Pelince is a village in the Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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 near Kumanovo

Kumanovo

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 and the border

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 between the Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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 and Serbia

Serbia

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. It is in the Staro Nagoričane municipality

Staro Nagoricane municipality

Staro Nagoričane is a municipality in northern Republic of Macedonia. Staro Nagoričane is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found...

.

The village became popular among the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia

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 in 2004 when a new national commemorative of ASNOM was built in the village, where the annual celebration of the Macedonian statehood (The Second Ilinden of 1944) has taken place ever since. This decision was brought due to the countinious refusals by the Serbian Orthodox Church

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 authorities to allow Macedonian delegations to visit and celebrate the holiday

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 in the actual venue of ASNOM, the Prohor Pčinjski monastery

Prohor Pcinjski

Prohor Pčinjski is an 11th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery in the deep south of Serbia, located in village Klenike, Pčinja District near the border with Macedonia...

 which is on Serbian territory near the Macedonian

Republic of Macedonia

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border and near the village of Pelince.