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{{Short description|Macedonian folk dance}}
'''Teškoto''' or '''Teshkoto''' ({{langx|mk|Тешкото}}, "the hard one"), is a folk dance from the [[Mijaks|Mijak ethnographic region]], located in western [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]].
The dance represents the hard life of people from the region. Its origins come from the period when locals were leaving their motherland to go out of the country for better life, but over the years it has also grown as a symbol for all the pain caused in the region in the past.<ref name="Damianopoulos2012">{{cite book|author=Ernest N. Damianopoulos|title=The Macedonians: Their Past and Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5RjGAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA189|date=15 February 2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-137-01190-9|pages=189–}}</ref> The dance has inspired artists and poets (for example [[Blaze Koneski]]'s poem ''Teškoto'').<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.soros.org.mk/konkurs/076/angver/Teskoto.html |title=Teškoto (The Hard One) |accessdate=2008-10-14}}</ref>
One of the most prominent festivals that feature the dance is the [[Galičnik Wedding Festival]], an annual event in the [[Galičnik]], one of the oldest villages in [[North Macedonia]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Teskoto |url=http://www.soros.org.mk/konkurs/076/angver/Teskoto.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724210155/http://www.soros.org.mk/konkurs/076/angver/Teskoto.html |archive-date=24 July 2008 |access-date=June 16, 2024 |website=soros.org.mk}}</ref>
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