Оддел: А15 Странски изјави
Expressions of foreign celebrities in favor of Macedonian ethnogenesis.
1904.05.12_Андра Гавриловић – ‘Бранково Коло’ X 17, с.516
This winter a Macedonian theater group, under the direction of Crnodrimski, gave guest performances in Belgrade and certain other cities of the Kingdom of Serbia. It presented original Macedonian dramas in the Macedonian language. In one word, we had attempts at a new spiritual-cultural literature and art – Macedonian. Let us not fool ourselves. What Crnodrimski presented was not jargon…
![1871.01.18_Petko Slaveykov – ‘The Macedonian Question’ 1871.01.18_Petko Slaveykov - 'The Macedonian Question'](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АII-СВЕДОШТВА/А15-Странски-сведоштва/slikce/gridmag-four-three-image/18710118_petko-slaveykov-the-macedonian-question-480x360.jpg?v=1689521712)
1871.01.18_Petko Slaveykov – ‘The Macedonian Question’
We have heard other arguments as well. Certain Macedonians consider themselves as separate from the Bulgarians for another reason, for the reason that they are pure Slavs and that the Bulgarians are Tatars.
1920_Douglas Walshe – ‘With the Serbs in Macedonia’ Pg. 188
Language difficulties never daunt a British Tommy, not even modern Greek or Macedonski. … He is picturesque and peaceable, he works hard in his fields, and in a large number of cases speaks ‘Macedonski’, which the Serbs call Serbian and the Bulgars Bulgarian, and knows no Turkish, and very little Greek. Посочил: Macedonia History Извор: Archive.org
![1938.05_Jovan Petrovic, Serb from Skopje Вероучение - Поука 03](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АI-ДОКУМЕНТИ/slikce/gridmag-four-three-image/MNA-globus-00-480x360.jpg?v=1689522301)
1938.05_Jovan Petrovic, Serb from Skopje
The local Macedonians…view us as usurpers, invaders, and exploiters, they are always hostile toward us and work in unity and systematically to drive us out on every issue.
![Rodolphe Archibald Reiss](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АII-СВЕДОШТВА/А15-Странски-сведоштва/rodolphe-archibald-reiss.jpg?v=1689521711)
Rodolphe Archibald Reiss
• 1918 • But I repeat that the big mass of the population remained Macedonian. • 1918_Rudolf A. Reiss – ‘Sur la situation des Macedoniens et des musulmans dans les Nouvelles provinces Grecques’, Pgs. 6-7 • In my opinion a Macedonian cannot be called either a Bulgarian or a Serbian, but simply a Macedonian. • 1918_Rudolf A. Reiss – ‘Sur…
![1920_Hermann Wendel](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АII-СВЕДОШТВА/А15-Странски-сведоштва/slikce/gridmag-four-three-image/1920_hermann-wendel-480x360.jpg?v=1689521711)
1920_Hermann Wendel
The Slavs call themselves Makedonci as everywhere else standing between the Serbs and the Bulgarians.
![1915_Frank Fox 1915_Frank Fox](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АII-СВЕДОШТВА/А13-Родољубни-сведоштва/slikce/gridmag-four-three-image/1915_frank-fox-332x360.jpg?v=1689521710)
1915_Frank Fox
• ‘Bulgaria’ • Those are the six main racial elements. But there are other scraps of peoples – the Albanians, for example, and the Macedonians, and tribes of Moslem Bulgars, and some Asiatic elements brought in by the Turks. • ‘The Balkan Peninsula’ • In a characteristic Turkish town, the shops were kept by Greeks, the industries carried…
![1926_Colonel Corfe 1923-1924_Colonel A.C. Corfe](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АII-СВЕДОШТВА/А15-Странски-сведоштва/slikce/gridmag-four-three-image/1923-1924_Colonel-A.C.-Corfe-e1650154427519-360x360.jpg?v=1689523018)
1926_Colonel Corfe
One of the Macedonian’s chief grievances is against the Greek Gendarmerie and during our tour we saw many examples of the arrogant and unsatisfactory methods of the Gendarmerie, who commandeer from the peasants whatever food they want.
1925.01.25_Greek Infantry Lieutenant Dim. Kamburas, Armensko
Being shocked and increasingly concerned, I struck the village mayor when I heard him speak Bulgarian, which he wishes call Macedonian, and I recommended that in the future should always and everywhere speak only Greek, and that should recommend that his villagers do the same.
![1922.10_C.H. Bateman Вероучение - Поука 03](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АI-ДОКУМЕНТИ/slikce/gridmag-four-three-image/MNA-globus-00-480x360.jpg?v=1689522301)
1922.10_C.H. Bateman
Just because the Slavs of Macedonia call themselves Macedonians, there was no reason why we or you should consent to give them a name which coincides with a piece of territory.
![1926_Emanuel Duvillard 1926_La Fédération Balcanique - Emanuel Duvillard (Je suis Macédonien)](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АI-ДОКУМЕНТИ/А08-Светска-документација/А8.1-Слика-и-посока/1926_Emanuel-Diviar-Балканска-Федерација-01.jpg?v=1689523484)
1926_Emanuel Duvillard
Are you a Serb? Are you Bulgarian? Grecian or Albanian? On this series of questions, the Macedonian people, today as yesterday, were giving the same answer – I am Macedonian.
![1919_Major Bernar Вероучение - Поука 03](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АI-ДОКУМЕНТИ/slikce/gridmag-four-three-image/MNA-globus-00-480x360.jpg?v=1689522301)
1919_Major Bernar
In the part of Macedonia now subject to Greek rule the language of the current ruling authority is barely understood in the country … When you ask the people what their nationality is they almost always reply ‘We are Macedonians!’
![1903.10.24_The World’s News Вероучение - Поука 03](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АI-ДОКУМЕНТИ/slikce/gridmag-four-three-image/MNA-globus-00-480x360.jpg?v=1689522301)
1903.10.24_The World’s News
Macedonians fought side-by-side with the Greeks during the long and bitter struggle for Grecian independence. When the Servians revolted, Macedonians swarmed through the mountain passes to render assistance; when the Bulgarian rebellion broke out, Macedonians hurried to stand side-by-side to fight, and, if necessary to die with men of an alien race having nothing in common with themselves but hatred…
![1930.06.28_Henri Barbusse, Monde No. 108, Pg. 2 1930.06.28_Henri Barbusse, Monde No. 108, Pg. 2](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АII-СВЕДОШТВА/А15-Странски-сведоштва/19300628_henri-barbusse-monde-no-108-pg-2.jpg?v=1689521707)
1930.06.28_Henri Barbusse, Monde No. 108, Pg. 2
The Macedonians, who have their own separate language and indisputable ethnic originality, do not have the right to be called Macedonians.
![1928.05_Henry Baerlein – ‘What is happening in Macedonia – Fortnightly Review’, 123, Pgs. 624-632 Вероучение - Поука 03](https://xn--80axd.xn--d1alf/wp-content/uploads/АI-ДОКУМЕНТИ/slikce/gridmag-four-three-image/MNA-globus-00-480x360.jpg?v=1689522301)
1928.05_Henry Baerlein – ‘What is happening in Macedonia – Fortnightly Review’, 123, Pgs. 624-632
It happens that Macedonians who come to Bulgaria continue to call themselves Macedonians … In Bulgaria, whether they are descended from a Macedonian who travelled eastward in 1878, or whether they are quite recent emigrants, they call themselves Macedonians. p.627