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• 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….

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.

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.