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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.

He declares that the insurgents, calling themselves ‘Macedonians’, demanded a large sum of money from him for his parishioners, and offered to give a receipt, saying the money will be repaid when they came into possession of their country, ‘Macedonia’.

Bulgarians and Kutsovlachs call themselves Macedonians and the surrounding nations call them Macedonians.

Since then Greece and Bulgaria have recognized Macedonian minorities, and Yugo-Slavia has protested that there are no Macedonians. No attempt was made to settle the Balkan States in accordance with race.

This was the full extent of the proposals he had made so far, though he hoped later on to add a few more, such as that some, at least, of the Judges and administrative officials should be chosen from the Macedonians who had graduated with distinction at a Bulgarian University, and who, although residing within the Principality, were at heart…

• 1944 • It is also important to emphasize that the inhabitants, just as they are not Greeks, are also not Bulgarians or Serbs or Croats. They are Macedonians…The Greeks always call them Bulgars and damn them accordingly…If they were Bulgars, how is it that while they are spread over parts of four countries, one of which is Bulgaria, they…

• Pg. 80 • A Macedonian Slav is equally intelligible, or unintelligible, to the Servian and to the Bulgarian. • Pg. 278 • In their proclamations the leaders of the Slavo-Macedonian Committee appeal to Alexander the Great as a national hero.

The civilian population of Salonica is made up largely of Spanish Jews, Macedonians, Gypsies, Greeks, Turks and Dummies (Jews of Mahommedan faith).

Stephen Douchan, ruled victoriously from Belgrade to the Maritza, from the Black Sea to the Adriatic, and assumed the title of ‘Emperor of the Roumelians, the Macedonian Christ- loving Czar.’

• 1923 • ‘They want to force us to become Greeks, in language, in religion, in sentiment, in every way. We have served in the Greek army and we have fought for them: now they insult us by calling us ‘damned Bulgars’ … To my question, ‘What do you want, an autonomous Macedonia or a Macedonia under Bulgaria?’, the answer…

Skopje is located on the border where Dardania ends and Macedonia begins … and the bridge at the Struma River constitute a border between Macedonians and the Tribalis or Bulgarians.

Through my own studies…I came to the conclusion that Macedonians are a separate nation by its history as well as by its own language.

In English, Slavish and Macedonian languages that fact will be proclaimed throughout Steelton today.

For long years past the Macedonians have strived for an independent Macedonia, but this was made impossible by the policies of the great powers interested. They were, however, on the verge of achieving this ideal after the First Balkan War, when the interference of Austria in Albania caused Serbia and Greece to demand a revision of the treaty which had…

Finally, there is one more phenomenon that cannot be ignored. This is the aspiration of the Macedonians to remain by themselves, which they are trying to attain…And this striving began to be aroused, especially as a result of the contrasts between the Bulgarian and the Macedonian tongues, and between the Bulgarian and the Macedonian characters, since the time when Bulgarian…