Оддел: А11 Светска историја

In Macedonia, the nationality of the Slavs, who form the great majority of the population, has been, especially since 1878, the object of passionate discussions between the Serbs and the Bulgarians who claim each for his race, the totality of these Macedonian Slavs.   За секој непристрасен набљудувач, Словените во Македонија не се Бугари и не се Срби.   Изворен…

Once we reached Macedonia, what struck us most was the ease and zest with which the Macedonian underground battled against the Bulgarian occupying authorities. We stayed there a week and not a night went by without fighting in the streets. It was the same in Bitolj, which the Bulgarian nationalists claim as ‘the most Bulgarian of all Macedonian towns.’ We…

• Pg. 94 • The language spoken by the majority of the tillers of Macedonian soil is a Slav dialect, which is not Bulgarian… indeed the Macedonian dialect is no more Bulgarian than the Croatian dialect is Bulgarian, though Bulgarian and Croatian are both unquestionably Slav dialects. • Pg. 95 • It is true that a Macedonian rarely speaks of…

The average Macedonian is neither Serb, nor Greek, nor Bulgar.