Оддел: 01А САМОБИТНОСТ

The Macedonians and the Hellenes, or native Greeks, engage in constant reprisals which sometimes amount to border warfare.

In the district of Ostrovo/Bitola, nine times out of ten these people, despite being the subject of dispute by three adjoining countries – Serbia, Bulgarian and Greece – would reply in response to the question as to their nationality that they were Macedonians. „… Во подрачјето на Острво/Битола девет од десет од овие луѓе кои и покрај што биле предмет…

Gloomy and grave, the Macedonian peasant has none of the braggadocio and trifling spirit of the Hellenic peasant. The women, beautiful and chaste, work in the fields like the men…They are a good, strong race, laborious, sedentary, loving their country, and full of promise for their future.

• 1926.04.19 • The Macedonian Slavs considered and called themselves ‘Makedonci’. • 1926.04.26 • Those people whom I had met were insistent on calling themselves neither Serbs nor Bulgars, but Macedonians. There seemed to be no love lost for the Bulgarians.

While my shoulder carries a gun, Macedonia is beyond the reach of the Bulgarian officer.   • • • We Macedonians have many enemies, and must combat them all, wherever they come from. In the first place the External Committee are our enemies. They are loyal servants of King Ferdinand, and even though they are Macedonians, do not work for…

The inhabitants of Macedonia are in the great majority Slavs; they call themselves Macedonians, and what they desire and what we ardently desire for them is an autonomy under European control.

Why are we Macedonians a separate nation? The answer to this question is, more than all others, of great political significance. It is well known how Bulgarian as well as Serbian and Greek imperialism deny the existence of the Macedonian nation. According to the first of these, the Macedonians are the ‘best part of the Bulgarian nation’. According to the…

We have many times heard from the Macedonists that they are not Bulgarians but Macedonians, descendants of the Ancient Macedonians.

I asked him if he was a Bulgarian? ‘I’m not.’ I asked him if he was a Serb, Greek, or perhaps even a Tsintsar. ‘No, I am not. I am a Macedonian from Veles.’

Дончо војвода: „Македонците покрај пушката и Бога, се надева најмногу на Русија“ Во декември 1902 година Тодор Хаџи Тошев од Прилеп публикува еден разговор на рускиот вицеконсул во Пловдив Сергеј Андреевич со македонскиот ајдутин и революционер Дончо војвода од село Палат, Поринска Македонија. (“Разговор на Пловдивския руски вице-консул г. Сергей Андреевич с Дончо войвода в Кюстендил”, публикувано в сп. “Сборник…

Macedonian Language – 16th Century! Macedonian Language We are proud to present the following historical source to our readers, a priceless document accompanied with analysis that shows how little the Macedonian langauge and vernacular has changed since the Middle Ages. Macedonian Lexicon – 16th Century Record of the Macedonian language The texts presented for analysis in this article were produced…

Турци, Македонци, Ромеи…

1910 US newspaper report on the activities of American Protestant missionary Reverend Johh H. House in #Macedonia, lists Macedonians….clearly differentiating them from Greeks & Bulgars Evening Star, Washington DC, June 18, 1910 „… Mr. and Mrs. House have rpent practically their entire lives in educational and missionary work in Macedonia—more than thirty-five years of devotion. self-sacrifice and earnest helpfulness in…

„… The Canberra Times, Thursday 17 March 1949, page 1 SOVIET StEKS’ OVERTHROW OF TITO I LONPON, WgtfBttPfty. ÎW twdww ♦У Мипки! TW» b YiyStb *nbsop mnnf « pppiPmIo» Refugees from Agoslavia. quoted by the AmerfcJh Associated Press. say that &e portiin-form is intensifying It* pressure on Yugoslavia from wfthln and without. Bulgarian and Rumanmn bands are repotted to be…

„… The Canberra Times, Thursday 10 July 1947, page 1 SOVIET WANTS FOREIGN TROOPS OUT OF GREECE NEW YORK. Wednesday. Asking for the removal of foreign troop* and foreign military personnel from Greece and the setting up of a special commission to administer foreign aid. only in the interests of the Greek people. Gromyko presented to the Security Council a…