Category: АI ДОКУМЕНТИ

• Pg. 6 • Poor Georgie! He spoke a Slav dialect, and was possibly a mixture of all the races that have ever ruled the peninsula, and all he had gained was a Mauser ball through his right hand in the name of Alexander the Great… A song was sung during the late Macedonian insurrection in which an eagle, who…

In Macedonia, the nationality of the Slavs, who form the great majority of the population, has been, especially since 1878, the object of passionate discussions between the Serbs and the Bulgarians who claim each for his race, the totality of these Macedonian Slavs.   За секој непристрасен набљудувач, Словените во Македонија не се Бугари и не се Срби.   Изворен…

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.

Once we reached Macedonia, what struck us most was the ease and zest with which the Macedonian underground battled against the Bulgarian occupying authorities. We stayed there a week and not a night went by without fighting in the streets. It was the same in Bitolj, which the Bulgarian nationalists claim as ‘the most Bulgarian of all Macedonian towns.’ We…

The Christians, a herd of Greeks, Bulgarians and Macedonians, with the most villainous faces, morals and manners imaginable, have to be ruled with a tight hand in order to be kept from strangling one another.

Alexandroff also stated that, if only his demands were granted, the Macedonians would lay down their arms and recognize the Serbian Kingdom, subject, of course, to it being reconstructed as a Federal State in which Macedonia would enter on equal rights with the other members of the Yugoslav Federation.  

And the facts say that a great part of the Macedonian population has more a Macedonian than a Macedo-Bulgarian consciousness. According to reliable facts, supplied by our competent comrades of Macedonia itself, the Macedonian consciousness has penetrated quite deeply, especially among the younger generation, which was not exposed to Exarchistic propaganda. According to these comrades, who are fully acquainted with…

• Pg. 94 • The language spoken by the majority of the tillers of Macedonian soil is a Slav dialect, which is not Bulgarian… indeed the Macedonian dialect is no more Bulgarian than the Croatian dialect is Bulgarian, though Bulgarian and Croatian are both unquestionably Slav dialects. • Pg. 95 • It is true that a Macedonian rarely speaks of…

Macedonia will be independent and the Macedonians will remain Macedonians…What the Macedonians want is autonomy for their country, with the intervention of Europe in their favor. No division, no annexation to another state; Macedonia is unique and to the Macedonians. Who can oppose the creation of an autonomous Macedonia? … Greeks have large claims, it is clear, but after the…

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…

„… Македонците се сметаат себе си за целосно одвоен национален елемент.. ..Македонија мора да има припадне на Македонците …“ It is a grievous error to suppose that we seek to acquire Macedonia on behalf of Bulgaria. We Macedonians consider ourselves to be an entirely separate national element, and we are not in the least disposed to allow our country to…

The average Macedonian is neither Serb, nor Greek, nor Bulgar.

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

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.

„НИ БУГАРКА, НИТИ ПАК СРБИНКА, МАКЕДОНКА СУМ И МИ Е СМАЧЕНО ОД ВОЈНИ“ Одговор на постара жена во с. Добровени Битолско 1917 г.. Извадок од статијата „ON THE MONASTIR ROAD“ објавена во NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE – Мај 1917 г. Автор: Herbert Corney. ‘Neither Bulgar nor Serb’ said one such old woman, defiantly, when we left the Monastir road at Dobraveni….