Author: Уредник

If crime were ever justifiable, ample excuse could be found for Servian committees, Servian bands of brigands and the terrorism of all Macedonian Slavs who refused to confess themselves Servian

Pg. 20 • Macedonia, Greece, the south of Italy, Sicily, and north-western Africa, were nearly all that remained to Heraclius of the once vast dominions of Rome. • Pg. 170 • The same thing was true of the hereditary Pashas of Uskup [Skopje] in Northern Macedonia. • Pg. 315 • The German tribes passed into Europe to the north of…

And, what was still worse, a strong party was formed eleven years ago in the three Provinces of Ueskub (Kossovo), Salonica and Monastir, whose members, turning away from the Serbs and Bulgarians by whom they had been abandoned to their fate, inscribed upon their banner the strange device: ‘Macedonia for the Macedonians.’

He will appear in his nobleman’s costume, will sing in Macedonian and Bulgarian languages, and will also exhibit some Macedonian and Bulgarian curiosities after his address.

It is quite clear that the Macedonian Fascists who keep the Macedonian population of Bulgarian Macedonia under the most cruel of regimes, who have bestially murdered the best Macedonian revolutionaries, who are a tool of the Bulgarian bourgeoisie for the capture of Macedonia and act like bands of murderers against the workers and peasants who fight so heroically against the…

Macedonia lay north of Greece. Its people were not Greeks, nor like Greeks in their customs.

On the other hand, the Macedonians do not think that the rule of the Bulgarian policemen will be much better than that of the Turkish zaptieh, and they will not fight together unless their independence is guaranteed.

The same causes which have transferred Armenians into Austria have also brought thither Greeks, Macedonians and Albanians. The people of these different nations indeed are not numerous.

• Pg. 517 • I have talked a lot with Macedonians in Serbia, in Bulgaria and in the Diaspora, where there is the largest number. Many times I asked them what they are, Serb or Bulgar, where I got a large variety of answers […] Sometimes I would hear a Macedonian speaking Serbian saying ‘I am Bulgarian’ and vice versa….

Macedonia is the common homeland of all those who live here.

Macedonians are the oldest Slavs on this Illyrian peninsula, and possibly in Europe. • 1871 • Today, the Macedonians occupy almost the whole coast of the White Sea; in the east they mix with the Bulgarians from Thrace, to the west with the Albanians of Albania and Epirus, and in the north with Serbia in the borderlands of the Shar…

Whereas, there are wage slaves of Macedonian descent in goodly numbers throughout Canada…Resolved: That the organization of the IWW takes steps as soon as possible to provide literature in the Macedonian language.

There are over 200,000 Macedonians in Bulgaria, who would return at once to their own country were it under a better government, and they would make Macedonia prosperous and rich.

•  ‘The Macedonian Agitation’ (1901) • We young people have therefore been endeavoring for some years past to separate the Macedonian cause from Bulgarian domestic politics. If the rulers of the Principality now declare that they cannot tolerate us as a State within the State, it shows that we have at least succeeded in emancipating ourselves from the pernicious influence…

Should the Russians be happy or sad because in Macedonia the indigenous population, who call themselves Macedonians by the old name, are raising their voices? According to our personal opinion it would be just to give at least moral support to this numerous tribe that speaks a separate Slavic dialect and has its own history, not less interesting than the…