Celebrated on Oct 23

23 October is being celebrated because the of the founding of the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in Solun/Salonica.

Back in 1893, on October 23rd in the house of Ivan Hadzi Nikolov in Salonica, 6 young man gathered and founded the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, which has later become a symbol and flag of the Macedonian struggle for freedom.
The founders of the organization are: Dr. Hristo Tatarcev, Dame Gruev, Petar Pop Arsov, Ivan Hadzi Nikolov, Anton Dimitrov and Hristo Batandziev.

Later on, the organization was turned into Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and it’s members were struggling for liberation and independence of Macedonia.

The founding of IMRO (on Macedonian VMRO) marked the beginning of an organized Macedonian revolutionary struggle, which with the Ilinden rebellion as well as the National Liberation movement in the Second World War has resulted into the creation of the Macedonian State.