Category: А15 Странски изјави

• 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…

The Slavs call themselves Makedonci as everywhere else standing between the Serbs and the Bulgarians.

  • ‘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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!’

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…

The Macedonians, who have their own separate language and indisputable ethnic originality, do not have the right to be called Macedonians.

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

The Slavophone population of Serbian Macedonia definitely regard themselves as distinct from the Serbs. If asked their nationality they say that they are Macedonians, and they speak the Macedonian dialect. • • • The inhabitants here [Aegean Macedonia] are no more than the Macedonians of Serbia – they speak Macedonian they call themselves Macedonians.  

Neither Greece nor Serbia is expected to give up Macedonian territory for a possible future Macedonia. … It is therefore improbable that the Macedonian question will be revived except through the possible cruelties of Greeks and Serbs in their treatment of the Macedonians.

You, Macedonian, do not listen to them because their words are deceptions. The Balkan monarchies know very well the price of your land. They are not fighting for your wellbeing or for your freedom; instead, they are fighting for the wealth of your land and your enslavement. … Stand under the flag of autonomy because only under this flag will…

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