Mihailo Apostolski (Macedonian: Михаило Апостолски; Bulgarian: Михаил Митев Апостолов;[2] Serbian: Михаило Митић, romanized: Mihailo Mitić;[3][page needed] November 8, 1906 – August 7, 1987) was a Macedonian general, partisan, military theoretician, politician, academic and historian.
[8] After the capitulation of Yugoslavia and the subsequent occupation of Vardar Macedonia, Apostolski returned to Ljubljana, where was captured by the Italian army and was taken to the camp Vestone.
[15] In April 1942, he became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, and in June the same year he was appointed commander of the General Staff of the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Macedonia.
[1] After the Second World War Apostolski became one of the military leaders of the new Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).
After the end of his active military service, he began intensively dealing with the history of the Macedonian nation.
His birthplace, the House of Mihajlo Apostolski, is recognized as a protected object of Cultural Heritage of North Macedonia.