Republic Day (North Macedonia)

Republic Day or Ilinden is a national holiday in North Macedonia. It is celebrated on 2 August, which is also a religious holiday – Ilinden. It commemorates two major events in the establishment of the statehood of the country which took place on this date:

• The Ilinden Uprising of 1903 which was organized by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against the Ottoman Empire, and during which a short-lived Kruševo Republic was proclaimed;
• The First Session of ASNOM of 1944 at the Prohor Pčinjski Monastery, during the National Liberation Struggle, which laid the foundation of the SR Macedonia.