COMMUNITY INFO за македонски превод
The Macedonian - Speaking Community in Australia
Arrival and Settlement
Macedonian is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and is spoken widely in Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia as well as within migrant communities in Australia, the United States and Canada.
The first Macedonians came to Australia in the 1890s. They were isolated individuals, and it was not until the late 1920s and late 1940s that larger groups began to arrive, mainly from Aegean Macedonia.
The trend intensified in the late1960s and the early1970s.
In the late1980s, lack of political and economic stability in the former Yugoslav Republics produced a new wave of professionally skilled arrivals from Macedonia.
The 1996 Australian Census estimated more than 70,000 people in Australia used the Macedonian language at home.
Research by Professor Peter Hill, of the University of Hamburg and Associate Professor Ilija Casule, of Australia's Macquarie University, indicates Australia has the largest Macedonian migrant community in the world, perhaps as many as 150,000 people.
The SBS Macedonian Language Program provides an opportunity to help migrants maintain their culture and language and to assist in their settlement.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Community Contacts
There are many Macedonian community organisations. Here is a list of some of them.
Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia
PO Box 344
Curtin, ACT 2605
Phone:02 6282 5755
Fax: 02 6282 5734
Email
New South Wales
Macedonian Australian Welfare Association of Sydney
PO Box 392
Rockdale NSW 2216
Phone 02 9597 5455
Fax 02 9567 3326
Macedonian School Council of NSW
PO Box 164
Rockdale NSW 2216
Phone 02 9521 3778
Macedonian Studies Foundation
PO Box 333
Rockdale NSW 2216
Macedonian Literary Society, "Grigor Prlicev"
PO Box 227
Rockdale NSW 2216
Phone 02 9567 6500
Macedonian Cultural and Art Society "Pelister"
PO Box 294
Richmond NSW 2753
Phone 02 4578 2616
Macedonian Orthodox Church "Sv Kiril I Metodi "
Macedonian Orthodox Community of Sydney Area
PO Box 147
Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone 02 9667 1962
Aegean Macedonian Association of Australia
PO Box 409
Kingsgrove NSW 2208
Victoria
Macedonian Community Welfare Association (Western Region)
Phone 03 9367 6044
Macedonian Orthodox Church Diocese
Phone 03 9478 2225
Refugee Children of Aegean Macedonia 1948
Phone 03 9460 4462
Macedonian Youth
Phone 03 93993089
Macedonian Human Rights Committee
Phone 03 9848 7360
Macedonian Theatre Group
Phone 03 9338 4960
Macedonian Pensioners
Phone 03 9467 1183
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Special Events Calendar
SBS Radio's Macedonian Language Program presents special coverage of the following events throughout the year.
January 1
Orthodox New Year (New Calendar)
January 7
Macedonian Orthodox Christmas (Old Calendar)
January 14
Macedonian New Year (Old Calendar)
January 26
Australia Day
March 8
International Women's Day
March/April
Macedonian Orthodox Easter, celebrated on a different date every year.
April 25
ANZAC Day
August 2
Ilinden, or St Elias Day, to commemorate the Ilinden uprising of 1903 against Turkish rule
September 8
Macedonian Independence Day, 1991. A referendum voted for a split from the then Yugoslavia.
October 11
Macedonian National Uprising Day. In 1941 Macedonians staged an uprising against the occupying German, Italian and Bulgarian forces
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Recommended Websites
www.novamakedonija.com.mk
Nova Makedonija newspaper
www.makedonskosonce.com/sonce
Weekly magazine
Utrinski vesnik
SBS RADIO Broadcasting in 68 Languages
Choose a language Aboriginal African Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Assyrian Bangla Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Cantonese Cook Islands/Maori Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch Estonian Filipino Fijian Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Khmer Korean Kurdish Lao Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Mandarin Maori Nepali Norwegian Persian-Farsi Polish Punjabi Portuguese Romanian Russian Samoan Serbian Sinhalese Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Swedish Tamil Thai Tongan Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese World View Yiddish
Including - Italiano : ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ : tiểng Việt : عربي : 中文¼sªF¸Ü : 中文普通话 :
CHOOSE FROM WORLD MAP
FEEDBACK
About SBS | Feedback
© 2002 Special Broadcasting Service
Terms and Conditions | Privacy | Disclaimer
Macedonian
|
