In the Ohrid City Park near the Port of Ohrid there are four monuments with the bust of somehow important people of Ohrid. One of them is commemorating Spas Bandzov (sometimes translated Banjov), who was born in Ohrid and fighting in the Spanish Civil War. The translation of the inscription in Macedonian language on the marble pedestal says:
Spas Bandzov
Spanish fighter
1904 - 1942
Spas Bandzov
"Spas Bandzov was born in 1904. Growing up as a child in a family of many children with modest incomes, Spas just finished third grade at the time of the First World War. He then left school and as a child started fishing and farming.
In 1921 Bandzov went to Romania. He remained there until 1924, when, through Cuba, he wanted to go to the United States for profit. He worked in Havana, Cuba for about half a year, after which, in 1925, he and a group of forty people tried to enter the United States illegally. But off the coast of Florida, a US patrol detects and closes them. After six to seven weeks in prison, Bandzov was deported first to Cuba and then to France, where he was released.
Bandzov decided to stay in France and worked as a general worker. In 1928 he became a member of the trade union, and in 1931 of the Communist Party of France. He was prosecuted and imprisoned by French police for his activities. In 1927 he was often forced to flee to Belgium, and in 1928 he moved permanently to Brussels. There, in 1932, he married a Belgian worker.
Volunteer in Spain
After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, many volunteers went to his home in Brussels to go to Spain, both Yugoslavs and Bulgarians and people of other nationalities who came from the Soviet Union to Spain. In the middle of 1937, Bandzov decided to go to Spain himself. There he joined the International Brigades. He initially fought on the Madrid Front, then was transferred to the Teruel Front and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He spent about 15-16 months in Spain, but became seriously ill with stomach ailments and returned to Brussels in 1938."
Translated from: mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Спас_Банџов
Also see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_volunteers_in_the_Spanish_Civil_War