cared only about his work,” Svetozar- Jas, se smee, Svetozar-Svetle, sakam moda, sakam steve adds. “I think that even when he slept, his konte, ne sum na dedo mi. Toj be{e i prakti~en mind was on the land and the cattle. He was no ~ovek, i vo biv{a Jugoslavija najmnogu mu se do- expert on dancing, or someone who cared about pa|alo oti mo`el najmnogu da raboti i imawe the latest fashion. I like fashion and I like to look da kupuva. Sekoga{ bil so motika i pred vojnata good,” Svetozar-Steve laughs. “I do not take after i po nea. Ne go bivalo za {kolo, ama so bistrinata my grandfather. He was practical. He liked former na umot i dobrata promisla, toj to~no znael koga Yugoslavia because he could work a lot and buy a

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i {to da stori. A, be{e epten ~esen, po~esen lot of land. Before the ~ovek od nego, ~inam ne }e se rodi. Ne ni doz- war and after it, he was voluva{e nitu stokata da ja opcueme. Postojano always with the hoe. ni vele{e da ne bideme pis na usta. Nikoga{ ne He was not very good se skara, nitu se stepa so nekogo. Ne. Kako {to at studying, but with ni nas ne n¢ iskara nikoga{. Be{e mnogu trpe- his bright mind and liv i beskrajno dobar. Go pamtime kako najdo- good thinking, he bar, kako prekrasen lik, kako na{ predok so kogo always knew exactly se gordeeme. I nego go po~ituvavme ne samo nie when and what to do. kako familija, tuku site {to go poznavaa niz He was very honest. I cela Makedonija, kako i vo Amerika. think that there never Znam deka koga se podelivme, prodolùva da will be a more honest raskaùva Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski, dedo mi man than he. He did Krste ostana da ìvee so dvajcata bliznaci not even allow us to \uro i \or|i. Znaete, tie bea pomladi i nekako swear at the cattle. He logi~no be{e da e toj so niv, vo toa semejstvo. always told us not to Iako po godina-dve i tie se oddelija. Decata be rude. He never malku im potprknaa i ostana so \or|i viso- argued or fought with kiot”. anybody. No, just like he never scolded us. He was extremely patient and endlessly good. We remember him as the best, as a wonderful person, as an ancestor we are really proud of. He was respected not only by us as his family, but also by everyone who knew him in Macedo- nia and the USA. I know that when we all went our own ways,” Svetozar-Steve Stamevski continues, “my grandfather Krste continued living with the two twins, Gjuro and Gjorgji. You know, they were younger, so it was kind of logical that he should be with them, in that family, even though a year or two later, they split up, too. Their children had grown up a little, and he remained with Gjor- gji, the tall one.” Svetozar kako kum • Svetozar-Steve as the best man

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Tvrdomir i Cena • Tvrdomir and Cena

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TVRDOMIR STAMEVSKI TATKO I DEDO TVRDOMIR STAMEVSKI FATHER AND GRANDFATHER

atkoto na Svetozar-Svetle, gazda teve’s father, master Tvrdomir, is a true Tvrdomir, e vistinska legenda, stolb legend. The pillar of the Stamevski family, T na Stamevci, prekrasen sogovornik, i Y he is a wonderful collocutor and a man who T~ovek koj i dolgo pamti i mnogu pam- Yremembers long and remembers a lot. ti. Tvrdomir e roden vo 1929 godina vo Odri. Tvrdomir was born in Odri in 1929. He was the Bile osum deca, pet ma{ki i tri `enski, toj bil middle of eight children, five boys and three girls. srednoto dete. Koga prvpat tatko mu kinisal na Tvrdomir was not even born when his father first pe~alba vo Amerika, Tvrdomir ne bil ni roden. set off to work in the USA. Throughout the decades, Sepak, niz deceniite, ova mnogubrojno semejstvo this large family suffered many Golgothas, hard- pominalo niz dosta golgoti, niz dosta te{kotii, ships, problems, and worries. Nevertheless, like

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problemi i sekiracii, ama od site niv i toa izle- Macedonia, the family also overcame all of this, like guvalo, kako i Makedonija, kako pticata feniks. the phoenix. Toj ni raska`a eden interesen detaq od vre- He told us about an interesting detail from the meto koga negoviot tatko bil zaroben od German- time when his father was captured by the Germans cite: Otkako se legitimiral vojnikot Krste deka e – after Krste, as a soldier, had declared as a Mace- Makedonec a ne Srbin, mu rekle deka toj mo`e da donian and not Serbian, they told him he could go si odi doma. Ete, taka kako dete i prvpat slu{nal home. So, as a child he heard for the first time what {to zna~i da si Makedonec, i taa odrednica i na- it meant to be Macedonian, and this was to be con- tamu postojano }e se potvrduva, kako nemerliva firmed repeatedly as a spotless pride and beauty, gordost i ubavina, kade i da si, blisku ili dale- wherever one is, close or far from one’s own native ku od svojata rodna zemja, od svojata tatkovina. country, from one’s fatherland. Tvrdomir Stamevski, tatkoto na slavniot Sve- Tvrdomir Stamevski, the father of our well- tozar-Svetle, e eden prekrasen Makedonec, Odri- known Svetozar-Steve, is a wonderful Macedonian, ~anin, Detroin~anin, ili ednostavno re~eno, citizen of Odri, and a Detroiter. He is such a noble

Tvrdomir Stamevski • Tvrdomir Stamevski Petko Stamevski, bratot na Svetozar • Petko Stamevski, Steve’s brother

eden tolku blagoroden i razgovorliv prijatel, friend and pleasure to talk to, that one could easily kogo so ~asovi so zadovolstvo bi go slu{ale, bi- listen to him for hours and there is always some- dej}i sekoga{ ima {to da se nau~i od negovoto thing to learn from his lifetime experience, from his `ivotno iskustvo, od negovata mudrost i doblest. wisdom and virtue. Go sre}avav mnogu pati i sekoga{ kako da se I met him many times, but it was always like our viduvame prvpat. A, zo{to? - Pa, zatoa {to first meeting. Why? Well, because Tvrdomir is like a Tvrdomir e kako svoevidna enciklopedija, od unique encyclopedia from whose stories and ~ie ka`uvawe, od ~ii spomeni ima tolku mnogu reminiscences one can hear and learn so much. {to da se nau~i, da se slu{ne i doznae. Master Tvrdomir Stamevski was born on 17 Feb- Gazda Tvrdomir Stamevski e roden na 17 fev- ruary 1929 in Odri, or as we would say, in the heart ruari 1929 godina vo Odri, kako {to bi rekle, of this exceptional oasis in the villages at the foot vo srceto na ovaa retko videna oaza vo pot{ar- of Mt. [ar. His name was enforced upon him. His planinskite sela. Imeto mu bilo prisilno sta- godfather named him Trifun because he was born veno. Kumot go krstil Trifun, bidej}i e roden na on the day of St. Trifun. However, the priest did not sveti Trifun. Arno ama, popot ne doslu{nal quite hear what the godfather had said; he leaned najdobro {to rekol kumot, se navednal nad tef- over the books, scribbled a little, and named him terite, izburi~kal ne{to i mu stavil ime Tvrdo- Tvrdomir. His mother was furious and did not say mir. Majka mu luta do nemajkade, nekolku meseci his name for several months. She did not even imeto nitu go izustila. Ama nitu go spomenala. I mention it at all. His godfather was angry, too,

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Leposava i Svetozar-Svetle • Leposava and Svetozar-steve kumot dodeka be{e `iv, lut be{e, velej}i deka when he was alive; he said that he was the godfat- toj bil kumot, ama popot mu go odzel toa pravo her, but the priest had taken away his right and i toj samiot mu dal drugo ime na Trpkota. given Tvrdomir a different name. Od osumte deca, pette ma{ki i trite `enski, Of the eight children, the five boys and three Tvrdomir e sredniot. Rastel vo edno mnogubrojno, girls, he is the middle one. He grew up in a large vo mnogudetno i veselo semejstvo, kade sekoj si and happy family with many children, where every- go znael svoeto mesto i uloga. Kako {to rastele one knew their place and role. As they grew up and i kako {to stanuvale mom~iwa i devoj~iwa, kako turned into young men and women, as they grew stasuvale za rabota niz poliwata i bav~ite, taka old enough to work in the fields and the market i doa|ale na red za svadbi i kr{tevki. gardens, so their turn came for weddings and Se se}ava na beskrajno bezgri`nite godini, na christenings. dru`bata so drugarite, na toa deka na u~ili{te He remembers his endlessly carefree years, the kinisal na sedum godini. Iako u~itelite bile times spent with his friends, and how he started Makedonci, sepak vo toa vreme vo dvaesettite school at the age of seven. Even though the godini na minatoto stoletie, tie morale da u~at teachers were Macedonians, nevertheless, at the na srpski jazik. Ta taka i negoviot u~itel Jordan time, in the 1920’s they had to study in Serbian. im zboruval i im predaval vo {koloto na srpski. Thus, his teacher, Jordan, spoke to them and Koga do{ol do ~etvrto oddelenie, toga{ im do- taught them at school in Serbian. When he was in {ol u~itelot \oko. the fourth grade, a new teacher, Gjoko, came. „Seloto Odri, koga sum po~nal da u~am {kolo, “I remember that when I started going to school, se se}avam deka deka be{e pola-pola. Dokaj dveste the village of Odri was half-half. It had about two ku}i. Vo toa vreme i {iptarite, kako {to gi vi- hundred houses. At the time, the Albanians, as we kavme i kako {to samite se narekuvaa, nemaa ni used to call them and as they used to refer to them- mnogu deca. So golem del od tie na{i soselani selves, did not have many children. We were quite imavme mnogu ubav muabet, dobar pomin i razbi- close and had a lot of understanding with many of

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rawe. Za vreme na biv{a Jugoslavija, ama onaa, these local village people. During the former Yugo- pred biv{a, u{te pred Vtorata svetska vojna, site slavia, the one before WWII, everyone who had {to bea na pe~alba se vra}aa doma. Potoa, vo gone to work abroad was coming back home. Then, voeniot vior, se se}avam deka postavija granica in the war I remember they put up a border and we i nie potpadnavme pod bugarskata okupatorska fell under Bulgarian occupation. We were in Tetovo ~izma. Tri godini bevme vo Tetovo. Vovedoa po- for three years. They introduced a curfew and we liciski ~as, po osumnaeset ~asot ne smeevme da could not go anywhere after six o’clock in the mrdneme nikade. Sedevme samo doma i nikoj ne evening. We stayed home and no one ever touched us. ne ~epka{e. At the end of 1943, the Bulgarians lost and Na krajot od 1943 godina Bugarite izgubija, retreated, but the Albanians came. That was a diffi- se povlekoa, ama dojdoa Albancite. Be{e te{ko cult time. A year before that, hoodlum Albanians, toa vreme. Godina pred toa, se pojavija apa{i Al- apashi, had appeared. Robbers like you have never banci. Pqa~ka{i, nevideni. I Bugarite koga bea seen. Even when the Bulgarians were there, they i tie pred niv kradea-su{ea. Vo na{eto selo na would steel in front of them. In our village they mnogumina im ispokradoa kravi, volovi, kowi, stole many people’s cows, oxen, horses, everything a bre {to stasaa, toa odnesoa. they could get their hands on, they took. Koga se namnoìja ka~acite, vo mnogu gi naru- When the number of these outlaws increased {ija i na{ite me|usebni odnosi so dosta sose- they also disrupted our relations with many of our lani Albanci od Odri. Rabotata se rasipa. Jas local Albanian residents in Odri. Things were spoilt. im kaùvam i na moite deca, naglasuva gazda I tell my children,” master Tvrdomir stresses, “that Tvrdomir, deka toga{ sum ja zagubil doverbata that is when I stopped trusting the Albanians. They vo Albancite. Lo{i, bezgrani~no lo{i bea. Zu- committed a lot of violence, and the Macedonian lumi pravea, i makedonskiot narod maka vide. people suffered a lot of hardship. Hatred emerged Taka nastana i omrazata a edna steknata doverba while the trust and good living were destroyed or i dobar ìvot, bea uni{teni ili razni{ani“. shaken“.

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SLO"NO SEMEJSTVO HARMONIUS FAMILY

naku, raskaùvaj}i za familijata, Tvr- vrdomir continues telling us his family story, domir, veli: “Nie, nekade s¯ do 1960 “As a large family, we lived in the old Igodina kako golemo semejstvo, bevme Thouse up until sometime in 1960. It was Izaedno vo starata ku}a. Stara, dotraja Told and dilapidated, and fell some years i po dosta godini se urna. Tatko mi koga se vra- later. When my father came back from the USA, he ti od Amerika, re~e deka ne moè taka pove}e, said we could not go on like that any longer, with ne se ìvee vo tolkava zaednica i vreme be{e da so many people living as one family, and that it was se podelime. Bevme pod ist pokriv, vo ista ku}a time for us to split up. So, we remained under the no, ve}e deleni. Imavme zemja, no, taa delena na same roof, in the same house, but we had split up. {est dela, od koja zemja moè{ da ìvee{. Za- We had land, but when you divided that up into six, toa i se vrabotiv vo Jugohrom. there was not much land left to live off. Therefore, Vo 1964 godina napravivme nova ku}a. Za me- I took a job at the Jugohrom company. rak. Napravivme i nova {tala, so site tertipi. In 1964, we built a new house. Really nice. And Vo noviot dom se preselivme nie trojcata bra}a, we made new stables, with everything they needed. a dvajcata ostanaa vo starata. Toga{ u{te be{e Three of us, of the brothers, moved into the new dobra za ìveewe. Vo novata ubava ku}a osta- house, while the other two remained in the old one. navme s¯ do 1971 godina, koga izvadiv dokumen- It was still good for living in at the time. We lived in ti i zaminavme za Amerika. the nice new house until 1971, when I got my docu- Pri doa|aweto moe vo Odri, imav najrazli~ni ments and we left for the USA. doìvuvawa. Se se}avam, na primer, deka koga se When I came to Odri I had all kinds of experi- vrativ vo 1988 godina, ne moèv da vlezam doma. ences. I remember for instance, that when I came Majkata, si velam, ovde ne{to ne mi mirisa na back in 1988, I could not go inside the house. I had arno. Toga{ najdov edno mlado mom~e, na~alnik some bad premonition. Then I found this young man, be{e i mu velam, deka ~etiri godini ne sum bil a chief, and told him that I had not been there for tuka, i oti sakam da si ja pravam ku}ata. Sam }e four years, and that I wished to fix the house, to work ja pravam. Kade da se obratam, go pra{av. Mi on it myself. I asked him who I should go to. He told veli vo SIZ-ot. Tamu nekoi si ~inovni~iwa, se me to go to the public housing company, the SIZ vadea deka nemalo raspored i sli~ni gluposti, (municipality department). The employees there pa zatoa otidov pravo vo op{tinata kaj Du{ko. found excuses that it did not have a design, and other Epten, a~ik ~ovek be{e Du{ko, koj saka{e seko- foolish things, so I went directly to Du{ko at the mu da mu pomogne, da mu izleze vo presret. I nas municipal office. Du{ko was a very nice man, he liked ni pomogna, nema {to. to help everyone, and he helped us, too.

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Starata ku}a vo Odri • The old house in Odri êsto pati i so moite prijateli vo Amerika a Often, with my friends in the USA and other people i so moite soselani od Odri i Tetovo, se prise- from Odri and Tetovo, we remember how even though tuvavme deka kako vremiwata minuvale a vlas- times changed, authorities changed, and the living tite se menuvale a ìvea~kata bila razli~na, was different, nevertheless the Stamevski family has sepak, sekoga{ familijata Stamevski, bila edna always been one of the most distinguished. They were od najvidnite. Bila esnaf, doma}inska, mnogu a good-standing family, skilled and rich, and whenever zafatena, bogata i kako }e do{ol tatko mu na his father Tvrdomir came from the USA, he always Tvrdomir od amerikanskiot gurbet, taka se vra- brought back a lot of money he had saved, which he }al so grst spe~aleni pari v pazuvi, i so niv used to purchase land and properties. He had gone kupuval nivje, zemja, kupuval imot. Toj pominal through a lot of hardships, and served others’ inter- niz dosta golgoti, sluguval za tu|i interesi na ests in three hard and foreign wars and fronts. Then tri te{ki i tu|i vojni i frontovi. Pa pritiso- came the pressures and threats to join the collectives, cite i zakanite po sekoja cena da vleze vo ko- and then, with a gun pointed at his head, everything lektivite, da mu se odzeme i da se konfiskuva he had earned abroad was confiscated. It is a long i toa so pi{tol vo slepoo~nicite sé {to pe- story of all of his experiences. ~alel vo tu|ina, i {to ne, dolga e toa storija. He spent a lifetime on nothing but work. Never- Navistina, pominal ìvot vo rabota i samo theless, he always cared strongly for all of his children, rabota. Me|utoa, sekoga{ bila neprestajna i sil- his wife, his parents, and his relatives. He never com- na griàta za tolkute svoi deca, èna i rodi- plained or showed any weakness. On the contrary, he teli i rodnini i nikoga{ ne se poàlil, niko- was, and will always be remembered by the family ga{ ne pokaàl slabost, tuku naprotiv. Bil, i za- and everyone who worked with him or knew him, as a sekoga{ ostanuva zapameten, za familijata, i true epitome of strength and struggle, of fighting to za site koi rabotele so nego ili, pak, go pozna- the last breath regardless of what the struggle was for“. vale, kako vistinski graniten primer na cvrsti- Tvrdomir speaks of these events today in so much na i borba, ama borba ako treba i do posledniot detail as though they had taken place only yesterday. As zdiv, bez razlika za {to i da bila taa. a family they lived in a lot of harmony and understanding.

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And we know that there is always a lot of work to do in the village. However, they did not find their work difficult. So many times they would walk through the fields or the mountain singing, while laughter and joy were part of their everyday living. „Some time after the liberation in 1948, the first official state Census was conducted in the free country. We declared as we wished,” Trpko says. “No one pressured us or threatened us regarding what we would say or fill in. that was when we removed the “- i}” suffix from our last names. Only my brother Vlade remained Stamevi}, and we made a lot of fun of him, telling him that he was now the greatest Macedonian among us. Some time later, he changed his name, too, and he returned to his ‘flock’, to which he belonged. You know, the family upbringing, what our parents taught us, means so much. It is decisive of all the endeavors that one will undertake later in life. Our parents implanted in us the strong feeling of belong- ing to one’s birthplace, and all of that love of one person for another. Tvrdomir stresses how important honesty and reputation are, and adds: “I went to the army in 1949; Cena, Vukica i Todorka • Cena, Vukica, and Todorka a healthy young man resolved to defend his country.

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Velko i Tvrdomir • Velko and Tvrdomir Tvrdomir, taka sveò i re~isi vo detali zbo- „I served a whole three years. In the army they called ruva i denes, nebare bile v~era. Kako semejstvo me Makedonce and everyone knew me as such. And ìveele vo sloga i razbirawe, imale odli~na I was in the army when my family back home in Odri harmonija, a rabotata se znae deka sekoga{ ja was experiencing that true drama with the collectivi- ima na selo. No, taa ne im pa|ala te{ko. Pa, tie zation. When I returned after serving my military kolku pati, so pesna niz pole ili planina vrvele, duty, the collectives were already falling apart as an a smeata i {egata im bila del od sekojdnevieto. unsuccessful episode in the new Yugoslavia. They „Nekade po osloboduvaweto vo 1948 godina, never even started functioning“. imalo prv oficijalen dràven popis vo slo- However, before even becoming an solgier, bodnata zemja. Sami, veli Tvrdomir, si kaùvav- Tvrdomir had decided to get married. Young, hand- me, nikoj ne ne pritiska{e ili ucenuva{e {to }e some, and healthy, he decided he had had enough of re~evme i zapi{evme. Toga{ i gi izbri{avme tie being single and it was time for him to look for a bride. dodavki na „i}“ vo prezimiwata. Samo brat mi In 1947, with music, drums, in-laws, and weddings, Vlado ostana Stamevi} i go puknavme od smea i Tvrdomir married Stojna, the girl he loved and whom dofrluvawa deka sega e najgolemiot Makedonec they always called Cena (hypocoristic). Trpko was not me|u nas. Po nekoe vreme i toj go smeni toa i si even eighteen years old, but Cena had attracted his se vrati vo svoeto „jato“ na koe mu pripa|a. attention. Eh, kolku zna~i doma{noto vospituvawe. Ona „My memories always take me back to Le{ok,” na roditelite, na familijata. Toa e presudno, za Tvrdomir says. „In every village there was music then. site potezi i zafati koi natamu }e gi prezemete My mother and our whole family danced at the festi- vo ìvotot. Na{ite roditeli ni ja vsadile ogrom- val that took place there. Soon my mother came over nata rodnokrajna pripadnost, seta taa qubov od to me and said, ‘Son, I have found you a girl to dance ~ovek za ~oveka. Za toa kolku e vaèn obrazot i with in the oro (folk dance). We know which family ~estitosta, naglasuva Tvrdomir i dodava: she comes from, we know their mother and father, so Vojnik trgnav vo 1949 godina. Onaka zdravo you go and see her. I went immediately and took my mom~e re{eno da ja brani svojata zemja. Sluèv place in the oro next to her. Very politely, I asked her

70 SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI IIIDEL - SEMEJSTVOTO STAMEVSKI celi tri godini. Vo vojskata me vikaa Makedon~e where she was from, and so we exchanged a few i taka site me znaeja. I tokmu bev vo armijata words of conversation. The second time we saw each koga moite doma vo Odri ja preìvuvale taa other was at a wedding. We danced oro again, and vistinska drama so kolektivizacijata. Koga ve}e her mother hung around to see who I was and what se vrativ otkako go otsluìv voeniot rok, kolek- I was like. We met for the third time in Raotince on tivot kako neuspe{na epizoda na novata Jugosla- the village festival day, Ilinden. Her mother also came vija, se rasformira. Toj nikoga{ i ne zaìvea. from this village. The minute her mother and father No, u{te pred asker da zamine, Tvrdomir sto- saw me, they became very much interested in me. By ril niet da se èni. Mlad, ubav, pukal od zdrav- the autumn, we had seen each other one more time, je, toj re{il deka dosta mu e be}arlak i vreme e on the day of St. Mary. And it was enough. One week ve}e da bara nevesta. Vo 1947 godina so muziki, later, my Cena and I got married. so tapani, so svatovi i svadbi, Tvrdomir zet sta- We were a popular family. We were rich, we had nuva i ja zema negovata sakana Stojna, koja naga- everything, we had a large property. That was valued and leno sekoga{ Cena si ja vikal. Tvrdomir nemal was a great advantage. I married very young, and only ni osumnaeset godini no, Cena oko mu fatila. a year later, my daughter Lepa was born. She is marri- „Spomenite za Le{ok me vrzuvaat, veli ed to Jovan~e from the village of Rusinovo, near Berovo. Tvrdomir.Toga{ vo sekoe selo ima{e muzika. I would just like to go back a little and mention Igravme majka mi i celata familija, na sobirot that my wife, Cena was born on 3 March 1928, in the koj tamu se odrà. Po nekoe vreme eve ja majka village of @il~e. Her father, Stoj~e, and her mother, mi i mi re~e: Donka came from the village of Raotince. Spiro was Sinko sum ti na{la devoj~e za na oro. Znaeme Cena’s grandfather, who spoilt his dear little grandda- ~ie e, mu gi znaeme majkata i tatkoto, pa ti odi, ughter very much. Cena was Stoj~e and Donka Ando- vidi go. Jas vedna{ pojdov i vedna{ se fativ na novski’s firstborn child. The second one died. The third oro do nea. Onaka kulturno, so usul, {to se veli, one, Drago, also died. Then her sister, Jelica was born. ja pra{uvam od kade e, i taka skr{ivme po nekoj She is married to Stevo, and they live in Gjor~e Petrov, muabet. Vtoroto viduvawe be{e na edna svadba. Skopje. The next one is Slavka, who is married to Kiro Pak oro igrame, koga tuka nekade se vrte{e nejzi- nata majka, za da doznae koj sum i kakov sum. Treta- ta sredba se slu~i vo Raotince na slava na den Ilinden, koga e svetiot praznik vo seloto, a od tamu e i majka i. Samo {to me vidoa tatko i majka i, vedna{ po~naa da se vrtat okolu mene. Dvajca- ta se interesiraa. Do esenta u{te edna{ se vidovme tokmu za sveta Bogorodica. I dovolno be{e. Po edna nedela so Cena moja se zedovme. Nie bevme popularna familija. Bogata. Imavme sé. Imot mnogu. Toa se cene{e i be{e golema prednost. Se oèniv mnogu mlad i samo po edna godina mi se rodi }erkata Lepa, koja e maèna za Jovan~eta od Rusinovo, Berovsko. Malku, da se vratam nanazad i da spomenam deka mojata sopruga Cena e rodena na treti mart 1928 godina vo seloto @il~e. Nejziniot tatko se vikal Stoj~e a majkata Donka od s. Raotince. Dedoto na Cena se vikal Spiro, i mnogu ja mazel svojata mila vnuka. A Cena bila prvorodenoto dete na Stoj~e i na Donka Andovski. Vtoroto umrelo. Tretoto Drago i toj umrel. Se ra|a sestra i Jelica maèna za Stevo, koi ìveat vo \or~e Petrov, vo Skopje. Sledna e Slavka omaèna za Kiro Bugarinot a Biljana Stamevska • Biljana Stamevska

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Tvrdomir i Svetle vo Makedonija so semejstvoto na Tomislav Stojanovski -Bombaj • Tvrdomir and Svetozar-Steve in Macedonia with Tomislav Stojanovski – Bombaj’s family se Ivanovi. Tie go zemaa Nenad i golema svadba Ivanov known as Bugarinot (the Bulgarian). They mu napravija. took Nenad and made him a big wedding. Niz godinite potoa, eve Bog ni dade so Cena, In the years that followed, God gave Cena and prekrasni deca. Site si go najdoa svojot pat vo me wonderful children. They have all gone their ìvotot, a sekoga{ ja imaat na{ata roditelska own way in life, always having our parental care, grià, pomo{ i poddr{ka. Zadovolni sme kako help, and support. We are happy with them as our tie denes se dobri i uspe{ni na{i naslednici. good and successful successors. Da prodolàm so familijarnoto steblo: - Vo Let me continue with the family tree. Lepa was 1948 godina vo mesec oktomvri ni se rodi born in October of 1948. First she finished teacher’s Lepa.Taa prvo zavr{i U~itelska {kola, a potoa college, and then went to the Pedagogical Acade- otide i na Vi{ata pedago{ka akademija. Sinot my. The son that we lost and mourn for was very {to ni pogina i ne zavi vo crno, be{e bistar i bright and had become an electrician. He was zavr{i za elektri~ar. Toj be{e oènet so married to Menka, from the village of Belovišta. Menka od Belovi{ta. Imaat dve }erki Zorica i They have two daughters, Zorica and Pavlina. Lepa Pavlina. Lepa gi ima Julijana i Slavjanka. has Julijana and Slavjanka. Julijana is married to Julijana e maèna za Dag koj e Amerikanec, do- Dough, who is an American. Slavjanka is married to deka Slavjanka za Palestinec, katolik, u~en a Palestinian; he is Catholic, and a well educated ~ovek. man. Za sinot Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski, toa e The son, Svetozar-Steve Stamevski is a different druga prikazna i toj sam ja raskaùva vo ovaa story, which he tells us, himself, for this book. I kniga. Mnogu se trudev na decata da im gi pru- tried very hard to provide everything for my chil- àm site uslovi. Po~nav so edno malo resto- dren. I started out with a small restaurant, and in rant~e a za devet godini para dobra spe~a- nine years we had earned some good money. We livme. Napravivme ku}i, golemi, kupivme koli built big houses, bought good cars. We had wed- ubavi. Svadbi i kr{tevki vo familijata Sta- dings and christenings in the Stamevski family that mevski {to treba da se pamtat. Kupivme i are to be remembered. We bought a farm and sold farma, a restoranot go prodadovme. Dosta the restaurant. It was enough. We have land, be{e. Imame imot, du}ani, {oping-centri. shops, and shopping centers.”

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Pred ku}ata vo Odri • In front of the house in Odri

Semejstvoto na Svetlana vo Makedonija • Svetlana’s family in Macedonia

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SO PO&IT KON PREDCITE WITH RESPECT TO THE ANCESTORS

edo mi ima{e edna filozofija spored y grandfather had this philosophy accor- koja, kako {to ni vele{e: ako dojde ding to which he would tell us: ‘If some- D nekoj da bara ne{to, dajte mu. Uslu`e- M one comes to ask you for something, Dte go. Ne vra}ajte go. Druga filozofi- Mgive it to him. Help him. Do not turn him ja, drugata mudrost mu be{e deka iako bevme away’. Another wise philosophy in which he believed okolu petnaesettina deca i tolkumina postari, was that, even though we were about fifteen children ete, tolku narod na edno mesto, vo edna ku}a i and just as many adults, so many people in one place,

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na edna sof- in one house ra, toj }e re- and at one ~e{e deka table, he would prvo mora da say that ‘the se nahranat children need decata, a po- to be fed first, toa ostanati- and then the te, povozras- rest, the adults’. nite. Mislam I think that deka i naopa- even if he plan- ku da zasade- ted something {e ne{to toa the wrong way, }e iznikne{e it would have kako {to tre- grown right. He ba. Meraklija, was very en- takov be{e. thusiastic, Ne go biva{e that is how he knigi da pi- was. He was {uva ili ad- not good at ministracija writing books da brka, ama or keeping ad- zatoa pak, ka- ministration, kov meraklija but he loved be{e za niv- the fields and jeto, za bav~i- gardens, he lo- te, za zemjo- ved agricultu- delstvoto. re. I remember Se se}avam he even brou- deka duri i ght some kinds nekoi sorti of pumpkin tikvi nose{e seeds from the od Amerika. A USA. He bro- nose{e te bought melon, stani, te raz- various grafts, ni kalemi, pa even machi- duri i ma{i- nes. We were ni. Nie prvi the first to bring v pole ma{i- a combine to Ku}ata vo Odri • na za `neewe The house in Odri the fields. We vnesovme. Niz did threshing siot tetovski vilaet vr{evme, a imavme vode- all over the Tetovo area, and we also had a water nica so tri kamewa. Nad 37 sela nosea `ito kaj mill with three stones. More than 37 villages bro- nas da melat. Ne mo`evme da prestasame. Zna~i ught their wheat to our mills for grinding. We could tri kamewa imavme na voda i eden na struja. not keep up. So, we had three stones turned by the Toa, vsu{nost, be{e mlin. water, and one used electricity. This was in fact a Sega od seto toa ima po ne{to ostanato ama modern mill. podeleno niz familiite, vodenicata stoi kako Some of that still remains today, but it is split up magacin. Inaku, sadevme i oriz vo Jegunovce i among the families. The water mill remains as a Raotince. Mnogu oriz sadevme vo Polog. Imavme warehouse. In addition to this, we also used to grow i ma{ina za ~istewe, za lupewe oriz. Pred da rice in Jegunovce and Raotince. We grew a lot of rice dojdeme vo Amerika, {to sé nemavme. Dedo mi, i in Polog. We also had a machine to clean and peel the

76 SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI IIIDEL - SEMEJSTVOTO STAMEVSKI nie kako familija sme bile pro~ueni vo celiot rice. We had all kinds of things before we came to the kraj za ovo{je, za lozja, za zelen~uk. Nikoj ne- USA. My grandfather and we as a family were renow- mal pove}e kosteni od nas, nitu plantaì pod ned throughout the entire area for our apples, vine- jabolka. Doa|ale od [vedska, od [vajcarija, za yards, and vegetables. No one had more chestnuts da zemat orevi od nas. Sme imale po 35 mom~i- than us, nor apple plantations. They would come from wa argati sekoj den od \ur|ovden do Mitrovden Sweden and Switzerland to get walnuts from us. We koi kaj nas spiele i rabotele. Ne poznavaa lu- used to have 35 daily laborers from spring till almost |eto od Ki~evo, Gostivar, Skopje, duri i na winter (from the festival day known as Gjurgjovden Kosovo. Od site tetovski sela od Jegunovce, Jan- to Mitrovden). They worked and slept at our place. ~i{te, Otuwe, Raotince, Qubi{te, Siri}ino, People from Ki~evo, Gostivar, Skopje, and even from @il~e, [em{evo, kako i od drugite sela, nema Kosovo knew us. From all the villages in the Tetovo da ne do{ol ~ovek kaj nas da raboti po poliwa- area – Jegunovce, Jan~i{te, Otunje, Raotince, Ljubi{te, ta. ôvek ako sakal da jade lebec, doa|al vo Sirikino, @il~e, and [em{evo among others – everyone na{ata familija, }e podzavr{el ne{to i doma had been to work for us in the fields. If someone zaminuval najaden. Ednakvo bilo za site i za wanted some food to eat, they would come to our fa- na{ite Makedonci i za Albancite.Toga{ be{e mily, do some work, and go home with a full stomach. drugo vreme. It was the same for everyone, for our Macedonians Imavme napraveno ku}a, veli Svetozar- and the Albanians. Those were different times then.” Svetle Stamevski so dvaesettina sobi, imavme Svetozar-Steve Stamevski continues, “We had a furna, pa kujna. Imavme specijalno èni got- house with about twenty bedrooms, a bakery, and a va~ki i specijalno ~ovek koj samo voda im nose- kitchen. We had women cooks and a man especially {e na argatite po nivjeto, lozjata i bav~ite. employed just to take water to the workers in the

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Ama taa cela vojska narod treba{e da se nahra- fields, the vineyards, and the market gardens. Well, ni i nagosti. this whole army of people had to be fed and acco- Eve da nabrojam deka vo toa vreme imavme mmodated. iljada ovci, {eeset kravi, osum rala volovi, I can tell you that at the time we had a thousand iljadi koko{ki, mazgi, magariwa. Se se}avam na sheep, sixty cows, eight plows and oxen, a thousand kowot, eden rasen, svetnat kow, go vikavme So- chickens, mules, and donkeys. I remember the horse, a kol. Vle~e{e ~eza kako traktor da e. Dedo mi thoroughbred shiny horse; we used to call him Sokol koga odel na svadba, po svedeni, po viziti ili (Falcon). He would pull the cart as though a tractor. na pazar vo Skopje vo vtornik, ~etvrtok i nede- When my grandfather went to weddings, or visiting so- la, a bre kowot ~ini{ sam odel. Go znael patot mewhere, or to market in Skopje every Tuesday, bez da mu kaè{ - ajde. I toa, mu stavale vo Thursday, and Sunday, you would think the horse fo- ~ezata nad iljada kilogrami jabolka. So Sokola und his own way. He knew the road without anyone nema{e problem. Leta{e po patot. Taka be{e. telling him where to go. And they used to load his cart No, koga zboruvam za dedoto Krste, kako da with more than a thousand kilos of apples. This was no zboruvam ednovremeno i za baba mi Naca. Silna problem for Sokol. He would fly. That is how he was. i milna èna. Taa bila najmlada. Se omaìla i But, when I speak of my grandfather Krste, it is as ostanala vo Makedonija vek da vekuvaat so dedo though I am speaking at the same time of my grand Krste. I baba Naca vistina go izvekuva. Od nea mother Naca. She was a strong and likable woman. po~ista èna nemam videno. Navistina nemam. She was the youngest. She had married and rema- Struja be{e za sé. Duri i babica be{e. Pora|a- ined in Macedonia to live her life with grandfather {e mladi nevesti, povozrasni, ama kogo ne. Ku- Krste. And grandmother Naca really did live a lifetime ma mislam deka be{e na celo selo. Dedo mi ne with him. I have never seen a cleaner woman than her. saka{e da e kum, ama taa, gajle nema{e. Be{e She was good at everything. And she was a mid-wife, kako mati~ar. Da be{e ìva sega, ne treba{e too. She delivered young women, more elderly ones, drug nekogo da pra{uva{ za koj bilo detaq, za everyone. I think she was the godmother to the entire koja bilo slu~ka, za godini ili za koj bilo village. My grandfather did not like to be a godfather,

Svetozar-Svetle, Svetlana i Leposava • Svetozar-Steve, Svetlana, and Leposava

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~ovek. Taa be{e kako ìva enciklopedija. Kom- but she did not mind at all. She was like a registrar. If pjuter ne i be{e ramen. Iako babi~ka vo godi- she were alive now, you would not need to ask any- ni, taa ima{e bistar um i be{e mnogu pamteliv one else about any detail, any event, about years, or ~ovek. I sive ovie raboti koi jas denes vi gi about any one person. She was like a living encyclo- raskaùvam za da vlezat vo ovaa kniga od ìvo- pedia. A computer could not beat her. Even though an tot na na{ata familija, toa seto go znam od aged grandmother, she was very bright and a remar- nea, od nejzinite kaùvawa, od toa {to saka{e kable woman. And all of these things that I am telling sekoga{ u{te i u{te da mi raskaùva, so gor- you here today so that they can be a part of this book dost veli Svetozar-Svetle i dodava: about the life of our family, I know it all from her, from „I vo Amerika ja donesovme. Tuka ìvee{e so her stories, from what she always wanted to tell me striko mi \or|ija. Bog ja prosti na 99 godini. Za more and more of,” Svetozar-Steve tells us proudly. malku ne ja fati stotkata. Po~ina vo Detroit He adds, „We also brought her to the USA. She ama ostavi amanet da ja odneseme doma vo Make- lived here with my uncle Gjorgjija. God laid her to rest donija. I ja ispolnivme poslednata èlba. Vo at the age of 99. She missed a hundred by a little. mir po~iva do dedo Krste, do nejziniot, do na- She passed away in Detroit, but she had made us {iot Krste. Toj koj go iznikna i vozdigna semej- promise to bring her back home in Macedonia. We noto steblo Stamevsko. fulfilled her last wish. She rests peacefully next to Sekoga{ koga }e zastanam molkum i prostum grandfather Krste, next to hers, and our Krste – he pred nivniot ve~en dom na grobi{tata vo Odri, who sprouted and raised the Stamevski family tree. jas mu blagodaram na Boga {to sum nivniot po- Every time I stand a little and pay tribute before tomok i {to ne nau~ija tie moi mili predci, their eternal resting place at the Odri cemetery, I moite dedo i baba Krste i Naca na mnogu umni, thank God that I am their descendant and that my na mnogu va`ni, nemerlivo korisni i tolku dear grandfather Krste and grandmother Naca taught va`ni ìvotni mudrosti“, veli so mnogu smisla us so many wise, very important, and so endlessly Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski. useful wisdoms in life“, Svetozar-Steve Stamevski adds with a lot of sense.

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Vo crkvata “Sv. Bogorodica” • At St. Mary’s Church

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Svetozar-Svtele i Siljan Bogoevski • Svetozar-Steve and Siljan Bogoevski

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Svetozar-Svetle i Xorx Atanasovski • Svetozar-Steve and George Atanasovski

Tvrdomir i Bo{ko Raj~ovski - Pelisterski • Tvrdomir and Bo{ko Raj~ovski - Pelisterski

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Statuata na slobodata • The Statue of Liberty

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SAD - NOVATA TATKOVINA NA STAMEVSKI THE USA – STAMEVSKI’S NEW FATHERLAND

meto i deloto na Svetozar-Svetle Sta- he name and accomplishments of Sveto- mevski i negovoto semejstvo e tesno zar-Steve Stamevski and his family are I povrzano so negovata vtora tatkovina T closely tied to his second fatherland, the ISoedinetite Amerikanski Dr`avi (SAD). TUnited States of America. Therefore, we Zatoa vo ovaa prigoda }e dademe kus istoriski will take this opportunity to make a brief historical pregled za SAD, zemjata vo koja `ivee, se razvi- overview of the USA – the country in which the Sta- va, pro{iruva, opstojuva i postignuva napredok mevski family lives, develops, grows, survives, and semejstvoto Stamevski. Imeno, SAD e vetenata prospers. More precisely, the USA, or the ‘Promised

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zemja, kako ja narekuvaat Makedoncite i drugite Land’, as the Macedonians and other migrants like doselenici, sojuzna republika vo Severna Ame- to call it, is a federal republic in North America, lo- rika, smestena me|u Atlanskiot i Tihiot Okean, cated between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, me|u Kanada i Meksiko, sostavena od 50 sojuzni between Canada and Mexico, consisting of 50 fed- dràvi i eden sojuzen okrug. Zaedno so Aljaska eral states and one federal district. Along with i Havaite, taa e edna od najgolemite vo svetot, Alaska and Hawaii, the USA is one of the biggest vo koja ìveat nad 250 milioni ìteli. Naj- countries in the world, with a population of over golem broj Amerikanci se doseleni od Evropa, 250 million. The majority of Americans migrated prvenstveno od Velika Britanija i od Irska, from Europe, mostly from Great Britain and Ireland, potoa od Germanija, Italija, Rusija po Oktom- from Germany, Italy, and Russia (following the vriskata revolucija), od Polska, Norve{ka, October Revolution), and from Poland, Norway, and [vedska, potoa ima brojno crne~ko naselenie, Sweden. There is also a large black population, as Indijci, Japonci, Kinezi, Makedonci i drugi well as Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Macedonians, narodi. and other nationalities. Glaven grad e Va{ington, koj se nao|a vo So- Washington is the Capital of the USA, located in juzniot okrug Kolumbija i zaedno so predgradi- the Federal District of Columbia, and along with its jata ima nad tri milioni ìteli. Drugi va`ni suburbs, it has a population of over three million metropoli se: Wujork, îkago, Los Anxeles, Fi- ladelfija, Detroit, Boston, Baltimor, Kliv- lend, San Francisko i drugi. Reljefot na SAD e mnogu raznoviden: kontinentalniot del se deli na nekolku golemi geografski oblasti, razli~- ni po prostor i prirodni bogatstva. Tamu vla- dee od kontinentalna, suptropska, primorska, kontinentalno-planinska i arkti~ka do umere- no topla okeanska klima. SAD raspolaga so golemo bogatstvo na planini, ezera i reki. Naj- poznati ezera se: Gornoto, Hjuron, Mi~igen, Iri i Ontario, a od rekite Misisipi, Misuri, Rio Grande Kolorado i drugi. Najstari poznati ìteli na dene{nata teri- torija na SAD se Eskimite i Indijancite. Se pretpostavuva deka od Evropejcite na severnoamerikanskiot kontinent prvi do{le Normani- te pred iljada godini. Kristifor Kolumbo ja otkri Severna Amerika vo 1492 godina, a vo po~etokot na 16 vek po~naa da doa|aat i prvite evropski kolonisti od: Anglija, Francija, Ho- landija, [vedska, [panija, koi, za da osvojat prostori, vodele vojna so Indijancite. Prva angliska kolonija e Virxinija, formirana vo 1584 godina, potoa Masa~usets vo 1620 godina, a vo 1614 godina e formirana Nova Holandija, so glavniot grad Nov Amsterdam, koj vo 1664 godina se preimenuva vo Wujork. SAD imaat burna i bogata istorija od svoeto formirawe do denes. Taka, pokraj borbite so Indijancite, vo 1775 godina po~naa prvite sudiri me|u amerikanskite dobrovolni odredi i angliskata vojska, so {to, vsu{nost, po~na DETROIT

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borbata na severnoamerikanskiot kontinent za people. Other important cities include New York, nezavisnost. Vo 1783 godina, so mirot vo Versaj, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, Anglija ja prizna nezavisnosta na SAD, so {to Baltimore, Cleveland, and San Francisco, among nastanaa krupni promeni ne samo vo SAD, tuku i others. Its landscape is quite diverse, with a conti- vo celiot svet. SAD gi potrese Gra|anskata voj- nental part that divides into several large geograph- na od 1861 do 1865 godina, potoa svetskata eko- ical regions that differ in size and natural resources. nomska kriza 1929-1935 godina, Vtorata svetska Main climates include a continental, subtropical, vojna, osobeno vojnata so Japonija i upotrebata oceanic, continental-mountainous, and arctic to a na atomskoto oru`je nad Hiro{ima i Nagasaki moderately warm oceanic climate. The USA has a do Vietnam i dene{nata kriza vo Irak. huge wealth of mountains, lakes, and rivers. The SAD e edna od vode~kite sili vo te{ka, best known lakes are the Upper Lake, Huron, lesna, prehranbena, zemjodelska i avtomobils- Michigan, Erie, and Lake Ontario. The rivers include ka industrija politi~ka i voena svetska sila. the Mississippi, Missouri, Rio Grande, and Colorado, among others. The oldest known residents of what is presently the USA are the Eskimos and the Indians. It is believed that the Normans were the first of the Europeans to arrive on the North American continent about a thousand years ago. Christopher Columbus discovered North America in 1492. In the early 16th century the earliest European colonists began arriving from England, France, Holland, Swe- den, and Spain, and fought the Indians to conquer new lands. The earliest English colony was Virginia, founded in 1584, followed by Massachusetts in 1620. New Holland was founded in 1614, with the Capital City of New Amsterdam, which was rena- med to New York in 1664. The USA has a turbulent and rich history from its foundation to the present. In addition to their wars with the Indians, in 1775 the earliest clashes began between the American volunteer detachments and the English army, which meant in fact the beginning of the struggle of the North American continent for independence. In 1783, with the Versailles Peace Agreement, England recognized the independence of the USA, which brought huge changes not only in the USA but also throughout the world. The USA was shaken by the Civil War during 1861-1865, the second world economic crisis during 1929-35, WWII, particularly the war with Japan and the use of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Vietnam, up to the current crisis with Iraq. The USA is one of the world leaders in the heavy and light industry, food production, agriculture, automobile industry, as well as a political and military power.

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„Tozluci“, `enski ~orapi od Polog • “Tozluci“, woman’s socks from Polog

Stara makedonska ku}a vo Odri • An old Macedonian house in Odri

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ISELENI&KA REKA MIGRANT RIVER

olga, burna, neobi~na, veselo-ta`na, he Macedonian migrant story that life no mnogu originalna i sekako po mnogu has been writing for three centuries in a ne{ta samosvojna e makedonskata ise- T row is long, turbulent, unusual, happy Dleni~ka storija koja eve tri veka edno D Tand sad, but very original, and in many po drugo ja ispi{uva ìvotot. Po~nata e nekade ways unique. It began sometime in the late 19th pri krajot na devetnaesettiot vek, mnogu dina- century, became very dynamic and massive in the mizirana i masovna vo dvaesettiot i re~isi 20th century, and continued intensively almost turbo prodolèna bez prestan vo dvaeset i without pausing in the 21st century. prviot vek. A part of this migrant river runs endlessly from Tokmu del od nea, od taa iseleni~ka reka every end of the Macedonian land to every side of koja od site delovi na makedonskata zemja te~e the world, from Sweden to South America, from bez zapir kon site strani na svetot, od [vedska Alaska to Australia and New Zealand, to the Ame- do Ognenata Zemja, od Aljaska do Avstralisko - rican and Canadian wide expanses. novozelandskite i Amerikansko-kanadskite The Macedonian migrant saga is a sad one. {iro~ini i dolìni. They are sad departures that abandon entire villa- Ta`na e makedonskata preselni~ka saga. Ta`- ges, streets, regions, that remove for ever entire no e zaminuvaweto do opustuvawe na celi sela, family trees, centuries old. However, this is our real- ulici, regii, i na otkornuvaweto za navek na ity. This is the Macedonian truth. celi semejni stebla, stari so vekovi. No, toa e On the pages of this monograph, we present the na{ata stvarnost. Toa e makedonskata vistina. truth about the Stamevski family. It is a well known, Na ovie stranici, vo ovaa monografija, ja smes- decades-old family that has lived in Odri, near tuvame vistinata za Stamevci. Poznata, dolgo- Tetovo for a very long time, although its members deceniska familijarna zaednica koja vo tetov- were scattered in various places in the foothills of sko Odri e najdolgove~no zadomena, no nejzini- Mt. [ar. te ~lenovi bile rasprskani po razni drugi Svetoslav, Svetle, or Steve - call him whichever mesta vo pot{arplaninskite atari. way you like and you will not be wrong – is the best Svetozar, Svetle, Stiv, kako i da go nare~ete known of all the sons. In the USA and in nema da go zgre{ite, e, najpoznatiot od site ma{ki Macedonia, he is the strong, proud, hardworking, ro`bi. I vo Makedonija i vo Amerika, toj e onoj smart, and respectable family man, a proven stamen, gord, vreden, umen, li~en i ugleden se- businessman who inherited from his ancestors the meen ~ovek, dokaàn biznismen koj od svoite wit, honesty, enthusiasm, and all the best features predci, od svoite roditeli ja nasledil snaodli- that one man can possess, as is our Svetozar-Steve vosta, ~estitosta, rabotlivosta, i se ona najdob- Stamevski. roto {to moè da bide zbrano vo eden ~ovek, kako „We arrived on the great North American {to e toa na{iot, Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski. continent on 21 September 1971. All together there

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Petko, Cena, Leposava, Jelica • Petko, Cena, Leposava, and Jelica

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Slavka, Tvrdomir, Cena, i Jelica • Slavka, Tvrdomir, Cena, and Jelica „Vo golemiot severnoamerikanski kontinent were thirteen of us from our family and from other dojdovme na 21 septemvri 1971 godina. Site za- places. We flew on the Pan American plane directly edno ramno trinaeset du{i od familijata i od from Belgrade to Detroit. That was my first time nekoi drugi mesta bevme ever on a plane. It was an vo avionot na Pan Ameri- interesting feeling and an ken, koj leta{e od Bel- unusual experience. At the grad za Detroit vo di- airport, we were greeted rektna linija. Jas prvpat by about fifty people, some toga{ se ka~iv na avion. of which cousins, some I Interesno ~uvstvo i ne- knew, and some I did not“, obi~no doìvuvawe. Na Svetozar-Steve remembers. aerodromot ne pre~ekaa Even as a child, every pedesettina a moèbi i day he heard about, or pove}e {to bratu~edi, witnessed the witnessed the {to poznati, {to nepoz- hardship of living as a nati, ìvo se prisetuva migrant from the stories Svetozar-Svetle. and experiences of his Toj u{te kako dete grandfather Krste Stamev- slu{al denono}no ili ski, who had boarded the bil svedok na gurbetxisko- steamboat back in 1919 pe~albarskite maki niz and departed for a foreign kaùvawata i doìvuva- unfamiliar land. wata na dedo mu Krsteta Svetozar-Svetle i Ace Atanasovski • Svetozar-Steve and Aco Atanasovski

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Stamevski koj vo dale~nata 1919 godina se ka~il Thus, the young eighteen-year-old Svetozar- na parahodot i zaminal vo tu|a zemja nepoznata. Steve continued in his grandfather’s footsteps and Taka sega, {totuku zamom~eniot Svetozar-Svetle set off in the big wide world. Hence, the family traditi- so svoite osumnaesettina godini, trgnuva po stap- on continued, especially since it was already beco- kite na dedo mu i toj zaminuva po beliot svet. ming too crowded in Odri. No matter how his father Zna~i, tradicijata prodolùva vo familija- divided the property with his five brothers, it would ta. Posebno {to i ve}e i stanuvalo tesno vo not have been enough for everyone to be able to Odri, koga tatko mu so pette bra}a kako i da go live well off the land. Most important of all was that delel imotot, }e bil nedovolen za site da moè Svetozar-Steve wished to try his luck alone, to dobro da ìveat od zemjata. A najva`noto e deka make his own way through life, and to succeed. It Svetozar-svetle saka li~no da si ja proba sre- was with this thought in mind that he left the }ata, da si go probiva svojot pat i da uspee vo Tetovo area and moved to Detroit. ìvotot. So taa misla go napu{ta tetovskiot They moved to the USA with his father, his mot- kraj i se preseluva vo detroitskiot. her, and his whole family, determined to start from Vo Amerika, neli zaminuva so tatko mu, majka the very beginning. But, it was not easy there. Not mu i celoto semejstvo, re{eni da po~nat sosema knowing a single word in English, he felt as if dumb od samiot po~etok. No, tamu ne bilo lesno. ]e se and deaf, and on top of that, humiliated in the new po~uvstvuva nebare gluv i nem, zgora i ponièn environment. vo novata sredina koga ne znae da izusti ni They made plans from where to start. Svetozar- zbor angliski. Steve was losing his patience. Fortunately, he did

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Svetozar-Svetle i Tvrdomir so Ane Antevski vo Makedonija • Svetozar-Steve and Tvrdomir with Ane Antevski in Macedonia Krojat planovi od kade da po~nat. Svetozar- not have to wait too long for his chance to come Svetle ve}e mesto ne go drì. I za sre}a nema along. Only four days after his arrival, with the help da ~eka dolgo na {ansata. Samo po ~etiri dena of his uncle he found a job at a factory that paid otkako }e stasa, toj se vrabotuva, so pomo{ na three dollars an hour. He worked fifty six hours and ~i~ko mu vo edna fabrika za nadnica od tri earned $141. That much money for two-and-a-half dolari na ~as. Rabotel pedeset i {est ~asa i days. zel 141 dolar. Tolku pari za dva i pol dena. Svetozar-Steve Stamevski, the hero of our book, Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski, junakot od na{a- continues our story. Remembering the days gone va kniga, ja prodolùva svojata prikazna. Toj by, he tells us about his father, Trpko. Unable to en- potsetuvaj}i se na vremiwata minati, raskaù- dure the life as a migrant and to take the nostalgia va kako tatko mu Tvrdko, ne moèj}i da go izdr- that his wife and he suffered in the first few years, ì pe~albarskiot ìvot a nostalgijata vo prvi- they had to look for a way out. In only four months te godini i nemu i na soprugata im ja razjaduva they decided that the best thing for them to do was du{ata, baraat ~are kako natamu. Samo po ~eti- to return home to Odri. And they came back so that ri meseci se kategori~ni deka za niv e nadobro their fields would not stay untilled. ako se vratat nazad doma vo Odri. I se vratile Svetozar-Steve remained all alone and this was za da ne im ostanele nivjeto neobraboteni. a very difficult period in his life in the USA. His Svetozar-Svetle ostanuva sosema sam i toa father in Odri made a promise to himself that he mu bilo mnogu teòk period na negoviot ameri- would never again leave Macedonia. But things did kanski ìvot. Tatko mu vo Odri si dava sam na not go as he had planned. sebe amanet deka nikoga{ ve}e nema da ja Some time later, his father left the vilage of Odri napu{ti Makedonija. No, planovite ne izlegu- to return to Detroit again. As soon as he arrived, a vaat spored doma{niot esap. great family tragedy took place. His younger son

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Svetozar-Svetle i Tvrdomir • Svetozar-Steve and Tvrdomir Po izvesno vreme, tatko mu pak se vra}a od and brother met him on the Wednesday, and unfor- Odri vo Detroit. Samo {to do{ol, se slu~uva tunately, on Sunday morning, 16 October 1972, his golema semejna tragedija. Vo sredata go pre~e- brother, died. Svetozar-Steve, and the whole family, kuvaat mladiot sin i brat, a za àl, vo nedela- experienced some very traumatic moments. ta nautro na 16 oktomvri 1972 godina zaginuva He worked hard until May of the following year. negoviot brat. Svetozar-Svetle preìvuva mno- Somehow, that whole course of events following his gu traumati~ni migovi, kako i celata familija. brother’s tragedy brought his mother and him back Raboti naporno, se do maj slednata godina i home to their native Odri. nekako siot toj nesre}en splet na okolnosti po However, the hard pain for the lost child, for the tragedijata na bratot, majka mu i nego gi vra}a tragically lost brother, could not be healed anywhe- nazad doma vo rodnoto Odri. re. Svetozar-Steve remained in Macedonia for only No, nikade ne moè da se zalekuva te{kata five months, when he took the job for Jugohrom, taga i bolka za zagubenoto ~edo, za nesre}no za- along with Slavko Naumovski and his brother @ivko, ginatiot brat. Svetozar-Svetle samo pet meseci who worked in the iron and steel plant. He stayed ostanuva vo Makedonija, koga i se vrabotuva vo at Jugohrom only two weeks. He was restless. He Jugohrom, so Slavko Naumovski i so @ivko brat looked for comfort but could not find it. So, he mu koj bil vo @elezarnicata. Izdràl dve ne- decided to return to the USA again. deli vo Jugohrom. Nikade ne go sobiralo. Baral He found a job at the same factory in Detroit. uteha, ama ne ja na{ol i zatoa povtorno re{ava His father was with him. However, as the work load da zamine za Amerika. dropped and the managerial team was not doing Se vrabotuva vo istata fabrika vo Detroit. well, they were both laid off at the same time. This So nego zaedno e i tatko mu. Ama kako obemot se made them look for a solution in a different field. namalil, i kako slabo mu odelo na menaxerskiot First his father, and then Svetozar-Steve found a job tim, niv i dvajcata gi otpu{taat istovremeno. in a restaurant.

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Toa gi nateralo da pobaraat izlez vo druga ob- In the meantime, he had set himself the task of last i najprvo tatkoto a potoa i Svetozar- learning the English language as soon as possible Svetle se vrabotuvaat vo eden restoran. because everything would be almost impossible Vo me|uvreme si dava cvrsta zada~a da mora without it. So, he did as he said he would. He learnt ~as pobrgu da go sovlada angliskiot jazik, oti English quite well. He was happy with his perseve- bez toa sè bi bilo re~isi nevozmo`no. Kako re- rance and the end result. kol, taka storil. Go nau~uva dosta dobro anglis- In 1978, they decided to come to Macedonia kiot jazik. I samiot e zadovolen od sopstvena- again. They came by ship to the Netherlands, and ta upornost i od vkupniot rezultat. drove by car all the way to Odri. Young, handsome Vo 1978 godina, re{avaat pak da zaminat vo and eligible, he attracted the attention of many Makedonija. Do Holandija doa|aat so brod a ot- young women. But, Svetozar-Steve is not that easy tamu so avtomobil duri do Odri. Kako mlad, kako to please, and he could not decide so easily to get li~en be}ar im go privlekuval okoto na mnogu married so quickly. He stayed for five months. He mladi devojki. No, Svetle e nekako maanxija i traveled throughout Macedonia, went everywhere, ne e lesno da se re{i za taka brgu i da se o`eni. and finally decided to depart for Detroit again. This Ostanuva pet meseci. Za toa vreme se ras{etuval time he went with his sister and her children. niz Makedonija, gi krstosuval mnogu krai{ta, kade se ne bil, i na kraj pak re{ava da trgne za Detroit. No, toga{ zaedno so sestra mu i decata.

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Slavko Gavrovski , Slave Katin i Svetozar-Svetle • Slavko Gavrovski, Slave Katin and Svetozar-Steve

Svetlana, Biljana i Svetozar-Svetle • Svetlana, Biljana, and Svetozar-Steve

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Sve{tenikot Eco Trpevski gi ven~ava Svetozar-Svetle i Svetlana • Priest Eco Trpevski performs Svetozar-Steve and Svetlana’s wedding ceremony

Svetozar-Svetle i Svetlana • Svetozar-Steve and Svetlana

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Na svadbata na Svetozar-Svetle i Svetlana • At Svetozar-Steve and Svetlana’s wedding

Tome i Olga Krstevski na svadbata na Svetozar-Svetle i Svetlana • Tome and Olga Krstevski at Svetozar-Steve and Svetlana’s wedding

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Svetlana i Svetozar-Svetle • Svetlana and Svetozar-Steve

Svetozar-Svetle i Svetlana • Svetozar-Steve and Svetlana

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OD ODRI DO DETROIT FROM ODRI TO DETROIT

tranicite na ovaa monografija mu se po- he pages of this monograph are devoted sveteni na `ivotniot letopisen kola`, to the chronicle collage of the life of the na isklu~itelno blagorodniot, vistino- T exceptionally humane and philanthropic TAmerican Macedonian, Svetozar-Steve Sta- SSqubiv, humanopoklonik i ~ovekoquben amerikanski Makedonec, Svetozar-Svetle Sta- mevski, and to the decades-old tree of this renowned mevski, i na dolgodeceniskoto steblo na ova family. Their roots originate from the foothills of Mt. poznato semejstvo. Korenite mu poteknuvaat od [ar, yet the migratory search for a better future pod{arplaninskite sinori, a gurbetxisko-pe- took Svetozar-Steve and his ancestors from the quiet ~albarskite potragi za edna poinakva idnina, Odri near Tetovo far across the ocean, all the way negovite pretci i samiot Svetozar-Svetle, gi to the biggest automobile center in the Western vodat od pitomoto tetovsko Odri, daleku preku Hemisphere, to the city of Detroit, Michigan. okeanot, duri do najgolemiot avtomobilski cen- Throughout all of these decades, experiencing tar na zapadnata hemisfera, vo mi~igenskiot fame, success, troubles, stress, and terror, grad Detroit. Svetozar-Steve and his family have formed their

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Pominuvaj}i niz slava, uspesi, problemi, napo- family portrait persistently, with resistance and re- ri, premreìja, Svetozar-Svetle i negovite Sta- sults, and it deserves to be seen as an example of mevski, niz site ovie decenii nepokorno, mnogu a success story begun in Macedonia and continued uporno, otporno i rezultatno go formiraat se- in North America. mejniot portret, koj ja zasluùva i po{irokata The Stamevski family first stepped on the vnimatelna ponuda, kako primer na edna uspe{- “promised land” as early as the beginning of the na prikazna po~nata vo Makedonija a prodolè- previous century, coming to earn some money and na na severnoamerikanskite prostori. return home with gold in their pocket. As a young Prvata pe~albarska noga na Stamevci u{te child, Svetozar-Steve would listen with all of his vo prvite decenii na minatiot vek, stapnala vo childish fantasy and curiosity, and memorize in his “vetenata zemja”, za pari da zaraboti i doma da se fragile little mind, the stories that his grandfather vrati so òlticite vo pazuvite. U{te kako dete Krste would retell for days and nights, after his re- Svetozar-Svetle so seta detska fantazija i qu- turn, about his hardships and troubles as a migrant. bopitnost gi slu{al i gi memoriral vo negova- Grandfather Krste had boarded the steamboat at ta krevka psiha prikaznite na dedo mu Krste, the European harbors in the distant 1919, and koj celi no}i i dni, koga }e se vratel, ja preras- departed for America with his tiny little bag in his kaùval taa negova te{ka i ma~na gurbetxiska saga. arms. This proud and strong Macedonian knew that Dedoto Krste od evropskite pristani{ta na his years passed in the distant land without parahodot se ka~il vo dale~nata 1919 godina i knowing anyone would not be easy ones for him. so torbuleto v race, zaminal za Amerika. Ovoj However, he believed in himself, in his strength and gord i stamen Makedonec, znael deka ne }e mu se power to work and earn, and to deal with all the lesni godinite vo dale~nata zemja bez nikoj ni- challenges that such a distant, difficult, and kade, no veruval vo sebe, vo svojata sila i mo} unknown trip would bring. da raboti i zaraboti i da se spravi so site It was precisely Grandfather Krste who made the isku{enija koi gi nosi eden takov pat dale~en, first step, and then, it was no coincidence that the teòk i nepoznat. Stamevski family continued and completed their Tokmu dedoto Krste ja povlekuva nogata i potoa, migratory lives from Odri to Detroit for always. ne slu~ajno semejstvoto Stamevski gi prodolùva Svetozar-Steve lived a happy, careless, and

Odri • Odri

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Starata ku}a vo Odri • The old house in Odri i gi zaokruùva pe~albarsko-iseleni~kite svoi interesting life in the foothills of Mt. [ar. From a ìvoteci od Odri i zasekoga{ vo Detroit. very young age he constantly heard and saw, and Vo pot{arplaninskite rasko{ni atari veselo, lived with the fact that in their house someone was bezgri`no i interesno detstvo pominal Sveto- always going or coming from abroad, whether it be zar-Svetle. U{te od tie godini, toj postojano the countries close by or those across the Atlantic. slu{al i gledal i ìveel so toa deka vo nivnata Soon after he had grown into a young man, he was ku}a, sekoga{ nekoj odel i doa|al od gurbet, za- to set out on this road, too. minuval i se vra}al od pe~alba, te vo bliskite Nevertheless, first he went to school. After fini- dràvi, te daleku preku okeanite. Po tie shing primary school, he decided to continue his se- pati{ta nabrgu po zamom~uvaweto }e kinisa, condary education at the Technical Vocational School odnosno, }e gi prodolì i samiot toj. in Gostivar. “My father wanted me to go to Gimna- No, najprvo odi na u~ili{te. Po osmoletkata, zija, a more general-subjects high school. However, re{ava da go prodolì srednoto obrazovanie I had different desires and plans. I wanted to learn vo Gostivar, vo Srednoto tehni~ko u~ili{te. a skill, and I enjoyed doing technical things more. „Tatko mi saka{e i naviva{e jas da odam vo Besides, with a skill I could go the USA, where I had gimnazija, no, mojata èlba i opredelba be{e already decided to go; I could find a job more eas- poinakva. Sakav da zavr{am zanaet a tehniku- ily and start a new life. mot mi leè{e pove}e na srce. I plus toa, so I had to do something to get away from the village nego }e moàm i vo Amerika, kade {to ve}e bev work, the cows, and the stables. That is why I went re{en da zaminam, }e moàm pobrgu i polesno to Gostivar first and moved into a boarding school. da se snajdam i da po~nam nov ìvot. However, the boarding school was a horror – bad Morav ne{to da storam za da kurtulam od living conditions, no attention, it could be worse. I selskite raboti od kravite i {talite. Zatoa, could not endure even a whole year, so I decided to otidov vo Gostivar i otprvo se vseliv vo inter- travel every day from Odri to the school. This meant nat. Arno-ama vo internatot kako vo horor. Ni- that I traveled fifty-six kilometers every day. It was kakvi uslovi, nikakvo vnimanie, polo{o zdravje. very hard, but I told myself that I had to endure at Otkako ne izdràv ni cela godina, re{iv da all costs. I used to get up at five o’clock in the morning

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patuvam sekoj den od Odri do {koloto. Toa zna- and come back at five in the evening. In the winter ~e{e sekoj den da pominuvam po pedeset i {est it was dark that time of day. You had to walk all that kilometri. Mnogu naporno, no stegnav zabi i way still sleepy in the morning, and then again, tired, rekov ova mora da se izdr`i po sekoja cena. walk the same road back. Stanuvav vo pet ~asot nautro a se vra}av doma I did my school work somehow. I fell in some kind duri vo pet nave~er. Vo zimno vreme toa ve}e of crisis in my second year (year ten of school). Not bea crni temnici. U{te nerasonet mora{ da that I did not want to finish it – it was just that I gazi{ dolg pat a koga si umoren pak po istata realized that I was not made out for it. I did not un- mar{ruta nazad doma. derstand anything. Nothing. Perhaps if I had been Nekako ja turkav naukata. Nekoja kriza me a metal smith, it would have been better. I was no fati vo vtorata godina Ne deka ne sakav da go good with the screwdriver. To this day I cannot even zavr{am {koluvaweto, no sepak vidov deka ne e hold a screwdriver in my hand. I never fix anything. toa za mene. Ni{to ne razbirav. Ni{to. Mo`ebi It is all foreign to me. I do not know whether they

Zorica }erkata na Petko, Tvrdomir i Velko • Zorica Petko’s daughter, Tvrdomir, and Velko

ako bev drear poarno }e pominev. Ma kakov {traf- just did not know how to teach us at the time, or ciger kakvi bakra~i. Pa jas i den-denes {traf- whether something else was the problem. ciger v race ne dr`am. I ni{to ne popravam. After finishing at the mechanical department of the Toa za mene e {pansko selo. Toga{ dali ne secondary technical school, we became skilled metal umeeja da ne nau~at ili, pak, ne{to drugo be{e smiths. I remained in Gostivar for two more months. vo pra{awe. One day I decided to leave everything. So I did; I Ma{inobravarskiot zanaet be{e toj koj go left everything, and soon I was packing my bags for imavme po zavr{uvaweto na srednoto tehni~ko the long trip to the USA. obrazovanie, ma{inski otsek. Potoa ostanav vo As time passed I began thinking very seriously Gostivar dva meseca. Eden den, re{iv da osta- about getting married. Not that my life as a bache- vam sé. Taka i storiv, ostaviv se i nabrgu ve}e lor was bad, but I was coming to an age that I tho- gi pakuvav kuferite za dolgiot pat duri do ught was the right age for me to ‘lose my mind’, as Soedinetite Amerikanski Dr`avi. our people would say.

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Vremeto si vrve{e i po~nav mnogu seriozno The easygoing life in the USA did not pull him da razmisluvam okolu mojata èna~ka. Ne deka away from his native place. Where was he to seek mom~e{kiot ìvot mi be{e lo{, no, navleguvav his fortune? All kinds of thoughts, ideas, opportuni- vo godini koi smetav oti se taman da zastanam na, ties, girls, and proposals went through his head. But {to bi rekol na{iot narod „ludiot kamen“. one thing was for certain; like every good Macedo- Lagodniot ìvot vo Amerika ne go otkornuva nian, he had decided to marry a Macedonian girl. od negovite rodni krai{ta. Kade da ja bara svo- „She was to come from our area, and that was jata sre}a. Niz glavata mu se vrtat mnogu misli, the final decision. Our women are better than any idei, priliki, devojki, predlozi, i {to s¢ ne. American woman. I wanted to have a wife, and not Ama edno e sigurno, kako i sekoj dobar Makedonec, a boss who would be ‘telling me what to do’ con- re{en e da zeme moma Makedonka. stantly. It is different when they come from your „Da bide od na{ite krai{ta, i toa e kone~- own area. But I also wanted my future wife to come nata odluka. Na{ite èni se podobri od koja from a large family with many brothers and sisters, bilo Amerikanka. Sakav da imam èna a ne {ef so that she would not be crying to me constantly and koj postojano }e mi „trie sol na glavata“. Vaka wanting to go back to see her mummy and daddy“. svoeto si e svoe. Ama sa- Of all the young women kav mojata idna sopruga that found Svetle attractive da bide i od golema fa- in both the USA and the milija, so dosta bra}a i Tetovo area, in the end he sestri, za da ne mi pla~e chose the beautiful young postojano posle, da bara girl, Svetlana. za da se vra}a nazad za da It was a chance enco- gi vidi mama i tato“. unter on the 26 May. „She Od tolku momi {to oko was so young, barely six- mu frlile na li~en Sve- teen. She was born on the tozar-Svetle i vo Ameri- 28 July 1963. However, she ka i vo Tetovsko, toj se- has three different birth- pak na krajot ja odbra dates as she was born at li~na moma Svetlana. the time of the earthquake Sredbata bila slu~aj- and there was no birth reg- na, poznatstvoto, isto ta- istry office then. ka na 26 maj. „Be{e prem- We did not even know lada. Ima{e odvaj {es- whether her three brothers naeset godini, rodena e would let me take her for na 28 juli 1963 godina. my wife. Tall as I was, all Ama kako toga{ bilo vreme dressed up, combed and na zemjotresot, taa ima Svetozar-Svetle i Svetlana • Svetozar-Steve and Svetlana squeaky clean, I walked tri datumi na ra|awe, into Novo Selo like a sheriff. bidej}i nemalo ni mati~no. I went to Svetlana’s parents and asked if I could Ne se ni znae{e dali nejzinite trojca bra}a marry her in accordance with all the customs. They }e ja dadat za mene. Jas onaka visok, doteran, agreed and we all drank a toast. Relatives and izmaznet, krckam celiot, vlegov kako {erif vo neighbors gathered. Everyone was merry. And I got Novo Selo. Odam kaj roditelite na Svetlana i permission to take her to the USA. po site adeti, ja pobarav za nevesta. Dadovme, We got married only a week later. We had a zbor, nazdravivme. Se sobraa rodninite i kom- wedding, again with all the customs, and all happy {iite. Selo veselo. I dobiv dozvola, da moàm we began collecting the necessary documents for da si ja odnesam vo Amerika. our departure. As my bride had several dates of Samo po edna nedela se ven~avme. Svadba birth and neither an identification card or passport, napravivme, isto taka, po site obi~ai i sre}ni I had to run from place to place to get her travel zadovolni, po~navme da pribirame dokumenti za documents so that we could apply for a US visa. zaminuvawe. Kako {to mojata nevesta ima{e The registrar in Vratnica was my father’s cousin,

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nekolku datumi na ra|awe, a nema{e u{te ni li~- Trpko, and at the Tetovo court, one of our people na karta ni paso{, jas morav da se rastr~am na again. Petko, the judge, made a little fun of me at site strani za da gi sredime nejzinite patni is- first, when he realized that I could not remember pravi, i da brkame viza za Amerika. I vo Vrat- who he was even though we had met in Detroit. He nica Trpko be{e mati~ar, inaku bratu~ed na questioned me about how I planned to support my tatko mi, pa vo sudot vo Tetovo, isto taka, na{ wife and I told him all about how I had a property ~ovek. Sudijata Petko otprvo malku prave{e here, that I had a restaurant business in the USA, majtap so mene, koga vide deka ne moàm da se and that it would be absolutely no problem for me setam koj e toj, iako sme se videle i vo Detroit, to support a wife and family. me ispopra{a kako toa mislam da ja izdrùvam The judge then got into a good mood and sent èna mi, a jas mu iznakaàv deka imam ovde his secretary to buy something so that he, instead imot, deka vo Amerika imam biznis so restora- of me, could treat everyone to a drink. But, first ni itn., i deka nema voop{to problem da izdr- there were some officials that had come from ùvam èna i semejstvo. Skopje because my future wife was underage, so we had to have witnesses to get the job done. They asked the bride’s father how old she was and some other things. He got all confused and said, ‘I don’t know, either 12 or 13. I don’t know. I have seven children; how can I remember everyone’s age?’ Just when I thought that we had really ruined everything since her father could not remember her age, and that if we were going to do this the right way we would never make to the USA, just then the judges and the other people in the room all burst out laughing. This comic situation lasted briefly, and right away they told us we could get married. From here we set off directly for Vratnica. Trpko came to the registrar’s office. When he saw me he started crying with joy. He had been in the USA for quite some time, too. He was happy and he took out his wallet wanting to treat everyone. I said, ‘Hey, wait a minute everyone. Shouldn’t the groom be treating everyone?’ Petko replied, ‘No, no, we are happy with you, so we will buy the drinks.’ The next step in getting all the formalities done was the trip to Belgrade and procedures to get a US visa for my wife. We took the train to what was Toga{ sudijata se raspoloì i vedna{ ja prati then the Capital of the former federation, but when sekretarkata da kupi ne{to i, toj namesto mene, we came to the embassy there was a huge crowd. da ~esti. No, pred toa, nekoi slu`beni lica koi There were so many people that one could easily bea dojdeni od Skopje, bidej}i be{e maloletna lose hope of ever getting there. ‘No way am I going kandidatkata za sopruga, pa mora{e so svedoci to wait here,’ I thought to myself. We, Macedonians da se sredat rabotite, go pra{uvaa tatkoto na can found our way around in any situation. nevestata kolku godini ima taa i u{te nekolku All dressed up as I was, and according to my drugi temi. Ovoj celiot se zbuni i veli, ne znam. passport I was a foreigner to them, I walked strai- Dali 12 ili 13. Ne znam. Imam sedum deca, re~e i ght into the embassy nonchalantly and boldly be- od kade da im gi pamtam godinite na site. fore the very eyes of the watchmen and policemen Koga jas si pomisliv deka sega e opleskana as if I were their employee or some important visitor. rabotata i deka ni{to ne pravime, koga ete tatko- As I walked in they looked me up and down, no to ne se seti za godinite, i deka ako barame one daring to ask me anything, nor did I listen to

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prav pat nikoga{ nema da stasame vo Amerika, ete, who or what anyone was vo toj mig, sudiite i drugite slu`beni i neslu`- saying. I went straight to beni lica vo salata prsnaa da se smeat. Ovaa the counter. At that komi~na situacija trae{e kratko, i vedna{ ni ja instant I heard someone dadoa odlukata deka moè da stapime vo brak. call out, ‘Mi{o, Mi{o!’ Ottuka kinisavme pravo vo Vratnica. Vo Ma- ‘Aha,’ I thought, ‘so Mi{o ti~noto dojde Trpko. Koga me vide po~na duri i is the guy who should da pla~e od radost. I toj be{e vo Amerika mnogu open the door for me.’ So, vreme. Mu be{e milo i toj go odvrza keseto, I called out, too, ‘Mi{o, saka{e da ~esti. A, bre ~ekajte lu|e, velam jas, open the door!’ but I pa neli treba zetot da po~esti. Ne, ne, mi voz- called out in English. vrati Petko, i nie se raduvame zaedno so vas, i Someone really opened zatoa i nie }e ~estime. up the door for me and Sledniot ~ekor okolu sreduvaweto na for- looked at me, not know- malnostite, be{e patuvaweto do Belgrad i pro- ing who I was. I just told cedurata okolu dobivaweto na amerikanska viza him I was going upstairs, za nevestata. Stasavme so vozot vo toga{niot and I continued. I told glaven grad na biv{ata federacija, no koga doj- myself that if I waited, I dovme pred ambasadata, ima{e {to da vidime, never would have come narod pleva. Tolku mnogu be{e gu`va, {to ~o- inside. This way I would vek da izgubi nade` deka moè da dojde na red. even pretend I was crazy Ne doa|a vo predvid da ~ekam, si rekov. Ta neli if I had to, as long as got nie Makedoncite sme snaodlivi vo site priliki. the job done. Jas onaka doteran i bidej}i spored paso{ot There were four poli- za niv bev stranec, sosema non{alantno i od- cemen standing on that va`no, pred o~ite na redarite i policajcite, floor. I said, ‘Hi!’ to them si vleguvam vnatre vo ambasadata, nebare sum in English. They greeted nivni slu`benik ili vaèn dojdenec. me, too and asked where Jas vleguvam, tie me merkaat, nikoj ne se osu- I was from. duva ni{to da me pra{a, nitu pak gi slu{am koj ‘From Michigan,’ I said. {to veli i kako veli, odam pravo na {alterot. Then they told me which Vo toj moment slu{am kako nekoj vika - Mi{o, room to go to, to see the Mi{o! A si velam, zna~i toj e Mi{o koj treba da consul. I knocked twice mi ja otvori vratata. Toga{ i jas viknav - Mi{o on the door. When the otvori, ama na angliski. Eden ~ovek vistina mi lady saw me, she won- otvori vrata, me gleda, ne znae koj sum. Samo mu dered who I was. rekov deka odam gore i tolku. Prodolìv. Si ‘I would like to get velam ako ~ekam, nikoga{ nema da vlezam. Vaka married right away,’ I told ako treba neka se pravam i na udren, samo da se them, ‘but I am having zavr{i rabotava. trouble with my wife’s pa- Na katot stoeja duri ~etvorica policajci. pers. First, everyone in the Aj! Im velam na angliski, tie isto me otpozdra- room congratulated me, vija, pra{uvaj}i me od kade sum. and then they said there Od Mi~igen, rekov. Toga{, }e odi{ vo taa i would be no problem. taa soba kaj konzulot, me upatija tie. Po~ukav They sent the policeman dvapati na vratata. Gospo|ata koga me vide, se to go outside and bring ~udi, koj sum, pak, sega jas. my bride from where she Sakam da se ènam, im rekov, vedna{, a imam was waiting in queue with problemi so dokumentite, za èna mi. Prvo mi all those people. They ~estitaa site {to bea vo sobata, a potoa, rekoa, opened up my file and deka nema nikakov problem. Go pratija policaecot realized that had taken

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Stamevski na oro • The Stamevski family dancing za da ja donese tamu dolu od redot, mojata ne- thirteen people to the USA. After they looked at all vesta koja ~eka{e zaedno so tolku narod. Ved- the documents and the letter of invitation I had for na{ go otvorija dosieto i gledaat deka jas duri Svetlana, they asked her if she loved me. Without trinaeset lu|e sum donel vo Amerika. Otkako ja hesitating, she said ‘Yes’ right away. prelistaa seta dokumentacija i garancijata {to It was interesting that they even brought a bunch ja imav za Svetlana, toga{ nea ja pra{aa - dali of flowers for us. We got married, there at the US me saka. Taa vedna{ kako od pu{ka odgovori so - da. Embassy in Belgrade. They joked, saying that they now Interesno be{e {to i cve}e donesoa. Se ven- had one more American. They put all the stamps, ~avme, tuka vo amerikanskata ambasada vo Bel- gave me the visa in my hand, and advised me to get grad. Se po{eguvaa toga{ velej}i ni deka u{te my wife a doctor’s certificate because without it she edna Amerikanka sega imaat plus. Gi stavija site would not be able to enter the USA. pe~ati, mi ja dadoa vizata v raka i me sovetuvaa From there, we went directly to the hospital to deka moram da izvadam lekarsko uverenie, bidej- get a doctor’s certificate. However, there were huge }i bez toa, taa po ova ne moè da vleze vo SAD. crowds in front of the hospital, too. It would take Ottamu otidovme pravo vo bolnicata za da ze- days for your turn to come. I had to use my clever- meme lekarsko uverenie. No, i pred bolnicata ness again somehow. I watched nurses going in narod kako pleva. Nema {ansa da se stasa na red through the back door and set off behind them. A so denovi. Mojata itro{tina morav nekako pak da nurse opened up the door and asked what I want- ja upotrebam. Gledam kako medicinski sestri ed there. I told her not only who I was looking for, vleguvaa od zadnata vrata i jas trgnav po niv. Ja but who was looking for me, too because I had otvori edna sestra vratata i me pra{uva {to gotten lost. baram jas tuka. I, velam, ne samo kogo baram, tuku ‘What do you need?’ the lady asked me. In a i mene koj me bara oti se izgubiv. couple of sentences I told her everything. Another “A, {to vi treba, mi se obrati ènata. I kaàv lady, who stood a little further, told us that she would vo dve re~enici s¢, koga edna {to stoe{e potamu do everything for us. I explained to her that all the re~e deka, ba{ taa }e ni zavr{i rabota. Jas objas- other documents I needed in Belgrade were ready, nuvam kako vo Belgrad s¢ {to treba{e od strana and that all we needed was the doctor’s certificate.

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na dokumenti mi e gotovo, a deka ostana samo lekar- I told her I had no relatives in the city, nor did I skoto uverenie. Nemam vo ovoj grad nikakvi rod- know anyone, and that I had no time either nini, nitu pak nekogo poznavam, a nemam ni vreme, because I was in a hurry to get to the USA on time. bidej}i se brzam za da stasam na vreme vo Amerika. The kind medical personnel even offered me some Qubeznite medicinski lica u{te i so kafe coffee. They called my newlywed wife to come in, me ponudija, ja povikaa soprugata, taze nevesta, gi examined her, and told us that the results would be napravija site pregledi i ni kaàa deka rezulta- ready the following morning. I told them there was tite }e se gotovi utre-izutrina. Im velam, deka no way I could wait that long, and that I would pay ne moàm da ~ekam tolku ni slu~ajno, a ako treba if necessary but to have everything done that day. se }e platam samo vedna{ u{te denes da se zavr- This did not work, for they had to wait for the next {i rabotata. Toa ne uspea, bidej}i moralo da se morning. When we went back the next morning, ~eka do izutrina. Koga sabajleto otidovme, nema there was no sign of the results. I lost my temper a aber od rezultatite. Se podnalutiv, pa belkim little; I did not wish to waste a whole week in nema da zagubam i cela nedela ~ekaj}i niz Bel- Belgrade waiting around for just one result. grad samo na eden rezultat. A very kind lady approached me and asked what Mi prijde edna qubezna gospo|a, me pra{uva the problem was. I told her. Then she asked how it {to e problemot. I kaàv. Potoa se interesira- was in the USA. I gave her a few dollars to buy her- {e kako e vo Amerika, jas i dadov nekoj dolar da self something even though she did not want it. She se po~esti iako ne saka{e. Dojde so mene niz came with me throughout the hospital, got the re- cela bolnica, gi zede rezultatite, mi gi dade i sults, and gave them to me. I thanked her and left. jas zablagodaruvaj}i i se, zaminav. Our next destination was the travel agency to Slednata destinacija be{e patni~kata agen- purchase a ticket for the USA for Svetlana. When it cija za da zemam karta za Svetlana za Amerika. was my turn, the lady started yelling. She told me Koga dojdov na red, slu`beni~kata po~na da vres- rudely that there were no tickets, and turned away. ka. Nema karti, mi re~e nekulturno i si se svrte. I had to be very patient being with my young wife; Jas sosema bev so vrzani race, bidej}i bev so ne- otherwise I really would have made a scene. So, vestata, pa morav da bidam strpliv, inaku lom ke somehow, the nice way, in two days we had fi- napravev. Ajde nekako, so dobro, so ne{to ru{- nished that, too. vet, i vo dva dena ete, i toa se zavr{i. We went outside to catch the train to Tetovo, when Izlegovme nadvor da fa}ame voz za Tetovo, a my young bride asked me what we were going to mojata izbrani~ka pra{uva, {to pravime so svadba. do about a wedding. The only thing we could do Edino ~are be{e da se fatime za telefon. Yvo- was to pick up the telephone. We called her family, nime kaj nejzinite, yvonime i kaj moite vo Odri and then my family in Odri, and asked them to have i barame vo nedelata vedna{ svadba da pravime the wedding that Sunday because we were leaving bidej}i vo ponedelnikot za Amerika trgnuvame. for the USA on the Monday. So it was. It was a hasty, Taka i se slu~i. Nabrzina be{e, ama ubava svadba but beautiful wedding. We had the groom, the bride, be{e. So zet, nevesta, deveri, svatovi, muziki, i best man, in-laws, music, and all the traditional so site adeti ja napravivme. Sledniot den nie customs. The next day we departed for Detroit. My ve}e zaminavme kon Detroit. mother and my brother-in-law along with some Na internacionalniot del od aerodromot vo De- other friends and relatives had come to meet us at troit, bea dojdeni majka mi so zetot i nekoi drugi the international section of Detroit airport. They rodnini i prijateli. Ne pre~ekaa ni se izraduvaa. greeted us with a lot of joy. My father had said to Tatko mi im rekol - ajde bre, toj neoti }e dojde so them, ‘Come on, I doubt whether he will come with nevesta. ]e go vidite sega so nekoi deca tamu na a wife. You will see him with some children there at aerodromot. Koga dojdovme doma, gleda i se ~udi, the airport.’ When we got home, he looked in won- koj do{ol za neceli dve nedeli so viza i site der – who had arrived in less than two weeks with zavr{eni formalnosti. No, koga sednavme i gi a visa and all the formalities completed? But, when izraskaàvme site raboti, se be{e jasno, iako we sat down and told them everything, it became izgleda{e kako na film. Gospodova rabota...“ Ja clear, and seemed like a movie. God’s work…“ zavr{i prikaskata Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski. Finished the story Svetozar-Steve Stamevski.

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MLADITE GENERACII

THE YOUNG GENERATIONS

aedni~kiot `i- vetozar-Steve vot na Svetozar- and Svetlana’s Z Svetle i Svet- Y life together re- Zlana nalikuva Ysembles a mo- na edna sovremena sto- dern story. They built rija. Tie ja gradat their marriage with a lot bra~nata zaednica so of love, mutual trust, mnogu qubov, me|useb- attention, and respect. na doverba, vnimanie They have four wonder- i uva`uvawe. Imaat ful children, Velko, Zo- ~etiri prekrasni deca ran, Biljana, and Gorda- Velko, Zoran, Biljana na. i Gordana. Velko is the eldest Velko e najstariot son and the first of Sve- sin i prva ro`ba na tozar-Steve Stamevski's semejstvoto na Sveto- children. He was born zar-Svetle Stamevski. on 21 April 1981, in Toj e roden na 21 april Detroit. He was a good 1981 godina vo Detro- pupil and student, and it. Bil dobar u~enik is now following his i student, a denes odi father's footsteps in the po stapkite na svojot restaurant and other tatko vo restoranskiot business. Velko will ma- i drug biznis. Velko rried the girl he loved for }e vleze vo bra~nite many years, Silvana vodi so svojata dolga Trbovi}, on 4 June 2006. qubov Silvana Trbo- Svetozar-Steve will have vi}, na 4 juni 2006 go- a big wedding for his dina. Za svojot sin son upon the occasion Svetozar-Svetle }e of this significant event napravi golema svad- for the two families. He ba. ]e pokani okolu Gordana • Gordana will invited about six

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{estotini gosti, rodnini i prijateli od site hundred guests, friends, and relatives from all over delovi na SAD i Kanada. Toa }e bide svadba koja the USA and Canada. Considering everything that }e se pameti po s¢ ona {to semejstvoto Sta- the Stamevski and Trbovi} families will offer their mevci }e go ponudi na gostite. guests, this will a wedding to remember. Vtoriot sin na Svetlana i Svetozar-Svetle e Zoran, born on 18 October 1982, is Svetlana and Zoran koj e roden na 18 oktomvri 1982 godina. Toj Svetozar-Steve's second son. He was born a year- e roden na godina i polovina po svojot brat Velko. and-a-half after his brother, Velko. Their third child, Tretata ro`ba e Biljana, rodena na 12 septem- Biljana, was born on 12 September, 1984. She was vri 1984 godina. Taa e prvo ènsko ~edo na se- the first girl in the family. Gordana, born on 22 mejstvoto na Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski, a ~et- August 1985, is their fourth child. They are exce- vrtata e Gordana, koja e rodena na 22 avgust llent students who study and work at the restaurant 1985 godina. Tie se dobri studenti koi, isto- at the same time. Their grandfather, Tvrdomir, often vremeno i u~at i rabotat vo restoranot. êsto says that he would be unable to run the restaurant dedoto Tvrdomir veli deka ne e mo}en da go without the help of his grandchildren. They are like drì restoranot bez negovite vnu~iwa. Tie mu his right hand in his work, and he is very glad. se desna raka. The Stamevski family is a wonderful American- Semejstvoto Stamevski e edna prekrasna Macedonian community. They are just as proud to amerikansko-makedonska zaednica, koja e gorda be from the Tetovo area, as they are proud to be {to e od tetovskiot kraj isto kolku {to e gorda from the Detroit-Michigan area. deka e od detroitskoto, mi~igensko podnebje. This family was also very lucky in business. First Rabotite i vo biznisot sosema mu trgnaa na the restaurants, and then they went into the entre- arno na ova semejstvo. preneurship business, Restorani, pa potoa construction, and real doa|a nivnoto navlegu- estate. They purchased vawe vo pretpriema{t- vacant lots and premi- voto, vo grade`ni{tvo- ses, built houses and to i vo nedvi`nostite. entire high class resi- Stamevski otkupuvaat dential blocks. Let us slobodni placevi i just mention the sixty prostori, i gradat ku- or so highly luxurious }i, gradat naselbi za residences with swimm- ìveewe so visok stan- ing pools and huge gar- dard. Da gi poso~ime dens. He had also pur- onie izgradeni {eese- chased about 330,000 ttina super luksuzni feet, or about 100,000 rezidencijalni ìvea- square meters of busi- li{ta so bazeni i go- ness premises. A chain lemi gradini. Ima{e of other endeavors fol- kupeno i okolu 330.000 lowed. One success metri kvadratni pro- came after another. Not daèn prostor. Pa sle- that everything went so dea drugi, treti zafa- smoothly, but the clev- ti i taka vo niza. Uspe- erness and knowledge site se nièle. Ne deka of the boss of the se odelo kako podma~ka- Stamevski firm resolved no. No, upornosta, sna- all the problems. odlivosta i znaeweto na bosot na firmata od Stamevci, gi razre{u- vaat problemite. Silavana i Velko • Silvana and Velko

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Silvana i Velko • Silvana and Velko

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Velko i Silvana so darovi • Velko and Silvana with presents

Svetlana i Svetozar-Svetle - sre}ni roditeli • Svetlana and Svetozar-Steve - happy parents

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Biljana i Aleksandar Pirkovi} • Biljana and Aleksandar Pirkovi}

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Semejstvoto Stamevski • The Stamevski family

Biljana i Gordana • Biljana and Gordana

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Cena i Leposava so vnu~iwata • Cena and Leposava with the grandchildren

Silavana i Velko • Silvana and Velko

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Decata na Stamevci so drugari • Stamevski’s children with friends

Gordana so drugarki • Gordana with friends

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Biljana • Biljana Svetozar-Svetle so Zorica i Pavlina • Svetozar-Steve with Zorica and Pavlina

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Gordana • Gordana

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Cena, Velko, Biljana • Cena, Velko, and Biljana

Zorica, David, Greg • Zorica, David, and Greg

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Biljana i Gordana • Biljana and Gordana

So prijateli na Florida • With friends in Florida

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Svetozar-Svetle so Suzana • Svetozar-Steve with Suzana

Svetozar-Svetle so Biljana • Svetozar-Steve with Biljana

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Sre}ni roditeli: Svetlana i Svetozar-Svetle • Happy parents: Svetlana and Svetozar-Steve

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BIZNISOT NA STAMEVSKI

THE STAMEVSKI FAMILY BUSINESS

snovata na biznisot na Svetozar-Svetle vetozar-Steveeve Stamevski's business was Stamevski ja postavi negoviot tatko established by his father, Tvrdomir, who in- O Tvrdomir, koj vloìl mnogu trud, vreme, vested a lot of time, effort, cleverness, and Opamet i sredstva. Istoriskiot razvoj na Y Yfunds. The historical development of his bu- nivniot biznis ne bil lesen, tuku bil ispolnet siness was not an easy one. Instead, it was filled with so turbulencii. No, blagodarenie na nivnata rises and falls. Nevertheless, thanks to their faith in verba vo Boga, i kako rezultat na samodoverbata, God, their self confidence, punctuality, conscientious- to~nosta, ispolnitelnosta, ~esnosta i delov- ness, sincerity, and professionalism, they accomplis- nosta, tie postignale zna~aen uspeh. Semejstvo- hed significant success. Svetozar-Steve Stamevski's to na Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski e edno od po- family is one of the better standing Macedonian fam- imotnite Makedonski semejstva vo SAD. ilies in the USA and beyond. Za po~etocite na biznisot Svetozar-Svetle „We bought the restaurant at which my father veli: „Go kupivme restoranot kade {to rabote{e worked. I also spent a lot of time there, but I worked tatko mi. I jas tamu bev dosta angaìran, no is- at the factory at the same time. It was not easy to tovremeno bev i vo fabrikata. Na dve mesta ne be{e work in two places at the same time; it was most lesno, iscrpuva~ki e toa maksimalno, no zarabo- exhausting, but the earnings were good. In 1979, tuva~kata ne be{e lo{a. Vo 1979 godina, vedna{ right after New Year’s I left the factory and continued po Novata godina, ja napu{tiv fabrikata i pro- working only in the restaurant business. Although I dolìv edinstveno samo so restoranskiot biznis. was young, I think that I managed to pick up the Iako mlad, mislam deka uspeav prili~no brgu i business quite well and quite quickly. And the restau- prili~no dobro da ovladeam so nego, pa bogami rant started becoming more popular, with increa- po~na i na cena ve}e da bide, doa|a{e s¢ podobra singly better and more numerous guests coming“. klientela, steknuvavme s¢ pobrojni i dobri gosti“. Then they began purchasing real estate proper- Potoa zapo~naa da kupuvaat nedvièn imot, koj im ties, which enabled him to progress in the business. obezbedi napredok vo biznisot. Taka, denes semej- Thus, today Svetozar-Steve Stamevski's family owns stvoto na Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski e sopstvenik five large shopping malls, or plazas, in various cities na pet golemi trgovski centri, vo razli~ni mesta in the states of Michigan and Ohio. They own sixty vo Mi~igen i Ohajo. Tie se sopstvenici na 60 stores, of which three supermarkets and other spe- du}anski prostori, od koi tri supermarketi i dru- cialized business premises. At the same time, his gi specijalizirani delovni prostorii. Pritoa luxurious home in the Washington municipality in negoviot luksuzen dom vo op{tinata Va{ington, Detroit is an attractive and rich living place. His pretstavuva privle~no i bogato kat~e za ìvee- restaurant, "Steve's Caffee" is a meeting and parting we. Restoranot, pak, na Svetozar-Svetle e mesto place. Here, in addition to the tasty dishes that chef na sredbi i razdelbi. Vo nego, pokraj vkusnata Tvrdomir prepares, the friendships and meetings hrana {to ja prigotvuva Tvrdomir, prijatelstva- are a story in themselves and deserve a special ta i sredbite zazemaat posebno mesto. place.

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Trgovskiot centar vo Tekamseh • The shopping center in Tecumseh

Du}an vo Tekamseh • A store in Tecumseh

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Trgovskiot centar vo Harper

Trgovskiot centar vo Port Hjuron • The shopping center in Port Huron

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The shopping center in Harper

Eden od restoranite • One of the restaurants

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Trgovskiot centar vo Ist Taun vo Ohajo • The East Towne shopping center in Ohio

Mestoto Vest Rix kade e ku}ata • West Ridge, where the house is located Pred restoranot vo Detroit • In front of the restaurant in Detroit

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Ku}ata vo Odri vo prolet • The house in Odri in spring

So semejstvoto na Tomislav Stojanovski -Bombaj • With Tomislav Stojanovski – Bombaj’s family

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Tatko i sin vo Makedonija • Father and son in Macedonia

Velko vo Makedonija • Velko in Macedonia

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Sve~eno pu{tawe na patot za Odri • Official opening of the road to Odri

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PATOTE"IVOT- "IVOTOT E PAT

THE ROAD IS LIFE – LIFE IS A ROAD

ot{arplaninskoto selo Odri, kon koe se rom the village of Odri, which is on the foot upativme eden son~ev oktomvriski po- of Mt. [ar, to which we headed that sunny P nedelnik, veli Laze Bilbilovski, novi- Monday in October, Laze Bilbilovski, a Pnar na makedonskoto radio - Radio- reporter from the Macedonian radio station Skopje vo svojata reportaà za pu{taweto na in Skopje, said in his report on the opening of the patot vo rodnoto selo na Svetozar-Svetle Stamev- road in Svetozar-Steve Stamevski's native village, ski i prodolùva. „Moè li peroto na novinarot, and he continued. Can the reporter's pen, can the moè li reporterskiot mikrofon da ja izmeri reporter's microphone measure the strength of the silata na kopneòt kon stariot kraj? Moàt li longing for one's native place? Can one express the da se dolovat mislite i ~uvstvata tamu daleku thoughts and feelings there, far across the ocean, zad okeanot, za edna vakva esen pod [ar Planina? for one such autumn at the foot of Mt. [ar? It is Za nas odovde od ovaa na{a i nivna makedonska hard to do this from here, from our and their zemja, te{ko e toa. Pa sepak, dol`nost i ~esna Macedonia. Nevertheless, it is a reporter's responsi- obvrska na novinarot e da se obide toa da go po- bility and sincere obligation to try to feel this and to ~uvstvuva i da go prenese barem vo retkite sred- pass it across at least during those rare meetings bi so tie na{i sovremeni gurbet~ii. A niv od with our modern migrants, (gurbet~ii). And there Tetovsko vo Amerika, vo Detroit gi ima mnogu. Niv- are many of them from the Tetovo area in the USA nite o~i ako gi sretnete, velat, sekoga{ sme tuka, and in Detroit. If you see their eyes they will tell makar so du{ata. Sakame da pomogneme. Moèbi you, We are always here, at least deep in our souls, vo toa ima izvesna gordost zaradi parite spe~a- if not more. We want to help. Perhaps there is a leni vo novata tatkovina. Pa i za inaet. Koj znae. certain pride in this because of the money earned Nadevaj}i se na edna takva sredba, velam, poj- in their new fatherland. And out of mere spite. Who dovme vo Odri. Za àl ne go sretnavme doma}inot knows? Hoping for one such meeting, as I said, we Tvrdomir Stamevski. Nekolku dena porano zami- headed for Odri. Unfortunately, we did not meet nal za Amerika. No tuka be{e negoviot brat, i the host, Tvrdomir Stamevski. He had left for the pote~e prikaznata. USA a few days earlier. But, his brother was there, - Jas se vikam Todor \urovski od selo Odri, and so the story began. He spoke in his Odri Tetovsko sega ìveam vo istoto selo. Nie sme pet dialect. bra}a jas sum najstariot brat ta se nao|am tuka vo My name is Todor Gjurovski. I come from the vi- selo Odri. A od moite bra}a dojde eden brat, toj llage of Odri, near Tetovo, and I live in the village. se vika Tvrdomir-Tvrde Stamevski. Osum godini I am the eldest of five brothers, and I have remai- ne bil a s¢ na s¢ 18 godini e vo Amerika vo Det- ned in the village of Odri. Of all my brothers, one roit. Koga dojde, toj re{il ottamu, bidej}i ovde came. His name is Tvrdomir Stamevski. He came

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after eight years. He had not come for eight years, and he has been in Detroit, USA, for 18 years alto- gether. When he came, since he did not have a car here, he decided there to come by car. He brought the car on the plane. When he came, as brothers, we went here and there, He ruined the car; we don't have a road to the village. After these troubles, I said to my brother, 'Brother, let's do something to put an end to these problems with the road. It was enough. We are old; let us see some goodness, too. What can we do, brother?’ And he gave me an answer’. You know how. Ask your Ma- cedonian friends in Detroit somehow to raise some nema{e negova kola, da dojde so kola. Kolata ja money, and we here will get some, and we can fix donel so avion. Koga stigna, nie kako bra}a se dru- it. You say, that needs a lot of work, and it would ìmo idemo tamu-vamo kolava ja upropasti, nema- take a long time. I don't have time to wait for it that mo put, nemamo vlez vo seloto. I od tia muke jas long. How can we do this quickly? ‘Quickly, I said’, mu spomnav na brat mi, brat bre nekako da u~ini- if you have the money, you can do anything. ‘And mo so ovia put da se turi kraj. Dosta bilo. Pa they did as they had decided. He thought for a whi- stari smo vi{e, pa da vidimo i nie ne{to malko le and said’. I'll do it. We will go to the municipal ubavo. Pa kako da naprajmo bre brat. Mi dade council, ask how much a square kilometer costs, odgovor. Kako. Daj nekako dopra{aj se so drugari- and whether they would be ready to do it right te tamo na{i ludi {to ima u Detroit neka pribe- away. So that we don't have to wait. So that it rev nekoja para pa ne{to i nie od ovde da ga na- could be done quickly. To have the asphalt.’ And we prajmo. A, re~e, toa mnogu rabota ima mlogo }e se went to see the municipal mayor. He instructed us prodolì toa. Nemam vreme tolku da se prodol- to go to the Roads Department. ùva toa, nego nekako nabrzina da se napravi. We checked everything and the job was done. Nabrzina, ako ima{ pare, rekov, sve biduva. When we decided with my brother, and the munic- I kako {to re{ile taka i napravile. ipal council promised to do everything, my brother Se pomisli on malko pa re~e. ]e napraim. ]e provided the funds, in foreign currency. He paid idemo re~e u op{tina }e pra{amo koja e cena po everything in foreign currency, in dollars. And we kvadrat na kilometar sve toa kako moè i dali }e se collected ten million (dinars) from every household nafati da ni naprai odma. Da ne ~ekamo mie. Od- in the village. It was not big money, but my broth- ma nabrzina da bide toa. Napraeno asvalt. I oti- er insisted so that the village people could say that dovmo u op{tina pri pretsedatelot. Toj ne prati na they also contributed to the road, that they also Upravata za pati{ta ispitavmo se, bidna rabotava. gave money. So that no one could say some day Koga re{ivmo so bratot i ni obe}a op{tinata that only one person made it. My brother wouldn't sve da se napravi i brat mi obezbedi sredstva u hear of it. 'You will all contribute a little and partic- devize. Sve platil u devize, dolare. A od seqanite ipate in the road, so that we will all participate. I do od svaka ku}a sobravmo po deset miliona, bratot not want anyone to say that only I, only Tvrdomir moj zahteva{e, tie ne bea nekoi golemi pare, nego made the road. I do not want that.' That was how da re~ev seqanite i nie smo u~estvovale vo pu- he spoke. And that is how it was. We raised money tot. I nie smo dale pare. Da ne moè da se re~e from the villagers and fixed a few days for volun- utre deka samo eden go napravil. Toa brat mi ne sa- tary work to widen and clean up the road. Various ka{e da ~ue. Site }e si dadete po malku i da bi- branches of trees and vegetation had grown all dete u~esnici u putot za da bidemo site u~esnici over it on both sides. We trimmed everything, ne samo jas da re~at, a Tvrdomir go naprail pu- cleaned up, and had everything ready for the Roads tot. Toa ne sakam. I taka se izrazuva{e on. I sve Department to come and work. And they began toa bidna, sobravmo pari od seqanite i odrediv- working on the road immediately. And they made it. mo nekolko dena akcija da se pro{iri putot, da That is how it was with our asphalt in the village of se o~isti. Toj be{e urasnat od dvete strani levo- Odri.

142 SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI VIDEL - SO QUBOV KON MAKEDONIJA desno od granke od razni drvja. Sve smo toa iskas- An event like that could not go unmarked in our trile, otvorile, smo namestile i koga be{e goto- village. This was a great holiday for our village, so vo za da dojde Uprava za pati{ta da ni raboti toa we decided to celebrate. It was a great thing that be{e sve gotovo. I odma momentalno po~naa putot we had gotten asphalt. And people came from the da go pravat. I go napravija. Taka be{e so asval- neighboring villages. We had invited them to the tot na{ vo seloto Odri. Ne bilo takov nastan vo putting of the road into operation. We cut a ribbon, seloto da ne se odbeleì. Re{ivmo edna sve~enost as is appropriate. Metropolitan Kiril blessed the da naprajmo. Toa za nas, za na{eto selo be{e naj- road, and there were many other distinguished golem praznik. Najgolemo ne{to za nas be{e {to guests. There was great joy. And so we put the dobivme asvalt. I ni dojdoa od sosednite sela, road into operation. smo gi pokanile kako gosti na pu{tawe na putot, People said a long time ago that a good deed is lenta smo sekle, lenta zna~i, kako dolikuva. Pu- heard of afar. Hence, encouraged by this, we decid- tot go blagoslovi mitropolitot Kiril, a ima{e i ed to record the deed that will not go unnoticed, as mnogu drugi vidni gosti. Golema radost smo ima- @ivko Vidoevski, president of the Tetovo society of le. I taka go pu{tivme putot na upotreba.“ the Migrant's office (Matica na iselenicite of Mace- Glasot na dobrodetelta nadaleku se slu{a re- donia) said. kol narodot odamna. Vpro~em i nie pottiknati od One such example was our proposal to the toj glas trgnavme da napravime zapis za deloto Assembly of the Tetovo municipality for the 19th {to ne }e ostane nezabeleàno kako {to veli pret- November Prize for Tvrdomir Stamevski from the sedatelot na tetovskoto dru{tvo na Maticata na village of Odri, who covered 60% of the total costs iselenicite od Makedonija, @ivko Vidoevski. for the building of the asphalt road to his village. Eden takov primer e na{iot predlog do Sobra- This would be an acknowledgement from his native nieto na Op{tina Tetovo za nagradata 19 noemvri country for Tvrdomir, far across the great waters, na Tvrdomir Stamevski od selo Odri koj so 60 ot- in Detroit, in the USA. However, I believe that for sto od vkupniot iznos u~estvuva{e vo izgradbata him personally, the donation of about $15,000 for a na asfaltniot pat do svoeto selo. Bi bilo toa priz- new asphalt road from Odri to the road to Tetovo, nanie od negoviot roden kraj za Tvrdomira tamu now has a different meaning. An idea, first born as daleku zad golemata voda vo Detroit vo Amerika. personal spite towards the cruelty of Mt. [ar, No veruvam li~no za nego toa podaruvawe na 15- turned into unquenchable thirst. The black asphalt ina iljadi dolari za nov asfalten pat od Odri road under Tvrdomir and his brothers' car rushing do patot kon Tetovo sega ve}e ima i ne{to po- to Tetovo, and for many others like them, has inakva dimenzija. Edna ideja rodena prvin kako opened the road for the return to the native li~en inaet so {arplaninskite bespa}a se preto- hearths. ~i vo nezgasliva èd. Crnata asfaltna lenta po My brother Tvrdomir has been living in America, koja ita avtomobilot kon Tetovo za Tvrdomir i za in Detroit, for 18 years,' Todor added and said that negovite bra}a no i za mnogumina kako niv go otvo- his brother Tvrdomir's body is in Detroit, but his ri patot za vra}awe na starite ogni{ta. spirit is in Odri. 'He thinks constantly of his native Brat mi Tvrdomir 18 godini ìvee vo Amerika, country. At the moment, he is building a house. He vo Detroit, dodade Todor i re~e deka brat mu Tvrd- has workmen working, yet he had to go back ko so telo e vo Detroit, a so duhot e vo Odri. Stalno because he has things to do there too, the job can- misli za rodniot kraj. Eve sega pravi ku}a. Maj- not wait. In the spring he will come again to see the stori mu rabotat, a toj mora{e da se vrati nazad house finished in his presence, and then he plans to za{to ima rabota i tamu, da ne trpi taa. Naprolet come here for good, to live here. And of the other pak }e dojde, da se doraboti ku}ata vo negovo brothers, Vlado Stamevski will come; he has a prisustvo i ima namera da dojde za postojano da house here, too. He has everything he needs to live ìvee ovde. A isto i od drugite bra}a Vlado Sta- here. To spend his old age in the village of Odri," mevski i toj }e doa|a si ima ku}a tuka, si ima sé, we hear at the end of this report on Odri and za da ìvee tuka. Starosta da ja provede vo selo Tvrdomir Stamevski. Odri“, se veli na krajot od ovaa reportaà za Odri i za Tvrdomir Stamevski.

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Sredba vo Rim so Papata Jovan Pavle II • Meeting in Rome with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican

Sredba na crkovna delegacija vo Le{ok • Meeting of a church delegation in Le{ok

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SREDBA VO LE[OK

emejstvoto Stamevski e tesno povrzano so he Stamevski family is closely tied with the Le{o~kiot manastir. Ne samo zaradi bli- Le{ok Monastery. Not only because of the S zinata na nivnoto selo Odri do ovoj sema- T closeness of their village, Odri to this all- Skedonski svetilnik, tuku i zaradi faktot TMacedonian shrine, but also for the fact {to ovoj manastir pretstavuva simbol na za~u- that this monastery symbolizes the preservation of vuvaweto na makedonskata vistina, a so toa i na the Macedonian truth, and thus the Stamevski fami- semejstvoto Stamevski. Taka, vo edna toplo av- ly. Hence, I met Svetozar-steve Stamevski in Le{ok gustovsko utro vo Le{ok se sretnavme so Sveto- one hot August morning. That early morning a river zar-Svetle Stamevski. Toga{, u{te rano – rano od of people started flowing in to the Le{ok Monastery. site strani narod kako reka nadoa|a{e vo Le- The young and the old rushed to enter the court of {o~kiot manastir. Brza{e staro i mlado za da the legendary shrine spread out in the midst of the vleze vo svetite dveri na legendarniot duhoven green oasis near Tetovo, in the foothills of the tall hram, {iroko rasposlan srede zelenata oaza bli- Mt. [ar. zu Tetovo, pod polite na visokata [ar Planina. The church bells echoed while the several thou- Odeknuvaa kambanite, dodeka golemiot crko- sand of our migrant brothers gathered and quickly ven dvor brgu se ispolnuva{e so pove}eto ilja- filled the large church yard, coming from the USA, di iseleni na{i bra}a koi, tokmu na toj ilin- Canada, Australia, Europe, and every end of Mace- denski vikend, bea stasale od Amerika, Kanada, donia on this Ilinden weekend (2nd of August). Avstralija, Evropa i sekako od cela Makedonija. The overcrowded Le{ok Monastery was a mag- Veli~estvena be{e gletkata na prepolnetiot nificent sight. Having had moved away from their Le{o~ki manastir. Odamna iselenite od rodnite native Macedonian hearths, with a lot of emotion, makedonski ogni{ta, so mnogu emocii, a pove}e- and many with tears in their eyes, they looked at mina i so solzi vo o~ite, go razgleduvaa hramot the St. Atanasij Church, at the inns, and next to „Sv. Atanasij“, na konacite, a do niv i starata them the old Church of St. Mary. From time to time, crkva „Sveta Bogorodica“. Odvreme – navreme many of the migrants would stop a little when they mnogumina od iselenicite }e podzastanea koga managed to recognize an old friend, or perhaps a }e uspeeja da se prepoznaat so po nekoj prijatel, close relative. The years had passed, but still they a mo`e i so bli`na roda. Godinite i deceniite go were lucky to give each other a brotherly hug, here storile svoeto, sepak, golem kasmet be{e da se in their fathers’ land of Macedonia and at the Le{ok pregrnat bratski, tuka vo tatkovata zemja Make- Monastery precisely. These were sad, and yet joyful donija i tokmu vo le{o~kite atari. Toa bea i encounters, made eternal with the cameras and tagovni, no sepak, mnogu radosni sredbi, koi se memorized forever.

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ovekove~uvaa so kamerite i se memoriraa vo ne- Underneath the arches of the old and amazingly zaboravot. fresco-painted Church of St. Atanasij one could A pod svodovite na stariot i ~udesno fresko- hear the strong, pleasant, and specific voice of ìvopisen hram „Sv. Atanasij“ odeknuva{e silniot, Metropolitan Kiril, the first Diocesan dignitary in milozvu~en, prepoznatliv glas na mitropolitot charge here, who served the holy liturgy at this well Kiril, tuka nadle`niot prv eparhiski dostoin- known and much praised monastery. stvenik, koj ja sluè{e svetata liturgija vo Many Macedonians from around the world came ovoj nadaleku ~uen i opean vo pesnite manastir. in to light a candle for good health and fortune, and Golem broj Makedonci od sekade {irum svetot to bow before the altar and the icons. And even vleguvaa za da zapalat sve}a za zdravje i beri- though it was full from wall to wall, they did not }et, se poklonuvaa pred oltarot i ikonite i, iako leave until the end of the service, carried away in nema{e ve}e igla kade da padne, tie ne zami- exaltation with the church ritual of the Reverend nuvaa tuku ostanuvaa do kraj na bogoslu`bata, so Kiril. They were then exalted by the inspirational voshit poneseni od ~inona~alstvuvaweto na ne- speech that the Metropolitan delivered. Believers govoto preosve{tenstvo - Kiril. A potoa tie bea and guests, our brothers had come to this all-Ma- poneseni od inspirativniot govor koj go odrà cedonian gathering especially. They came from mitropolitot. Toj na nasobranite vernici i namer- every end of the world, dispersed by fate, troubles, nici, bra}a po rod, dojdeni specijalno na ovaa intentions and fortune. The Metropolitan wished semakedonska sredba od razni strani na svetot, them a happy Ilinden and much good health, do kade {to gi rasprskala sudbinata, makata, na- fortune, love, and progress. merata i sre}ata im go ~estita praznikot Ilin- On this warm, pleasant day, in that wonderful den i im posaka zdravje, sre}a, qubov i napredok. atmosphere they met the host – Bishop Kiril. The Vo toj topol, prijaten den, i seta taa prekrasna migrants tell and retell their future generations about atmosfera imaa sredba so doma}inot – vladi- the magnificent sights they saw at the Le{ok kata Kiril. Za taa biserna razglednica {to ja Monastery. vidoa iselenicite vo Le{o~kiot manastir pri- With all of his hospitality, kindness, warm kaùvaat i raskaùvaat na pokolenijata. brotherly words, spiritual support and hope, the Mitropolitot so svojata presretlivost, qu- Metropolitan made that migrant’s day, that all- beznost, topol bratski zbor, duhovna potkrepa i Macedonian gathering, a true and memorable day nade`, za sekogo, napravi toj iseleni~ki den, of joy from which the memories of the Le{ok toj semakedonski sobir, da bide vistinski den Monastery will remain forever. za radost i nezaborav i ve~no da ostanat spomenite za Le{o~kiot manastir.

Sobir vo Le{ok • A gathering in Le{ok

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So Mitropolitot Kiril vo Le{ok• With Metropolitan Kiril in Le{ok

Vo Le{o~kiot manastir • At the Le{ok monastery

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VO MANASTIRSKIOT KOMPLEKS

NA POPOVA [APKA

AT THE MONASTERY COMPLEX ON POPOVA APKA

M o Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski i pogolema M ith Svetozar-Steve Stamevski we visited grupa iselenici od Detroit go posetiv- the monastery complex at Popova [apka S me manastirskiot kompleks na Popova and a large group of migrants from S[apka. Tamu bevme pre~ekani od mitro- Detroit. Metropolitan Kiril met us there, politot Kiril, koj so golemo zadovolstvo zboru- and with great pleasure he told us about the histo- va{e za istorijata na kompleksot, kade e izgra- ry of the complex where the beautiful Church of St. den preubaviot hram „Sv. Naum Ohridski-ûdo- Naum of Ohrid, Miracle Worker, was built. On this tvorec“. Vo taa prilika, mitropolitot Kiril, occasion Metropolitan Kiril said that as part of the me|u drugoto re~e deka vo ramkite na programa- program to mark the 25th Anniversary of the ta za odbeleùvawe na 25-godi{ninata od voz- restoration of the autocephaly of the Macedonian obnovuvaweto na avtokefalnosta na Makedon- Orthodox Church taking place in 1992, as well as the skata pravoslavna crkva, koja se realizira vo two decades since the constitution of the Polog and tekot na 1992 godina, kako i dvete decenii od Kumanovo Diocese, a ceremony was held at Popova konstituiraweto na Polo{ko-kumanovskata epar- [apka in honor of the name and work of one of the hija, na Popova [apka se odrà sve~enost po- Macedonian saints, St. Naum of Ohrid, Miracle svetena na imeto i deloto na eden od makedon- Worker. More precisely, in the presence of numer- skite svetii sveti Naum Ohridski - ûdotvorec. ous state leaders, many believers, and representa- Imeno, vo prisustvo na golem broj li~nosti od tives of cultural, scientific, and other institutions in dràvniot vrv, golem broj vernici, pretstavni- Macedonia and the parishes of the Diocese, a foun- ci na kulturni, nau~ni i drugi institucii od dation stone was laid and sanctified. This is the Republikata i op{tinite od eparhijata, be{e foundation stone to the new monastery complex poloèn i osveten kamen-temelnik na noviot that bears the name of St. Naum of Ohrid, which manastirski kompleks {to go nosi imeto na further enriched the festival day of our saint. sveti Naum Ohridski, so {to be{e zbogaten This event took place at a time when the Mace- praznikot na ovoj na{ svetitel. donian sovereign and independent state and the Ovoj ~in se slu~i vo vremeto koga makedon- autocephalous Macedonian Orthodox Church throu- skata suverena i nezavisna dràva i avtoke- ghout the world are experiencing growing affirma- falnata Makedonska pravoslavna crkva vo sve- tion among the believers in justice and the truth. tot, doìvuvaa s¢ pogolema afirmacija kaj pok- Metropolitan Kiril then informed the migrants lonicite na pravdata i vistinata. that this monastery church was built with donations Potoa mitropolitot Kiril gi informira of the Macedonians from Detroit who felt special iselenicite deka ova manastirsko svetili{te e love towards this monastery. It is at about two

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izgradeno so donacija i od Makedoncite od Det- thousand meters above sea level and represents roit, koi imaat posebna qubov kon ovoj hram. God’s guard to our fathers’ Macedonia. It is a spiri- Toj e na nadmorska viso~ina od okolu dve ilja- tual healing place for everyone who will gather to di metri i pretstavuva gospodov branik na pray, who will ask for God’s mercy there, who will tatkovskata Makedonija. Toa e duhovno le~ili{te receive wisdom and strength for great life’s achi- za site onie koi se sobiraat na molitva, koi vo evements and joys. According to information from nego }e baraat milost Bo`ja, }e crpat mudrost i the church, the St. Naum of Ohrid Monastery at sili za golemi `ivotni postigawa i radosti. Popova [apka is being built at the highest peak ele- Spored informaciite od crkvata, manastirot vation in the eastern Christian church.

Spomen plo~ata na daritelite za manastirot Sv.Naum Manastirot Sv. Naum vo Ohrid • The St. Naum monastery in Ohrid Memorial plate for the donors of the St. Naum monastery

Sv. Naum Ohridski na Popova [apka se gradi na During the gathering a church-people’s lunch najvisoka kota vo isto~nata hristijanska crkva. was organized at which the archbishop Kiril delivered Vo ramkite na sredbata be{e organizirana a speech. He said, among other things, that there crkovno-narodna trpeza na koja Kiril ima{e ar- is nothing more dignifying, sincere, and exalting hijerejska beseda. Toj, me|u drugoto, re~e deka than one people living in harmony, understanding, ni{to nema podostoinstveno, po~esno i povozvi- and peace in its free, sovereign, and democratic {eno od toa eden narod da `ivee vo sloga, razbi- country in which it creates permanent and worthy rawe i mir vo svojata slobodna, suverena i deeds for its future generations. This is characteris- demokratska zemja, vo koja sozdava trajni i dos- tic of the Macedonian people, who have survived tojni dela za svoite pokolenija. Toa e odlika na for centuries in these restless Balkan regions. makedonskiot narod, koj opstojuva so vekovi na Metropolitan Kiril added that everyone will realize ovie nemirni balkanski prostori. Isto taka, mit- the truth about Macedonia, just as great powers ropolitot Kiril re~e deka site }e ja sogledaat headed by the USA in all of its glamour and vast- vistinata za Makedonija, kako {to toa go napra- ness did. Every resistance against us in the past has vija golemite sili na ~elo so SAD, vo seta nejzi- only contributed to the world getting to know na svetlina i golemina. Site dosega{ni otpori Macedonia and our cultural wealth and permanent protiv nas pridonesoa svetot da se zapoznae so values of civilization. We believe in the final interna- Makedonija i so na{eto kulturno bogatstvo i tional recognition of Macedonia by the entire world trajni civilizaciski vrednosti. Veruvame vo ko- because what was born, what was created by God, ne~noto me|unarodno priznavawe na Makedonija was also predetermined to live and survive, od strana na celiot svet za{to ona {to e rode- Metropolitan Kiril said. no, {to e sozdadeno od Boga e predodredeno da `ivee i da opstojuva, re~e mitropolitot Kiril.

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VOJNATA VO 2OO1 GODINA CRNA DAMKA VO ISTORIJATA

THE WAR IN 2001 – DARK BLOT IN HISTORY

olem sram, crna damka be{e toa {to i se he events that took place in our father- slu~uva{e na na{ata tatkovina Makedo- land Macedonia in 2001 were a great G nija vo vremeto na 2001 godina. Koj i kak- T shame and a dark blot. No matter who, Gvi prikazni da kaùva v~era, denes ili Tor what kind of stories one may have koga bilo vo idnina, ne }e moè da ja pomesti told yesterday, today, or any time in the future, they od stolbot na sramot taa crna stranica {to i se will not be able to clear the shame of this blackness slu~i na Makedonija na samiot start od noviot that befell Macedonia at the very start of the new milenium. Nitu narodot be{e konsultiran za millennium. The people were neither consulted pogromniot ramkoven dogovor, nitu pak, neko- about this pogrom Framework Agreement nor did ga{ mu se objasni zo{to i kako dojde do nego. Se anyone ever explain to them why and how it came veli vo reporta- to be. Fidanka Ta- àta na Fidanka naskova, journa- Tanaskovska, novi- list, coorespondent nar, dopisnik na for the Macedonian makedonskite ra- radio programs in dija vo Melburn - Melburne, Australia Avstralija i Keln and Cologne Ger- - Germanija. many, wrote. Nas vo Odri “In Odri crimi- kriminalno-te- nal terrorist gangs roristi~ki ban- robbed our house di ni ja ograbija and on the walls ku}ata, a na yido- they even wrote vite u{te pak i UÇK in capital lett- so golemi bukvi ers. They stole my izna~krtale U^K. Svetozar-Svetle kako branitel vo Ratae • Svetozar-Steve as a “defender“ in Ratae three cars. And so Gi ukradoa i moi- what? Should we te tri avtomobili. I, {to so toa? Da se omrzneme. hate each other? They thought they would scare Mislea deka nekoj }e se ispla{i. - Ama, ve mous. Oh, come on. No one falls for that kind of gang lam. Takvi banditski gluposti ve}e nikade ne stupidity. I replaced it all and will have more in the pominuvaat. Jas, pak, sé storiv i vo idnina }e sto- future. In my home, in my native village of Odri, in ram. Vo mojata rodna ku}a, vo moeto rodno Odri, my Tetovo, in my Macedonia, everything is in its

PART VI - TO MACEDONIA WITH LOVE 151 Manastriskiot vo Le{ok vo tekot na vojnata • Le{ok monastery during the war VIDEL - SO QUBOV KON MAKEDONIJA vo moeto Tetovo, vo moja Makedonija, rabotite place and will continue settling down, but no one si doa|aat i u{te pove}e }e legnat na svoeto will erase the dark pages of the past, and time will mesto, ama crnite stranici od minatoto nema not cover the truth with ashes, but on the contrary. nikoj da gi izbri{e, a vistinata vremeto nema You know that we, our people, came from the da ja posipe so pepel, tuku naprotiv. USA, Canada, and other countries throughout the Znaete deka nie od Amerika i Kanada kako i world in the midst of the clashes, when we needed od drugi zemji vo svetot, toga{ dojdovme, na{i heavy guards to penetrate, to see from close by lu|e sme, tokmu koga se puka{e, koga so te{ki some of our places in the Tetovo area. We mourned pridru`bi odvaj uspeavme da se probieme, za da so much along with our brothers and sisters driven vidime odblizu nekoi na{i mesta vo tetovskiot away from their native hearths, where they had kraj. Kolku li taguvavme zaedno so na{ite bra- lived for centuries and centuries, and unfortunate- }a i sestri izbrkani od nivnite rodni ogni{ta, ly, the time had come for them to run to shelters to kade bile so vekovi i vekovi, a dojde vreme, za save their lives. We also went to see the US `al, da moraa da spasuvaat glava po razni pri- Ambassador Einik but came out very disappointed fatili{ta. Bevme i kaj amerikanskiot ambasa- knowing whose side he was on.

Makedonci od SAD zaedno so Makedonskata armija • Macedonians from USA with the Macedonian army dor Ajnik od kaj kogo izlegovme razo~arani The meeting we held at Macedonia Square in bidej}i se znae{e na koja strana „duva“ toj. the center of Skopje was to give our full support to Mitingot {to go odr`avme na plo{tadot Ma- our brothers in the Tetovo area who had been the kedonija vo centarot na Skopje, be{e za da im victims of evil and misfortune, and to support our dademe celosna poddr{ka na na{ite bra}a vo fatherland, which had been drawn into such a dan- Tetovsko, koi bea `rtvi na zlo i nesre}i, i da gerous hell whose consequences no one will be i dademe poddr{ka na na{ata tatkovina, koja able to repair for decades“. be{e vovle~ena vo eden takov opasen pekol ~ii In his emotional speech before the people that posledici ne }e mo`e da se saniraat so decenii“. had gathered at Macedonia Square Svetozar-Steve Vo svojot emotiven govor pred nasobraniot Stamevski said the following among other things: narod na plo{tadot "Makedonija" Svetozar- Svetle Stamevski me|u drugoto re~e:

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„Bra}a i sestri, “Brothers and sisters, Jasno i glasno odovde na celiot svet sakame Loudly and clearly, from here we wish to tell the da mu kaème deka Makedonija e stara nacija, entire world that Macedonia is an old nation, an old stara dràva, i deka site nie zaedno }e se bo- country, and that all together we will fight the ter- rime protiv teroristite (aplauz). Nie site za- rorists (applause). We will all fight against them edno }e se borime protiv niv. Nie sme tuka isto together. We are also here to show the world that taka za da mu pokaème na svetot deka sme zaed- we are all together, we, you, and all who are one – no, nie, vie, site koi sme edno - Makedonci, Macedonians, regardless of where our fate may kade i da ne odnela sudbinata, kade i da ì- have taken us, wherever we live, wherever we are

Svetozar-Svetle i Rade Mihajlovski vo Jegunovce • Svetozar-Steve and Rade Mihajlovski in Jegunovce

veeme, kade i da sme raseleni. Ova e Makedoni- dispersed. This is Macedonia. This is Macedonian ja. Ova e makedonska zemja, makedonska dràva. land, a Macedonian country. So it was, and so it will Taka bilo, taka i }e ostane. Nikoj nema pravo da remain. No one has the right to sell a country. No prodava dràva. Nikoj. (aplauz) Onie {to ì- one (applause). Those who live in Macedonia have veat vo Makedonija treba da imaat soìvot so to live with all the Macedonians, and not be terror- site Makedonci, a ne da se teroristi. (aplauz) ists (applause). Long live our Macedonia. Long live Da ìvee na{a Makedonija. Da ìvee na{a our America… (applause) Amerika.... (aplauz) What heart could have remained cold as stone Koe srce moè{e da bide kameno, koga go vi- when we saw the Le{ok Monastery, our spiritual dovme razru{eniot Le{o~ki manastir, gordosta pride in ruins? We go there for true spiritual pilgrim- na{a duhovna. Tamu odime na vistinsko duhovno age and relief. We have always lit candles before poklonenie i pro~istuvawe. Tamu, pred oltarot the altar praying for good health, happiness, and otsekoga{ palime sve}i molej}i se za zdravje, good fortune. We feel at home in the inns, and in sre}a i beri}et. Vo konacite sme kako doma, a the large yard of the Le{ok Monastery we have vo {irokiot dvor na Le{o~kiot manastir sme celebrated, and luckily we continue celebrating pominuvale i za sre}a prodolìvme da pominu- memorable holidays, migrant meetings, festivals vame nezaboravni praznici, sredbi na iseleni- and many other things. cite, festivali i {to li u{te ne.

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Dedoto Kiril, stolbot na Kumanovsko-polo{- Kiril, the pillar of the Kumanovo and Polog kata eparhija, golemiot borec i optimist, ni e Diocese, the great fighter and optimist, is like our kako matica okolu koja se sobirame sekoga{ i queen bee around which we gather always, with or koga ima i koga nema povod. Povod e i samiot vla- without a special occasion. Bishop Kiril himself is a dika Kiril za da pojdeme i da bideme zaedno, toj, good reason to go and be with him for he is truly a navistina, e retka figura, koj umee da gi sobere unique person who knows how to bring together vernicite, da go sobere narodot. Bravo. Sekoga{ the believers, the people. Bravo. I have always sum u`ival, sum se voshituval od negovite komu- enjoyed, I have been impressed with his ability to nikaciski mo`nosti i sposobnosti so svojot na- communicate with his people and with his clergy.

Mi{ko Vasovski i Svetozar-Svetle kako vojnici • Mi{ko Vasovski and Svetozar-Steve as solgiers rod, so svoeto sve{tenstvo. Sekoj ne go mo`e toa. Not everyone can do this. Our Bishop in charge of Na{iot nadle`en tetovski arhijerej e eden golem Tetovo is a great spiritual leader and patriot. duhoven voda~ i patriot. Even during the conflict, Bishop Kiril fearlessly Vo vremeto na konfliktot, i toga{, dedoto visited the Macedonian spiritual shrines of which, Kiril bestra{no gi obikoluva{e makedonskite unfortunately, much of the valuable work of the duhovni svetili{ta od koi za nesre}a na civi- past civilizations have irreparably been destroyed or lizaciskite vrednosti, mnogu se nepovratno damaged. During these months, on the streets or uni{teni ili o{teteni. Ete, vo tie meseci, jas the market in Tetovo and Skopje, I met honest na ulicite ili na pazarot niz Tetovo i Skopje Albanians, my friends with whom we have shared sre}avav ~esni Albanci, moi drugari, moi pri- both good and evil, and mutual respect, who were jateli, so koi sme delele dobro i zlo i mnogu ashamed of the entire foolishness of 2001. They sme se po~ituvale, {to se sramea od seta taa invited me to their homes to have some coffee and glupost vo 2001 godina. Tie me kanea doma, chat, they invited me to their places and guaran- baraa da ispieme zaedno kafe i da porazgo- teed me my safety, but I did not wish to cause varame, toga{ me vikaa kaj niv i mi garantiraa them any trouble. bezbednost, ama ne sakav da im pravam beqi. I knew that the foolishness would not last long. Znaev deka ludostite nema da traat dolgo. Voj- The clashes finished leaving deep scars on every- nata zavr{i so te{ki luzni za siot narod, za one, on Macedonia. Many Macedonians from

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Makedonija. Mnogu tetov~ani, mnogu Makedonci Tetovo and its vicinity left forever. This part of od celata tetovska okolija nepovratno se iseli- Macedonia is undergoing ethnic cleansing, which is ja, etni~ki se ~isti, toj del na Makedonija i toa the fatal alternative before which one must not e pogubna varijanta, pred koja ne treba da se bide remain blind and deaf. Who would wonder then slep i gluv. Pa potoa koj bi se ~udel {to narodot why the people are disappointed and do not trust se razo~aruva, {to ne im veruva na politi~arite the politicians? – The subject is an endless i taka natamu, temata e beskraen lavirint. labyrinth. Toga{, vo 2001 godina, mediumite vo Amerika Then, in 2001 the US media presented a distort- davaa iskrivena slika za nastanite i voop{to za ed picture of the events and overall developments site slu~uvawa vo toa vreme vo Republika Make- at the time in the Republic of Macedonia. That is donija. Zatoa, spored Stamevski, bea organizi- why, according to Stamevski, the demonstrations in rani demonstraciite pred CNN koga go iskaàvme front of CNN were organized when we expressed na{iot revolt na mediumskata kampawa protiv our revolt at the media campaign against the Makedonija i pristrasnite, neobjektivni izve{- Macedonians and at the bias, non-objective reports tai so koi od niv be{e bombardiran svetot. with which they bombarded the world. Po na{ite protesti i urgencii, potoa, me- After our protests and interventions, the US diumskite amerikanski kolosi, vo prv red CNN media giants, CNN above all, began informing more informiraa poobjektivno. Go pokaàa àlno raz- objectively. They showed the sadly destroyed St. ru{eniot manastir „Sv. Atanasij“ vo Le{ok, go Atanasij Monastery in Le{ok, and the Brioni Motel pokaàa i krenatiot vo vozduh motel „Brioni“ koj that was blown up in the air, which has remained ete i po nekolku godini ostana da bide kamen na even after many years, a tripping stone and a dis- sopnuvawe i edna takva katastrofalna pogroma astrous pogrom from the Ka~ak gangs at the time, od strana na ka~a~kite bandi toga{, dolgo da e yet to be the subject of fights and deals for a long predmet na kavgi i pazari. time to come. Imavme dosta sredbi so amerikanski kongres- We had many meetings with US congressmen; meni, imavme poseta na Stejt departmentot, imav- we visited the State Department, and demonstrat- me demonstracii pred Amerikanskiot crven krst ed before the American Red Cross and the White i pred Belata ku}a. Sakavme Amerika da ja slu{ne House. We wanted America to hear the truth about vistinata za Makedonija. Vo Stejt departmentot Macedonia. At the State Department we asked mu postavivme mnogu pra{awa na toga{niot many questions of the deputy Secretary of the US, zamenik-sekretar na SAD, Ri~ard Armita`. Toj ni Richard Armitage. He assured us that ‘Macedonia re~e deka „Makedonija }e ostane cela, nikoj nema will remain intact; no one will partition it, we are for da ja par~i, nie sme za Makedonija i }e i pomog- Macedonia and we will help it in every way.’ neme na sekoj plan“, ne uveruva{e Armita`. My personal, activist, and patriotic goals at the Moite toga{ni a i potoa da re~am, ete, li~ni, time were to remain constantly in touch with con- i aktivisti~ki, i patriotski celi bea da sum vo gressmen and senators, with the State Department postojan kontakt so kongresmeni i senatori, so and beyond, so that the right information would Stejt departmentot i po{iroko za da se probi- penetrate whenever any question or dilemma about vaat to~nite informacii, koga bilo od koja pri- Macedonia was to be the focus of attention. We ~ina }e se najde vo fokusot nekoe pra{awe ili really do have the positive attitude of the American dilema za Makedonija. Administration when the Republic of Macedonia is Navistina, imame dosta pozitiven odnos vo in question. Hence, among other things, the final amerikanskata administracija koga e vo pra{a- recognition of our constitutional name in 2004 by we Republika Makedonija i taka me|u drugoto i the global giant and permanent member of the UN se finalizira priznavaweto na ustavnoto ime Security Council – the United States of America“, vo 2004 godina od strana na svetskiot xin, i said Svetozar-Steve Stamevski. postojanata ~lenka na Sovetot za bezbednost na Obedinetite nacii - Soedinetite Amerikanski Dràvi“, re~e Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski.

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PART VII AMERICAN HORIZONS

VIIDEL - AMERIKANSKI HORIZONTI

LI&NO PRIJATELSTVO SO LAURA I XORX BU[

PERSONAL FRIENDSHIP WITH LAURA AND GEORGE BUSH

vetozar-Svetle stanuva i li~en prijatel vetozar-Steve became a personal friend of so semejstvoto na Lora i Xorx Bu{. Mnogu the family of Laura and George Bush. Many S pati gi posetil na nivniot privaten imot Y times he visited their private property in Svo Teksas, kade minale nezaboravni deno- YTexas, where they spent unforgettable days vi vo dolgite razgovori za najrazli~ni temi, za with lengthy discussions on various subjects, on all kakvi se ne pra{awa. „Tolku pati sum zboruval kinds of issues. “I have spoken so many times be- pred nego za dolgata makedonska istorija, za fore him about the long Macedonian history, about drevnata civilizacija na ovie makedonski the ancient civilization in this Macedonian region,

Svetozar-Svetle i Xorx Bu{-postariot • Svetozar-Steve and George Bush Senior

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Svetozar-Svetle i Xorx Bu{ • Svetozar-Steve and George Bush

Xorx, Svetlana, Xon Engler i Svetozar-Svetle • George, Svetlana, John Engler, and Svetozar-Steve

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Svetozar-Svetle i Xorx Bu{-postariot • Svetozar-Steve and George Bush Senior

Svetozar-Svetle so Patrik Bakenen • Svetozar-Steve with Patrick Buckanon

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Svetozar-Svetle so Boris Trajkovski, pretsedatelot na Makedonija • Svetozar-Steve with Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski

Svetozar-Svetle so Vlado Bu~kovski • Svetozar-Steve with Vlado Bu~kovski

162 SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI VIIDEL - AMERIKANSKI HORIZONTI prostori koja i natamu postojano se iskopuva i which continues to be dug out and confirmed potvrduva niz bogatite arheolo{ki nao|ali{- through the rich archaeological localities. I have ta, za kulturnite vrednosti, za demokratijata, spoken about the cultural values, the democracy, za `ilaviot opstoj na mojot narod i pokraj site the resistant survival of my people despite all the scili i haribdi niz koi minal i zaminal toj. tortures it had to experience. We have experienced Sme minale migovi koi se pamtat sekoga{. moments forever remembered. Prvata amerikanska lejdi Lora Bu{ e isklu- The first American lady Laura Bush is an ~itelna li~nost. Posvetena majka, sopruga, pos- exceptional person. She is a devoted mother, wife, vetena humanistka, i pred s¢ mnogu drag ~ovek, and humanist, and above all a very dear person, a vistinska dama, sekoga{ pozitivna i prijatel- true lady, always positive and friendly towards her ski raspolo`ena kon prijatelite. friends.

Svetlana, Xorx, Lora i Svetozar-Svetle • Svetlana, George, Laura and Svetozar-Steve

Kontaktite, sredbite, linkovite, i voop{to, The contacts, meetings, links, and generally the komunikaciite so semejstvoto na amerikanskiot communication with the family of the American pretsedatel, se odrùvaat vo kontinuitet kako President are maintained in continuity as part of the del od mnogu dragata i nezaboravna i arhiva i very dear and unforgettable file, liability, past, pasiva, minato, sega{nost i idnina“, na {to e present, and future“, of which Svetozar-Steve and gord, Svetozar-Svetle, kako i negovata draga his wife Svetlana are both proud. Svetlana. The Stamevski family spent a lot of time, skill, Stamevski potro{ile dosta vreme, umeewe, knowledge, cleverness, and of course a lot of znaewe, snaodlivost, i sekako mnogu pari za pret- money on the presidential campaign of George sedatelskata kampawa na Xorx Bu{. Makedoncite Bush. The Macedonians in Ohio voted for him, vo dràvata Ohajo glasaa za nego i toa be{e re- which determined the final outcome of the election {ava~ko i za kone~niot ishod na izborniot re- results. Bush held one of his pre-election meetings zultat. Bu{ odrà eden od svoite predizborni at the biggest sports stadium in this American mitinzi na najgolemiot sportski stadion vo ovaa state, all organized and financially supported by amerikanska sojuzna dràva, i toa be{e vo glavna Stamevski.

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Lora Bu{ i Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski • Laura Bush and Svetozar-Steve Stamevski

164 SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI VIIDEL - AMERIKANSKI HORIZONTI organizacisko - finansiska „reìja“ na Stamevski. At the time, the Macedonian lobby in the USA Makedonskoto lobi vo SAD toga{ be{e, a i was, and continues focusing on the affirmation of prodolùva da bide naso~eno kon afirmacija the vital issues for Macedonia, as were the recog- na vitalnite pra{awa za Makedonija, kako {to nition of our constitutional name and the support of be{e priznavaweto na ustavnoto ime, i poddr{- our “big brother” in speeding up our European inte- kata na „golemiot brat“ za zabrzuvawe na na{ite gration. The Macedonians throughout the world evrointegracii. Makedoncite vo svetot imaat have only one party, and that is Macedonia. This edna partija, toa e Makedonija. Taa ideja vodil- leading idea is the alpha and omega of all our past, ka e alfa-omega za site minati, sega{ni i idni current, and future efforts and specific actions. na{i zalo`bi i konkretni dejstvuvawa. „Znaete „You know that the Macedonian can create life on a deka Makedonecot i na kamen moè da sozdade stone, and turn the impossible into possible,” ìvot, a i nemo`noto da go prestori vo mo`no, Svetozar-steve says. “I was certain that all my

Svetozar so kongresmenot Xo Nogert • Svetozar-Steve with Joe Knogert Svetozar so Debi Stebano - senator • Svetozar-Steve with Senator Debby Stebano veli Svetozar-Svetle. Bev siguren deka }e bide efforts for my friend George Junior would be worth- efektuiran siot trud za mojot prijatel Xorx while, and that is how it turned out in the end, as Junior i, taka izleze na krajot, na zadovolstvo anticipated and at everyone’s pleasure. i o~ekuvawe od site nas. President Bush is a wonderful person. He is Pretsedatelot Bu{ e prekrasen ~ovek. Toj e honest, rich, and uncorrupted. I can boast that we ~esen, bogat nekorumpiran. Da se pofalam, ama have a similar philosophy on life and we both love imame sli~na filozofija vo ìvotot i dvajca- people regardless of the kind of first or last name ta gi sakame lugeto bez razlika kakvo ime i pre- they bear. What is important is who they are, and zime nosat. Va`no e koi se, kakvi se. what they are like. Xorx e mnogu poboèn ~ovek. Zatoa i edna{, George is a very religious man. That is why I od poodamna mu sugerirav deka ako ne znae po- suggested to him once, a long time ago, that if he ve}e ne{to za Makedonija, toga{ neka ja otvori did not know much about Macedonia, then he Biblijata i tamu }e ja najde mojata rodna zemja. should open the Bible and he will find my native Isto taka mu rekov deka na makedonskiot narod mu land there. I also told him that the Macedonian treba demokratija, mir, no i celovitost. Bu{ mi veti people need democracy, peace, but also to stay deka Republika Makedonija }e ostane celosna. intact. Bush promised me that the Republic of Koga sme kaj po anegdotite, da kaàm deka vo edna Macedonia would remain intact.

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Svetozar-Svetle, Lora i Svetlana • Svetozar-Steve, Laura, and Svetlana

Svetozar-Svetle so Karl Levin - senator • Svetozar-Steve with Senator Carl Levin

166 SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI VIIDEL - AMERIKANSKI HORIZONTI prilika pri sredbata na pretsedatelot i brojnite Speaking of anecdotes, let me tell you that on kongresmeni od Amerikanskiot senat, pa koga me one occasion during a meeting of the President and vide deka sum dobro oble~en, pretsedatelot numerous congressmen from the US Senate, when Xorx mi dade kompliment kako ubavo izgledam. President Bush saw how well I was dressed, he Mu vozvrativ deka Makedoncite se obi~no mno- gave me a compliment about how well I looked. I gu simpati~ni mom~iwa, posle {to i ubavo se replied that Macedonians are usually very good iznasmeavme zaedno“, dodava Svetozar-Svetle. looking men, after which we had a good laugh,” Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski e eden od osnova- Svetozar-Steve adds. ~ite na Amerikansko-makedonskata asocijacija Svetozar-Steve Stamevski is one of the founders od Detroit, ~ija cel me|u drugoto be{e i osta- of the American-Macedonian Association in Detroit nuva taka, da i pomaga na Republika Makedonija. whose one of many aims was, and continues being „Desetici iljadnici na{i bra}a ne samo od se- to help the Republic of Macedonia. “Tens of thousands vernoamerikanskiot kontinent, tuku moè da se of our brothers not only from the North American con- kaè od site strani na svetot, pokaàa interesi- tinent, but we can say from every end of the world, rawe i ja poddrùvaa platformata, gi poddràa showed interest in, and supported the platform and aktivnostite koi gi prezede Asocijacijata. Na the activities that the association undertook. For in- mitingot, na primer, vo Bafalo, koga dojdoa go- stance, at the meeting in Buffalo, which was atten- lem broj ~lenovi, poddrùva~i, simpatizeri, si- ded by numerous members, supporters, and follow- te tie bea edinstveni vo stavot, deka na tatko- ers they were all united in the position that our fat- vinata i treba poddr{ka od ovoj vid, naglasuva herland needs support of this kind,” Stamevski em- Stamevski. Ovaa organizacija prodolùva da odi phasized. “This organization continues following the po trasiraniot pat, nekoga{ so posilen, nekoga{ route it has marked out for itself, sometimes with a so posmiren intenzitet, no taa e dobro {to po- faster, sometimes a slower pace, but it is good that it stoi, {to gi obedinuva ideite i akciite, i veru- exists, that it unites the ideas and actions. And we vame deka doprva }e ima u{te mnogu povodi, pra- believe there are yet to come many more occasions, {awa i inicijativi za novi projavi i krevawe issues, and initiatives for new manifestations and rai- na glasot makedonski“, dodava Svetozar-Svetle. sing of the Macedonian voice,” Svetozar-Steve adds.

Batler, Svetozar-Svetle i Mi{ko • Butler, Svetozar-Steve, and Mi{ko

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Svetozar-Svetle so kongresmenot Sender Levin • Svetozar-Steve with Congressman Senders Leven

Svetozar-Svetle i Svetlana so Xon Engler, guverner na Mi~igen • Svetozar-Steve and Svetlana with John Engler, governor of Michigan

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Svetozar-Svetle so Antoni Morako • Svetozar-Steve with Antony Moracco

Svetozar-Svetle so senatorot David Banier • Svetozar-Steve with the Senator David Banier

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Svetozar-Svetle, Viktor Dijas i Tvrdomir • Svetozar-Steve, Victor Dias, and Tvrdomir

Svetozar-Svetle so Dik Pastumas • Svetozar-Steve with Dick Pastumas

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Svetozar-Svetle so Ri~ard Armate{ • Svetozar-Steve with Richard Armatess

Svetozar-Svetle so Xon Konier • Svetozar-Steve with John Conier

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Tvrdomir, Batler i Svetozar-Svetle • Tvrdomir, Butler, and Svetozar-Steve

Svetozar-Svetle so gradona~alnikot na Op{tinata Va{ington vo Mi~igen • Svetozar-Steve with the mayor of the Municipality of Washington, Michigan

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Svetlana so Ministerkata Mitreva i ambasadorot Dimitrov • Svetlana with the Minister Mitreva and Ambassador Dimitrov

Svetozar-Svetle so Xo Knonberg • Svetozar-Steve with Joe Knonberg

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Svetozar-Svetle so Pretsedatelot Branko Crvenkovski • Svetozar-Steve with the President Branko Crvenkovski

Na otvoraweto na ambasadata na Republika Makedonija • At the opening of the Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia

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Svetozar-Svetle so Bu~kovski i Ramsveld • Svetozar-Steve with Bu~kovski and Ramsfeld

Svetozar-Svetle so Premierot Bu~kovski • Svetozar-Steve with Prime Minister Bu~kovski

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Svetozar-Svetle i Svetlana so prijateli • Svetozar-Steve and Svetlana with friends

Slave Nikolovski - Katin, avtorot na ovaa kniga so svojata sopruga Nada • Slave Nikolovski-Katin, the author of this book with his wife Nada

176 SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI Makedonci pred Belata ku}a • Macedonians in front of the White House Crkvata „Sv. Bogorodica“ vo Detroit • St. Mary’s Church in Detroit VIIDEL - AMERIKANSKI HORIZONTI

PRETSEDATEL NA MPC „SVETA BOGORODICA“ VO DETROIT

PRESIDENT OF THE MACEDONIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST. MARY IN DETROIT

vetozar Stameski e nemiren duh koga vetozar-Steve Stamevski is a restless spirit stanuva zbor za afirmacija na nacional- when it comes to affirmation of the nation- S nite dostoinstva, i koga stanuva zbor za Y al dignity, the Macedonian name, the Safirmacija na imeto makedonsko, na crk- YMacedonian church, his people, and his two vata makedonska, na svojot narod i na svoite fatherlands – Macedonia, in which he was born, and dve tatkovini-makedonskata vo koja se rodi i the USA in which he lives with his family. amerikanskata vo koja so svoeto semejstvo, vek For a long time, he has been a part of this self- vekuva. organization of the Macedonians in our largest

Upravata na „Sv. Bogorodica“ za 2004-2005 godina na denot na sve~enata zakletva The management of St. Mary’s Church for 2004-2005 on the day of their official oath

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Toj odamna e del od siot toj kola` na sebeor- migrant colony in the USA, in the world’s largest ganizirawe na Makedoncite vo najgolemata na{a center of the automobile industry, Detroit. Thus, doseleni~ka kolonija vo SAD, vo najgolemiot they initiated and organized many societies, svetski centar na avtomobilskata industrija, a associations and organizations, and of course the toa e Detroit. Taka i se iniciraa, taka i se or- church parishes in this important political, economic, ganiziraa mnogu dru{tva, zdruènija, asocija- and business center of the state of Michigan – cii, organizacii i sekako, crkovnite op{tini Detroit. vo ovoj zna~aen politi~ko-ekonomski i biznis He is happy that many young Macedonians, centar na dràvata Mi~igen - Detroit. talented generations born and educated in the USA, Sre}en e {to pove}e mladi Makedonci spo- are entering every field of life from industry to law, sobni generacii rodeni i obrazovani vo SAD, to economy, universities and every other field. navleguvaat vo site sferi od ìvotot od indus- Svetozar-Steve visited the churches from the trijata od pravoto, ekonomijata, univerziteti- very early days of his arrival in the USA and te i kade sé ne. nothing has changed today. He speaks proudly of U{te od prvite denovi na negovoto doa|awe the biggest and most beautiful Macedonian church vo Amerika, Svetozar-Svetle doa|a vo duhovnite that stands tall on one of the busiest highways in svetili{ta. Taka e i do den - dene{en. So gor- Detroit, the church parish of the Birth of St. Mary. dost zboruva za najgolemiot i najubaviot visoko izdignat makedonski hram na edna od najpromet- nite patni arterii na Detroit, za crkovnata op{tina „Ra|awe na Presveta Bogorodica".

Svetozar-Svetle so Mitropolitite Kiril i Stefan • Svetozar-Steve with Metropolitans Kiril and Stefan

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MPC „SVETA BOGORODICA“

MACEDONIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST. MARY

etroit, metropolata vo koja `iveat etroit, the metropolis in which Svetozar- Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski i negovo- Steve Stamevski lives with his family, is a D to semejstvo e velegrad i pristani{- large city and port on the Detroit River in te na izlezot na rekata Detroit vo K D the state of Michigan. It is the fifth dr`avata Mi~igen. Po golemina e petti grad vo largest city in the USA and is a world center of SAD i pretstavuva svetsko sredi{te na avtomo- automobile production. It is the center where we bilskoto proizvodstvo Toj e centar i sedi{te find the headquarters of the Ford, Chrysler, and na kompaniite „Ford“, „Krajsler“ i „General General Motors companies, of the industry for air- Motors“, potoa na industrijata za avioni, ten- planes, tanks, and electrical machines, and one of kovi, elektri~ni ma{ini i e eden od najrazvie- the most developed trade centers. It was founded nite trgovski centri. Nego go formirale Fran- by the French, but has been part of the USA since cuzite, a vo sostav na SAD e od 1796 godina. 1796. Detroit is also one of the centers of the black Detroit, isto taka, e eden od centrite na cr- population, and is one of the most significant ne~koto naselenie, a pretstavuva i zna~aen cultural and sports centers of the USA. kulturen i sportski centar na SAD. Macedonians from all over Macedonia began U{te vo 19 vek vo Detroit po~nale da se do- migrating to Detroit as early as the 19th century. seluvaat Makedonci od site krai{ta na Make- According to some data, there are some tens of donija, a spored nekoi podatoci niv gi ima po- thousands of them from the areas of Prilep, Lerin, ve}e od desetici iljadi i toa od Prilepsko, od Ohrid, and Gostivar. Most come from the areas of Lerinsko, od Ohridsko, od Gostivarsko, no naj- Tetovo, Prespa, and Bitola. It appears, they say, brojni se od Tetovsko, od Prespansko i od Bi- that the village of Vratnica, near Tetovo, and tolsko. Velat deka Vratnica - Tetovsko i Qu- Ljubojno, near Prespa, moved to Detroit. The Ma- bojno - Prespansko nebare se preselile vo Det- cedonians founded many companies, restaurants, roit. Vo ovoj pove}emilionski grad, osobeno vo agencies, and factories in this huge city, particularly Hemtremik i Sterling Haitc, Makedoncite otvo- in Hamtramck and Sterling Heights. Svetozar-Steve rile mnogu firmi, restorani, agencii, fabri~- Stamevski is one of the well known and renowned ki pogoni. Eden od niv vo Detroit e poznatiot businessmen in Detroit. Here there are many i priznat biznismen Svetozar-Svetle Stamev- Macedonian radio shows, a Macedonian television ski. Tamu e~at nekolku makedonski radio~asovi, program, folklore groups, and sports clubs. This is a ima i makedonska televiziska programa, ima why they usually say that the Macedonians in folklorni grupi, sportski klubovi. Zatoa Detroit feel at home, because they have preserved obi~no se veli deka Makedoncite vo Detroit se fully their customs and traditions, just like they

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~uvstvuvaat kako doma, bidej}i celosno gi za~uva- were in their native land of Macedonia. le obi~aite i tradicii, kako vo „stariot kraj“ - vo Activities to organize the Macedonians in Detroit Makedonija. and the surrounding areas began way back before Aktivnostite za organizirano opfa}awe na WWII with the formation of the Macedonian Ame- Makedoncite vo Detroit i od okolnite mesta rican People’s Union. However, due to the greater po~naa u{te pred Vtorata svetska vojna so for- Serbian and greater Bulgarian propaganda, the true miraweto na Makedonsko-amerikanskiot naro- Macedonian church living began as late as the den sojuz (MANS). Me|utoa, kako rezultat na go- 1970’s. More precisely, in 1974 a steering com- lemosrpskata i golemobugarskata propaganda, mittee was formed to organize a Macedonian vistinskoto makedonsko crkovno ìveewe za Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Makedoncite po~na duri vo sedumdesettite go- Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC), which meant dini od minatiot vek. Imeno, vo 1974 godina se a new social life. formira Inicijativen odbor za organizacija The initiative to form and build their own Ma- na makedonska pravoslavna crkva pod jurisdik- cedonian church had been present among the cija na Makedonskata pravoslavna crkva (MPC), Macedonians in Detroit for quite some time. Their {to zna~e{e eden nov op{testven ìvot. wish came true on 14 January 1975 with the consti- Inicijativata za formirawe i izgradba na tution of the steering committee for the foundation svoja makedonska crkva me|u Makedoncite od of the MOC of the Birth of St. Mary in Warren, Detroit postoe{e u{te od poodamna. Me|utoa, Detroit, which was taken under the protection of taa èlba se ispolni duri koga na 14 januari the St. Clement’s Church and fell under its jurisdic- 1975 godina se konstituira Inicijativen odbor tion. The first bishop’s liturgy in this colony was za formirawe na MPC „Ra|awe na Presveta delivered at a Roman Catholic church in August Bogorodica“ vo Voren - Detroit, koja be{e pri- 1975, by the bishop in charge, Metropolitan Kiril, in mena vo zakrila na Svetiklimentovata crkva i a joint service with Mihail, Metropolitan of the potpadna pod nejzina jurisdikcija. Prvata Vardar region at the time. This was followed by an

Vo MPC „Sv. Bogorodica“ vo Detroit • At St. Mary’s Church in Detroit

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Vo MPC „Sv. Bogorodica“ vo Detroit • At St. Mary’s Church in Detroit arhijerejska liturgija vo ovaa kolonija ja ot- organized picnic which was attended by several sluì nadle`niot arhijerej, mitropolitot Ki- thousands of migrants. ril, vo sosluènie na toga{niot povardarski As a result of the numerous activities, the funds mitropolit Mihail, podocna poglavar na MPC raised, and the strong desire of the Macedonians to vo edna rimokatoli~ka crkva vo avgust 1975 go- have their own Macedonian spiritual, cultural, and dina, a potoa be{e organiziran piknik na koj educational center, at a time when the 75th Anni- prisustvuvaa pove}e iljadi iselenici. versary of the Ilinden Uprising was being marked, Kako rezultat na brojnite aktivnosti, sobra- on 13 August 1978, Metropolitan Kiril - in a joint nite sredstva i silnata èlba na Makedoncite service with numerous priests and before numerous da imaat svoj makedonski duhoven i kulturno- visitors – consecrated the place. On 24 December prosveten dom, vo periodot koga se odbeleùva- 1978, they purchased the building in Warren which {e 75-godi{ninata od Ilindenskoto vostanie, was sanctified on 20 July 1980. Metropolitan Kiril na 13 avgust 1978 godina, mitropolitot Kiril, conducted the ceremony. vo sosluènie na brojni sve{tenici, a pred mno- The old church building was then sold, and a gubrojni posetiteli e izvr{eno osvetuvawe na new church was built. It is a cathedral church and mestoto, a na 24 dekemvri 1978 godini be{e kupena the biggest building of the MOC in the USA. Large zgradata vo Voren, koja e osvetena na 20 juli halls and other facilities were built near the church, 1980 godina. Osvetuvawe go izvr{i mitropoli- and it is all one beautiful Macedonian architectural tot Kiril. complex. The place was sanctified on 25 September Denes stariot objekt na crkvata e prodaden 1995, and the foundation stone was laid on 21 a izgradena e nova crkva koja pretstavuva so- September 1998. The new St. Mary hall was sancti- boren hram i najgolem objekt na MPC vo SAD. Do fied by Archbishop Stefan and Metropolitan Kiril on hramot se izgradeni golemi sali i drugi pros- 21 September 2000, while the church was sancti- torii {to pretstavuvaat ubav makedonski arhi- fied on 21 September 2002. tektonski kompleks. Mestoto be{e osveteno na The St. Mary Church is one of the most signifi- 25 septemvri 1995 godina, a na 21 septemvri cant Macedonian spiritual, cultural, and educational

PART VII - AMERICAN HORIZONS 183 Arhiepiskopot Stefan i mitropolitot Kiril so ~lenovi na crkvata • The archbishop Stefan and mitropolitan Kiril with the Church memebers 1998 godina e postaven kamen- temelnikot. Noviot objekt na Sv. Bogorodica, poto~no salata, e osveten od arhiepiskopot Stefan i mitropolitot Kiril na 21 septemvri 2000 godina, a crkvata be{e osvetena na 21 septemvri 2002 godina. Crkvata „Sv. Bogorodica“ e eden od najzna~ajnite makedonski duhovni i kulturno- prosvetni centri vo SAD. Taa e sobirali{te na golem broj Makedonci od Detroit i od okolinata i organizator na brojni kativnosti, me|u koi i na crkovno-narodnite sobiri. Pretsedatel na Crkovnata uprava na Sveta Bogorodica e Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski, koj zaedno so svoeto semejstvo i so golem broj ~lenovi na crkovnata op{tina posvetuva ogromno vreme za progresot na crkvata. Crkvata Sv. Bogo- rodica be{e doma}in na 31-ot crkovno-naroden sobir na Ame- rikansko-kanadskata makedonska pravoslavna epaprhija vo 2005 godina.

centers in the USA. It is the gathering place of many Macedoni- ans from Detroit and its vicinity, and it organizes numerous activities, including the church-people’s meetings. Svetozar-Steve Stamevski is the current president of the St. Mary Church board. Along with his family and numerous members of the church parish, he devotes an enormous amount of time to the progress of the church. He is the patron and one of the biggest donators of the St. Mary Church.

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Vo MPC „Sv. Bogorodica“ vo Detroit • In St. Mary Church in Detroit

Svetozar-Svetle so Mitropolitite Kiril i Stefan • Svetozar-Steve with Metropolitans Kiril and Stefan

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Aco Atanasovski, Kosta Jovanovski i Zlate Petrovski • Aco Atanasovski, Kosta Jovanovski, and Zlate Petrovski

Svetozar-Svetle so Qup~o Lordanovski na sobirot vo Detroit • Svetozar-Steve with Ljup~o Jordanovski at the Church Convention in Detroit

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Denes Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski e istaknat Today, Svetozar-Steve Stamevski is a distinguished Makedonec koj, pokraj biznisot se zanimava i so Macedonian. In addition to his business, he is also politika. Toj e afirmirana li~nost vo make- into politics. He is an affirmed figure in the Mace- donskata dijaspora vo SAD, ugleden biznismen i donian Diaspora in the USA and beyond. He is also vernik, kako i golem daritel i humanitarna a prominent businessman, a believer, and a gener- li~nost, so okolu 60.000 dolari na „Sv. Bogoro- ous donator who has given about $60,000 to the dica“. Svetozar-Svetle zaedno so soprugata Macedonian Church of St. Mary (Sveta Bogorodica) Svetlana be{e kum na crkvata „Sv. Bogorodica” in Detroit. Svetozar-Steve and his wife Svetlana vo 2001 godina, koga i podari 21.000 dolari. were the main sponsors, or ‘kumovi’, of the St. Mary Me|utoa, posebna ~est na semejstvoto be{e koga Church in 2001. The family was especially honored Svetozar i Svetlana bea kumovi na ~inot na and pleased when Svetozar-Steve and Svetlana were osvetuvaweto na novata crkva „Sv. Bogorodica” kumovi during the sanctification of the new Church na 21 septemvri 2002 godina. of St. Mary in Detroit on 21 September 2002.

Svetozar-Svetle i Svetlana • Svetozar-Steve and Svetlana

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DRUGITE ZA SVETOZAR SVETLE

STAMEVSKI

PART VIII OTHERS ABOUT SVETOZAR-STEVE STAMEVSKI

VIIIDEL - DRUGITE ZA SVETOZAR STAMEVSKI

MOST ME\U SAD I MAKEDONIJA

A BRIDGE BETWEEN USA AND MACEDONIA

vetozar i Svetlana ìveat vo Amerika no, vetozar-Steve and Svetlana live in the USA, sekoga{ so mislite se so rodnata Make- but their thoughts are always in their native S donija. Ne samo niz biznisot, tuku gazda Y Macedonia. Not only through his business, SSvetozar e mnogu aktiven i vo afirmi- Ybut master Svetozar-Steve is also very active raweto na makedonskoto ime, kultura, tradici- in affirming the Macedonian name, culture, traditi- i, na makedonskiot crkoven ìvot, eve, sega i ons, and Macedonian church living. He is currently kako pretsedatel na najgolemata the president of the biggest Ma- makedonska crkva vo Amerika, toa cedonian church in the USA, the e Sveta Bogorodica vo Detroit. Church of St. Mary in Detroit. For Svetozar e inicijator za for- instance, Svetozar-Steve initiated miraweto na Amerikansko-make- the formation of the American- donskata asocijacija vo Detroit, Macedonian Association in Detroit, koja napravi nekolku isklu~itel- which conducted several extre- no efektni akcii, vklu~ena e mely effective campaigns. It is aktivno vo sobiraweto na human- also involved actively in raising itarna i druga pomo{ za Repub- humanitarian and other forms of lika Makedonija, gi organizi- aid for Macedonia, and they orga- ra{e protestite na Makedonci- nized the Macedonian protests in te pred OON. Tuka se i posto- front of the UN headquarters. janite lobi-aktivnosti so vo- They also have ongoing activities de~kite amerikanski institu- in lobbying with the leading Ame- cii i li~nosti i so mediumite rican institutions, personalities, za probivawe i za obnarodu- and media with the aim of pene- vawe na makedonskata vistina trating and making the Macedonian vo ovaa prijatelska zemja, truth known in this friendly coun- vistinata i faktite za drevna try, and spreading the facts and Makedonija truth about ancient Macedonia. Svetozar re{ava da se vklu~i vo politikata. Svetozar-Steve believes – and this proved to be Smeta, a toa se pokaà kako ispraven poteg, deka the right move – that he could help the Republic of mnogu moè da pomogne za Republika Makedo- Macedonia a lot if he joined the Republican Party of nija, dokolku stane del od Republikanskata par- the USA. He was very actively involved in the two tija na Amerika. Toj e mnogu aktivno vklu~en vo successful election campaigns of President George dvete uspe{ni izborni kampawi na pretseda- Bush, and he is glad. telot Xorx Bu{ i e zadovolen poradi toa.

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Nekade na po~etokot na mandatot vo Komisijata za odnosi so verskite zaednici i religiozni grupi, se sretnav so Tvrdomir, Zlate i Svetle. Na{ata sredba zapo~na so debatata okolu grbot na Republika Makedonija koj se nao|a na yidot od kancelarijata. Mojata prva sredba be{e zbogatena so informacii za naporite za izgradbata na hramot na Makedonskata pravoslavna crkva vo Detroit vo Soedinetite amerikanski dràvi, "Sv Bogorodica". Dve godini podocna Svetle Stamevski e pretsedatel na makedonskata pravoslavna crkovna op{tina. Sredbite so nego se ispolneti so vedrina i duh na ambicioznost specifi~na za lu|eto od biznis krugovite na zapadniot svet. Negovata grià za nepre~eneto funkcionirawe na makedonskata zaednica vo ovaa severnoamerikanska metropola, postojanata grià za rodokrajnite slu~uvawa, osobeno na onie od tetovskiot kraj, èlbata da se pronajdat novi prijateli preku vospostavuvaweto na novi prijatelstva so amerikanskite vlijatelni li~nosti. Osobeno negovata involviranost vo aktivnostite okolu pretstedatelskata kampawa na aktuelniot pretsedatel na SAD g-dinot Xorx Bu{, go smestuva vo onaa generacija koja pokaùva deka amerikanskoto geslo "ne pra{auvaj {to Amerika napravi za Tebe, tuku pra{aj se {to Ti napravi za Amerika" e silen motiv da se vgradi me|u vtemeluva~ite na odli~nite amerikansko-makedonski odnosi. Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski e del od makedonskite iselenici na severnoamerikanskiot kontinent, koi so nesebi~nost i nepregorna rabota se vtemeluvaat vo prekrasnite graditelski tradicii na makedonskite neimari, gradej}i pravoslavni hramovi i kulturni centri, àri{ta kade }e se slavi Bog na makedonski jazik, }e se unapreduva kulturata i }e se griì za tradicijata da stane del na multikulturniot proces na amerikanskoto op{testvo. Gospodinot Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski nesomneno i pripa|a na onaa gorostasna makedonska generacija koja pravi uspe{en is~ekor vo inteegracijata na novoto op{testvo i zemjata koja ja izbral za sopstveno ìveewe i negovoto poteklo. Toj is~ekor samo ja potvrduva specifikata na makedonskiot ~ovek, da ja saka svojata zemja, no i da ostane veren da pradedovskiot zavet, da se saka pravoslavnata vera, da gradi crkvi i manastiri, da se griì za integritetot i idenitetot na Makedonskata pravoslavna crkva, da ja unapreduva makedonskata kultura i tradicija, ednostavno da e del na amerikanskata zaednica i na svoite tradicii.

Prof. d-r Cane Mojanoski Pretsedatel na Komisijata za odnosi so verskite zaednici i religiozni grupi

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Vesna Stevkovska (Bo{kova) e rodena vo Vesna Stevkovska (Bo{kova) was born in Makedonija. Osnovno i sredno obrazovanie Macedonia. She completed her primary and zavr{ila vo Sidnej, Avstralija. Diplomi- secondary education in Sydney, Australia. She rala na Katedrata za angliski jazik i kni- graduated from the English Language and `evnost pri Filolo{kiot fakultet vo Literature Department at the Faculty of Skopje i predavala angliski jazik vo sred- Philology in Skopje, and taught EFL in second- ni u~ili{ta. Vo 1995, na Univerzitetot vo ary schools. In 1995, she became a Teacher Alabama, SAD, nazna~ena e za instruktor po Trainer at the University of Alabama, USA, and nastava. Ima vodeno brojni seminari za has conducted numerous workshops and sem- profesori po angliski jazik. Vesna bila inars for EFL teachers throughout the country. koordinator na programa za angliski jazik She was coordinator of an English language i rabotela intenzivno na proekti za po- program, working intensively on projects dobruvawe na kvalitetot na obrazovanieto aimed at increasing the quality of education in vo Republika Makedonija. the Republic of Macedonia. Taa e sopruga i majka na dve deca, a golem A wife and mother of two, she has devoted del od svoeto vreme go pominuva vo preve- tremendous time to translating books and duvawe na knigi i materijali od razli~ni papers from various fields, including medicine, oblasti, vklu~itelno medicina, sociologi- sociology, psychology, ethics, Macedonian flora ja, psihologija, etika, makedonska flora i and fauna, and Macedonian history, but most fauna i makedonska istorija, no najmnogu of all the life of the Macedonians in the od `ivotot na Makedoncite vo dijasporata. Diaspora. This included the Makedonija maga- Taa go preveduva{e spisanieto Makedonija zine of the Ministry of Immigration as well od Ministerstvoto za iseleni{tvo, kako i numerous monographs and other publications brojni monografii i publikacii na izda- for the Makedonska Iskra Publishing House. va~kata ku}a Makedonska iskra. Vo posled- For the last few years, she has been a full-time nite nekolku godini raboti isklu~ivo kako translator and interpreter. preveduva~.

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Voved ...... 11 Del I Makedonija na{ata rodna zemja ...... 15 - Makedonski letopis ...... 21 - Ilindenski mostovi i nepokor ...... 27 - Nacionalni belezi, tradicii ...... 29 Del II Korenite vo Makedonija ...... 33 - Polo{ka razglednica ...... 35 - Odri - selo ubavo - selo golemo ...... 43 Del III Semejstvoto Stamevski ...... 47 - Semejnoto steblo na Stamevci ...... 49 - Krste na gurbet vo Amerika ...... 53 - Te{ki vremiwa ...... 57 - Tvrdomir Stamevski - tatko i dedo ...... 63 - Slo`no semejstvo ...... 67 - So po~it kon predcite ...... 75 Del IV Amerika kako sudbina ...... 83 - SAD - novata tatkovina na Stamevski ...... 85 - Iseleni~ka reka ...... 89 Del V Semejnite pateki ...... 97 - Od Odri do Detroit ...... 101 - Mladata generacija ...... 115 - Biznisot na Stamevski ...... 131 Del VI So qubov kon Makedonija ...... 137 - Patot e `ivot - `ivotot e pat ...... 141 - Sredba vo Le{ok ...... 145 - Vo manastorskiot kompleks na Popova [apka ...... 149 - Vojnata vo 2001 godina - crna damka vo istorijata ...... 151 Del VII Amerikanski horizonti ...... 157 - Li~no prijatelstvo so Laura i Xorx Bu{ ...... 159 - Pretsedatel na MPC „Sv. Bogorodica“ vo Detroit ...... 179 - MPC „Sv. Bogorodica“ ...... 181 Del VIII Drugite za Svetozar-Svetle Stamevski ...... 189 - Most me|u SAD i Makedonija ...... 191 Del IX Rodoslovieto na semejstvoto Stamevski ...... 197 219 CONTENTS

Introduction ...... 11 Part I Macedonia our native land ...... 15 - Macedonian cronicle ...... 21 - Ilinden bridges and subordination ...... 27 - National features, traditions ...... 29 Part II The roots in Macedonia ...... 33 - A portrait of Polog ...... 35 - Odri - a big, beautiful village ...... 43 Part III The Stamevski family ...... 47 - Family tree of the Stamevski family ...... 49 - Krste migrated to America ...... 53 - Times of hardship ...... 57 - Tvrdomir Stamevski - father and grandfther ...... 63 - Harmonius family ...... 67 - With respect to the ancestors ...... 75 Part IV The USA as a destiny ...... 83 - THE USA – Stamevski’s new fatherland ...... 85 - Migrant river ...... 89 Part V The family paths ...... 97 - From Odri to Detroit ...... 101 - The young generations ...... 115 - The Stamevski family business ...... 131 Part VI To Macedonia, with love ...... 137 - The road is life – life is a road ...... 141 - A gathering in Le{ok ...... 145 - At the monastery complex on Popova [apka ...... 149 - The war in 2001 – dark blot in history ...... 151 Part VII American horizons ...... 157 - Personal friendship with Laura and George Bush ...... 159 - President of the Macedonian ortodox Church of St. Mary in Detroit ...... 179 - Macedonian ortodox Church of St. Mary ...... 181 Part VIII Others about Svetozar-Steve Stamevski ...... 189 - A bridge between USA and Macedonia ...... 191 Part IX The Stamevski family tree ...... 197 220 KNIGOIZDATELSTVO ”MAKEDONSKA ISKRA”-SKOPJE

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